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Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. / Rahul Payyappilly via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Kochi, India, Mar 18, 2022 / 08:33 am (CNA).A Catholic archdiocese in India condemned the burning of effigies of two cardinals on Thursday by laypeople opposed to the introduction of a uniform liturgy in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.Lay activists set fire to effigies of Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Eastern Churches, and Cardinal George Alencherry, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, on March 17 in Kochi, southwestern India.Photos and videos shared on social media showed flames rising from two figures dressed in white cassocks with red fascias, or sashes, the customary dress for bishops in the Syro-Malabar Church.The incident took place in front of a renewal center in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese.The archdiocese s spokesman Father Mathew Kilukkan said on March 17: "The attempt to burn the eff.
Former chief editor of church publication Sathyadeepam dies
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May 27, 2021 16:23 IST
The vicar, who was admitted to the ICU following an accident on May 13, had a cardiac arrest on Wednesday that lead to his death.
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The vicar, who was admitted to the ICU following an accident on May 13, had a cardiac arrest on Wednesday that lead to his death.
Fr. Cherian Nerevettil, the former chief editor of
Sathyadeepam, the mouthpiece of Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese, who was under treatement following a major accident died at a private hospital in Kochi on Thursday. He was 49.
Admitted in the intensive care unit of the hospital for serious head injuries, he had a cardiac arrest on Wednesday that further deteriorated his condition leading to his eventual death. The death was recorded at 2 p.m.