Advocating for workers: Sinapan Samydorai

Friends and human rights colleagues are remembering former IYCW Asia-Pacific leader Sinapan Samydorai, a founding member of the Cardijn Community International, who died on 27 March 2025.

We send our condolences to his wife, Yun Shan Shum, their sons, and all family, friends and colleagues.

IYCW International Team meeting, Leuven, Belgium, 1990

This is a tribute from Hans Goh, a former YCW leader from Singapore:

Samydorai had a keen sense of justice and he cared for workers. He spent about 45 years of his life advocating for the dignity of workers, workers’ rights, and human rights.

In 1984 he worked in a factory with a mission to extend Young Christian Workers Movement (YCW). He spent time getting to know his fellow workers, listened to their stories to understand their reality. He visited them at their hostels and homes. He built friendship with his fellow workers and brought them to the YCW Workers Centre in Jurong for leisure, friendship, learning and to know about YCW. He contributed to the formation of leaders.

Sam spoke up for his colleagues who faced poor and unsafe working conditions. He worked with them to seek better protection including writing to the Ministry of Labour.

Fr Patrick Goh, former National Chaplain, YCW paid tribute to Sam. “He is always there for the workers in Singapore, Malaysia and Asia. Always faithful to the Review of Life (See, Judge and Act), seeing me almost every week to review his work in the factories, the YCW groups in the parishes and in Asia.”

Sam was the President of YCW from 1983 to 1986. He worked Part-time for YCW for about two years. During his leadership YCW Singapore published the Report on 12-hour Shift, and Retrenchment Report, calling for better protection of workers and job security. In 1987, he worked full-time for Asia Pacific IYCW based in Hongkong. Sam continued his apostolate work with the Christian Family Movement (CFSM), Singapore.

After that he spent many years working for different Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), worker organisations and human rights groups. He built networks and organised many training sessions for workers and the leaders of NGOs. He was the Regional and International Team member of World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW) for two terms. In this capacity, he had an audience with Pope John Paul II to share the reality of workers in Asia.

Sam was a leader of Think Centre, Singapore. He organised the 1st and 2ndAsean Civil Society Conference in Singapore where civil society organisations from Asean and around the region met to share ideas, network, and support one another’s works in the promotion and protection of human rights.

Sam was elected to Forum Asia’s Executive Committee where he helped to take the organisation forward. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development is regional human rights organisation in 23 countries across Asia.

He was involved in labour work for International Labour Organisation (ILO). He helped start the Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers. This is a group of representatives of civil society organizations and trade unions working for protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers. The group bought many parties together and was recognised by governments, unions, and employers in ASEAN.

Sam was a resolute leader. He had some health issues. Despite that he was always on the move working for and with the workers. His contribution and expertise will be missed. The workers have lost a good friend,

Former YCW members, friends in Singapore and oversea have asked me to convey our deepest condolences to Sam’s family and thank them for their support for Sam through the years. The family support was important for him in his mission.

I end this tribute to Sam with a quote from Timothy 4:7, “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept faith.”

Sam, indeed, you have fought a good fight for workers. Rest in peace.

Hans Goh

Former YCW and long-time friend of Samydorai.

Note: This tribute includes the sentiments of former YCW members and Sam’s friends.

Cardijn Community International convenor, Ruben Joseph, also recalled Sam’s enthusiasm and dedication to the cause:

I have always admired Sam’s enthusiasm and dedication. He gave his all to the cause he chose as the priority of his life. He spent most of his life outside the comfort zone of his family.

I share the sentiments expressed by Hansern. I know the health issues he faced but that never stopped his work. He was always on the move. His love for Cardijn and his methodology was something to be greatly appreciated. He was a good trainer.

As a member of IYCW Asia Pacific Team he made a mark especially in terms of extension and training.

Sam was very supportive of Cardijn Community International (CCI) from its very foundation. He participated in all CCI programs and encouraged us. Thank you Sam for being a ‘model leader’. You have fulfilled the meaning of your life. Rest in peace Comrade!

