Christianity is headed eastward. God's will be done.
The X'mas Eve: Students dressed as Santa Claus sing Christmas carols in Chandigarh on Saturday, Dec 24, 2005. (Reuters)
| Merry Christmas from IRAN with lots of pictures |
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| Posted by Khashayar | ||
Merry Christmas to my FRiends here. May this Christmas bring happiness, success, and prosperity to you and your dear ones.
Thought you might be interested in seeing this thread on how we celebrate Christmas in India.
Best Wishes,
indcons
Thanks to both of you for posting such nice pictures. I always love to see how people live and celebrate holidays around the world. Sometimes I think we miss so much by not having festive dress to wear for our celebrations. It' seems to make it so much more special and helps to really cement the traditions.
Interesting read, although most of it was dedicated to the Catholics. I guess I a little prejudiced being a St. Thomas Christian. =)
However, that said, I fully expect to see a large number of Catholics and others in heaven!
Holy crap! They've outsourced Christmas! :)
Thanks for the thread and the ping!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to our Indian FRiends!
One of my former co-workers, who just left the company, was a Christian from Kerala in far southern India. Kerala appears to be a very beautiful area. The pictures he showed me from various trips or family events are gorgeous.
He described their church as Assyrian. He was incredibly knowledgable about Christian communities all through Central Asia, particularly Iraq, as they are all part of the same tradition. I learned lots of interesting things about this church which I had never heard of before first discussing it with him about 4 years ago.
What amazed me, given his knowledge about the church's history and current standing, even outside of India, was his lack of historic knowledge about India itself. For example, he knew the term Mogul from it's western usage (a very wealthy or powerful businessman) but was unaware of the terms origin as it related to the Moslem occupation of India.
After the Tsunami a year ago there was some coverage of the area, but I don't think they had severe damage. There is one story of the Santhome Cathedral, site of St. Thomas tomb, having been miraculously spared damage from the Tsunami that even secular skeptics will grant has some basis in fact, even if they do discount any miraculous intervention. That's the first time I'd ever seen any mention of this Christian history in India in the press.
Very nice, thank you for posting!