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Surrogacy is regulated and widespread in the United States and Canada, but illegal in many other countries.
On Christmas Eve, the devotees were informed that the basilica would remain closed on Christmas day and no mass would be offered.
In his traditional Xmas message, he calls for an 'end to military operations with their appalling harvest of innocent civilian victims'.
There are many countries that are smaller than a single district in Kerala.
Some churches under the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese refuse to conduct Synod-approved Mass.
This decision by the Pope was announced by the Major Archbishop Cardinal Mar Baselios Cleemis here.
A Vatican communication said that the Christian style should be reflective, not reactive, on social media.
The decree, understandably, allows the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese to sell two of its properties as restitution for earlier losses.
At the end of the funeral in St. Peter's Square, some people shouted in Italian "Santo Subito!" (Make him a saint now!). It was the same phrase used at the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005, although by many more people then.
St Mary's Malankara Catholic Church in Alappuzha was constructed with financial help from Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pre-papal name.