The Most Revd. Dr. Philip P. Marandih, Bishop of the Diocese of Patna, has been elected as the Moderator and The Rt. Rev. Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy, Bishop of the Diocese of Amritsar, as the Deputy Moderator of the Church of North India for the next triennium.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams has sent a message of sympathy for victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai earlier this week. In a message to be read at an inter faith memorial gathering this evening, Dr Williams says that the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks have led people in the UK to a determination to stand with victims and assured all involved of his continuing prayers
The National Council of Churches in India views the Bill being presented in the Gujarat Assembly today not as a step in enhancing and protecting the freedom of religion of the citizens but as an act of conscious and wilful harassment of the minorities, especially Christians, prohibiting them to practice their religious faith.
The Christian Community once again expressed its solidarity and ecumenism by joining together in a massive procession in the city of Amritsar to mark the entry of our Lord Jesus into the Holy City of Jerusalem. The procession was jointly organised by the Church of North India, the Salvation Army Church, the Roman Catholic Church and many other Christian congregations throughout the Districts of Amritsar and Gurdaspur in Punjab.
The death of two Bishops, the Most Reverend Vinod A.R Peter , President of the National Council of Churches in India and Moderator of the Church of North India and the the Rt Reverend Gerald Andrews, Bishop of Rajasthan, who died in a car crash on December 6 near Jodhpur, has sent shock waves throughout the Anglican Communion. Born of March 3
Three bishops were consecrated on the same day for the first time in the 30 year history of the Church of North India (CNI). The consecration was carried out by a host of bishops, led by the Most Revd Vinod Peter, Moderator of CNI.
The first ever Harvest Festival was held recently at the rural church in Aheri, Diocese of Nagpur, in North India. The gifts that the congregation brought included onions, cabbages, cauliflowers, beans and tomatoes. Many had brought rice, in varying quantities from one farmer's large sack to children's small newspaper bags.
We the Leaders of the Indian Churches, at a meeting at Nagpur on the 11th of July 2000 jointly convened by the National Council of Churches in India and the Catholic Bishops Conference of India at the NCCI Campus, have taken a serious and a close look at the continued atrocities against the Churches, Dalits and other minorities. Having analysed the facts and having discerned serious threats to the democratic, secular fabric of our Nation, we make the following Statement hereinafter referred to as the Nagpur Statement of the Churches in India.
A new Centre for Human Potential Development for the Church of North India (CNI) was inaugurated on 28 March 2000. All the dioceses of the church were represented at the event, led by the Moderator of the CNI, the Most Revd Vinod Peter. A two day consultation followed, "Human Potential Development: A Challenge to the Church in the New Millennium", which sought to develop the uses and purposes of the new centre, and assess the wide training needs of the Church.
The General Secretary of the Church of South India, the Revd G Dyvasirvadam, inaugurated the Triennial Sunday School Rally for special children recently, sponsored by the church's Christian Education Department.
The Rt Revd Karam Masih, Bishop of Delhi, has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2000, which recognises his outstanding contribution to human rights, Dalit causes, gender justice and interfaith relations.
This unprecedented storm hit the coastal area causing widespread flooding several miles inland, claiming thousands of human lives and making many more homeless.
Christian Dalits suffer a degree of social and legal discrimination that is not imposed on Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits.
Army chaplain Revd Henry Fischer founded the church of St John the Baptist, Meerut, India, in 1819 as a garrison church. After three years of construction, the building was consecrated in 1824 by the Rt Revd Reginald Heber, the then Bishop of Calcutta.
This feature was taken from an Editorial in "The North India Church Review"...It is true that the Indian Christians in the broader categories fall within the religious minorities, which somehow have been wrongly linked up with the colonial rule of the Europeans, particularly British which in fact is not true. Because well established traditions and historical evidences tell us that Christians have been living in the state of Kerala (India) right from the first century A.D.
At the end of April the 24th diocese of the Church of North India was inaugurated. The Diocese of Phulbani was inaugurated by the Most Revd D K Mohanty, Moderator of the CNI.
