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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

The endogamous Knanaya Catholics in the southern Indian state of Kerala have marked the end of their centuries-old practice of not marrying outside the close-knit community when one of their parishes ...

KOTTAYAM: The betrothal of Justin John and Vijimol, held at Kottody St Xavier’s Church, in Kasaragod, on Monday, marked a new chapter in the history of the Knanaya Catholic Church and the archeparchy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...