“Since our parishioners couldn’t come to church, we decided to take the church to them as part of our overall outreach programme,” says Fr Gerry Fernandes, parish priest of St John the Baptist, Thane. And so every day of the week, pre-designated teams post themed content on the church’s Instagram page, Monday being the day for Know Your Facts. As part of this agenda, last month, they started an Instagram series to bring attention to interesting trivia about Thane, the church and the parish in alphabetical order, ie each fact will correspond to a letter.

Along with Fernandes, the team behind the initiative includes Fr Glasten Gonsalves and parishioners Fleur D’Souza, Bonny D’Souza, Eric Lobo, Jennifer Coutinho, Sanchia Dighe and Louanne Hendricks.