Kochi: The Syro Malabar Church Wednesday reacted cautiously to the incident of pulling down of a 30-feet tall metal cross as part of an official anti-encroachment drive in the hill station of Munnar in Idukki district. Church spokesman Fr Jimmy Poochakkatt opined that there was no issue in removing aContinue Reading
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By T S Thomas and Jose Kavi Negombo, Sri Lanka: Strong religious traditions and faith are the bedrock of the Syro-Malabar Church, one of the Oriental Catholic communities in Asia “Traditional Syro-Malabar families have some unique characteristics, such as solid faith in the sacred and strong marital bond, special socialContinue Reading
Idukki: The Syro-Malabar Church has welcomed the new decision by Pope Francis to extend the power of forgiving abortion to the Catholic priests as well. The Church, which considers abortion as a major sin, does not allow its clergy to forgive it as part of routine confessions. But Pope Francis,Continue Reading
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
Kochi: The Syro-Malabar Church on Tuesday launched a mobile application for its matrimony portal, Syromalabarmatrimony .com. According to the Church sources, there are more than 40, 18,204 members in the community out of which 5, 85, 900 live as migrants abroad and are out of reach of any dioceses ofContinue Reading
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