Benigna Menezes*

Kamala Ransom, Janet D'Souza, Sunitha Pulawarthy and Aruna Varghese pronounced final vows. Now they are missionaries with a female congregation associated with PIME.

Priests and nuns from the diocese gathered for their annual Christmas meeting, which this time also included the inauguration of the Year of Consecrated Life. The variety of orders and congregations is "a gift from God that enriches the Church."

The Church in the southern state prepares to “renew religious life and vocations, reflecting on the need for evangelization in the modern world." More than 160 priests, religious men and women at a rally at the Stella Maris College.

Gidugu Venkata Ramamoorty, a writer and linguist, straddled the 19th and 20th centuries. Students at Maris Stella College recognise the need to "be proud of our ethnicity expressed through our mother tongue."

The school marks the start of its Silver Jubilee. Since inception, its aim was to promote cultural awareness in the population and help children from rural areas develop their artistic talent.

The diocese of Vijayawada inaugurated the place of worship, which is dedicated to Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, in the village of Chainatalanarva. Fr Raju, Sister Ida's "adoptive son", is the local parish priest. The nun spent 63 years in the service of children and lepers in India where she was among the first missionaries of the Immaculate to arrive.

In Vijayawada religious, priests and nuns took part in a seminar to study the apostolic exhortation. A reflection on the present condition of the Church. The need to lead the world today "to Christ for salvation." Mary "star of evangelization."

General meeting of the regional section of the Conference of Religious of India (CRI) discusses the commitments of the local clergy to encourage a peaceful separation of the two states. Meanwhile, the Council of Bishops (APBC) meets the new chief minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Saint Paul's Cathedral in Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) celebrated its 40th anniversary on the liturgical memorial day of the "foster father of the Son of God." Missionaries from the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) designed and built the church in 1973.

In Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) 150 priests, nuns and religious attended celebrations for the Day for Consecrated Life. Presiding over the meeting a religious priest from the Society of the Divine Word. "You are called to fight the impulses of every human being with the divine power of the Holy Spirit".

In Vijayawada , Andhra Pradesh, Sr. Shiji Joseph and Sister Sunitha Pamula have been mandated by the Apostolic Administrator Msgr. Govindu Joji . The two sisters have a theological education and have received a Crucifix , the symbol of their new mission in South America. Bishop invites them to be "fires that kindle the flame of faith".

More than 70 priests and nuns of Vijayawada participate in a day of reading and analysis of Pope Francis’ first encyclical. A "difficult reading", but crucial to "gain a common vision as part of the universal church, doing good for the local church."