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"There should not be any room for disharmony or rivalry; the only aim of each church is to give testimony to the life of Christ by being faithful disciples of the Master," said cardinal Tagle.
In early October, ecumenical bodies representing the estimated 8.5 million Christians in Telangana, including roughly five million who are registered voters, met in Hyderabad and submitted a set of proposals to the various political parties.
One concrete fruit of the church’s ecological push came Nov. 22, when St. Joseph’s Parish in Ponkandam, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, was officially declared a “net zero” parish, having been certified as achieving zero net emissions.
A seminar on the perspective of integral ecology in India is currently taking place in Bengaluru under the auspices of Catholic bishops. In his introductory address, the Archbishop of Hyderabad said: “Integral ecological care is not just a concept; it is a living expression of our love for God and our love for our neighbours, both near and far.”
Baselios Cleemis, major archbishop-catholicos of Trivandrum, could be a candidate