The Catholic Congress Global (Catholica Congress or Syro-Malabar Catholic Congress or CCG) is the official Community organisation of Syro-Malabar Church. Catholic Congress stands for the overall progress of the Syro-Malabar Catholic community and for the protection of civil and fundamental rights in respect to the religious, social, cultural, educational and economic aspects.
Ollur Varshikam: Souvenir of 25th session of All Kerala Catholic Congress
A meeting of members belonging to Syrian Christian community was organised in Alappuzha in 1907. The members continue to meet annually and in its eleventh meeting at Athirampuzha in 1917, they decided to form a community welfare organization.[1]
Subsequently, on April 30, 1918, Keraleeya Catholica Mahajanasabha was formed. Mar Aloysius Pazheparambil was the first president. It adopted the name All Kerala Catholic Congress, in 1931.[2] Later in 2017, the organisation adopted the name Catholic Congress Global.
CCG opposed the nationalisation of private schools put forward by C. P. Ramaswami Iyer. CCG cooperated with the Travancore State Congress in the protest. CCG was in the forefront of Vimochana Samaram, which led to the dissolution of the First Namboodiripad ministry in 1957.[1]
Annual meetings
The annual meetings of the organisation are listed below.[2]
The centenary meeting of CCG was held at Thrissur during 11–14 May 2018 and it was inaugurated by Cardinal George Alenchery. The slogan of the centenary conference was 'Secularism for the progress of the country’.[3]
First Global Meet of Catholic Congress was held at the Meydan Hotel, Dubai during 30 September - 1 October 2019, which was part of 101st meeting of the organisation. 300 delegates from 26 countries participated in the Meet.[4]
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