{"id":637,"date":"2011-01-22T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/?p=637"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T17:17:07","slug":"catholic-priest-goes-missing-from-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/catholic-priest-goes-missing-from-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priest goes missing from Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"
A 65-year-old Catholic priest associated with an NGO run by Loyola College in Chennai is reportedly missing since Monday.<\/p>\n
Quoting police sources, a report in The Times of India<\/em> said Fr Mariadoss Antonimuthu, member of the Society of Jesus, left his room on the college campus on Monday last and never returned.<\/p>\n Fr Antonimuthu worked as a treasurer of Pathai Illam, run by Loyola College for the welfare of the rural poor. He was assigned to work in the Pathai Illam in Vallam near Thirukazhukundram in Chengalpattu.<\/p>\n However, he did not reach Pathai Illam. His mobile phone has been switched off. A woman staff of Pathai Illam informed the police that she spoke to Fr Antonimuthu after he left Chennai.<\/p>\n He reportedly told her that he was going for a prolonged meditation, a police officer said.<\/p>\n The report said the priest, a native of Pollachi, had done civil engineering and was working with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. Later he became a priest 30 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" QUOTING police sources, a report in The Times of India said Fr Mariadoss Antonimuthu, member of the Society of Jesus, left his room on the college campus on Monday last and never returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[606,608,609,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianmessenger.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLoyola College secretary Joe Arun said the priest left his residence after breakfast at 10 am on January 17.<\/p>\n