Ruben Joseph

In Malaysia, Glorene Dass, executive director of human and worker rights NGO, Tenaganita, also honoured Sam with this Facebook tribute:

Cardijn Community International, General Assembly, Bangkok, 2011
Foundation meeting of the Cardijn Liaison Committee, original name of CCI, Bangkok, 2001

In Loving Memory of Sinapan Samydorai

I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Sinapan Samydorai, a passionate advocate, a tireless defender of migrant rights, and a dear friend to so many across Asia.

I first met Samy in 1999, when I began my journey at Tenaganita as a mere case officer. From the very beginning, he was someone who radiated warmth, wisdom, and an irrepressible sense of humour. Even in the face of personal health challenges, he was consistently positive ,full of life, laughter, and encouragement. Conversations with him were always filled with inspiration, and his unwavering belief in justice gave strength to many of us in the movement.

He was a true giant in the fight for dignity and rights for migrant workers, dedicating decades of his life to causes often overlooked and underfunded. His work across regional platforms has left an profound mark on the regional human rights landscape. He connected communities, bridged movements, and nurtured leadership across generations.

Thank you, Samy, for your relentless pursuit of justice, your laughter in difficult times, and the love you poured into this struggle. You have touched countless lives, and your legacy will continue through every step we take for a more just and compassionate world.

Rest now in strength and love. You will be dearly missed, but never forgotten.

With heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and all who walked this journey with him.

Glorene A. Das

Executive Director, Tenaganita

Remembering Sam

Migrant Forum in Asia
IYCW History Project meeting, Hong Kong, 1998

Good Samaritan models true ‘ordo amoris’: Pope Francis

Pope Francis has written to the bishops of the USA in the wake of controversial comments by US Vice-President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, to clarify Gospel teaching on human dignity and migration.

“The journey from slavery to freedom that the People of Israel traveled, as narrated in the Book of Exodus, invites us to look at the reality of our time, so clearly marked by the phenomenon of migration, as a decisive moment in history to reaffirm not only our faith in a God who is always close, incarnate, migrant and refugee, but also the infinite and transcendent dignity of every human person,” Pope Francis wrote.

“These words are not an artificial construct,” he emphasised. “Even a cursory examination of the Church’s social doctrine emphatically shows that Jesus Christ is the true Emmanuel (cf. Mt 1:23); he did not live apart from the difficult experience of being expelled from his own land because of an imminent risk to his life, and from the experience of having to take refuge in a society and a culture foreign to his own. “The Son of God, in becoming man, also chose to live the drama of immigration.”

Francis was responding to Vice-President Vance’s comment on X claiming that Christian teaching on love applies to people in concentric circles of love

The pope continued:

I like to recall, among other things, the words with which Pope Pius XII began his Apostolic Constitution on the Care of Migrants, which is considered the “Magna Carta” of the Church’s thinking on migration:

“The family of Nazareth in exile, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, emigrants in Egypt and refugees there to escape the wrath of an ungodly king, are the model, the example and the consolation of emigrants and pilgrims of every age and country, of all refugees of every condition who, beset by persecution or necessity, are forced to leave their homeland, beloved family and dear friends for foreign lands.”

Likewise, Jesus Christ, loving everyone with a universal love, educates us in the permanent recognition of the dignity of every human being, without exception. In fact, when we speak of “infinite and transcendent dignity,” we wish to emphasize that the most decisive value possessed by the human person surpasses and sustains every other juridical consideration that can be made to regulate life in society. Thus, all the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity of the person and his or her fundamental rights, not vice versa.

I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality. At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival. That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.

This is not a minor issue: an authentic rule of law is verified precisely in the dignified treatment that all people deserve, especially the poorest and most marginalized. The true common good is promoted when society and government, with creativity and strict respect for the rights of all — as I have affirmed on numerous occasions — welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates the most fragile, unprotected and vulnerable. This does not impede the development of a policy that regulates orderly and legal migration. However, this development cannot come about through the privilege of some and the sacrifice of others. What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.

