Sub: Resolutions Passed at the Pastors Meeting Held at Bangalore on 02-12-2011, Organized by the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC).

Three hundred and twenty pastors hailing from different parts of 30 districts of Karnataka, assembled for a day-long fellowship organized by the Global Council of Indian Christians at the auditorium of Indian Campus Crusade for Christ in Bangalore on Friday, 02-12-2011, to deliberate and renew their commitment to serve the Lord in the face of unending persecution in the State of Karnataka, unanimously passed the following resolutions:

1) To thank the Government of Karnataka for its cabinet decision to withdraw all the 23 cases against the Christians, who were booked during serial church attacks in Mangalore in September 2008, and also to renovate 83 churches, as per a decision arrived at a Cabinet Meeting held on December 1st, 2011. At the same time, however, it was also resolved to request the government also to withdraw all the false cases foisted upon a large number of innocent Christians, poor pastors, evangelists and other ordinary people falsely implicated and jailed and who are out on bail but still have to attend to courts in different parts of Karnataka which adversely affects their meager incomes, as most of them work as daily wage earners,
2) To request the Government of Karnataka to order for an immediate CBI inquiry into the unprovoked and systematically planned attacks against the members of the peace-loving minority Christian community in the State, as there have been nearly 50 incidents of attacks against the Christians, their places of worship and their property and means of livelihood, in the course of the last 11 months alone during the year 2011,
3) To request the Government of Karnataka to provide necessary security to the members of the Christian community who are actively involved in various welfare activities in different fields in the State, and also to freely practice, preach and propagate their religion as per article 25 enshrined in the Constitution of India,

4) To appeal to the Government of Karnataka to provide places for the burial of Christians who do not belong to any specific denominations and who do not have particular cemeteries for the burial of their deceased loved ones, and also request the Government to see that all bottle necks and pin pricks are removed at the lower rungs of the government departments in taking possession of sites by the allottees, specifically allotted or purchased for such purposes as places of worship and as places for burial grounds