Press Note: 3 March 2021

Public Relations Office

(Archdiocese of Bhopal)

Archbishop asks the stakeholders to accept challenges

Archbishop Most Rev Leo Cornelio Svd asks the stakeholders of the school to take
up the challenges of Covid ‘19 and live up to the expectation of the society as all
schools gearing for new opening for the exams after prolonged closing of the
schools due to pandemic situation.

Addressing the students and the parents in an informal chat with the media
personal said that since March our schools have been closed due to pandemic
fear. It is the need of the hour to open the schools to teach the students how to
face the Covid -19 challenges to resolve various issues related with education and
mental health. Issues will be always there in the society. We need courage to turn
the problems into opportunities he said. The missionaries run many schools and
colleges because education is the important apostolate we carry out apart from
the health care and social service according to the need of people and place he
added.

He asked the parents to send the students to schools without fear. He said “let us
start our normal life going to the office, going to schools, meeting people, while
keeping the security dimension and maintaining social distances. In this way we
can begin the normal life and this would be my wish in the year 2021.