The Kerala High Court has ruled that the practice of insisting that all Knanaya Catholic Christians can only marry within the community, and excommunicating the ...

Kochi: Kerala high court, in a significant ruling, has held that Knanaya Catholic Church cannot enforce the practice of endogamy upon its members or p.

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 ...

Moolakkatt in his plea said the lower court order “would overturn and uproot the practice and customs followed by the Knanaya community for over 17 centuries.” He was referring to the practice of ...

The Kerala High Court upheld trial court's mandatory injunction, which requires archeparchy to readmit all members and facilitate sacrament of marriage for any member wishing to marry non-Knanaya ...

STONY POINT - Members of the Indian Knanaya Catholic Community, a lay group, are protesting what they claim is the relocation of their spiritual home. For about 15 years, the small, close-knit sect — ...

The Kerala High Court has held that the practice of endogamy prevailing in Knanaya Catholic Church is not an essential religious practice and thus “impermissibl ...

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 ...

A recent circular by the Knanaya Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam that sought the laity living outside the jurisdiction of its Church missions to utilise “facilities of the Syro-Malabar Church” for ...

In 1994, seven acres of land were purchased to build the North America's largest Knanaya Catholic Community Center. Over the past nine years, this land was transformed to become the home of the ...