ST THOMAS CHRISTIANS AND EVANGELIZATION

Dharmaram Mission Seminar, November 2011

Abstract

The Dharmaram Mission Seminar, on the evangelization and missionary activities of the St Thomas Christians of the Syro-Malabar Church, took place at Dharmaram College Campus, Bangalore, 22-24 November, 2011. This mission seminar was organized and conducted by the Dharmaram Institutions, under the auspices of the Syro-Malabar Central Committee for the Mission Year & the Syro-Malabar Liturgical Research Centre, Syro-Malabar Archiepiscopal Church. This mission seminar took place in the backdrop of the global Year of Evangelization of the Church and the Syro-Malabar Mission Year (2011-2012). The first ever mission territory ad gentes for the Syro-Malabar Church, outside the proper territory, the Chanda Mission, was evangelized and initially developed by the CMI missionaries from 1962. In the Golden Jubilee year of the beginning of Chanda Mission, Dharmaram College together with Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK), Christ University & the Syro-Malabar Parishes of Bangalore, organized this national mission seminar. Hence, the theme of the seminar was St Thomas Christians and Evangelization.