“We share your grief of losing your worship places,” said Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (CNEWA profile). The southwestern Indian state of Kerala (map) is home to two Eastern Catholic churches (the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church) and two Oriental Orthodox churches (the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church).