INDIA
The Hindu
Students and staff of St. Agnes Convent, Bendore, celebrated the centenary of its foundation on Sunday with a public function.
Mother Aloysia, the second Superior General of the Apostolic Carmel, searched for five years various sites between Kankanady and Kadri, including a plot of ‘Hulli Mulli’, an arid area and the surrounding plots which were inhabited by 16 proprietors in clustered huts and cottages on more than 12 acres of land, which were bought on June 29, 1913. …
Meanwhile, addressing a gathering at the concluding function of centenary celebrations Flavia Agnes, a Mumbai-based activist and an advocate, said on Sunday that a link had to evolve between spirituality and modern material reality. She said education had to be in “the right direction”.
She said rapes were committed not only by ordinary people but judges and editors. There was no such thing as a sexual abuse policy in the Church, Supreme Court or in Tehelka, she said.
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