A civil court forces the Archeparchy of Kottayam not to exclude members who marry outside of their community. The rigid and contentious rule sought to safeguard the ethnic identity of a group that ...

A top court in southern Indian Kerala state has refused to stay a lower court's order, which declared illegal the practice of endogamy among a section of Catholics. The high court in Kerala, however, ...

Justin John, a member of Knanaya Catholic community, was scheduled to wed Vijimol, a Catholic woman from Thamarassery diocese, on Thursday at St Xavier's Church in Kottody. However, they were not able ...

MISSOURI CITY, Texas (KTRK) -- A temporary water outage was scheduled for some Missouri City neighborhoods on Thursday. Missouri City stated that the 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. outage would impact residents in ...

A small group of Indian Catholics is petitioning the Vatican to stop what they claim are discriminatory practices in their U.S. churches. The Knanaya, a small sect estimated at 400,000 worldwide, have ...

Mor Severios Kuriakose, the Metropolitan of the Knanaya archdiocese, was suspended by the Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Aphrem II for alleged lack of concern and action on Indian Orthodox priests ...

KOTTAYAM: With Pope Francis formally granting permission to Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex marriages, reformers within the Knanaya Catholic Church who have been advocating against the ...

A munsiff court in Kottayam has temporarily restrained the Knanaya Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam from removing the diasporic community members from the rolls of their home churches. Pronouncing an ...

KOTTAYAM: The Knanaya Church is heading for a confrontation with the Catholic Church hierarchy over the endogamy issue, a practice under which the members of the same ethnic background marry one ...

KOTTAYAM: In a major setback to the Knanaya Archeparchy of Kottayam, which boasts of its endogamous nature of its members, a court in Kottayam has passed a decree of permanent injunction prohibiting ...

WETHERSFIELD — It’s not every day that a new church comes to town, especially one founded in India nearly 1,700 years ago. A local Knananite Syrian Christians parish of, whose descendants migrated ...