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St.Thomas:Apostle Of India
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Vedic Hinduism Vs. Christianity
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Marriage Breakdown
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DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
BIRTH OF CHRIST : AN EXPRESSION OF LOVE
Rt. Rev. Yuyakim Mar Coorilos Episcopa
Presiding Bishop of North America-Europe-Canada Diocese
Marthoma Church
Birth of Jesus is an expression of God's love. It is the countenance of God's devotion to His creation. Hate regenerates hate until love stimulates to love. Christmas gives us the challenge to love, challenge to share and challenge to live.
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 WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?
By Thomas Koshy Washington
It is absolutely impossible for one to be a Christian unless he/she have a personal redemptive relationship with Christ. The new birth only spearhead towards the maturity of becoming ‘Christ like'. A Christian is one saved with blood of Christ, surrendered to God and committed to serve God.
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MESSAGE OF CHRISTMAS
By Fr.Alexander J. Kurien Washington
The birth of Immanuel assures us eternal salvation for those who believe, boundless security in God, unrestrained freedom from fear and compassionate upkeep from God; all summed up as "I will be with you".
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NEW YEAR MESSAGE
THE CHILD GREW IN SPIRIT
By Fr.K.K.John Philadelphia
Intellectual growth without wisdom is incomplete. Wisdom enables personality to discern deeper spiritual and moral insight. Spiritual growth is nourishment to soul and attainment of a state of proximity to Creator.
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ARTICLE
ST.THOMAS : APOSTLE OF INDIA
By H.G.Geevarghese Mar Coorilos
The Indian Churches believe that St. Thomas is the founder of it and the saint was martyred with a spear on 18th December and the Saint breathed his last on 21st December at St. Thomas Mount and buried at Mylapore, near Madras in AD 72.
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ARTICLE
VEDIC HINDUISM Vs. CHRISTIANITY IN KERALA ON A TIME SCALE
By Prof.George Menachery
It may even be that the Syriac script and liturgy - surely the Pahlavi script - were in Kerala much before the Devanagari and the Vedas found their foothold here. The original name for it (Hinduism) was Sanatana-Dharma, meaning the Eternal Religion.
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ARTICLE
 MARRIAGE BREAKDOWN
By E.S. John Australia
Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulteress. Chastity in mind, thought and body is a prerequisite for the procreation and parental processes.
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POEM
 THE GOSPEL TRAIN
By Ms. Aju Jacob New Jersey
There's the train going to heaven, I wish I were on that train
I know that's the train destined to heaven
The only train for Jesus Children
A train I will never have to suffer.
The Gospel train is the only way to heaven.
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LITERAL SATIRE
QUESTION OF LIFE AND DEATH - PART 7
HOW TO THINK AND SPEAK OF THE UNKNOWN?
By John D. Kunnathu
We perceive and understand the world around us using the five senses. As the extents of universe are beyond the scope of human brain, the human imagination and knowledge stops working at point towards eternities of time and space. So God is beyond human the perception.
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FR. M. JOHNSON IS ORDAINED AS YOOHANON RAMBAN

H.H. Basalios Marthoma Mathews II had ordained Fr. M. Johnson as Yoohanon Ramban ob 12 th December 2003. Fr. Johnson was the secretary to H.G.Mathews Mar Barnabas, diocesan metropolitan of American Diocese of Malankara Orthodox Church. Currently he is serving as Superior of Holy Trinity Ashram.

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REGIONAL NEWS BRIEFS:
UNITED ECUMENICAL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION OF INDIAN CHURCHES IN PHILADELPHIA, USA

The Ecumenical Fellowship of Indian Churches in Philadelphia, the United Front of seventeen Parishes and more than four thousand members of vivid Christian denominations from India, living in and around Philadelphia, celebrated Christmas of the year 2003. On the evening of Dec 14, 2003, this Grand Christmas Celebration was ceremoniously held at Cardinal Dougherty High School Auditorium.

