Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), expressed heartfelt condolences on the demise of Dr. Manmohan Singh, a former Prime Minister of India and renowned economist and statesman.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has celebrated the elevation of Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, the first Indian priest directly appointed as a cardinal by the Vatican, as a moment of national pride on December 8.
Prime Minister Modi who is on a two-day visit to Rome for the G7 Summit at the invitation of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, met the Pope on June 14 at the Vatican.
