Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa and Daman, was re-elected president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national body of the country’s Latin rites bishops.
The election took place during the conference’s 33rd plenary assembly held November 11-12 at St. John’s National Institute of Health Sciences in Bengaluru, southern India.
India’s poor deserve better than this
Concerns are being raised about whether the needs of poor and marginalized communities in India are receiving enough attention in current government policies. Observers say
