PANAJI
Fr Lourdino Romualdo Pereira, a priest on the staff at the Raia Church, died in Wembley-London on Tuesday evening. According to sources, Fr Pereira had recently gone to the UK on a holiday, and took ill on Tuesday. He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead. Born in Utorda in 1955, Fr Pereira was ordained in 1987. Fr Pereira had previously served as priest on the staff at the Curtorim Church, and as Parish Priest in the parishes of Bogmalo and Colvale, among other places in the archdiocese. Sources in the UK stated that the body of the departed priest will be repatriated to Goa for final rites.
