Church builds faith community thousands of miles from India (AP via Miami Herald)

Article on how a Syro Malabar church in Florida is helping Indians follow their own faith in the US.

Most of the approximately 3.5 million Syro Malabars worldwide are in India, with the majority in Kerala. They follow one of the five Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church and trace their history to the beginning of Catholicism.

The only Syro Malabar diocese outside of India was founded in Chicago in 2001, after the Vatican determined there was enough demand in North America. The leader of the diocese, the Most Rev. Jacob Angadiath, oversees parishes in Illinois, Texas, New York, California, Pennsylvania, Florida and Toronto, representing about 100,000 people.