By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 24, 2019: A faulty electronic voting machine on April 23 prevented Syro Malabar Major Archbishop Cardinal George Alencherry from voting. The cardinal arrived at 6:45 am at his booth to cast his vote. Polling was scheduled to begin at 7 am. “He was theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 18, 2029: The Syro-Malabar Church on March 18 termed as misleading media reports about a case against a senior priest who had allegedly forged documents to attack Cardinal George Alencherry. The report about the case is “misleading and an attempt to divert attention fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Feb. 16, 2019: The Syro-Malabar Church on February 16 welcomed a court awarding 20 years of jail to a Catholic priest in Kerala for raping and impregnating a minor girl. “The Church acknowledges and welcomes the verdict,” says a press release from the Media CommissionContinue Reading
Kochi: Jan 20: A group of church reform-minded organisations staged a protest in front of the house of the Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly on Jan 20 by setting fire to copies of Sunday’s pastoral letter that was read out in parishes of the Syro-Malabar Church . Members of Kerala Church Reforms Movement,Continue Reading
Kochi, Jan. 8, 2019: The Archdiocesan Movement for Transparency, a combine of laymen focused on reforms and transparency in the administration of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, has demanded that bishops must declare their assets and liabilities at the Synod of bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church. The demand has beenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Dec. 22, 2018: Pope Francis has erected a new Syro-Malabar diocese in Canada – Mississauga – and appointed Monsignor Jose Kalluvelil as its first bishop. The announcement was made at 12 noon on December 22 in the Vatican and its corresponding time in India andContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Nov. 26, 2018: The show-cause notice served to Father Augustine Vattoly by the Administrator of Ernakulum-Angamaly Archdiocese is a blunder that exposes intellectual, professional and above all spiritual bankruptcy. The allegations against the activist priest expose the worldly ways religious leadership acts when challenged. It isContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Nov 22, 2018: A Syro-Malabar archdiocese has threatened to act against a priest who it alleges incites sedition and hatred against Church authorities and associates with extremist and atheistic groups. “Some of them are said to be groups which plot against the Church, harm goodContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct. 26, 2018: The Syro-Malabar Church on October 25 launched “Smart Catechism,” a web portal offering online classes in matters of faith. The web portal is expected to benefit around 400,000 students attending catechism classes from grades 1 to 12 in India and overseas. TheContinue Reading
What the young people are saying is “really enriching” : Bishop Joseph PamplanyContinue Reading
