Anglican Communion News Service - North India

New Moderator and Deputy Moderator elected for the Church of North India

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:01:00 GMT

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 n... [More]

Archbishop of Canterbury: message of sympathy for Mumbai victims

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:59:00 GMT

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 anni... [More]

Freedom of Religion Bill in Gujarat: Violating Religious Freedom

Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:14:00 GMT

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 minoritie... [More]

Peace March in the Diocese of Amritsar

Fri, 24 May 2002 15:21:00 GMT

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... [More]

Two Bishops die in car crash

Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:52:00 GMT

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 De... [More]

Three bishops consecrated in India

Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:50:00 GMT

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.

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First Harvest Festival

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:54:00 GMT

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 ... [More]

The Nagpur Statement of churches in India

Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:46:00 GMT

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 loo... [More]

Investing in human potential

Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:40:00 GMT

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 con... [More]

Rally for special children

Tue, 30 May 2000 13:19:00 GMT

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.

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Prestigious Award for Bishop of Delhi

Fri, 12 May 2000 11:33:00 GMT

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.

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After the Cyclone in Orissa

Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:22:00 GMT

This unprecedented storm hit the coastal area causing widespread flooding several miles inland, claiming thousands of human lives and making many more homeless.

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Slaves of Jesus Christ

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:16:00 GMT

Christian Dalits suffer a degree of social and legal discrimination that is not imposed on Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits.

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Rededication of poet Bishop's church

Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:08:00 GMT

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 Calcutt... [More]

Indian Christians: A Minority (A Profile)

Fri, 07 Nov 1997 15:45:00 GMT

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 ... [More]