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WORLD NEWS BRIEFS:
US CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, MUSLIM LEADERS JOINTLY URGE MIDDLE EAST PEACE ACTION
New York (ENI). Prominent US Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders, united by what one called "common conviction", are calling for renewed efforts by their government in Washington to promote peace in the Middle East. In a letter to President George W. Bush, the religious leaders said "active, determined US leadership in pursuit of peace between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab states" will be needed to revive the accord known as the "road map to peace", which has stumbled in recent months because of renewed violence in the region. [496 words, ENI-03-0664]
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CHURCH LEADERS BLAME ANTI-CHRISTIAN CAMPAIGN FOR BJP ELECTION GAINS
New Delhi (ENI). Church leaders in India are blaming a campaign "targeting Christians" for the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in elections for legislators, in the country's central Chattisgarh state. The BJP, whose opponents claim it has a Hindu-nationalist agenda, unseated a Congress Party state government headed by Chief Minister Ajit Jogi, who is a member of the Church of North India. The BJP clinched 50 seats in the 90-member state assembly, while Jogi's party could muster only 36 seats, although opinion polls in the run-up to the election on 1 December had indicated a victory for the Congress Party over the BJP, the main party in India's federal government. [416 words, ENI-03-0667]
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EUROPE'S CHURCHES URGED TO DEAL WITH TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN
Amsterdam, 11 December (ENI)--Churches in Europe are being called on to step up their efforts to combat trafficking in women, a problem estimated to affect hundreds of thousands of women every year. "The trafficking of so many women and children is a human rights abuse that shames us all," said Baroness Sarah Ludford, a member of the European Parliament, speaking on Wednesday at the launch in Brussels of a new publication to help churches and other bodies tackle the problem. [482 words, ENI-03-0675]
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US CHURCH LEADERS HAIL SADDAM'S CAPTURE, URGE FAIR TRIAL
New York (ENI). The National Council of Churches (USA) has hailed the capture of Saddam Hussein by United States military forces and is calling on the US government to "facilitate the prosecution" of the deposed Iraqi leader "in a manner consistent with the highest accepted international standards of justice". "We remind the US government that the world will be watching to see how we treat our adversaries after they are in our custody," the council said in a statement. In Cape Town, Nobel Peace Laureate and South Africa's former Anglican leader, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, "I think someone like that [Saddam Hussein] ... all people like that … should be brought before the international criminal court." [375 words, ENI-03-0684]
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TOUGH TIMES STILL BLIGHT BETHLEHEM'S PROSPECTS
Bethlehem, West Bank (ENI). The turn of the century seemed as though it would herald a turnaround for residents in the cradle of Christianity. There were predictions that a flood of Christian tourists would arrive to mark the 2000th anniversary of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, pilgrims who would provide much needed jobs and investment for years. But with the approach of 2004, the dream has clearly not materialised. Bethlehem's mayor, Hanna Nasser, says he expects the town's worst Christmas in economic terms and he laments that Palestinian Christians are leaving the region. Tourism, the main source of revenue, in Nasser's words, "is dead". [836 words, ENI-03-0693]
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DIGITAL HYMN DEVICE, BOON CONGREGATIONS, WORRY FOR ORGANISTS
London (ENI). Human bell ringers were first to fall to digitalisation, now the church organist is coming up against computerised church music - a possible boon where musical skills are scarce. From a commercial point of view, retailer Martin Phelps does not fear the usual post-Christmas sales slump. In fact, he expects January to be one of the busiest times for his company selling computerised church music. This digital instrument is the size of a laptop computer weighing 1.8 kilograms and powered by two chips. It will produce more than 2300 hymn tunes, including such traditional and modern favourites as Jerusalem and Shine, Jesus, Shine, in a range of instrument sounds from organ to piccolo. [581 words, ENI-03-0694]
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HOLY LAND CHURCH LEADERS URGE ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS TO MAKE PEACE
Jerusalem (ENI). The Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem and the highest ranking Roman Catholic in there, Michel Sabbah, has appealed to Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and to end the suffering of both peoples. His appeal was backed in a separate message by the Lutheran Bishop in Jerusalem, Munib Younan. [389 words, ENI-03-0697]
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US ECUMENICAL COUNCIL BOYCOTT OF TACO AND PICKLE COMPANIES
New York (ENI). The National Council of Churches (USA) has endorsed consumer boycotts against two US companies for practices it says are harming farm workers in the United States. The NCC support for the boycotts, announced in November during the council's general assembly in Jackson, in the state of Mississippi, targets the fast-food giant Taco Bell, which sells Mexican-style food, and Mt Olive Pickle, a manufacturer of pickles and other vegetable products. The consumer boycotts are the first the NCC has endorsed since the apartheid era in South Africa, when the council called for a boycott of Royal Dutch/Shell products. The NCC rarely endorses boycotts, calling them "a measure of last resort". [453 words, ENI-03-0653]
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MARTIN LUTHER, THE 'GREATEST' GERMAN - ALMOST
Bielefeld, Germany (ENI). German television viewers who voted in a poll to find the greatest German preferred the 16th-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther to Karl Marx, who inspired communism. But both Luther and Marx were beaten by Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's first chancellor after the Second World War, in the ballot at the end of November for the ZDF television channel in which an estimated 3.3 million people took part. The Protestant reformer polled the second highest number of votes - 556 298 - against 778 984 for Adenauer. Marx, in third position, received 500 442 votes. [281 words, ENI-03-0668]
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SERBIAN ORTHODOX LEADER CALLS FOR MONARCHY TO BE REINTRODUCED
Warsaw (ENI). Serbia's Orthodox patriarch has become the first church leader in eastern Europe to declare public support for the restoration of the monarchy in his country. Patriarch Pavle has described the decision to abolish the monarchy in 1945 as "resulting from tyranny" and said the decision should be declared "null and void". The patriarch's statement comes in advance of parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of December in which the Serbian Renewal Movement political party is calling for the monarchy to be reintroduced. [384 words, ENI-03-0669]
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CANADIAN CHURCH LEADERS WARN OF 'ALARMING' INCREASE IN ANTI-SEMITISM
Vancouver (ENI). Nine Canadian church leaders have warned of rising anti-Semitism in Canada and have appealed to Christians and all Canadians to step up their efforts to combat it. "We have become profoundly concerned and deeply dismayed by the alarming increase of anti-Semitism in Canada," the church leaders said in a statement published on Wednesday in advance of the Jewish celebration of Hanukah on 20 December. [381 words, ENI-03-0679]
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