KOCHI: Around 60 children of San Juan Sunday School under the Kumbalanghi Sacred Heart parish have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, making a plea for immediate government intervention for the early release of Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, a Catholic priest who was abducted by suspected terrorists in Yemen.
The children wrote the letters with the help of their parents in Malayalam, English, and Hindi.
The letters were written between 10 a.m. and 10.30 a.m., and K.V. Thomas, MP, collected them from the students to be handed over to the Prime Minister.
Parish vicar Fr. Tomy Champakkad, Sr. C. Tessy, Celestine Kurisinkal, and C. Alphonsa were among those who were present on the occasion.
Fr. Uzhunnalil, hailing from Muvattupuzha, was abducted from a house of the Missionaries of Charity in Yemen on March 4, last year. As many as 16 people, including four Catholic nuns, were killed by suspected terrorists on the day he was abducted.
