HIV, AIDS patients to benefit from Ahmedabad Diocese Devaria Mission charity project to come up on ‘tithing’

Indian Malankara Orthodox Church
By Liju Cherian – 1/12/13

AHMEDABAD, Gujarat, India —Ahmedabad Diocese under Indian Orthodox Metropolitan HG Dr Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios has taken yet another big leap towards development through missionary works.

Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church’s second centre for rehabilitation of non-HIV children of HIV, Aids affected patients will come up at Devaria village in Anjar Taluk of Kutch District, Gujarat State. This will be under the initiative of The Mission Centre and will be run in collaboration with the Mission Board of the Indian Orthodox Church.

The Ahmedabad Diocesan Council and the Mission Board have taken steps to register a Public Charitable Trust and Society at Gandhidham, Gujarat, to run the Mission Charity Project for the benefit of marginalised and less privileged people of the society irrespective of their caste, creed, community or religion.

Dr Mar Yulios has in a Bull on the occasion of World Aids Day on December 1, states the missionary project will primarily aim to rehabilitate non-HIV children of HIV and Aids affected parents, to develop strategies for the eradication of Aids and also provide compassion, care and support to the people living with HIV and Aids.

Quoting from St Mathew 9:35, Dr Mar Yulios points that is the duty of the Church, which is the body of Christ, to carry on the Ministry of Jesus to provide care and support to the sick of every nature. On November 20, 2013, the foundation stone for the proposed centre named St Gregorios Krupalaya was laid by His Grace Dr Youhanon Mar Chrisostomous, Metropolitan of Niranam Diocese and the President of the Mission Board, in the presence of Dr Mar Yulios at Devaria village. Very Rev K I Philip Ramban of Puthuppady Ashram will be the Director, and Fr Santu Skariah, a missionary priest and Vicar of St Stephen’s Parish, Gandhidham, the Secretary of this new mission venture.

Metropolitan Mar Yulios has also expressed his sincere appreciation to St Stephen’s Orthodox Parish, Gandhidham, for their exemplary help and support for donating 3 acres of land towards the project.

St Gregorios Daya Bhavan at Tumkur near Bengaluru is the first such Aids centre run by the Mission Board and is already an established one. The centre is one of the most reputed and best centres of that kind in Karnataka in the field of eradication of HIV and Aids, winning many national and international awards.

The Metropolitan in an earlier Kalpana No 85/13 stated that the Devaria Mission Project and other charities will be run exclusively from the ‘Diocesan Tithing’ collected from each parish.
The Bull No 92/13 dated November 26, 2013 was issued from Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad.

Source:
Independent