Dear Friends,
The laundry inside KIFF is dirty from the very beginning and never been washed. The dirt has turned into a virus and remains among the few of the old pillars of KIFF.
If you all are following the on going, “CommonWealth Games” issue, it is no difference as to what is happening here in between KIFF and IFF-K. Designations held in the various sports in India from the Sports Ministry to Federations and Associations are held by the same individuals for 10 yrs and above. Which gives no chance given to fresh or young talent to take over? In KIFF, it is the same the constitution was written back in the 80’s and remains unchanged.
Why was IFF-K born? This is what our community does not want to understand. If seven Clubs are suspended for a year, where do the 140 – 155 players who are registered go? What is the fault of these players? So IFF-K was born and it did not disturb KIFF activities. In addition, is there a harm to have another Federation? Soccer is a sport that has no boundaries.
I am not writing to point out any individual or clubs or organization, we all have to work together as one community. Instead of finding faults or suspension of individuals or clubs will take us nowhere. Pro action and positive thinking is how today’s world move. By banning, suspending, or asking for apologies is only a method of saying “I Won” or “You were wrong”
I request all who are soccer lovers to join in and request for a unity / love and friendship in soccer among Indians in Kuwait. What a day to start today being our countries Independence Day (15th August). Let us also pray to our Blessed Mother whose Feast we celebrate today(15th August). Let invoke her to guide all those who are involved so that we bury the past no matter who was wrong or right. Let the language of soccer spread the meaning it stands for “Love and Friendship”
Wishing you all and your dear one A Happy Feast of Assumption and A Happy Independence Day….Jai Hind and God bless.
Christopher Fernandes.
August 16, 2010
SINFUL PRIESTS & HOLY EXTORTIONS.
We as Christians (Catholics) are always faithful in fulfilling our duties by giving offerings and our tithes to Church believing that we give to God, but then it’s not finished, there is a second part for you and me and that is to check on the accounts if the money is used in a right and proper way. We often fail to do the second part of our duty, because we trust our priests. However, it is not so, Bible says in 1 Timothy 6: 10 "certainly the love of money is the root of all evil things". When we fail to do our second part then we put the authorities in temptation for money and then it is very easy to point fingers. Allow me to explain you how the money is used by today’s priests in the Church.
Samuel Martin, a 27-year-old Spanish priest, has been thrown out of the Church after it emerged that he spent up to $23,000 of Church money on a sex addiction and advertised himself as a male prostitute.
The priest spent the money, some of which had been collected in a drive for Haiti, on sex chat lines, internet porn sites and prostitutes over the years he was a priest at two parishes in the small towns Totanes and Noez. He apologized to parishioners during a recent mass and asked for forgiveness. Martin had also posted adverts online offering himself as a prostitute.
"Heterosexual man for women and couples. Real photos. Well hung (15cm) to give you pleasure and happiness," he wrote. "I am open to everything except sadism. Hotels and private addresses. 24 hours. You won't regret it, I will give you pleasure like never before."
The adverts were accompanied by a photo of Martin in grey underpants. Martin was charging $160-an-hour for his services. It is unclear if he had any customers.
The Archbishop of Toledo has confirmed the crimes and told press that Martin will no longer be working as a priest after "these lamentable incidents".
We all know, there are no adequate channels whereby members of the Catholic community can make their views known to the hierarchy. Even the Constitution of the Church, approved by the Vatican Council Fathers in 1964, merely assumed that such channels already existed when, in fact, they did not. Till this day there are no such channels. Consequently, these things have to be discussed publicly in the press.
I was an Alter boy when I was small. Even in my summer vacation holidays I used to go out with priests for blessings of the houses and all the catholic faithfuls used to give handsome money to priests. Now I want to tell you something interesting, when we reached to Church campus I was told not to let this know to any one and I was given some 50 rupees as wages for that day because I carried all the goods of priest, namely holy water, metal cross etc. Now, what did I learn? Or what will you learn from this? I leave it up to you. but certainly as an innocent child I learnt love for money & corruption and for this I am suffering from guilt conscience. Who is responsible for this? Is it not the priest wearing the holy robe of Jesus Christ?
To be upright in front of God and people, it is best to be transparent when money matters are involved. Even the Weekly and Holidays collections in our Churches should be transparent and faithfuls should have the right to know the amount thus collected and how it was spent. Faithfuls are dutybound to know the details of Church money and Church leaders namely Priests and Bishop are dutybound to declare the financial details to the faithfuls unless they have ulterior motive. Otherwise the image of Priests and Bishops will be tarnished and faithfuls will never trust them as Priests and Bishop.
