Shillong, India – July 2024 – In a solemn ceremony, 22 clerics were ordained deacons on 1 July, during a Mass celebrated at the Sacred Heart Theologate in Mawlai. Bishop Joseph Aind, SDB, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Dibrugarh, was the ordaining prelate. Present at the celebration was Fr John Zosiama, Superior of the Salesian Province of Shillong, India (INS), the Vice-Provincials of the provinces of Shillong, Guwahati and Dimapur, rectors, professors and confessors, students of theology and families of the ordinands.