KOTTAYAM: The annual Nilakkal Ecumenical and Communal Harmony awards, instituted by the Nilakkal Ecumenical Trust, will be presented on Friday to Geevarghese Mar Osthathios and poetess Sugathakumari respectively, at a function at the Cathedral Maha Jubilee Hall, Kanjirapally, at 10.30 am.
Archbishop Mar Joseph Powathil will give away the ecumenical award and Orthodox Church Catholicos-designate Paulose Mar Milithios will present the communal harmony award.
Both the dignitaries will also address the meet. Works Minister P J Joseph will inaugurate the meet, with Kanjirappally bishop Mar Mathew Arackal in the chair. Rev Dr Zacharias Mar Theophilus, former secretary, Nilakkal Ecumenical Trust, will deliver the keynote address. Bishop Dr Sam Mathew and Fr George Alumkal will deliver the benedictory addresses.
The meet will also become notable with inter-faith discourses led by Dr A T Devassia and Dr A Sukumaran Nair, former vice-chancellors of Mahatma Gandhi University, and Noushad Moulavi Al Kasouri, Imam, Nainaar Mosque, Kanjirappally. Anto Antony MP, Alphons Kannamthanam MLA, and others will offer felicitations.