{"id":64705,"date":"2018-12-13T04:12:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T04:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=64705"},"modified":"2018-12-15T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T04:48:12","slug":"orthodox-faction-mounts-pressure-on-state-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=64705","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox faction mounts pressure on State govt."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Says a section within Kerala Police colluding with Jacobite faction<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-25734586\" class=\"_yeti_done\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Even as the impasse over the St. Mary&#8217;s Jacobite Syrian Cathedral in Piravom continues, the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church has attributed the delay in executing the Supreme court\u2019s order to `unwarranted political interventions\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In an apparent bid to mount pressure on the State government, the functionaries of the Church told the media here on Thursday that a section of officers in the Kerala Police were acting hand in glove with the Jacobite faction in delaying the imminent takeover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe have also come to learn that even the suicide bid staged by a couple of Jacobite members the other day was part of a conspiracy between a Deputy Police Superintendent and leaders of the Jacobite faction,\u2019\u2019 said Thomas Mar Athanasius, Metropolitan, Diocese of Kandanad East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Pointing out that a few district-level leaders of the CPI(M) had attended a meeting convened by the Jacobite faction to condemn the Supreme Court verdict, he also said that it was unfortunate that the government, which is supposed to implement the court order, was standing by the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Speaking on the occasion, Mathews Mar Severios, Metropolitan of the Diocese of Kandanad West, said the police had effectively implemented the court order in at least seven churches prior to Piravom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cBut in this case they seem to be having some other ideas, claiming that the sentiments of a section of believers would be hurt. Instead of securing the church, the police facilitated the violent protests by allowing people inside,\u201d he pointed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Attributing the recent violent episodes to an alleged extremist wing among the Jacobites, the Orthodox functionaries also held that they would now be forced to seek a legal recourse to implement the SC order in a time-bound manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Regarding the possibility of striking a consensus with the Jacobite faction, they held that any discussion towards reaching a consensus should begin from the opposition accepting the sanctity of the constitution of 1934 and the SC ruling on the control of the parishes under the Malankara Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/orthodox-faction-mounts-pressure-on-state-govt\/article25734586.ece\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says a section within Kerala Police colluding with Jacobite faction Even as the impasse over the St. Mary&#8217;s Jacobite Syrian Cathedral in Piravom continues, the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-cases","category-church-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64706,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64705\/revisions\/64706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}