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Indian archdiocese ends requirement to marry inside community

April 18, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: The Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Kottayam has ended its requirement that the faithful could only marry other members of the archdiocese.

Bowing to a court order, which had found the practice discriminatory, the archdiocese allowed a parishioner to marry a Catholic from another diocese.

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