India - Three cardinals meet Premier Modi for the release of Fr Tom Uzhunnalil

10 February 2017
India - Three cardinals meet Premier Modi for the release of Fr Tom Uzhunnalil

(ANS - New Delhi) – On Wednesday 8 February, three Indian cardinals met with the Prime Minister of India, Hon. Narendra Modi, in his office at the headquarters of Parliament, to request the Government to adopt urgent measures to secure the release of Fr Tom Uzhunallil, the Indian Salesian missionary kidnapped in March last year in Aden, Yemen.

The request was presented by the highest representatives of the Indian bishops: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, President of the Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI), as well as Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankar rite; Card. George Alancherry, Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar rite; and Card. Oswald Gracias, President of the Episcopal Conference of the Bishops of the Latin Rite (CCBI).

Prime Minister Modi assured them that the government  would take the necessary and immediate action to that effect, while for their part, the three cardinals assured the prime minister that the Catholic Church and Christians will continue to support the growth of the country.

The official statement on the meeting, published on the website of the CBCI, states that the Indian Prime Minister also informed the three cardinals that his government has "a favourable attitude" towards the visit of Pope Francis to India.

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