For the care of water: Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it.
Let us pray that every girl child may be cherished as a precious gift of God, protected from discrimination, violence, and exploitation, and given equal opportunities to learn, grow, and flourish with dignity.
Cardinal Poola Anthony, Metropolitan Archbishop of Hyderabad (India), was born on 15 November 1961 in Poluru, in the diocese of Kurnool. After attending the minor seminary in Nuzvid, he studied at Saint Peter’s Pontifical Seminary in Bangalore.
He received priestly ordination on 20 February 1992 and was incardinated in the diocese of Cuddapah.
