Newindpress - Chennai,India
ANGAMALY: The 130th annual celebrations of Kandanad diocese (Jacobite Syrian), will be held on Sunday at Kadakkanadu Mar Baselios Nagar, said a press release.

Dominic Presentation, Minister for Sports and Fisheries, will inaugurate the function. Baselios Thomas I will preside over the function....

Hindu - Chennai,India
BANGALORE: Cyriac Joseph, who was administered the oath of office as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court here on January 7, is the first member of the Christian community after Independence to adorn the office. However, contrary to public perception, he is not the first Christian to hold the office. ...

Church Executive Magazine - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Eritrea dramatically accelerated its imprisonment and torture of Christians even as the U.S. State Department designated it as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for the second consecutive year.... The regime of President Isaias Afwerki stripped Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch Abune Antonios of his ecclesiastical authority on August 7, and the country's only ...

Washington Post - United States
Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants gathered at a District church yesterday to mourn Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, who spent decades launching congregations throughout the United States and the Caribbean and is credited with leading thousands of Rastafarians -- including reggae great Bob Marley -- toward Orthodox Christianity....

The elaborate funeral Mass and memorial service unfolded over eight hours at Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation that worships ...

Newindpress - Chennai,India
PARAVOOR: The State Government, which has not yet kept its promise regarding the reopening of the churches, has to change its partisan attitude of protecting the Orthodox faction illegally, said Catholicos Baselios Mar Thomas I here on Thursday. ...