“Please help us”: Some of the villagers who are not sure what to do next - Photo by Anil Netto
Villagers in a dozen households next to the St Francis Xavier’s Church face uncertainty after receiving three letters over the last year from lawyers acting on behalf of the Catholic Church in Penang.
The residents had been ordered to vacate their premises by 31 May 2009 (which happens to be Pentecost Sunday, marking the coming of the Holy Spirit). In the latest letter of 19 May 2009, they have been granted a second extension until 31 May 2010 on “humanitarian grounds”, provided they agree in writing to compensation of RM10,000. If not, they have to vacate their homes by this Sunday.
The lawyer’s letter states the church can afford to provide only RM10,000 as it is a “non-profit religious institution”. Lay Catholics, however, are not in a position to judge whether the church can afford to pay more as its diocesan accounts are not made public to them as a matter of course.
Allow me to introduce you to some of the villagers the church wants to evict (see photo above, from left):
Augustin Martin, 82, raised at the nearby orphanage in the early 1930s. He was a church organist during World War II and worked as a driver for the Kee Huat company in his younger days. Occupant of house no. 52-E.
Arokiasamy Dass, 84, born here in 1925, former JKR tractor driver. His father arrived here around 1920 just before getting married. Occupant of house no. 52-H.
Olga Fernandez, 71, arrived here before the war. Her family originally settled in the area in the late 1920s. Occupant of house no. 52-G.
Bellimin Rajah, 70, worked as a Cold Storage clerk. He remembers crouching in his house when George Town was being bombed by the Japanese during World War II: “A big stone dropped on my sister’s back,” he recalls. Occupant of house no. 52-C.
Manimathu, 74, widow of the late Mr Selva. She has lived here since 1949. Occupant of house no. 52-F.
Jayamary is Bellimin’s wife. She arrived here in 1967, after getting married.
Anthony Muthu, 79, a former ludlow (headline layout) operator for the now defunct Straits Echo. He has lived here since 1937. Occupant of house no. 52-Q. His father, Sinnasamy Appasamy, arrived here after his marriage.
Theresa Savari, 60, is Anthony’s wife. She arrived here after their marriage.
Among those not in the photo above:
Santhanam Sinasamy, 82. Occupant of house no. 52-P.
Lourdesamy s/o Ponnudurai, 60. Occupant of house no. 52-I.
One of the villagers remembers a Japanese officer looking for a base in the area for his troops during World War II. “When he came over and saw us and the other children, he decided not to disturb or evict us. Instead, they used the Chinese school behind, next door. Imagine, even the Japanese occupying forces didn’t ask us to leave.”
“(French priest) Fr Louis Riboud really sayang Augustin (the organist) and he told our families we could live on the land,” recalls another villager.
The parish originally catered to Tamil Catholics in George Town, many of them poor and from the working class.
Now, the lawyers’ letter states that the church wants the villagers to vacate their land so that it can be used for “charitable and social purposes”. The Bishop maintains there are no plans to sell the land.
But it is not clear why the church wants the villagers to move out of this prime land now and what exactly it intends to do with the land.
The old buildings of St Joseph’s orphanage next door have already been demolished and the site presently is walled up and has been lying idle for years. The Lighthouse drop-in centre next door has no immediate expansion plans.
“Whatever happened to the parable of the Good Samaritan?” asks Anthony Muthu, one of the villagers. “Is it only meant to be preached during Sunday sermons? Why is no one putting it into practice and helping us? Where do we go, at this age, looking for low-cost housing with RM10,000 in compensation? Which bank will give us housing loans at our age?”
The church hierarchy points out that some of the residents have not paid their rents for a few years.
But the residents say they have spent a few thousand ringgit of their own money for roof repairs and collapsed walls. They thought that the church would overlook their rent over the last couple of years as the villagers had taken care of the repairs at their own expense.
“In any case, if the church felt that we had defaulted on rent, shouldn’t it first have issued lawyer’s letters demanding payment of rental like landlords usually do instead of keeping quiet and then all of a sudden, asking us to vacate the premises?” asked Anthony. “By their silence, we felt that church leaders understood our predicament and our need to carry out repairs.”
