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Mission Statement

The Mission of Tirunelveli Diocese is:

  1. to consider every human being as a precious one created in the image of God and sent into this world to fulfil His purpose.
  2. a) to present Jesus Christ as the true and living God Almighty and to demonstrate His claim on every individual.
    b) to liberate the sin-dominated, sorrow-laden and peace-longing society from sin, sickness and suffering by the power of the Gospel of Christ and by the power of the Cross, the source of Salvation.
  3. to produce daring and dynamic disciples of Jesus who would proclaim the Gospel of Christ in every nook and corner and to every people group of our motherland, India.
  4. a) to do the holistic ministry of catering to the spiritual, intellectual, physical and social needs of every individual without discrimination of caste, creed or colour.
    b) to cater to the intellectual, physical and emotional needs of our fellow-countrymen by effectively running educatinal institutions like Schools and Colleges, Hospitals, Orphanages, Counselling centres, Old-age Homes and Child-care Centres in needy places.
  5. to consider all human beings as brothers and sisters and promote peace, unity and understanding among them.
  6. to cherish and value inter-religious dialogues with our brothers and sisters of other faiths with an open mind and a spirit of respect and understanding.
  7. to preach everywhere the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the essence of which is love and sacrifice and to strengthen the existing churches and to establish new churches professing, practising and propagating the principles of the Holy Bible with congregations filled with parity, unity and peace.
  8. to identify oppression and suppression in any form in any corner and to oppose it stout-heartedly until it ceases and those affected are redeemed.
  9. to care specially for the depraved, down-trodden and underprivileged classes, the Dalits and the Tribals and to uptight them with the power of the Gospel and equip them with spiritual awareness, intellectual insight and liberated thinking.
  10. to identify, condemn and redress all forms of violence that deprives the essence of humanity like infanticide, child labour, sexual discrimination racial prejudice, casteism, blood-shed, etc.
 

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