By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala High Court on August 12 said that Cardinal George Alencherry must face trial in the land deal case. The court upheld the verdict of a district sessions court that on August 24, 2019, asked the cardinal and two others to stand trial inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 7, 2020: A group of priests, who call themselves the Twelve Band and based in cities around the world, on April 5 night, came out with a musical video in solidarity with the nation’s fight against Covid-19. The video titled ‘Oru Mezhuthiri Paattu’ (AContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 14, 2020: The Kerala High Court has issued notice to a bishop and a priest accused in a case relating to the alleged forgery of documents for defaming Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. The notice was issued on January 13 to Father Paul ThelekkattContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 14, 2020: The issue of land deals has come up for discussion during the Synod session of the Syro-Malabar Church now underway at the Church headquarters in Kochi. Nine bishops of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese raised the issue on January 13 when a suggestion came up that the SynodContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, August 18, 2019: A section of lay people in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam Angamaly has asked the Syro-Malabar Synod to find a solution to the crisis in their archdiocese immediately. The Oriental Catholic Church’s synod will begin on August 19 at its headquarters in Kakkanad,Continue Reading
Kochi, July 11, 2019: Cardinal George Alencherry, who has been facing a revolt by a section of the priests in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, says that he harbors no animosity against anyone. The cardinal, who is the head of the Syro-Malabar Church, was speaking at the opening of the Kuwait ReturneesContinue Reading
Kochi, June 28, 2019: Dramatic scenes prevailed at the Bishop’s House at Broadway on June 27 after Cardinal George Alencherry broke the news of his reappointment as the administrative head of the Church to his auxiliary bishops. Sources said that the major archbishop who had moved to the headquarters ofContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Jan. 7, 2019: Whenever I speak about Father Augustine Vattoly, a vast majority of nuns and priests react very negatively. They say that he is a rebel priest who made a group of young nuns to come out of the convent walls to protest in theContinue Reading
The archdiocese should have got 273 million rupees, but received only 91.3 million rupees from the deal.Continue Reading
The archdiocesan curia is reconstituted Continue Reading