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<b>POOR CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (PCLM)</b>
Evangelism programme should be suspended for 100 years and funds thus saved be utilised for development and welfare of Dalits
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF MR. R.L. FRANCIS ON THE OCCASION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DALIT CHRISTIANS ONÂ AT THE SPEAKER HALL, CONSTITUTION CLUB, VITTHALBHAI PATEL HOUSE, RAFI MARG, NEW DELHI
Church leadership has been running more than 40,000 health, educational and other social organisations in the country. After Government of India, Church has the largest proportion of land in the country. <b>The Church has some of the best educational institutions in its control, which cater to the needs of affluent and
elite sections at the cost of Dalit Christians and poorer sections</b>. Even in Delhi the Capital of India, the number of Dalit Christian children in Church-run schools is negligible. Till today, Church has not been able to establish or form any Educational Council for Dalit Christians in the country. <b>In other words, the entire wealth of the Church is being controlled and only by high class Christians. Christian money, their real estate and all other means are being utilised for the benefit of others by neglecting Dalit Christians or poorer sections.</b>
<b>Church leadership opposes the policy of reservations for Dalit Christians in missionary schools</b>Â <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> and organisations while they have been demanding the same from the Government at the Centre. Bishops monopolising the Church estates are treating it as their own property and are indulging in its sale-purchase as per their own sweet will even without the consent of the community. Church leadership does not give Dalit Christians equal treatment. The amount of funds received by the Church for the development of Dalit Christians is never disclosed to the community nor do they give any indication as to how this amount has been utilised. <b>Church Diocese or the local priests never disclose the actual number or socio-economic condition of Dalit Christians in their respective areas.</b>
<b>However, the Church leadership has spent a lot on Evangelism and continues to do so even now. Church leadership ignores the welfare of Converted Christians and adopts new measures and experiments for wooing Dalit sections for their vested interests. </b>At the Durban Conference of the United Nations in 2001, the Church of India shed crocodile tears for crores and crores of Dalits in India. But in reality, Church was indulging in grave injustice to their own Dalit Christian brethren numbering over two crores.
Christian missionaries are vying with each other to promote blind faith among Dalit Christians. <b>Huge gatherings of people are arranged in the name of Evangelism and religious congregations, in which claims are openly made that blind will see, dumb will speak and disabled will run, just to promote blind faith among the poor Christians.</b> Even if one person gets cured of his illness caused by his own mental pressure, the incident is publicised to such an extent that Dalit Christians fall in the deep well of blind faith and get trapped in the vicious cycle of
exploitation of the priests. In these Evangelical gatherings, the priest referring to the name of Christ orders the ghost of sickness to leave the person. In these circumstances, it becomes difficult for anyone to distinguish between a priest and a tantrik.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE 4TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DALIT CHRISTIANS ORGANISED BY POOR CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT ON 6 AUGUST 2003 IN THE SPEAKERS HALL, CONSTITUTION CLUB, V.P. HOUSE, RAFI MARG, NEW DELHI:
<b>I Resolution:</b>
Demands of Dalit Christians as contained in the New Delhi Declaration released by the Movement on 19 June 2002 should be adopted and conceded by the Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI), the National Council for Churches in India (NCCI) and other Church bodies immediately.
<b>II Resolution:</b>
This Assembly unanimously believes that Evangelism cannot be a measurement of a societys socio-economic development. Therefore, Evangelism programme should be suspended for 100 years and funds thus saved be utilised for development and welfare of Dalits and deprived sections and creating awareness amongst them.
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III Resolution:</b>
In Church-run schools, colleges, technical institutions and other vocational organisations, Reservation of seats for Dalit Christians as well as other Dalits should be provided immediately. A time-bound programme of action should be chalked out to implement a meaningful education plan.
<b>IV Resolution:</b>
Both Protestant and Catholic Church leadership should issue a White Paperon i) Participation of Dalit Christians in the present Church structure; and ii) Socio-economic condition of Dalit Chrisitans in respective Dioceses of the country.