In our Church for every child receiving First Holy Communion is charged as Tax KD 10/- Approximately there are about 1000 children. The total amount approximately collected thus thru taxation first time in our Church will be KD 10,000/- It’s a big amount. According to me it’s a holy extortion. Such Holy Extortions were never done before in our Church. This is the first time an Extortionist priest came to our Church.
Can anyone stop Holy Extortions and taxing of poor Catholics?
Arun D'Souza.
Samuel Martin, a 27-year-old Spanish priest, has been thrown out of the Church after it emerged that he spent up to $23,000 of Church money on a sex addiction and advertised himself as a male prostitute.
The priest spent the money, some of which had been collected in a drive for Haiti, on sex chat lines, internet porn sites and prostitutes over the years he was a priest at two parishes in the small towns Totanes and Noez. He apologized to parishioners during a recent mass and asked for forgiveness. Martin had also posted adverts online offering himself as a prostitute.
"Heterosexual man for women and couples. Real photos. Well hung (15cm) to give you pleasure and happiness," he wrote. "I am open to everything except sadism. Hotels and private addresses. 24 hours. You won't regret it, I will give you pleasure like never before."
The adverts were accompanied by a photo of Martin in grey underpants. Martin was charging $160-an-hour for his services. It is unclear if he had any customers.
The Archbishop of Toledo has confirmed the crimes and told press that Martin will no longer be working as a priest after "these lamentable incidents".
We all know, there are no adequate channels whereby members of the Catholic community can make their views known to the hierarchy. Even the Constitution of the Church, approved by the Vatican Council Fathers in 1964, merely assumed that such channels already existed when, in fact, they did not. Till this day there are no such channels. Consequently, these things have to be discussed publicly in the press.
I was an Alter boy when I was small. Even in my summer vacation holidays I used to go out with priests for blessings of the houses and all the catholic faithfuls used to give handsome money to priests. Now I want to tell you something interesting, when we reached to Church campus I was told not to let this know to any one and I was given some 50 rupees as wages for that day because I carried all the goods of priest, namely holy water, metal cross etc. Now, what did I learn? Or what will you learn from this? I leave it up to you. but certainly as an innocent child I learnt love for money & corruption and for this I am suffering from guilt conscience. Who is responsible for this? Is it not the priest wearing the holy robe of Jesus Christ?
To be upright in front of God and people, it is best to be transparent when money matters are involved. Even the Weekly and Holidays collections in our Churches should be transparent and faithfuls should have the right to know the amount thus collected and how it was spent. Faithfuls are dutybound to know the details of Church money and Church leaders namely Priests and Bishop are dutybound to declare the financial details to the faithfuls unless they have ulterior motive. Otherwise the image of Priests and Bishops will be tarnished and faithfuls will never trust them as Priests and Bishop.
In our Church for every child receiving First Holy Communion is charged as Tax KD 10/- Approximately there are about 1000 children. The total amount approximately collected thus thru taxation first time in our Church will be KD 10,000/- It’s a big amount. According to me it’s a holy extortion. Such Holy Extortions were never done before in our Church. This is the first time an Extortionist priest came to our Church.
Can anyone stop Holy Extortions and taxing of poor Catholics?
Arun D'Souza.
August 15, 2010
GOA CHURCH ROBBED POOR TENANTS.
Goa Church under cloud for selling island to resort companyThe Church in Goa has come under a cloud following the sale of one of the river islands owned by the Archdiocese of Goa to a resort developer.
Villagers residing at Vanxim (Ilhas de Capao), a small picturesque island located in the Mandovi river, about 20 km from here, have alleged that the Church and the administration colluded to strip them of their land and sold it to a Bangalore-based luxury resort company at throwaway prices. Most of the villagers of the island are tenants.
Maggie Silveria, one of the affected tenants, who is leading a public campaign to cancel the sale deed executed by the Church authorities and the resort management said: "Our main demand is in the interest of the people in Vanxim, who are all legal tenants. A lot of residents were pressurised by the deputy collector into making representations that the land was not being used for agriculture.
The land has been taken off by the Archdiocese of Goa using unfair means."
