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Syro-Malabar liturgy dispute

Protesters march as Syro-Malabar truce unravels

Protesters sought to dramatize the tensions in their archeparchy with a pruning saw and chains.

Luke Coppen
Oct 14, 2024
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Thousands of Catholics took to the streets in southern India Sunday as a tentative truce in the decades-long Syro-Malabar liturgy dispute continued to unravel.

A protester carrying a pruning saw and dressed as the Syro-Malabar Church’s leader, left, with another protester in chains, portraying a deacon awaiting priestly ordination, in Ernakulam, southern…

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