UK’s national health service recruits from India, transforming British Catholicism

UK’s national health service recruits from India, transforming British Catholicism

(RNS) — In early December the Syro-Malankara Church, a church that traces its origins to the first-century journey of the Apostle Thomas to India, had its first bishop installed in Britain, a sign of its rapid increase in local membership. Its joins another denomination, the Syro-Malabar Church, which has also boomed in Britain in recent years, with dozens of new missions across the country. The uncommon rise of both churches, according to their…