The final day, today in Jamshedpur, of the 28th Plenary Assembly of the Indian Bishops Conference, a two-yearly event that this year was focused on "The improvement of the female condition in the Church and in society". A meeting that lasted 8 days, dedicated by the Indian Church to the female condition, attended by 145 bishops and many lay and religious men and women. "In the country chosen by Mother Teresa of Calcutta as her home reads a note , her figure is an example of the concreteness and determination of women as well as of their ability to resist the materialism and consumerism which besiege the great Asian country". Here, as well as everywhere else, "faith and ethics are indissolubly connected. Loving one’s neighbour means letting God’s love enlighten the world, because it is God who gives us the inner strength to face poverty", cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Papal Council del Cor Unum, had highlighted on Monday in front of the Assembly. "The Christians can leave their mark in India with their love of God and their neighbours" in a setting in which, in a few years’ time, the middle class has trebled and millionaires are growing at a record-breaking pace.
