A final tribute to Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios
On a Sunday morning in May 1932, Kunjukutty Thangalathil, 16, ran away from home to join the Catholic Church. He joined the Syro-Malankara Church, the rite he would head for four decades as Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios until he died Oct. 10.In 1932, Kunjukutty´s parents -- Idiculla and Annamma...
Eastern tradition marks Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios’ Funeral
Eastern tradition marked the funeral of Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum, who led the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church for 40 years before his death here Oct. 10.Some 20,000 people, including Church and political leaders, attended the funeral Oct. 12 in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state, southern India. The archbishop...
Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios, called to eternal rest
Order of the Imitation of Christ Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum, 78, who led the 350,000-member Syro-Malankara Church for four decades, died of cancer here Oct. 10.Archbishop Gregorios, 78, died of bone cancer in Medical College Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state, southern India. He had undergone...
Malankara Archdiocese health plan helps poor in Kerala
Sinimol, who is blind, is happy that she is no longer a burden to her family. In fact, the 20-year-old woman supports them with earnings from her "petty shop" in Kerala state, southern India.She set up her business through Trivandrum archdiocese´s Health for One Million (HOM) project. The brainchild...
Syro Malankara Catholic Church trains entrepreneurs as part of people upliftment program
Trivandrum archdiocese of the indigenous Syro-Malankara Church is offering professional training to poor entrepreneurs from villages in this southern Indian district.The trainees are taught fundamentals of management, budgeting, marketing and resource mobilization, which will help them open new industries and find self-employment, said archdiocesan social work director Father Thomas...
Catholic and Orthodox religious orders plan dialogue during jubilee
The indigenous religious order of Syro Malankarahopes its 75th anniversary of founding will begin the healing of the order, split more than 50 years ago into an Orthodox Syrian Church faction and a Syro-Malankara Catholic faction."As a jubilee memorial we plan to start a dialogue with our counterparts in the...
Malankara Archdiocese launches legal education for activists
Leaders of voluntary associations in the Trivandrum Syro Malankara archdiocese can now fight social exploitation with the help of free legal training provided by a Church social service society.The Malankara social service society (MSS) has opened a legal aid center for voluntary organizations in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state,...
Consecrated life is best witness to gospel in East, says Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios
The best announcement of the Good News in the East is the life witness of Religious, says Syro Malankara Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum."In India nothing attracts more powerfully, nothing is admired more sincerely, than the life of renunciation," said the 76-year-old prelate while opening the national assembly...
Archbishop Mar Gregorios gets federal government recognition
Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum spreads not only the Gospel, but also seeds of an agricultural revolution.And the bearded patriarch combats unemployment and promotes social revolution through a seedlings project in the southern Indian state of Kerala.India´s federal government this year asked the 76-year-old Syro Malankara metropolitan to...
Syro Malankara Catholic Church awaits Papal approval for more authority
The Syro Malankara Church (SMC), an oriental Catholic Church in the southern Indian state of Kerala, awaits papal approval for its episcopal synod, which would give it a more legitimate administrative authority as an Oriental Church.SMC authorities have submitted a proposal for the episcopal synod to the Vatican."Our proposal...
