Kochi: The Special Investigation Team of Kerala police has filed a chargesheet against four, including three priests, in the case of alleged forgery of documents to defame Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church. According to the chargesheet, filed December 19 before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kakkanad, theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 24, 2020: Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, has urged his people to observe lent for seven days from September 1 to seek divine assistance to fight the coronavirus pandemic that continues to wreak havoc in the world, especially in India. TheContinue Reading
By Paul Zacharia Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3, 2020: Not everyone can win the occupancy of a 1,700 year-old basilica in the heart of Rome, situated upon the Palatine Hill, the first nucleus of the Roman Empire where once the palaces of the great Caesars stood. Kerala’s Syro-Malabar Church has just doneContinue Reading
Kochi, July 20, 2020: The Syro-Malabar Church has a new center in Rome to serve its faithful and coordinate activities in the eternal city. Cardinal Angelo de Donatis, the vicar general Pope Francis for the diocese of Rome, issued a decree on July 8 to hand over Santa Anastasia MinorContinue Reading
Kochi, June 27, 2020: Syro-Malabar Church head Cardinal George Alencherry has urged his people to engage in efforts to increase efficiency in all fields of production to strengthen the nation’s economy. The 75-year-old cardinal made the call in a pastoral letter issued ahead of July 3, the feast of StContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palai, May 2, 2020: Auxiliary Bishop Jacob Muricken of Palai has written to the Vatican seeking permission to leave bishopric so that he could lead a strict ascetic life, reports a news portal that claims to have spoken to the prelate. This is the first timeContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Jan 17, 2020: This is in response to a report titled “Love Jihad disturbs social peace: Syro-Malabar Synod” published in Matters India on January 15. The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, seems to have blamed the Islamic State for luring scores ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jan 15, 2020: The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, alleges that Islamic State has lured scores of Christian women from the southern Indian state to be used in terror activities. “Love jihad is a reality,” asserted the Church’s synod that on JanuaryContinue 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
Kochi, Jan 5, 2020: The question whether the celebrant should face the congregation (westward) or eastward during Mass, a bone of contention in the Syro-Malabar Church for several decades, is back in focus again. On the agenda of the Church synod meeting at St. Thomas Mount in Kochi, headquarters ofContinue Reading
