Mangaluru: A prayer service for the CRPF jawans killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir was held at Milagres Church grounds on February 15, 2019.

The prayer service was conducted soon after the Holy Mass was celebrated in honour of Relic of St Anthony. Fr Onil D’Souza, director of Saint Anthony’s Ashram Jeppu led the prayer service.

Most Rev Dr Aloysius Paul D’Souza, emeritus Bishop of Mangaluru, twenty priests and more than four thousands of devotees of Saint Anthony participated in the prayer service with lighted candles in hand. The grieving family members of deceased and those wounded in the attack were also remembered in the prayer service.