Newindpress - Chennai,India
ALUVA: The Jacobite faction has decided to intensify its mission to regain the Thrikkunnath Seminary, St Mary’s Church, cemetery and establishments attached to the seminary....

Catholicos Baselious Thomas I will lead a ‘prayer yajnam’ at the entrance of Thrikkunnath Seminary, as part of the agitation, on January 22...

St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
His All Holiness Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the Orthodox Church, visits Tarpon Springs to mark its 100th Epiphany celebration...

TARPON SPRINGS - Here at the end of a beaten brick road, beneath a canopy of live oaks and date palms, is Spring Bayou, the center of the annual Orthodox Christian rite that has earned this small seaside town the name "Epiphany City."...

PAMBADI Perunnal supplement by Manorama

NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
By Liz Mathew: Children's voices raised in song never fail to create an ethereal aura and so it was at the presidential house in India's capital New Delhi when President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ushered the Christmas season by opening his doors to carol groups from various schools....

Rediff - India
Francois Gautier writes to Dr John Dayal, member, National Integration Council, in response to the letter he wrote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh:

Dear John Dayal,

I am a Westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in Catholic schools...

AKI - Rome,Italy
Cairo, 3 Jan. (AKI) - Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak has appointed Lt. Gen. Majdi Ayoun Iskandar, a Copt, to the post of Governor of Qena in Upper Egypt. Ayoun is first Copt to occupy the post of governor in more than 30 years....

The Milli Gazette Online
Kochi: Increasing migration and decreasing birth rate are endangering the Syrian Christian community in Kerala. The situation is likely to worsen in the coming decades and the community would soon enter the zero population regime...

Interfax-Religion - Moscow,Russia
Moscow, December 30, Interfax - Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia refuted reproaches that the Russian Orthodox church seeks official status. ...

Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
JERUSALEM, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem boycotted an annual Israeli Christmas party on Thursday because the invitation failed to recognise him as the church's new leader, a church official said....