India has a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Eastern Orthodox faith stems from the Apostolic Church, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India. Orthodox Christians have ...

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 ...

Century-old disputeThe dispute at the heart of the row is more than a century old and involves St Thomas Christians ... an independent Catholicate in India and invited Ignatius Abdul Masih ...

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 ...

MUMBAI, India – Shocked by the surge of violence especially during the Christmas season in India, over 400 senior Christian leaders ... the appeal include Bishop Thomas Abraham, Bishop David ...

In the Malabar region, many Christians identify as Saint Thomas Christians, popularly referred to as Syrian Christians of India. They are further classified into Oriental Orthodox, Protestant ...

Long before the Portuguese came to India in the 15th century and are perceived to have brought Christianity, the faith had already arrived with Saint Thomas, an apostle of Jesus Christ, who came to ...

The Christians of the Kerala coast believed that their ancestors were baptised by St Thomas, the apostle of ... In 1958, the Supreme Court of India derecognised the leadership of the Patriarch ...

While it is widely believed that St. Thomas, a disciple of Jesus Christ, established Christianity in India around AD 52-54, even this theory has been subjected to critical scrutiny and debate. 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 ...