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By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Dec 22, 2022: For the last few years, the Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala has been in the news for bad reasons. Conflicts in the name of silly and irrational matters raised by the hierarchy, priests and religious have become so common that many simple people haveContinue Reading

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By Chacko Antony Sahibganj, Oct 27, 2022: Soul searching queries like, “Whither Kerala Church?” Or “Is it withering away?” are troubling many Christians in and outside Kerala. I am one of them. As a Keralite, I was born in the Syro-Malabar Church. As a teenager in 1950s, while serving asContinue Reading

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Bangalore: An influential Church organ in Kerala has alleged that an unofficial alliance between the Congress-led United Democratic Front and a Muslim Right-wing party led to a split in Christian votes in the recent local body polls. The comment in an editorial in Sathyadeepam, mouthpiece of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, joltedContinue Reading

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By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 22, 2019: Long before Christianity reached many parts of Europe, it came to Kerala along the thriving spice trade routes crossing the Arabian Sea. Today, about 7 million people, a fifth of Kerala’s population, call themselves St. Thomas Christians after Jesus’ apostle, who manyContinue Reading

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By Lissy M Panaji, July 25, 2019: As we celebrated the feast of Saint Mary Magdalene on July 22, my mind was filled with sorrow thinking of the happenings in the Catholic Church in Kerala. May Magdalene was a woman who was totally transformed after meeting with Jesus. Jesus lookedContinue Reading

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By P J Chacko The Church in Kerala appears to be in agonizing throes. Court cases, division among the priestly class, the laity split into ‘for’ and ‘against,’ oblique criticisms and tongue in cheek inanities, part of the laity becoming doubting Thomases and part wading through confused feelings, and aContinue Reading

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Kochi, Feb 16 2019: The State Law Reforms Commission has sought public opinion and suggestions on the proposed Kerala Church (Properties and Institutions) Bill, 2019 by March 6. The Bill is being proposed “to ensure fair and transparent administration of the properties and funds” of different Church denominations in theContinue Reading

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By chhotebhai Kanpur: This is about a cardinal, and his alleged capital sins. It is not about Cardinal Jaime Sin, the 30th archbishop of Manila (31/8/1928 – 21/6/2005) of Chinese Filipino descent, who courageously fought against the Filipino dictators of his time. This is about Cardinal George Alencherry, the MajorContinue Reading

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By Teresa Mathew Six years ago, when Marianne Alapat was a high school student in Yonkers, N.Y., she stood in her church’s Bronx community hall and tried to convince the assembled Indian immigrants that they should consider holding services in English. Until that point, services at the St. Thomas Syro-MalabarContinue Reading