Over 50,000 faithful and priests from 320 parishes of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church turned up at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium here on Sunday afternoon to attend a convention held demanding transparency and accountability in the functioning of the archdiocese.
The faithful registered protest at Archbishop Antony Kariyil being “forced” to resign and the synod “imposing” the order of worship in churches under the archdiocese. The other demands included initiation of steps to recoup through restitution the huge sums of money that the archdiocese allegedly lost through the controversial land deal, and giving due prominence to the opinions of Church members and organisations.
