92-Year-Old Bengal Priest Gets France\'s Highest Civilian Honour

92-Year-Old Bengal Priest Gets France's Highest Civilian Honour

French Ambassador to India, Alexandre Ziegler, said the country was happy to confer the award on Father Laborde who had set up Howrah South Point, an organisation working for the development of specially-abled children, the destitute and the most deprived sections of the society.

All India | | Updated: February 06, 2019 21:31 IST
92-Year-Old Bengal Priest Gets France's Highest Civilian Honour

Father Laborde is of French-origin but he has been given Indian citizenship.