Indian Church seeks to end smears over nun s murder case
Syro-Malabar bishops are appalled by claims they created roadblocks with their political and economic clout UCA News reporter Updated: January 17, 2021 12:18 PM GMT
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Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church based in Kerala, inaugurates its virtual synod on Jan. 11, lighting a candle at its headquarters at Mount St Thomas, Kakkanad, Ernakulum district.
The Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church has called for an end to anti-Church campaigns that have increased since a priest and a nun were convicted in a 29-year-old murder case involving a junior nun.
Its bishops synod said in a statement that the campaigns even hid the fact that a federal investigation started following church officials request to end the mystery over the death of Sister Abhaya in 1992.
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.