06-26-2008, 02:34 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2008, 02:35 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
More of the typical lies from the Church:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Church plans mega-budget movie on St. Thomas
June 12, 2008
KOCHI: The Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore is planning to produce a 300 million rupee movie on St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, revered as the apostle of India.
Archbishop A. M. Chinnappa, who heads the archdiocese, presented 30 crore project before a meeting of Kerala Catholic Bishopsâ Council seeking their support this week.
The project, scheduled to be inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi is expected match Hollywood big-budget movies such as Ben-Hur and the Ten Commandments in budget and in quality.
Church officials plan to launch the project on July 3, the feast day of St. Thomas, in the San Thome Basilica campus in Chennai. The 70-mm, two-and-half-hour feature film would have the bigwigs of Indian film industry on the credit line.
Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of Faith, supports the project along with the bishops in Tamil Nadu, media said quoting Archbishop Chinnappa.
St. Thomas is believed to have arrived in Kerala in 52 AD and established seven churches on the western coast. Tradition also holds that he was martyred in 72 AD in Mylapore. Hence the Churches in Kerala and Tamilnadu have special importance for the movie, said the archbishop.
The Archbishop also hoped that a film on the life of St. Thomas would have spiritual consolation for people of all walks of life as it evolved around the theme of human equality and dignity for all.
The film will be made in Tamil first, then in Malayalam and Hindi and later dubbed into various other languages, including English and French, according to church officials.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Church plans mega-budget movie on St. Thomas
June 12, 2008
KOCHI: The Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore is planning to produce a 300 million rupee movie on St. Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus Christ, revered as the apostle of India.
Archbishop A. M. Chinnappa, who heads the archdiocese, presented 30 crore project before a meeting of Kerala Catholic Bishopsâ Council seeking their support this week.
The project, scheduled to be inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi is expected match Hollywood big-budget movies such as Ben-Hur and the Ten Commandments in budget and in quality.
Church officials plan to launch the project on July 3, the feast day of St. Thomas, in the San Thome Basilica campus in Chennai. The 70-mm, two-and-half-hour feature film would have the bigwigs of Indian film industry on the credit line.
Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of Faith, supports the project along with the bishops in Tamil Nadu, media said quoting Archbishop Chinnappa.
St. Thomas is believed to have arrived in Kerala in 52 AD and established seven churches on the western coast. Tradition also holds that he was martyred in 72 AD in Mylapore. Hence the Churches in Kerala and Tamilnadu have special importance for the movie, said the archbishop.
The Archbishop also hoped that a film on the life of St. Thomas would have spiritual consolation for people of all walks of life as it evolved around the theme of human equality and dignity for all.
The film will be made in Tamil first, then in Malayalam and Hindi and later dubbed into various other languages, including English and French, according to church officials.
http://hamsa.org/movie.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->