Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II was one such life. He was a man of deep prayer and immense courage, but also of wit, culture, energy, and remarkable human warmth.

During St. John Paul II's first pastoral visit to the country in 1981, the pope visited the RVA auditorium in Manila on February 21. Standing before microphones that carried broadcasts in numerous Asian languages, he addressed listeners across the continent.

The Catholic Church in Northeast India set the preparation for the Jubilee Year 2025 in motion by revisiting ‘Ecclesia in Asia’ an apostolic exhortation issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1999 at the annual Regional Pastoral Conference that began on August 26, 2024, at Jubilee Memorial Hall of North East Diocesan Social Service Society, Guwahati, Assam.

“Meeting the Pope makes you want to cry”, this is how Anna Marco, a real estate consultant, described the indelible memories she had in an extraordinary encounter with Pope John Paul II in 1995, who later became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.