Malaysian Church News

  • Ten children receive Christ for the first time

    Dec 04, 2014

    Loving God and abandoning ourselves to Him will enable us to be more open and receptive towards works of mercy and love for others.

  • SFX Sunday school winds up for 2014

    Dec 04, 2014

    The Sunday school of the Banda Kaba parish of St Francis Xavier wound up its 2014 term with a thanksgiving Eucharistic Celebration, prize presentation and fellowship on November 23.

  • Good Shepherd Church, 50 glorious years of faith

    Dec 04, 2014

    On Sunday, November 16, parishioners of Good Shepherd Church came together for the 9.00am Mass to celebrate and give thanks on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of their faith community.

  • Launching of the Year of Consecrated Life in Melaka-Johor Diocese

    Dec 04, 2014

    The Melaka-Johor Diocese launched the Year of Consecrated Life, November 21 at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart.

  • Go beyond yourselves in living and sharing the gospel of joy

    Dec 04, 2014

    This Advent, be urgent in your mission for Christ, and go beyond yourselves in living and sharing the gospel of joy of Jesus Christ.

  • How the Church in Thailand fights trafficking, violence against women

    Dec 04, 2014

    The Church in Thailand observed the Nov. 25 celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women with a seminar helping form networks to end trafficking and other forms of sex-based violence in the country.

  • Bishop Emeritus now a Dato’

    Dec 04, 2014

    Bishop Emeritus Antony Selvanayagam was conferred a Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN), which carried the title Dato’, in conjunction with Penang Yang Dipertua Negeri, Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas’ 76th birthday, which was on July 12.

  • Christian students forced to pray in the open

    Dec 04, 2014

    Deputy Education Minister Mary Yap, according to a media update, has pledged to investigate the Labuan Matriculation College (LMC), no stranger to controversies, for being in the news again for all the wrong reasons.

  • What is Celtic spirituality?

    Nov 27, 2014

    Celtic practices existed at a time when there was much less uniformity in different parts of Christendom. But Celtic refers to practices which were not separate from the Catholic Church. Some commentators suggest a pre-Protestant stance against the Catholic Church. Modern scholars find this idea questionable.

  • OMPH Hospitality Ministers’s mission at Good Shepherd Home

    Nov 27, 2014

    In a special message delivered to all parishes in the Penang Diocese on World Mission Sunday, Bishop Sebastian Francis initiated the rite of sending in conjunction with the Diocese’s theme CALLED, CHOSEN, SENT.