Christians know very well that it is only by affirming the infinite dignity of all that our own identity as persons and as communities reaches its maturity. Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups. In other words: the human person is not a mere individual, relatively expansive, with some philanthropic feelings! The human person is a subject with dignity who, through the constitutive relationship with all, especially with the poorest, can gradually mature in his identity and vocation. The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan” (cf. Lk 10:25-37), that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.

But worrying about personal, community or national identity, apart from these considerations, easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth.

    In conclusion, Pope Francis praised the US bishops for their work “for the protection and defense of those who are considered less valuable, less important or less human” and encouraged Catholics and all men and women of good will “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters.”

    “With charity and clarity we are all called to live in solidarity and fraternity, to build bridges that bring us ever closer together, to avoid walls of ignominy and to learn to give our lives as Jesus Christ gave his for the salvation of all,” Pope Francis wrote.

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    Pope Francis to Bishops of the USA (Vatican)

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    New book on Marcel Callo

    Rennes seminary lecturer, Thomas Gueydier, is publishing a new book on the French jocist leader, Blessed Marcel Callo, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

    Entitled, “Prier 15 jours avec Marcel Callo” (Pray with Marcel Callo for a fortnight), the book published by Nouvelle Cité will be available on 12 March 2025.

    Marcel Callo was a young typographer and YCW leader from Rennes, who was sent to Germany as forced labour.

    While there, he organised his fellow workers into jocist teams. As a result, he was sent to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria, where he perished on 19 March 1945, just weeks before the end of the war in Europe.

    He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987.

    The book will be available in bookshops on 12 March.

    SOURCE

    Un nouveau livre sur Marcel Callo, possible futur saint breton (Ouest-France)

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    Marcel Callo (Joseph Cardijn Digital Library)

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    Thomas Gueydier / Ouest-France

    SJA methodology inspired missionary vocation

    British Columban priest, Fr Ed O’Connell has credited the YCW method with helping him discover his vocation to become a missionary priest.

    “I was talking recently on Zoom, with young adults from the parish where I worked in Peru,” he wrote in the Australian Columban magazine.” I asked them about the political situation and what could be done to improve the life of the ordinary folk.”

    “Their reply was stark,” he noted.

    “They were and are disenchanted with politicians who are caught up with their own interests of the interests of those who put up the money for them to be politicians,” Fr O’Connell explained.

    “These young people are not interested in getting involved, other than individually showing solidarity to those in need or maybe signing petitions in defence of those suffering human rights abuses,” he lamented.

    Fr O’Connell recalled that he had had an interest in politics since the 1960s in his days as a member of the YCW in the London suburb of Brixton.

    “Many YCW members in the fifties and sixties formed in a ‘see, judge and act”’ methodology and went on to be local councillors and active trade unionists and for me, I discovered my vocation to be a missionary priest,” he continued.

    “They, like me, got their strength and direction from their faith. The use of Gospel reflection and a study of the Social Teaching of the Church gave us our lead,” he observed.

    “May the Spirit of Jesus Christ be with each of us, as we discern how to play an active part in society, as the responsibility for politics is not just with the politicians,” he wrote, recalling his experience working in Peru to help parents to get involved in advocacy work for children.

    Warmi Huasi, a small NGO he and other established in Lima to accompany families living in poverty, “accompanies and enables children and young people to have a voice at local council level, so that the local mayor and councillors hear the needs of the young and their proposed plans to help improve their lives and that of their communities.”

    ‘It is slowly working, local councils are beginning to see the value of young people’s involvement,” he noted.

    “And maybe it is also the first step to breaking apathy and getting a new generation involved in politics, which in the end is about achieving for all the basics of life.”

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    The common good (Columbans Australia)

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    Children from Warmi Huasi in Peru by Fr Ed O’Connell SSC

    Former YCS chaplain celebrates 60th anniversary of profession

    Former YCS chaplain, Salesian Father K.K. Anthony Kariyattil, celebrated the 60th year of his religious profession among Murshidabad’s tribal youth at Azimganj on 25 January 2025.