"We have made several representations to the church and even met procurator Father Victor Ferrao (in-charge of the church's property). He initially said that he would take the land back and return the money to the resort company. However, the sale deed is already done," she added. Maggie's crusade has received a shot in the arm after several well-known NGOs namely Gakuved, GOAMAP, Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott, Colva Civic and Consumer Forum and Chinchinim Citizens Forum addressed a joint press conference condemning the sale of the land.
The Goa Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 stipulates that if a tenant does not cultivate his leased field for a period of three consecutive years, it is returned to the owner leaving the tenant with no rights over it.
The island of Capao (Ilhas de Capao) lies in the Mandovi river to the north of Divar island and to the south of Narve, Bicholim taluka in a highly eco-sensitive zone with acres of mangrove forest. There are 78 houses in the village with about 55 families residing on the island.
It is part of the large tracts of land which were gifted to the clergy almost 450 years ago during the first century of Portuguese colonisation regime with most farmers being tenants of the Church.
With the expulsion of all Catholic religious orders, the land that belonged to them were handed over to the Archdiocese of Goa and they so remain till this day.
Sebastian Rodrigues, a well known civil society activist, blamed the sale of land by the Church to a resort developer (not for the first time) on the Church-capitalist nexus.
"The fear amongst the people is because it is the head of their Catholic faith, the Archbishop himself who sold their land for peanuts. This is an insult as well as shock at the same time. But these trends in Vanxim are clearly designed by Church-capitalist nexus towards accumulation of wealth through dispossession of the same from people," he said.
Church authorities, however, have chosen to remain mum over thecontroversial land sale which has generated a buzz amongst civil society activists in the state as well as the large expat community abroad, largely Roman Catholic.
IANS' repeated attempts to seek an official response from the Bishop's House, the official residence of the Goa archbishop, were unfruitful.
Bishop's house official Fr Victor Ferrao and Fr Francis Caldeira, spokesperson for the Archdiocese, were unwilling to comment.
Eldon Carlos.
Villagers residing at Vanxim (Ilhas de Capao), a small picturesque island located in the Mandovi river, about 20 km from here, have alleged that the Church and the administration colluded to strip them of their land and sold it to a Bangalore-based luxury resort company at throwaway prices. Most of the villagers of the island are tenants.
Maggie Silveria, one of the affected tenants, who is leading a public campaign to cancel the sale deed executed by the Church authorities and the resort management said: "Our main demand is in the interest of the people in Vanxim, who are all legal tenants. A lot of residents were pressurised by the deputy collector into making representations that the land was not being used for agriculture.
The land has been taken off by the Archdiocese of Goa using unfair means."
"We have made several representations to the church and even met procurator Father Victor Ferrao (in-charge of the church's property). He initially said that he would take the land back and return the money to the resort company. However, the sale deed is already done," she added. Maggie's crusade has received a shot in the arm after several well-known NGOs namely Gakuved, GOAMAP, Goenchea Xetkarancho Ekvott, Colva Civic and Consumer Forum and Chinchinim Citizens Forum addressed a joint press conference condemning the sale of the land.
The Goa Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964 stipulates that if a tenant does not cultivate his leased field for a period of three consecutive years, it is returned to the owner leaving the tenant with no rights over it.
The island of Capao (Ilhas de Capao) lies in the Mandovi river to the north of Divar island and to the south of Narve, Bicholim taluka in a highly eco-sensitive zone with acres of mangrove forest. There are 78 houses in the village with about 55 families residing on the island.
It is part of the large tracts of land which were gifted to the clergy almost 450 years ago during the first century of Portuguese colonisation regime with most farmers being tenants of the Church.
With the expulsion of all Catholic religious orders, the land that belonged to them were handed over to the Archdiocese of Goa and they so remain till this day.
Sebastian Rodrigues, a well known civil society activist, blamed the sale of land by the Church to a resort developer (not for the first time) on the Church-capitalist nexus.
"The fear amongst the people is because it is the head of their Catholic faith, the Archbishop himself who sold their land for peanuts. This is an insult as well as shock at the same time. But these trends in Vanxim are clearly designed by Church-capitalist nexus towards accumulation of wealth through dispossession of the same from people," he said.
Church authorities, however, have chosen to remain mum over thecontroversial land sale which has generated a buzz amongst civil society activists in the state as well as the large expat community abroad, largely Roman Catholic.
IANS' repeated attempts to seek an official response from the Bishop's House, the official residence of the Goa archbishop, were unfruitful.
Bishop's house official Fr Victor Ferrao and Fr Francis Caldeira, spokesperson for the Archdiocese, were unwilling to comment.
Eldon Carlos.
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