According to tradition, St. Thomas made his first conversions ... The Portuguese, during their rule in India, tried to stamp out native Christian practices and enforce strict conformity to Latin ...

KOCHI, India (RNS) — In the last year ... Francis is a Syro-Malabar Catholic, the largest group of St. Thomas Christians, a pocket of faithful living in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala ...

The Apostolic Foundation of the Church in Sri Lanka and South India is linked to St Thomas, the doubting disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ. India had Christians from the very early times, and there is ...

Thomas Christians hold that the Apostle Thomas landed on India’s Malabar Coast then went ... Geographic Creative A procession during St. Thomas’s feast day in Paravur, Kerala to honor the ...

Apostolate of St Thomas in India is an indispensable resource for understanding the historical legacy of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.

Today, there is a devout community of Catholics on the Malabar Coast of India who call themselves the St. Thomas Christians. They claim that their community began through the teachings of Thomas ...

52 According to tradition, the Apostle Thomas arrives in India and establishes ... describes the tomb of St. Thomas as a place of pilgrimage, and visits Christians and Jews in Quilon.

The Saint Thomas Christian or Syrian Christian in Kerela ... envisaged a legislature to resolve the contention raised by the 2017 Supreme Court of India order, granting the Syro-Malankara church ...

Kranganor, on the coast of Kerala, is the cradle of Christianity in India where according to legend, St Thomas, or Doubting Thomas - one of the 12 apostles of Jesus - first came ashore in AD 52. "This ...

Christianity’s arrival in India is traditionally dated to the St. Thomas mission in 52 AD. The ancient Syrian Christians, based in present-day Kerala, integrated into local caste structures and ...