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Some churches under the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese refuse to conduct Synod-approved Mass.
The church said giving legal validation for such relationships is unnatural and an injustice to the family system that exists in the country.
The Bishop's House clarified that the BJP team had come to invite the Church representatives for the sitting of the Minorities Commission.
The decision was taken after a scuffle inside the place of worship over Unified Mass caused damages to the altar and other liturgical objects.
Members of the laity who favour the congregation-facing Mass and those opposed to it got into a brawl inside the Basilica. A section allegedly went up to the altar and pushed it away.
Members of laity obstructed priests celebrating holy mass; expletives hurled inside church.
When youngsters of a family unit of the Thevakkal parish of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Ernakulam declined to don Santa's clothes, a migrant worker from West Bengal stepped in to fill the 'job'.
They also wanted the Cardinal to take suitable steps to reopen the St Mary’s Cathedral Basilica at Ernakulam, which is the headquarters of the archdiocese, after the police ordered its closure over last Sunday's tense situation.
The church wants the government to move the launch of it's 'No To Drugs' campaign proposed on Gandhi Jayanti (Oct 2, Sunday) to another day.
Thousands of faithful protested in Kochi on Sunday demanding justice for the popular archbishop who was forced to resign for 'insubordination'.