Mangalore : Christian Reforms Foundation to organize Reformation Sunday on Dec 11, 2011. As a part of the event, the parishes such as Kulshekar, Milagres, Puttur, Udupi, Sastan, and Kundapur will hold awareness group meetings said P. B. D’Sa, the chief trustee of the Christian Reforms Foundation.

Speaking at the press meet held on Nov 16, Wednesday, he said that there is need to hold reformation because the Christian cemeteries allotted for burial of the dead are being leased or sold by priests.

He also said that city has thousands of Mulgeni tenants. The Bishop has deprived them of Varga rights and also has opposed the government’s bill on Mulgeni. Although schools, churches, halls, and hospitals are meant for the use of lay people, the clergy refuses to permit lay people’s organizations to use the same even when the priests conduct events free of cost in the same venues, he said.

He informed that the clergy are also threatening people that they will not baptize children and bury the dead, to which a number of common people gave up the idea of reformation and compromised with the clergy. He said that the reform groups will continue reasoning with the clergy and if their efforts fail, they would work for bringing churches under government control.

 There is no transparency in the funds collected in the form of rent, annual membership, and fees, which amount to around Rs. 48 crore, he said that the clergy has refused to listen to common mans demands to convert colleges, schools, halls, farms, and hospitals into cooperative societies.

Walter Mascarenhas, Augustin, and Roshan Lobo, all members of the foundation, were present.