On Christmas Eve, Why Two Factions of Kerala Christians are Fighting it Out on Streets
Jacob George | Updated:December 21, 2018, 8:11 PM IST
The root cause behind the never-ending quarrel between the Jacobite Syrian Church and the Orthodox Syrian Church playing out now in the streets of Kerala is nothing but big business and wealth. Each of the two factions has enormous wealth. And there are scores of schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions run by individual churches, which add to the wealth. All this besides the real estate value of the properties of the churches. The more than half a century old fight between the two factions of the Malankara Christians has taken a new turn with Thomas Paul Ramban, a priest of the Orthodox faction trying to enter the Marthoma Cheriapally in Kothamangalam, Ernakulam district, belonging to the rival Jacobite faction and hundreds of the church members blocking his way near the church.
The root cause behind the never-ending quarrel between the Jacobite Syrian Church and the Orthodox Syrian Church playing out now in the streets of Kerala is nothing but big business and wealth. Each of the two factions has enormous wealth. And there are scores of schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions run by individual churches, which add to the wealth. All this besides the real estate value of the properties of the churches. The more than half a century old fight between the two factions of the Malankara Christians has taken a new turn with Thomas Paul Ramban, a priest of the Orthodox faction trying to enter the Marthoma Cheriapally in Kothamangalam, Ernakulam district, belonging to the rival Jacobite faction and hundreds of the church members blocking his way near the church.
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