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Syro-Malabar liturgy dispute
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Syro-Malabar Church

Man vandalizes altar at church engulfed in liturgy dispute

Luke Coppen
May 22, 2023
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A man vandalized the altar of a church during a Eucharistic liturgy in southern India Sunday.

The incident took place May 21 at St. Mary’s Forane Church, Moozhikulam, in the Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly, which is at the center of a vehement liturgical dispute in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

A man disrupts the liturgy at St. Mary’s Forane C…

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