    Known as Kolkata’s youth-fest icon of the 1980s on January 25, Fr Kariyattil is currently the confessor and teacher of Salesian pre-novices and aspirants at Savio Bhavan in Azimganj, Matters India reports.

    Some 20 priests and several religious sisters and scores of young people participated in the solemn Mass marking the diamond jubilee of Father Kariyattil becoming a Salesian.

    Born in Valapad, Thrissur district of Kerala in 1944, Father Kariattil became a Salesian of Don Bosco in 1964.

    As a youth animator in Calcutta in 1974, living in Don Bosco School Park Circus Salesian community, Kariyattil, was engaged in ministry with high school students.

    “A youth leader from college days in Salesian College Sonada, I became an animator of Young Christian Students as well as the Leadership Training Service students in Calcutta in 1974,” the 82-year-old priest recalled.

    Kariyattil, who was the youth fest director for 13 editions, recalled the first fest held at Don Bosco School Park Circus Calcutta in 1977, initiated by the late Brother Trophy D’Souza, Head of the Department of English at Salesian College Sonada, Darjeeling.

    Brother D’Souza organized the event with the help of Salesian College Sonada, Kariyattil was then a teacher and youth animator residing in Don Bosco Park Circus.

    After his ordination by Jesuit Cardinal Lawrence Picachy of Calcutta in 1978, Kariyattil was appointed youth commission delegate of the archdiocese and, in 1978, chaplain of YCS Calcutta.

    Under Kariyattil’s leadership, Youth Fest Kolkata grew into a mass movement of youth, with zonal events in the four deaneries of the archdiocese culminating in a day-long event at Don Bosco School Park Circus grounds.

    It was preceded by catechetical themes with specific social action following Cardijn’s Review of Life method: “See, Judge and Act.”

    This method, initiated by Joseph Cardijn, a Belgian priest and founder of the Young Christian Workers movement, encouraged young people to engage in social action by observing their surroundings (See), reflecting on what they observed in light of Christian teachings (Judge), and taking action to address issues.

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    Youth fest icon celebrates 60 years of service (Matters India)

    YCW leader became Malta’s prime minister

    ‘Karmenu – Il-verita’ xejn anqas mill-verita’ (The truth, nothing but the truth) is a book with 24 recollections on the involvement of Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, a Maltese YCW leader who became prime minister, writes Professor Yosanne Vella.

    Greatly influenced by Joseph Cardijn, Mifsud Bonnici studied in London, which led to a trade union careerr with the General Workers Union (GWU) from the late 1960s.

    He became a leading figure in the Labour Party and succeeded Dom Mintoff as prime minister from 1984-87.

    The book also narrates his contribution as Opposition Leader between 1987 and 1992; his respect towards former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff and his relationship with former Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami since their law studies in 1955.

    SOURCE

    KMB, prime minister with ‘little political nous’, cradled Mintoffianism to its death (Malta Today)

    Book narrates the life and legacy of former PM Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici (TVM News)

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    Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici (Wikipedia)

    Keep moving forward: Kenyan bishop

    “Life is about moving forward,” Bishop John Oballa Owaa of Ngong Diocese in Kenya, counselled YCW leaders in a homily on 29 October 2024.

    Bishop Oballa was presiding over the blessing and opening of St Stanislaus Eor-Ekule Catholic Church, an outstation of St. Joseph the Worker Nairagie Enkare Catholic Parish.

    In your faith journey, Bishop Oballa told YCW members in his homily, do not wait “until old age to get closer to God; that time is now.”

    “Continue upholding your faith in Christ, your Savior and Redeemer, regardless of your situation, whether employed or not, facing joy or struggle,” he said, alluding to the challenges young adults face in the East African nation.

    The movement that is under the patronage of St Joseph the Worker is made up members who “strive to create or nurture things that will outlast them.”

    They are guided to be guided by the commitment to “making your mark on the world by caring for others, as well as through creating and accomplishing things that make the world a better place,” the Kenyan Catholic Diocese indicates on its website.

