A Catholic college in Bengaluru collaborated with Muslim leaders to celebrate Bakrid for the children of foster homes. More than 400 children from various Foster Homes took part in the August 26 celebration. Dream India Network organized the program at Mount Carmel PU College in Bengaluru, capital city of Karnataka.
The celebration also expressed solidarity with the flood-affected people of Karnataka and Kerala. As reported by mattersindia.com, Taha Mateen, a physician and a social worker who addressed the gathering, said it was wonderful and great to see God’s work done in unity and oneness of mind. “If this is not God’s work and if it is not God’s people (the Foster Home team), then what it is,” he added.
Sr Ashwini, principal, Mount Carmel PU College, exhorted the children to follow Mother Teresa of Kolkata to celebrate the great sacrifice hidden in the celebrations. Mother Teresa, an incarnation of God for service and sacrifice practiced what she stood for. Sr Ashwini intoned ‘words of wisdom’ and the children repeated after her. Earlier, Fr Thomas, welcoming the gathering, said people from the west rushed to India to benefit from the spirituality of India, its brotherhood, oneness and the unity in diversity. Fr Thomas, who currently directs the Missing Child Bureau of the Karnataka government’s Women and Child Development, bemoans the tendency among some people to use every opportunity to divide India.
Source: www.mattersindia.com
