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\n Bishop Mar Jose Pulickal of the Kanjirappally diocese inaugurates a protest at the Thrissur Town Hall on Sunday against what organisers alleged were attempts to defame the Thrissur archdiocese and its leadership under the guise of the nurses agitation.
\n | Photo Credit: K.K. NAJEEB\n <\/p>\n
The Thrissur archdiocese on Sunday accused \u201cvested interests\u201d of attempting to tarnish the image of the Catholic Church and its institutions by using the ongoing nurses\u2019 agitation as a pretext, and warned that the Church would resist what it described as a concerted campaign against its hospitals and leadership.<\/p>\n
Addressing a protest meeting organised by the archdiocese at the Thrissur Town Hall on Sunday, Kanjirappally Bishop Mar Jose Pulickal said the Catholic Church recognised the \u201cdestructive forces\u201d working behind the agitation to weaken the Church by placing nurses at the forefront of the campaign.<\/p>\n
He alleged that attempts were being made to create unrest at the Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute and Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, two of the State\u2019s leading medical college hospitals, to protect the interests of \u201ccommercial players\u201d in the health-care sector. The Church would remain united in defending its institutions against such attempts, he said.<\/p>\n
Tracing the Church\u2019s long tradition of health care, Bishop Pulickal said Christians had been engaged in caring for the sick since the first century, long before governments entered organised health care. He asserted that the Church would not allow its health-care institutions in Thrissur to be destabilised.<\/p>\n
Thrissur Auxiliary Bishop Mar Tony Neelankavil, who presided over the meeting, said the managements of Jubilee and Amala hospitals had treated the protesting nurses with compassion from the very beginning. He alleged that the \u201cscript\u201d for the agitation was being written elsewhere and vowed that the archdiocese would use all available means to counter what it termed \u201cforces of evil\u201d targeting the Church.<\/p>\n
He appealed to the faithful to remain vigilant against those who, he alleged, were insulting the archdiocese and its archbishop and attempting to mislead the community. The Church\u2019s charitable and health-care activities would continue uninterrupted, he added.<\/p>\n
Rajeev Kochuparambil, global president of the Catholic Congress, said the participation of around 10,000 faithful from various parishes in the archdiocese reflected the community\u2019s anguish over what it viewed as attacks on its dignity.<\/p>\n
Jubilee hospital director Fr. Renny Mundankurian, Amala hospital director Fr. Julius Arackal and pastoral council secretary Joshy Vadakkan were among those who addressed the gathering.<\/p>\n
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