Same faith, different flavor, ping!
The Malankara church was planted by Thomas, whose church-plantings in Parthia and India rivaled those of Paul in Greece and Rome. Praise Him for his gospel-spreading churches, and the Spirit that draws people to Christ throughout the world!
Cool! I hope they can afford the upkeep.
We have Greek, Russian, Coptic, and Ethiopian Orthodox here, but not enough congregants of any Eastern Catholic church to operate their own facility. Eritrean Catholics come to my parish.
The pope will fill it with islamo migrants soon enough.
As a Catholic I would much prefer to see it remain Catholic but if this denomination is truly Christian (something I don’t know because I’m not familiar with it) then it’s good that it remained Christian.
I would walk to the church. About half an hour from the university campus. One Sunday it was pouring rain. I was wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella. I arrived at the church to find that the day was a feast day for some French saint. There was to be a candle-lit procession before Mass. I entered the church, holding my umbrella and trying to get my raincoat off, when a French nun thrust a lighted candle into my hand. Try juggling a lighted candle and an umbrella while shedding a dripping wet raincoat. I managed without setting the church on fire, but I wish she'd have picked someone else to take part in the procession.