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Kottayam: Rome has refused to budge from its stand on ending the practice of endogamy among the members of the Knanaya community. This has been made clear to a Church team from the Kottayam archdiocese which met the prefect of the Oriental Congregation in Rome recently. It may be recalledContinue 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