Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Conference of Religious India Begins Guwahati, Nov. 7. The Golden Jubilee Celebrations of CRI (Conference of Religious India) and its National Assembly 2013 started off colourfully and prayerfully this morning at Guwahati, the city of Eastern Lights, with the concelebrated Holy Mass presided over by Most Rev. John Moolachira, the Archbishop of Guwahati, at St. Joseph's Pro Cathedral.
500 committed women and men spending themselves in the service of God and humanity, were welcomed in the traditional manner with the colourful Arnai, a richly embroidered muffler of the the Bodos, while a brass band played in the background. They moved to the venue of the conference flanked by young boys and girls dressed up in traditional dresses.
dhol and the khol , and 50 young girls dressed in Assamese golden Mekhela Chadhar . 200 little boys and girls from Kokrajhar District performed a group drill and 50 colourful balloons went up into the clear morning sky from the tender hands of 50 children, symbolizing the high aspirations of the selfless men and women who form the CRI.
CRI Fifty Golden Years , a compendium of the services of the members of the CRI to the people of India edited by Rev. Fr. Johnson Parackal SDB, and A Radical Love, A Path of Light by Fr. Joe Mannath SDB, the National Secretary of CRI.
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