Catholic religious appeal to India's Supreme Court over tax order (UCANews)

A court in Kerala has withdrawn the “tax exemption that religious priests and nuns enjoyed as employees of government-aided educational institutions,” according to the report.

Two Eastern Catholic churches (the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church) have their headquarters in Kerala (map), as do two Oriental Orthodox churches (the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church).