Kerala: BJP President Amit Shah holds meeting with BJP, RSS leaders to strengthen party base
Kerala: BJP President Amit Shah holds meeting with BJP, RSS leaders to strengthen party base
BJP President Amit Shah Is On A Tour Of Kerala And He Held A Series Of Meetings With Office Bearers Of The Party And The RSS As Part Of Efforts To Strengthen The Party Base In Kerala Ahead Of The 2019 Lok Sabha Polls On Saturday. PTI | Updated on: 03 Jun 2017, 04:56:58 PM
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BJP President Amit Shah is on a tour of Kerala and he held a series of meetings with office bearers of the party and the RSS as part of efforts to strengthen the party base in Kerala ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
Indian priests censured for violating norms in interfaith marriage
The couple failed to give an undertaking before the local bishop promising to bring up their children in the Catholic faith
The marriage photo of a Muslim man and a Catholic woman whose interfaith union became controversial in Kerala for not following church procedures. (Photo: Sanatanprabhat.org)
Church officials in southern India have censored two parish priests for failing to follow church laws in conducting a marriage between a Catholic and Muslim, and they also declared the marriage invalid.
The decision came after a synod tribunal of the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church based in Kerala investigated the marriage for over a month, said Father Jacob Palakapilly, deputy secretary-general of Kerala Catholic Bishops Council.
Communist chief meets Christian leaders over feud in Indian state
Kerala government aims for a peaceful compromise to a dispute between Orthodox and Jacobite factions
A Mass in the Orthodox Syrian Church of Kerala. A factional fight continues between them and the rival Jacobite Church, forcing the state s communist chief minister to seek the suggestion of other Christian churches to end the century-old dispute. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Kerala s communist chief minister has sought suggestions from heads of Christian denominations to find peace among two warring factions of Christians in the southern Indian state.
Pinarayi Vijayan met Catholic, Protestant, Mar Thoma and Chaldean Church leaders to find a democratic settlement to the century-old dispute between Orthodox and Jacobite factions.
PM to hold talks with warring Church factions
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Separate talks in Delhi on Dec. 28, 29
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Separate talks in Delhi on Dec. 28, 29 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold talks with the Jacobite and Orthodox factions of the Malankara Syrian Church separately in New Delhi on December 28 and 29 in bid to end their long-standing dispute.
Mr. Modi is intervening in the issue after the two factions approached Mizoram Governor and former BJP State president S. Sreedharan Pillai, seeking a solution from the Prime Minister. If the separate talks yield positive results, the Prime Minister will decide on a joint meeting with the leaders, it is learnt.
Three priests charged with defaming Indian cardinal
Kerala priests accused of forging documents to prove that Cardinal Alencherry was corrupt and had illicit money dealings
Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, presents a book to Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. (Photo: diocesan website)
Police in India s Kerala state have filed charges against three Catholic priests and a layperson, three years after they were accused of conspiring and forging documents to defame Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church.
The accused, members of the Archdiocese of Ernakulum-Angamali, created fake bank documents and forged other documents to prove the cardinal had made substantial financial gains from an alleged land scam in the archdiocese, police records claim.