Catholicos Mor Baselios Joseph I, Head of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Jacobite (in the middle), with general minister of education V. Sivankutty and other dignitaries at the reception arranged in Thiruvananthapurama on Sunday.
General Minister of Education V. Sivankutty said that the bail received by two keeral nuns held in a court exchange in Chhattisgarh on “false accusations” trading and forced transformation should not be misinterpreted as a result of any external intervention.
The court granted them a bail after understanding the facts of the case. It wasn’t because of anyone’s help, as he claims false, he added.
Mr. Sivanku started a civic reception organized in honor of the Catholic plague Baselios Joseph I, the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church Jacobite, on Sunday on Sunday in Jacobite Syrian Syrian Syrian Syrian powers.
While he repeated the unwavering support of the government of the left democratic front (LDF) for all causes of Jacobite Church, he assured that there would never be cases of religious persecution in Kerala. “No community, including Christians, will not be exposed to such harassment. But how many other countries in the country can claim to adhere to such freedom for believers with different beliefs? Is it time to realize this reality.”
“Christians persecuted”
However, former Minister of Trade Unions and Party leader Bharatiya Janat V. Muraleedharan drew attention to the extensive persecution of Christians around the world and contrasted with the relative religious freedom that it had occurred in India.
He quoted cases of violence -focused Christians in countries such as Syria and Iraq to emphasize the severity of the global situation. “Christians are persecuted in many such places. Priests from these regions can tell us what the repression of minorities sponsored by the state looks,” he said.
Mr. Muraleedharan also referred to a recent terrorist attack on the church in Damascus, which left nearly 25 people of the dead, and the civil war that absorbed Syria, which last year forced the patriarch of Antioch and the highest head of the universal Syrian Orthodox Church, Iigatius II.
“In India, whether in Thiruvananthapurama or elsewhere, no one has to be afraid to shoot or die during an explosion in participating in these programs. The situation is extremely different here,” he said.
Catholicos Mor Baselios Joseph I called for a permanent solution with the Orthodox Syrian Church of Malaankara.
Kuriakose Mar Theophilos, resident Metropolitan, Malankára Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminar, chair.
Antony Raju, Mla, Metropolitan Archbishop Mar Thomas Tharament of Syro Malabar Archeaparchy of Changanassery, Bishop Antony Mar Silvanios of the Major Archiepiscopal Curia of Syro-Malankage Catholic Church Eastern Church, Former Chief Secretary Jiji Thomson and Church Vicar Alexander Thomas also spoke.
Published – 3rd August 2025 9:36
