Malankara Catholic Association Global Assembly 2023

The Malankara Catholic Association (MCA) Global Assembly was held at the Shreyas Auditorium in Bathery on February 11-12, 2023. The assembly was inaugurated by His Grace Joseph Mar Thomas Metropolitan, the diocesan bishop of Bathery.

His Grace Dr. Joshua Mar Ignatius Metropolitan, the chairman of the diocesan council, and His Grace Mar Jose Porunnettam Metropolitan, the diocesan bishop of Mananthavady, also addressed the assembly.

The assembly passed resolutions demanding that the government withdraw its moves to undermine the managements, especially minority managements, in the education sector in Kerala. The assembly also demanded that the government restore the powers and rights of the managements, withdraw the unscientific changes made to the syllabus in the name of the new education policy, and end the measures to remove the contributions of Christians to nation-building from textbooks.

The assembly also demanded that the government immediately find a solution to the unscientific determination of the buffer zone, which is aimed at displacing the hill people, and the destruction of crops in the inhabited areas of wild animals, which is a threat to life itself.

Dr. K. M. Francis, the state president of the Kerala Catholic Federation, led a class on innovative perspectives in the education sector, and Dr. Chackokalam Paramba, the spokesperson of the Syro-Malabar Church, led a class on the topic of buffer zone and wild animal attacks. The MCA church council led the preparations for the assembly.