A pioneering Jesuit missionary who had worked for four decades in north-eastern India has died.
Father Jayant Kumar Padival died around 10 pm on September 8 in Father Muller Hospital, Mangaluru, a port town in the southern Indian State of Karnataka. He was 71 and a Jesuit for 54 years.
According to Karnataka Jesuit Provincial Father Dionysius Gerard Leonard Vaz, the burial service was scheduled at 3:30 pm on September 9. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, only a few people are attending the burial service.
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