Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

 

 

About: - Cedric Prakash is a Jesuit priest and a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) of the Gujarat Province in India . He is the founding director of PRASHANT, A Centre for Human Rights, Justice, and Peace, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India . He has served as the convener of the Gujarat United Christian Forum for Human Rights .Cedric Prakash has also been involved with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) as the Regional Advocacy and Communications Advisor. JRS (MENA) works with refugees and IDPs in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon. Cedric Prakash is also a Former Advocacy Communications Officer/Advisor at Jesuit Refugee Service MENA After graduation, Prakash worked full-time as the National Programme Secretary of the All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF) in Madras for one year. For a year after that he was based in TAIZE, ( the Ecumenical Christian community)France, as part of a 14-member intercontinental team (equipe) to help prepare the ‘World Council of Youth’ of 1974. On 16 July 1974, Prakash entered in Ahmedabad, the Jesuit Novitiate of the Gujarat province of the Society of Jesus. On 27 April 1985, Fr. Prakash was ordained a priest in St. Peter’s Church, Bandra, Mumbai by Bishop Ferdinand Fonseca, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bombay. In April 1987, Fr. Prakash was appointed the Director of St. Xavier’s Social Service Society (SXSSS). Cedric is also a hardcore supporter of Akhil Gogoi who is a terror activist from assam.