Adoor(Kerala): The 87th Reunion Meet of the Syro-Malankara Church got off to a ceremonial start in Adoor on Sept 19. The three-day meet comemmorates the reunion of the Church with the Catholic Church following its split from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in 1930. The meet began with the flag-hoistingContinue Reading

Last week was the 126th birth anniversary of the first Goan bishop to head the Church in Goa, Bishop Dom Francisco da Piedade Rebelo. Born in Margao on September 4, 1891, Rebelo studied at the Rachol seminary. No sooner he turned 24 than he was ordained priest by the patriarchContinue Reading

A Slovak Salesian will be declared blessed Sept. 30 as a “martyr for vocations” and one of the priests for whom he sacrificed his life will be traveling to Bratislava, Slovakia, from San Francisco’s Corpus Christi Parish for the event. Salesian Father Titus Zeman will be beatified as a martyrContinue Reading

Thiruvananthapuram: The newly-formed Parassala diocese of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church will be inaugurated on the Nazareth Home School campus, Balaramapuram, at 2 pm on September 23. The occasion will also witness the consecration of the first Metropolitan of the diocese, Bishop Thomas Mar Eusebius. Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of theContinue Reading