Malaysian Church News

• 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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  Unity among Christians in Terengganu

  Nov 27, 2014

  The local Churches, comprising Catholics and other denominations in Terengganu, usually take turns to host their Inter-Church Gatherings.

  
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  St Mary’s celebrates three sacerdotal anniversaries

  Nov 27, 2014

  Around 600 parishioners of St Mary’s Cathedral and its sub-parishes joined in celebrating the anniversaries of their shepherds: Bishop Julius Dusin Gitom on his 25th anniversary on November 19 (1989 – 2014).