What hurts the villagers most is that all dealings are now through the church’s lawyers, without any avenue for face-to-face consultation with church leaders. That puts the villagers at a disadvantage as they cannot afford lawyers of their own. “What happened to all the Catholic lawyers?” wonders one of them.
“They claim we are outsiders,” observes another. “But we have lived here much longer than those who accuse us of being outsiders. It is the bishop and his priests who are the newcomers here.”
I guess it’s a lot easier to evict faceless, nameless people, strangers whom we do not know – using a lawyer as an intermediary. But imagine if these people were our own family members, our parents or grandparents….
Andrew Aeria, a Catholic, has a suggestion: “If the church really needs land for social, cultural and religious use, it could use the spacious premises at No. 1 Bell Road for this purpose.” Recalling previous controversial land deals, Andrew suspects that the church hierarchy has a long-term plan to dispose of the St Francis Xavier’s Church land for commercial gain – even though the Bishop has dismissed such accusations as “absolute nonsense”.
Meanwhile, the despairing residents say they are praying that the Holy Spirit will guide and touch those who are trying to help them.
This is a report from the latest Herald, from the Penang Bishop’s perspective:
No plans to sell church land, Bishop Selva
PENANG: Bishop Antony Selvanayagam has refuted claims that the diocese is planning to sell a portion of its land to the Cititel Hotel for development.
“That is absolute nonsense,” said Bishop Selva.
“The land on the grounds of the St Francis Xavier Church off Jalan Penang has been earmarked for religious, charitable and cultural purposes.”
St Joseph’s Home, the Lighthouse, the learning centre and a century-old village are situated within the property.
The Church wants the villagers to vacate their rented houses for redevelopment according to religious, charitable and cultural purposes.
These villagers have not been paying their rent for the past 34 months.
Bishop Selva said that ample notice had been given to the residents to relocate.
The residents were initially asked to vacate the premises by Nov 30 last year. They were later given an extension until May 31 this year.
It is understood the residents are being offered ex-gratia payment of RM10,000 each, with rental arrears deducted from the amount.
Bishop Selva explained that “so far two persons have accepted the payment and have left while another 12 remain.”
Another issue, which cropped up during this standoff has been the contention that the village is situated in the Unesco heritage zone. But Bishop Selva clarified that the village is situated outside the heritage zone but within the buffer zone.
“This means that we cannot demolish the houses but we can redesign the interior to suit the different needs of the organisation or group which will be using the houses.”
final say for me – to those anti-church – hold your tongues. To people on church land – start thinking of moving and dont take advantage of the church or come to some solid agreement with the church to safeguard both parties from killing themselves and making a mockery for public entertainment. To those who champion their rights. Send your appeals to the bishops and the priest perhaps give some positive pressure. To anil – good work and yeah do write about the Triang Church case. It is true. And lets see now what sort of criticism will arise and towards who. Perhaps Ariae and his troop would like to comment on it. It would be interesting to asses these two incidents together and see the similarities and differences
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Anil, What double standard you are preaching here. I see your write-up all over Herald and I strongly believe that you are connected to the high level of the church. You should have written something from the bishop side of view rather than just those people affected by this relocation. All over Malaysia, there are many cases of parishioners being given church land to build houses 50-60 years ago and now when the church wants the land back, they refused to move even if the church agrees to compensate with a new house in the housing estate. Now you see all the comments bashing not just the bishop but the heartless Catholics -including You.
One thing I certainly agree with you is the top secret on the diocesan accounts when you say:-
“as its diocesan accounts are not made public to them as a matter of course.”
This is something that I hope you should write more so that one day those diocesan funds will be transparent and prevent any monkey business by those bishops. Not all bishops or priests are clean, except maybe their cassocks.
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Perchance this iffy Bishop-entity was not tutored by the three nice Sisters of the good and kind
Holy Infant Jesus – Sister Gaetau, Sister Appolinaire and Sister Gregoire – who the Good Learning Book says arrived in Penang’s pretty George Town from far-away France on a pioneering teaching mission from God in 1852, after suffering a very pesky and perilous sea journey which their good Mother Superior, sadly did not survive.
