CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NAGALAND (1973-1997) MANIPUR (1973-1980) 2
March 02, 2019
For one thing or the other I (Fr. Joseph Puthenpurakal) have had the privilege of visiting all
the states of the North East at least briefly. However, a nearly-half-a-century
of my stay in the North East of India is linked mostly with Nagaland and
Manipur and that too in connection with education, culture, spiritual
animation, administration and the all-embracing-mission of the Church. This
last mentioned, namely, the all-embracing mission of the Church, is what is
generally understood as Evangelization
a word so rich that it is subject to easy misinterpretation. To ward off such a
possibility as much as possible Paul VI called a synod of Bishops and later on,
brought out the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi in 1975. We
read in it “… the Church exists to evangelize”, a lapidary statement which
includes a thousand and one way of sharing the Good News even at the cost of
one’s life… like the martyrs of the early Church (to be continued).
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