ALAPPUZHA: All debates on whether the St Andrew’s Church at Arthunkal was a Shiva temple earlier seem to have been laid to rest now with the arrival of Sabarimala pilgrims. The 16th century ...

Alappuzha: A 16th-century Catholic church built by the Portuguese missionaries here breaks all communal boundaries to keep its annual ritual of receiving Sabarimala pilgrims intact. St Andrew’s ...

ALAPPUZHA: St George Church in Arthunkal, Alappuzha, under the Latin Archdiocese has set a new convention for funerals, specifically burials, by doing away with all types of wooden coffins and ...

ALAPPUZHA: St Andrew’s Forane Church, Arthunkal, was declared the sixth basilica of the state on Monday in the presence of Vatican’s Ambassador to India, Archbishop Salvatore Pennacchio.

The annual procession as part of the feast of St. Sebastian at St. Andrew’s Basilica at Arthunkal in Cherthala will be held on January 20. The statue of St. Sebastian will be carried in the ...

The Arthunkal church legends stated that one of its erstwhile vicars, popularly known as Arthunkal Veluthachan (fair-skinned father) among the local people, had been a great friend of Ayyappa.

The church got a new façade and a bell tower in 1870. Work on the current structure, made of granite, was completed in 1967. In 2010, the parish was elevated to status of a Basilica.

The Feast of St. Sebastian, or the famed ‘Arthunkal Perunnal’, has commenced at the St. Andrew’s Basilica at Arthunkal. The 17-day annual fete got under way on Saturday evening with Bishop ...

Mohandas, who is presently the state convener of the intellectual wing of BJP, had tweeted seven times on August 22nd about the church and Arthunkal police had registered a case based on a ...