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<b>POOR CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (PCLM)</b>
Evangelism programme should be suspended for 100 years and funds thus saved be utilised for development and welfare of Dalits
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS OF MR. R.L. FRANCIS ON THE OCCASION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DALIT CHRISTIANS ONÂ AT THE SPEAKER HALL, CONSTITUTION CLUB, VITTHALBHAI PATEL HOUSE, RAFI MARG, NEW DELHI
Church leadership has been running more than 40,000 health, educational and other social organisations in the country. After Government of India, Church has the largest proportion of land in the country. <b>The Church has some of the best educational institutions in its control, which cater to the needs of affluent and
elite sections at the cost of Dalit Christians and poorer sections</b>. Even in Delhi the Capital of India, the number of Dalit Christian children in Church-run schools is negligible. Till today, Church has not been able to establish or form any Educational Council for Dalit Christians in the country. <b>In other words, the entire wealth of the Church is being controlled and only by high class Christians. Christian money, their real estate and all other means are being utilised for the benefit of others by neglecting Dalit Christians or poorer sections.</b>
<b>Church leadership opposes the policy of reservations for Dalit Christians in missionary schools</b>Â <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> and organisations while they have been demanding the same from the Government at the Centre. Bishops monopolising the Church estates are treating it as their own property and are indulging in its sale-purchase as per their own sweet will even without the consent of the community. Church leadership does not give Dalit Christians equal treatment. The amount of funds received by the Church for the development of Dalit Christians is never disclosed to the community nor do they give any indication as to how this amount has been utilised. <b>Church Diocese or the local priests never disclose the actual number or socio-economic condition of Dalit Christians in their respective areas.</b><b>However, the Church leadership has spent a lot on Evangelism and continues to do so even now. Church leadership ignores the welfare of Converted Christians and adopts new measures and experiments for wooing Dalit sections for their vested interests. </b>At the Durban Conference of the United Nations in 2001, the Church of India shed crocodile tears for crores and crores of Dalits in India. But in reality, Church was indulging in grave injustice to their own Dalit Christian brethren numbering over two crores.
Christian missionaries are vying with each other to promote blind faith among Dalit Christians. <b>Huge gatherings of people are arranged in the name of Evangelism and religious congregations, in which claims are openly made that blind will see, dumb will speak and disabled will run, just to promote blind faith among the poor Christians.</b> Even if one person gets cured of his illness caused by his own mental pressure, the incident is publicised to such an extent that Dalit Christians fall in the deep well of blind faith and get trapped in the vicious cycle of
exploitation of the priests. In these Evangelical gatherings, the priest referring to the name of Christ orders the ghost of sickness to leave the person. In these circumstances, it becomes difficult for anyone to distinguish between a priest and a tantrik.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY AT THE 4TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF DALIT CHRISTIANS ORGANISED BY POOR CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT ON 6 AUGUST 2003 IN THE SPEAKERS HALL, CONSTITUTION CLUB, V.P. HOUSE, RAFI MARG, NEW DELHI:
<b>I Resolution:</b>
Demands of Dalit Christians as contained in the New Delhi Declaration released by the Movement on 19 June 2002 should be adopted and conceded by the Catholic Bishop Conference of India (CBCI), the National Council for Churches in India (NCCI) and other Church bodies immediately.
<b>II Resolution:</b>
This Assembly unanimously believes that Evangelism cannot be a measurement of a societys socio-economic development. Therefore, Evangelism programme should be suspended for 100 years and funds thus saved be utilised for development and welfare of Dalits and deprived sections and creating awareness amongst them.
<b>
III Resolution:</b>
In Church-run schools, colleges, technical institutions and other vocational organisations, Reservation of seats for Dalit Christians as well as other Dalits should be provided immediately. A time-bound programme of action should be chalked out to implement a meaningful education plan.
<b>IV Resolution:</b>
Both Protestant and Catholic Church leadership should issue a White Paperon i) Participation of Dalit Christians in the present Church structure; and ii) Socio-economic condition of Dalit Chrisitans in respective Dioceses of the country.
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