Kochi – Increase in rate of emigration and decrease in
birth rate are endangering the Syrian Christian population in Kerala and unless taken seriously, may threaten the community to enter the zero population regime, a popular Christian magazine has warned.

Sathyadeepam, a popular Christian magazine in South India, has echoed the concerns of the Syro-Malabar Church that feels that the birth rate in the Syrian community has fallen below the replacement rate. According to news reports, the birth rate today stands at an all-time low of 1.7 children per couple....

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In the days of Jesus, a small group of Jews lived in and around cities on the western shore of the Dead Sea. The Essenes were a devout sect, conservative for their time but with beliefs and practices not unfamiliar to faith communities today....

The other four scrolls were sold for $100 to a Syrian Orthodox archbishop, who soon put a reported price tag of a million dollars on them, took his treasure to America and unrolled the Isaiah scroll for the Movietone newsreels at the Library of Congress....

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The representative of his Holiness Zakka I, the Patriarch of Antioch, Mor Peelexinos Saleeba Metropolitan, the abbot of Kurkuma Diara formally launched the year-long platinum jubilee celebrations of the Manjanikkara 'Perunal,' today evening.

Groups of pilgrims from across the State, to worship at the tomb of Saint ignathios Elias III, reached Omalloor Cross, this afternoon....

St Severus of Antioch is one of the great Fathers of
the Oriental Orthodox Churches. In the decades after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD it was he, more than any other theologian, who expressed most forcefully and clearly the Orthodox Christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches....