Malaysian Church News

  • The relationship between the Old and the New Testaments

    Jul 03, 2015

    One danger is that the Bible is seen only as a historical book dealing with the past, without recognizing that it is just as valid today

  • OMPH parish celebrates feastday

    Jul 03, 2015

    More than 2,500 people from all over Malaysia and Singapore converged on the Redemptorist Church of Our Mother of Perpetual Help (OMPH) to participate in the parish feastday Mass, on June 20

  • Be the evangelising mission of the community

    Jul 03, 2015

    St John the Baptist is described as the foremost evangelist prior to the coming of Christ. As such, the community faithful is also called upon to evangelise. This was Christ’s mission and we, his followers, are encourged to carry on his mission

  • Retreat for renewal members

    Jul 03, 2015

    The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) members had their annual retreat from June 12 to 14 in Father Barre’s House in Cameron Highlands

  • Curtailment of rights, recipe for disunity

    Jul 03, 2015

    The recent statements from the Deputy Education Minister is disturbing, said Steven Thiru (pic), President of the Malaysian Bar, in a statement released on June 24

  • ‘She, a Shiite, and I, a Christian’

    Jul 01, 2015

    Each week the French Catholic daily newspaper La Croix gives a Christian from the Middle East an opportunity to talk about daily life in a region plagued by instability and interreligous violence.

  • Jesus Caritas Church celebrates 40th anniversary

    Jul 01, 2015

    The Church of Jesus Caritas celebrated its 40th anniversary recently (1975-2015). It was doubly special for its parishioners, as they also celebrated their parish feastday of Corpus Christi, with the theme Be holy For I Am Holy.

  • Bring God’s love to others

    Jul 01, 2015

    Mission Towards Transforming Humanity was the main theme for the feastday celebration of the Church of St Anthony June 5.

  • Transforming self, family and society

    Jul 01, 2015

    The nine-day novena and feastday Masses at Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church continued to pull in large crowds each night, culminating in its feastday celebrations on June 20.

  • Giving More Than One Host to a Communicant

    Jul 01, 2015

    I would say that there are no particular norms on this point, and that rather, a common sense solution be applied. While it is customary to give a single host to each communicant, there can be variations, according to particular necessity.