Cardinal Poola Anthony underscores need to spread message of peace to end global conflicts
The Hindu
Cardinal Poola Anthony calls for spreading peace to resolve global conflicts during the Karunagiri shrine's annual feast in Khammam.
President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), Cardinal Poola Anthony, has emphasised the need for spreading the message of peace and harmony across the world to end global conflicts and foster world peace.
He was speaking at the closing ceremony of the annual feast of the famous Karunagiri shrine in Khammam on Monday (March 2, 2026).
Khammam MP R. Raghuram Reddy was the guest of honour at the ceremony. Khammam Catholic Diocese Bishop Sagili Prakash presided over the function.
Earlier in the day, Cardinal Poola Anthony was accorded a warm welcome on his arrival at Karunagiri shrine. He was felicitated on the occasion.

This is complicated: one wants to gently hold this grown tree, one of moderate age, at Karpagambal Nagar in Mylapore by its trunk and give a squeeze of commiseration; or a bear hug that would sap the grief out if it (that pun slipped in unnoticed). Both acts of kindness have been rendered difficult by the very tragedies that warrant this dramatic, physical show of kindness. The tree seems to be taking a disturbingly transverse route in the air. Before going to the second problem, a question. How comfortable would you be if you have outgrown the school uniform, the convocation hat earned by a college education, but not the baby diaper? Under your slick chino trousers that now-anachronistic piece of inner wear, which was meant only for an exigency, continues as if time has stood still. And time seems to have stood still for this tree: it still wears what it had to in its babyhood: the tree guard.