    In his homily, Bishop Oballa called upon young Catholic adults under his pastoral care to let Jesus Christ be their light and hope.

    Jesus Christ “invites you to listen to His Word, participate in His mysteries, and receive Him for spiritual nourishment,’ he continued.

    He also cautioned YCW members against the tendency to hesitate “to transition” to the Catholic Women Association (CWA) and Catholic Men Association (CMA) when they turn 40.

    “When you reach 40, it’s time to transition,” he said, noting that “many say, ‘the transition is challenging,’ and people want to stay on into their 40s, feeling safe as YCW.”

    “No, life is about moving forward,” the 66-year-old Kenyan Catholic Bishop emphasized during the October 29 Eucharistic celebration at which he conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation to 148 candidates and commissioned new YCW, CWA, and CMA members.

    He encouraged young Catholic adults to “transition to the next group so you may continue to defend your faith there as well.”

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    The Time to Be “closer to God … is now”: Catholic Bishop in Kenya to Young Christian Workers (ACI Africa)

    Christian Family Movement celebrates 75 years


    For 75 years, Catholic families in the Archdiocese of Chicago have been gathering to build the bonds of friendship and community, to deepen their faith and to make the world a better place as part of the Christian Family Movement, Chicago Catholic reports.

    The movement celebrated its anniversary 3-4 August at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary with the theme of “Make Friends, Make Disciples, Make a Difference.”

    Coming to Mundelein was a nod to the movements roots, said retired Auxiliary Bishop George Rassas. The movement grew out of the Catholic action movement promoted by Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, then rector of Mundelein.

    Hillenbrand encouraged lay movements using the Jocist method of “observe-judge-act” created in the early 20th century by Belgian Cardinal Joseph Cardijn, the founder of the Young Christian Workers Movement. The method calls for people to take a close look at social issues in light of the Gospel, determine what should be done and then do it.

    “Those were very creative years, at the end of the ’40s and in the ’50s,” Bishop Rassas said.

    Pat Crowley, who with his wife Patty Crowley, was instrumental in the development of CFM, was part of a men’s Catholic action group in Chicago whose members discovered that they did not have enough in common in their professional lives for the “social inquiry” part of the process to work. But they were all husbands and fathers.

    That led to the Cana Conference, and, in 1949, to the establishment of what was then known as Catholic Family Action.

    “The name now is Christian Family Movement because we are open to everyone, but it’s based in Catholic teaching,” explained Sally Shewmon.

    Sally and Brad Shewmon have been involved in CFM for 29 years at their home parish, Our Lady of the Wayside in Arlington Heights, and now are serving as national vice presidents for the movement.

    They started as members, then became small-group leaders. Members of the movement meet as small groups once a month, from fall through spring, following the book the movement publishes each year to discuss issues and come up with an action.

    “We observe what’s going on in the world with what our topic is, and we judge according to the Gospels,” Brad Shewmon said. “What does Jesus say about it? We act, so how do we make a difference? How do we make a change in the world for the better?”

    “It promotes a lot of deep conversation based on the programming materials,” Sally Shewmon added. “It’s faith in action.”

    Sometimes the groups do acts of service that are suggested in the CFM book, and sometimes they come up with their own. In the Our Lady of the Wayside Parish community, for example, years ago, when the Shewmons’ three adult children were young, CFM did several projects to help the family of a high school football player who was paralyzed in an accident, raising money for their needs and building a wheelchair ramp at his home.

    “Our kids were involved in that,” Brad Shewmon said. “Our kids grew up with service as part of their life and they still do it.”

    Sometimes service is a part of the monthly social gatherings for the whole family, the Shewmons said, and sometimes they are fun activities, or both service and fun.

    “It makes your big parish smaller,” Sally Shewmon said. “Over time, you get to know more and more people in your parish. And the pastor really likes CFM because they know they can call on CFM families if they need to get something done.”

    The Shewmons and Bishop Rassas said they think many parishes — and their members — would benefit from having active CFM groups.

