NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Mallappally, Kerala: An eighty feet high and 40 feet wide, Christmas star has been put up by a church here and the church authorities claim it to be the largest ever made Christmas star in the world.

The gorgeous star stands before the four-storey building of the St Joseph Industrial Training Centre with a collage of pictures in each of its wings, sending forth messages of peace and prosperity...

Prime News Agency - Georgia
Tbilisi. December 20 (Prime-News) – The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II appealed to sheikh-ul-islam Allahshukyur Pashazade, chairman of Caucasus Moslems’ Board (CMB), to hand over the church on the Kakh area to the Georgian congregation...

Malayala Manorama - India
Parumala: The President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, on Sunday stressed the need for research in paediatric cardiac services to avoid occurrence of cardiac problems in children, especially in rural areas. Inaugurating an international paediatric cardiac services and rural telemedicine connectivity facility at St.Gregorios cardio vascular centre in Parumala, he lauded the efforts of noted heart surgeon Dr K M Cherian, who started the Dr K M Cherian heart foundation...

Among those present on the occasion were finance and excise minister Vakkom Purushothaman, fisheries minister Dominic Presentation and the Catholicos of the East Baselios, Marthoma Dydimos I...

Mmegi - Gaberones,Botswana
In an overwhelmingly Hindu population of one billion, India’s 50 million-plus Christians are considered a minority. Hence, it is not strange that many do not really link Indians with Christianity.

However, the Christian presence in India is very strong and Father Kuriakose Kozhikkadan of the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Gaborone is a livingtestimony in Botswana. He grew up in a Christian family in India's Kerala state. ...

Navhind Times - Panjim,India
Fear overwhelms Sheeja whenever she sees the sea. The sight of waves brings back memories of her parents being tossed high in the tsunami waves that struck the Tamil Nadu coast in southern India a year ago....

She had left with nine family members last December 24 for what they thought would be a joy-filled pilgrimage from Aroor near here to the Guruvayoor temple in Kerala and the Velankanni Church in Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam district, one of the hardest-hit by the tsunami...

Matangi Tonga - Nuku'alofa,Tonga
VISITING Tonga for Christmas is His Grace Bishop Suriel of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, who arrived on December 14 on a 14-days visit. ...