{"id":62619,"date":"2018-08-08T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=62619"},"modified":"2018-08-08T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T12:44:05","slug":"orthodox-church-synod-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=62619","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Church synod begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Synod-2017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51485\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Synod-2017-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Synod-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Synod-2017.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Five-day meet is expected to announce major decisions<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-24628570\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The synod of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which of late found itself in media glare for all the wrong reasons, began here on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The five-day meet of the highest ecclesiastical body of the Church is expected to announce major decisions and directives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan Baselius Mar Thoma Paulos II, head of the Church who chaired the opening session, set the ball rolling making it clear to the faithful that their actions should be beneficial to the Church and society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He asked them to be mindful of their utterances and act with mutual understanding and unity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46436\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/synod_2016_aug_6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Overcome challenges<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">He called upon the believers to strive to overcome both internal and external challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Catholicos\u2019s speech is believed to be a guidance to the laity, the priests and the hierarchy at a time when the Church was facing unprecedented situations in the form of a sexual controversy involving some priests, the perceived lack of improvement in the dispute with the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and also the efforts from sister Churches to get involved in the dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The synod is being held at the Church headquarters at Devalokam, near here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/tp-kerala\/orthodox-church-synod-begins\/article24628570.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-day meet is expected to announce major decisions The synod of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, which of late found itself in media glare for all the wrong reasons, began &hellip; 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