Idukki: Following allegations against Syro-Malabar Church head and major archbishop Cardinal Mar George Alencherry in the controversial land deal under the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese, the church authorities are now planning to seek a permanent arrangement that would help avoid similar issues in future. Sources in the Syro-Malabar Church said that theContinue Reading
By : Matters India Reporter Adoor: Archbishop Mathews Mar Coorilos, former Archbishop of Kollam Diocese of Malankara Independent Orthodox Church, has founded a new church which will be known as Pentecostal Orthodox Church. The Church will have its headquarters at Adoor in Pathanamthitta district. Mathews Mar Coorilos will be theContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Kolkata — The head of the Dauguters of Mary Help of Christians popularly known as Salesian Sisters on a ten day visit to Kolkata region is schedued to meet with the monks of Ramakrishna Math. The Hindu monastic order with nearly 1,500 monks spread over 183 branchesContinue Reading
By Prathima Nandakumar Shravanabelagola: He stands tall atop the Vindhyagiri hills in Shravanabelagola in Karnataka. An epitome of supreme sacrifice and total renunciation, Bahubali, the son of the first Jain Tirthankar, Adinath (Vrishabanath), has been immortalised as Gommateshwara, the world’s tallest monolithic statue in Shravanabelagola. This February, the temple townContinue Reading
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The controversy is over the archdiocese suffering a huge financial loss in the dealContinue Reading
The church was built a hundred years before Emperor Constantine declared Christianity as the official religion in the Roman EmpireContinue Reading
Pope Francis began his last day in Peru accompanied by 500 Peruvian nuns from various contemplative life monasteries. He prayed the Liturgy of the Hours with them in the Shrine of the Lord of Miracles, the patron saint of Peru. After a greeting by Mother Soledad, Superior of the CarmeliteContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The land deal row in the Syro-Malabar Church took a new turn when a section of the people sought to register a case against Church heads, including Cardinal George Alencherry. The Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court has accepted the petition from Paulachan Puthupaara, president ofContinue Reading
The Knanaya Church is heading for a confrontation with the Catholic Church hierarchy over the endogamy issue, a practice under which the members of the same ethnic background marry one another. Those who break the custom are excommunicated. The Kottayam archdiocese has dismissed the demand of the Oriental Congregation inContinue Reading