Then, the Book says, the three sisters were luckily joined by the good Reverend Mother
Mathilde Raclot, who is believed to have founded over eighty good convent schools for girls over there, including the verily venerable convent in Seremban which the Book says was 
converted, sadly and inexplicably, not from a school complex into a shopping complex but even more sadly and also very mysteriously (by dear God according to a knowing friend Harry here) into a very ugly water-complex infested with a 
plague of trillions of nasty disease-laden mosquitoes.
Hmm.
Perchance the divine intervention with the mosquito infestation attack is to teach a good learning lesson, you know very like those teaching lessons taught habitually by the kind habits of the teaching sisters of baby Jesus in their nice convent-structures, to some overly greedy 
fat cats out there in that Seremban-place, who friend Tom here opines, were likely to be not charitable creatures at all but only 
real meanies or worse, even pretend Christians fooling everyone cunningly, except of course for the one and only, 
cannot ever be fooled, forever infallible-entity of the all hearing, all seeing and all knowing good God.
Can recommend strongly that the Bishop-entity there be a kind shepherd and take some stock to serve his poor flock of aged dependent sheep with humility and some milk of human kindness to
deter any wrathful intervention from the “Orang Atas” who only counts in the end.
Or perchance the Bishop-entity may be very sorry indeed when he gets that sudden trilateral teaching visitation in the still of the night at his comfy residence from the four deadly
torchbearer spirits of Sisters Gaetau, Appolinaire and Gregoire and RM Mathilde Raclot, who now rest in peace not too far from Bell Road and who may decide to go put to their torch any uncharitable notions that may now be peskily floating about inside the Bishop-entity’s perchance 
uncharitably Christian head.
WE SAY YEAH! AND NO TO ISA!
AND HARIS FOR AG & RPK FOR IGP! GO FOR DSAI FOR PM & LKS FOR DPM & KIND WAN AZIZAH FOR HOME MINISTER.
2009 Resolution: Seek out all garbage and recycle or dispose post haste for a healthier life and planet!
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oops, wrongly said trilateral visitation far too hastily instead of correctly saying
tetralateral teaching visitation for the Bishop-entity.
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it is sad. as sad as before abraham putting that knife at Isaac.
It is sad that fr Joachim kang in Singapore got to do even if it means losing all. We all know abraham’s result but fr joachim kang
theory is open.
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The Bishop should hold himself accountable to God. In the deepest recesses of his heart and in his loftiest prayers, he should be instructed by one simple question, What would Jesus do in a similar circumstance? That is the only question he should ask his conscience.
To the worldy and pragmatic, that land has huge potential development value. To the Gregs and Samuels, what you say is fine if the land belonged to a corporation or a family… to be denied the financial fruits of that ownership is not quite fair.
To a man of God, to sages and saints and, dare I say, Bishops, land has absolutely NO developmental value. It is not measured in terms of what you can squeeze from it, not ROI’s and DV’s. Land simply exists, a means from God to nourish, shelter, protect its inhabitants.
Ownerships and legalities are man-made constructs. In God’s eyes, no one “owns” that land. It is a small piece of Mother Earth. In the vast cosmos, nothing… In this play we call our human lives, all passes in a blink of the cosmic eye. Insignificant, transient, ephemeral, temporal and temporary.
Someone like the Bishop must exemplify Christ. If I ask him what Jesus meant about it being harder for a rich man to see Heaven than a camel to pass through a needle’s eye, I would expect an exploration of the deeper mysteries.
I would not be asking this question of the Gregs and Samuels, because this is esoteric, metaphysical, non-wordly stuff that accountants and bankers and corporate heads cannot have answers to. Unless you think Jesus was perchance misquoted, or that somehow, this is not true of modern-day life, or that he was just mad or misguided and that he glorified poverty, you have to stay silent and confess ignorance. If you have no answer to that mystery, I proffer that you have no answer to this present quandary that seems to be of the Bishop’s own making.
The Church has to be above worldy promptings and ambitions if it is to claim to represent God. It must be a bridge on earth to carry the Catholic’s highest aspirations for a spiritual life.
