Malaysian Church News

• Malaysians have yet to fully understand hudud

  May 02, 2014

  Malaysians, even the Muslims, have yet to fully grasp the workings of the Hudud that the PAS government wants to implement in Kelantan.

  

• Countries with hudud laws fail to reduce crime, says former top judge

  May 02, 2014

  Muslim countries which have implemented Islamic capital punishments, or hudud, have not been successful in reducing crime rate, former Chief Justice Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad said recently.

  

• In 2014, Government never rejected Hudud –‘Allah’s law

  May 02, 2014

  The government has never rejected hudud as Allah’s Law, but there are so many issues that need to be solved before the law can be fully implemented in the country, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

  

• In 2011, PM says No Hudud in Malaysia

  May 02, 2014

  The Prime Minister ended the feud on the enforcement of hudud between political parties on Sept 24, 2011 saying that the federal government will not adopt the Syariah criminal enactment in Malaysia.

  

• Delighted to be part of the Catholic Church...

  May 02, 2014

  “I began this journey in 2008 when I was studying in Montfort. I would go along with my friends to the chapel every Friday. As I listened and read about God, my interest developed.

  
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  Thousands throng Bukit Nanas for Easter celebrations

  May 02, 2014

  Easter is the most important holy day in the Catholic Church calender, as it marks the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, after His Crucifixion on Good Friday.

  
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  Easter Message — God is able to turn things round

  May 02, 2014

  Forty-two catechumens received the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation during a joyous Easter Vigil at St Michael’s Church on April 19.

  

• Good Friday, the mystery of salvation

  May 02, 2014

  The Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, 18th April was conducted outdoors at 8.00 am. More than 2000 parishioners assembled at the frontage of the church, walking up solemnly to the final station in front of the Parish canteen.

  

• Easter Triduum — Holy Thursday

  May 02, 2014

  The faithful of St Mary’s Cathedral entered into their holiest season in the Catholic calendar, the Sacred Easter Triduum Liturgies, the three great days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter which mark the end of forty days of Lent and the beginning of a three-day celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  

• ‘Blessed’ Instead of ‘Saint’

  May 02, 2014

  The distinction between a blessed and a saint is very important in the process of canonization, and each state has precise liturgical consequences insofar as the liturgical veneration of a blessed is highly limited. However, in the context of the missal the terms are often used as synonyms for those who have reached the glory of the heavenly state.