RSS leader meets Jacobite, Orthodox Church leaders
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Factions are locked in a fight over ownership of churches
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Factions are locked in a fight over ownership of churches
A senior functionary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Wednesday gave audience separately to the Orthodox and Jacobite factions of the Malankara Church who have been locked in a bitter fight over ownership of parish churches in central Kerala.
Sources said RSS joint general secretary Manmohan Vaidya, who was in Kochi, held back to back meetings with Geevarghese Mar Yulios and Yakoob Mar Irenios, the metropolitans respectively in charge of the Ahmedabad and Kochi dioceses of the Orthodox Church, and Joseph Mar Gregorious, the Metropolitan Trustee of the Jacobite Syrian Church, along with Jacobites Church secretary Peter Elias, priest trustee Sleeba Paul Vattavelil and lay trustee Shaji Choondayil.
Kerala church that was sent to be demolished for road widening now monument of national importance
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ASI writes to NHAI to propose new alignment for widening National Highway 66
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ASI writes to NHAI to propose new alignment for widening National Highway 66
Centuries-old St. George’s Orthodox Church at Cheppad has faced the risk of demolition for widening of National Highway (NH) 66, but it is now set to be declared a Centrally protected monument of national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Last month, as directed by the ASI Director General, a team of officials from the ASI Thrissur circle inspected the church and recommended its preservation. K.P. Mohandas, superintending archaeologist, wrote a letter to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) urging it to propose a new alignment for the NH.