    “I think it really brings value to families,” Bishop Rassas said. “It’s an easily accessible program. Every year they have a copy of the program book, the meetings are already set out for you. And it creates bonds between families.”

    “It makes a more cohesive parish,” Sally Shewmon said. “It makes us want to help and volunteer for things that are done in our parish.”

    It also has individual benefits, she said, helping people cut through the noise to determine what they are called to do.

    “How do we bring our faith into everyday life?” she said. “How can we make a difference in the all the craziness going on the world, and how do we do it in love and service and kindness?”

    SOURCE

    Founded locally, Christian Family Movement celebrates 75 years (Chicago Catholic)

    Cardijn Community International Africa takes shape

    Cardijn Community leaders from several African countries met via Zoom on Sunday 25 August to discuss developments on the African continent.

    “Let us promote Cardinal Cardin’s spirit and methology,” CCI leader, Lazare Kabran, announced following the meeting. “A new movement is born in the paradigm of Catholic action movements: Cardijn Community International Africa.

    Who are we

    Former members of Young Christian Workers ( YCW/JOC, Young Christian Students (YCS/JEC), WMCW/MMTC, IMCS/MIEC, and all the former members of the various Catholic Action movements or all Christians who want to be presence of Christ in their “milieu” using the methodology of Cardinal Cardinj See Judge, Act,

    Please join us for this important opportunity to reflect on our own action and commitment.

    A webinar featuring Fr. Mike Deeb O.P., who will explore the spirituality of the Young Christian Students, inspired by his experiences and his book “Discovering God through Action and Reflection.” This is a valuable chance to deepen your understanding of faith in action.

    Our aims

    • Popularise in our communities of life, the method of See, Judge, Act specific to Catholic action movements
    • Work for the expansion and appropriation by our communities, of the spirit of Cardinal Cardijn, his vision, his working method …
    • In the long term, support and promote all projects for the canonisation of the Cardinal

    “We are developing contacts in Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin, Mauritius, Zambia, Kenya, Gabon and Burundi,” Lazare concluded.

    “If you wish to see a world inspired by the vision of Cardinal Cardijn, you will want to continue to make the Review of Life a method of life. Please join with us.”

    First Cardijn Community bishop ordained in Bangalore

    Former Cardijn Community India national chaplain, Msgr Joseph Soosainathan, was ordained as Auxiliary Bishop of Bangalore in Bangalore on Saturday, 24th August 2024.

    Glynis Joseph, Coordinator, CC – India, Fr Servatius and Ruben M. Joseph of Cardijn Community International attended the event and felicitated Bishop Soosainathan.

    Another Cardijn Bishop Prakash Sagili, former YCS chaplain, who was recently ordained as Bishop of Khammam, Andhra Pradesh also graced the occasion.

    “Cardijn Community India is happy that we have now two Cardijn bishops who can act as ‘influencers’ of Cardijn’s spiritually, vision and methodology in the Church in India,” commented Cardijn Community India coordinator, Glynis Joseph.

    CCI convenor MJ Ruben also congratulated Bishop Soosainathan.

    “Cardijn Community International (CCI) wishes the new Cardijn Bishop Joseph Soosainathan all the very best in his Ministry and look forward to greater cooperation from him to revive Cardijn movements in India,” he told Cardijn.info.

    Bishop Soosainathan was born on 14 May 14 1964 in Bangalore. He studied philosophy at Saint Peter’s Pontifical Seminary and theology at Saint Paul’s Seminary in Tiruchirappalli. He was ordained a priest on May 15, 1990, for Bangalore archdiocese.

    He has previously held the following offices: deputy parish priest of Saint Joseph and Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral (1990-1991), parish priest of Saint Anne (1991-1997), Saint John Evangelist (1997-2004), Our Lady of Fatima (2004-2010 and 2017-2020), Saints Peter and Paul (2010-2017) and Sacred Heart (since 2020). He was also diocesan chaplain of Bangalore YCS.

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    Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Soosainathan (ucanews.com)