Malaysian Church News

• Court reserves judgement on HERALD’s leave application

  Mar 14, 2014

  The Federal Court has reserved judgment on the Catholic Church’s leave application to appeal against the ruling by the Court of Appeal which affirmed that the Home Minister was right to ban the use of the word Allah in a weekly publication.

  

• Thousands throng Klang to celebrate Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

  Mar 14, 2014

  The annual feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated meaningfully and solemnly at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (OLOL) with daily Novena and Mass Feb 6 -16.

  

• Lenten calendars to help to live Lent

  Mar 14, 2014

  To help enhance the individual’s Lenten experience, the Parish Liturgical Team from the Church of the Divine Mercy prepared and distributed Lenten calendars to all parishioners during the weekend Masses on Mar 1 and 2.

  

• Justice for survivors of gender violence

  Mar 14, 2014

  Some two hundred participants, mainly young people, attended the two-hour session on the One Billion Rising For Justice campaign held on Feb 16 from 10.30am to 12.30pm at St Mary’s Parish Hall.

  

• Why do we offer Jesus’ sacrifice to the Father?

  Mar 14, 2014

  It does not seem logical for us to offer Jesus’ sufferings to the Father – a gift from the Father to us and in this prayer we are returning the same gift to God. It is more proper to offer our sufferings and those of our loved ones to God. But we cannot use others’ suffering to free ourselves from the consequence of our wrongdoings.

  

• SFX children participate in Mass

  Mar 14, 2014

  Start them very young. That’s the policy the Banda Kaba St Francis Xavier Sunday school management team is adopting in efforts to ensure the Masses for Children is better attended.M

  

• Archbishop thanked for his dedicated service

  Mar 14, 2014

  Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples has sent a thank you letter to Archbishop Murphy Pakiam for his many years of dedicated service to the Church in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur.