By Anand Mathew Bangalore: The 13th World Fellowship of World Religious Councils (WIFRC) concluded on April 21 with delegates from various religions celebrating the diversity of faiths and religious traditions. Around 200 people from all over India representing Bahai, Buddhisht, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Sikh, and Zoroastrian faiths conducted aContinue Reading
Faisalabad: For the first time in the history of Pakistan, a Christian chapel has been opened in an Islamic university. This is the church of St. Mary, housed in the atrium of the Agriculture University of Faisalabad. It was inaugrated, on April 15th by Joseph Arshad, archbishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi and presidentContinue Reading
The congregation has now 14 members from the Odisha districtContinue Reading
Kochi: The Suffragan Metropolitan Geevarghese Mar Athanasius of Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church passed away on April 18. The 74-year-old breathed his last at PVS Memorial Hospital in Kochi where he was admitted for liver and kidney related ailments. “With painful heart and deep grief, this is to announce thatContinue Reading
Mapusa: Thousands of Christians as well as people from other religious faiths thronged to St Jerome’s Church in Mapusa to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Milagres, on Monday. Masses were celebrated inside a pandal outside the church. Director of spiritual renewal Centre, Old Goa, Fr Henry Falcao wasContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: A Catholic parish in New Delhi created history when it brought together all three ritual Churches in the country to celebrate its annual feast. “The feast is rightly termed historical since it witnessed the active participation of the three independent Catholic Churches in India,” FatherContinue Reading
Bishop of oldest church in Kerala, Geevarghese Mor Coorilos, busts ‘myth’ that St. Thomas came to Kerala and converted members of Brahmin families to Christianity, laments brahminic tendencies among Christians.Continue Reading
The sign outside St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Warrenton, Texas, is meant to catch the eye of visitors taking leisurely drives down rural Route 237, halfway between Austin and Houston: “HISTORICAL, WORLD’S SMALLEST CATHOLIC CHURCH, ST. MARTIN’S, VISITORS WELCOME.” Without the sign, a passerby might mistake the tiny church forContinue Reading
New Venerables are 3 priests and 5 nunsContinue Reading
Kochi : Amid a controversy triggered by reported remarks of a senior priest questioning the belief that St Thomas visited India in AD 52, the Syro-Malabar Church today said the disciple of Jesus Christ did visit India. “The official stand of the Syro-Malabar Church is that St Thomas had visitedContinue Reading