In an official statement, Fr Patricio Fernandes, SJ, Rector of the Basilica, announced that religious services for the ...

The Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa will remain closed for tourists and visitors starting from Thursday morning (April 17) until 11 am on Sunday (April 20) due to religious services held during the ...

Famous for being the first Minor Basilica in India, the Basilica of Bom Jesus is located 10 km east of Panaji, in Old Goa (Velha Goa). It is perhaps Goa’s most famous church and among the most ...

Find peaceful reflection on Good Friday 2025 in Goa. Visit the Basilica of Bom Jesus, Se Cathedral, and other key churches ...

About 700 people, mostly Catholics, marched through Old Goa, the colonial-era Portuguese capital, to protest a government plan for a tourism project near the Bom Jesus Basilica, the 16th-century ...

The churches and convents of Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Indies - particularly the Church of Bom Jesus, which contains the tomb of St Francis-Xavier - illustrate the evangelization of ...

Church officials in Goa have refuted a claim that the government has the Church's consent to build a tourism project near the Bom Jesus Basilica, the 16th-century church that houses the relics of St.