By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept. 17, 2025: A woman with an intellectual disability, known only as Sangeetha, was abused by a group of lorry drivers and abandoned at Nelyady, a town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Some Catholic nuns noticed Sangeetha roaming the town and brought her toContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 14, 2024: Archbishop Geevaghese Mar Ivanios, the first head of the Syro-Malankara Church, advanced on the sainthood path on March 14 when Pope Francis elevated him as a Venerable. Archbishop Ivanios, who is known as the Newman of the East, is currently a ServantContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 14, 2023: Bethany Father Mathai Kadavil has been appointed as the new bishop of the Khadki diocese of the Syro-Malankara Church. The appointment was announced in the St Mary’s Cathedral, Pattom, Thiruvananthapuram December 12. Earlier, Pope Francis approved the name of the 60-year-old priestContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, May 7, 2022: Pope Francis on May 7 transferred Bishop Thomas Anthonios Valiyavilayil to the Eparchy of St. John Chrysostom of Gurgaon of the Syro-Malankara. He is currently the bishop of the eparchy of St. Ephrem of Khadki of the Oriental Catholic rite. This wasContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, April 30, 2022: Father Anthony Packiam, the parish priest of the Christ the King church under the archdiocese of Madurai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, started washing the feet of marginalized people decades before Pope Francis decreed that women’s feet could be washedContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: Bishop Jacob Barnabas of Gurgaon died of post Covid-19 complications at noon on August 26 in a private hospital in New Delhi. He was 60. Bishop Barnabas is the fifth Catholic prelate in India to die of Covid-19 and its complications. Bishop Barnabas was admittedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 26, 2020: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Church, has come to the aid of the Jacobite faction of the Syrian Orthodox Church that has lost its places of worship in a legal battle. “With great joy, we are offering you the Syro-MalankaraContinue Reading
By Frank Fitzpatrick Philadelphia, Aug 20, 2020: When they glimpse her through the fog of approaching death, her cherubic face encased in a gleaming white habit, terminally ill patients at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, US, sometimes mistake Sister Jocelyn Edathil for an angel. They are not entirely wrong. TheContinue Reading
By Fr Raymond de Souza Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5, 2020: In 2019 we became more familiar with the life and mission of St John Henry Newman. Perhaps in 2020 we might learn something about Mar Ivanios, called the “Newman of the East” by his people. This year the Syro-Malankara Church, theContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 18, 2018: The relatives of a young priest joined the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church to allege foul play in the mysterious death of a young priest a week ago. Church members have demanded that the people responsible for the 34-year-old priest’s death be brought before justice. It was presumedContinue Reading
