Catholic Bishops stress Constitutional values at Bengaluru meet | Bengaluru Information – The Instances of India

Bengaluru: The thirty seventh Basic Physique Assembly (GBM) of the Catholic Bishops’ Convention of India (CBCI) started Wednesday at St John’s Nationwide Academy of Well being Sciences, with over 200 bishops from 174 dioceses throughout the nation participating within the meet. The four-day assembly, held underneath the theme “Religion and the Nation: The Church’s Witness to India’s Constitutional Imaginative and prescient,” was inaugurated by Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli.Proceedings opened with a solemn Eucharistic celebration, throughout which Archbishop Girelli known as upon bishops to be the “gentle and salt of the earth” and urged them to serve the poor and marginalised with humility and pleasure. Welcoming the gathering, the Archbishop of Bengaluru mentioned the theme mirrored the Church’s deep dedication to the values enshrined within the Structure. Archbishop George Antonysamy learn out the message of Pope Leo XIV.Addressing the gathering, Archbishop Girelli mentioned the beliefs of the Indian Structure resonated strongly with the Church’s social teachings and known as for brand new methods of practising religion in concord with democratic values. CBCI president Archbishop Mar Andrews Thazhath described the theme as each a non secular confession and a public accountability, urging bishops to be “missionaries of hope.” He additionally harassed the necessity to humanise rising applied sciences, significantly synthetic intelligence.The CBCI biennial report for 2024–26 was introduced throughout the session. Thirty-one newly appointed bishops had been felicitated, and tributes had been paid to bishops who handed away throughout the interval.