It has been said that the man of God is not understood by the world. If the Gregs and Samuels exalt the Bishop for the developmental or pecuniary benefits of his actions, the way they might the CEO of a corporation, then I say, the Bishop has failed God.
We would expect much, much more of this man who professes to represent Christ to the Catholics. The touchstone by which we judge his actions would be: Would Jesus do that?
Otherwise, being a Bishop is just a career, just like one might be a pilot or a sweeper, or developer or lawyer, not a calling from High; and certainly not more endowed of higher wisdom [or love and compassion] than say, people who comment in blogs. Me included.
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Can we have the comments of our dear Bishop, please ? I am sure as a servant of God, he will be able to frankly inform us the facts of the case. Can we all, please refrain from commenting ‘for’ or against so fervently until we hear the truth from the bishop ?
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As possession is usually nine tenths of the law, suggest the persecuted tenants stay put in their naturalised/rented homes and search for a good lawyer to act for them on a pro bono basis – suggest giving Malik Imtiaz, Haris Ibrahim, P Uthayakumar or Zaid Ibrahim a prospective tinkle.
Perhaps the tenants can use, as did good Lord Denning, the doctrine of equitable estoppel as a shield against this apparently uncharitable, and potentially unconscionable, action by the Church illustrated here through the Christian voiced and human faced actions and behaviours of its institutional moral arbiter and representative executive head, the good Bishop in question here.
Timeless lessons in spiritual love from the Bible:
1. The biblical parallel to “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is found in the following verse: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them (Matthew 7:12; cf. Luke 6:31).
2. The phrase, “love thy neighbour as thyself,” also bears a close relation to the saying and is found throughout Scripture (Leviticus 19:18; Matthew 5:43; 19:19; 22:39; Mark 12:31; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14; James 2:8; Luke 10:27).
3. James even refers to “love thy neighbour as thyself” as being “the royal law” because it is the embodiment of all the laws dealing with human relationships.
4. Money is the root of all evil. This expression stems from the biblical phrase that says, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils” (1 Timothy 6:10). There is a big difference between the two statements. Money is neutral and can be used either for the good or for the bad. Money of itself is not evil, yet the love of it is the root of all kinds of evil.
“Imagine Power To The People” John Lennon.
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Attractive Altar boys, young Choir boys, money, sex, land …. all these thrown in …… is a potent mixture that clouds everyone’s eyes.
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Mr Khoo,
if your son were to sin, am I to assume that your whole clan is guilty of the same sin as well? Same argument. The Church although universal in nature cannot account for the behaviour of a minute few that have strayed just as there would be a black sheep in every family and the Church has never condoned the actions on those priests who have betrayed their flock’s trust in them. We have made mistakes but the sin is not general to all Catholics.
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Someone in the posts above was indignant there are some Astro dishes on the houses. I say, would you begrudge the old and poor their own dreams?
I earlier asked of the Bishop, What would Jesus do in a similar circumstance? I know Love was paramount to him. I googled “poor in the Bible” for a lesson on loving the poor.
The righteous is concerned for the rights of the poor; the wicked does not understand such concern. Prov. 29:7.
But whoever has the world’s goods, and beholds his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 1 John 3:17.
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Money. Mt. 6:24.
For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves with many a pang. 1 Tim. 6:10.
He who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord, and He will repay him for his good deed. Prov. 19:17.
He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honours Him. Prov. 14:31.
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God. Leviticus 23:22
I know that the Lord secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy. Psalm 140:12
Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court. Proverbs 22:22
Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:9
Jesus answered, If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. Matthew 19:21
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. Luke 12:33
The Bishop, if he claims to represent Christ to the Catholics, must therefore articulate those views expressed in the Bible, as if they were God’s personal instructions on the matter. If he does not, what is the purpose, and where is there meaning in his establishment? Is “loving thy neighbour as thyself” just a ghost of an exhortation that has no purpose and meaning in the institution?
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Allow me to summarize:
1) Taking in squatters on your land ….. foolish!
2) Reasoning with people who believes in the supernatural ….. foolish!
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Much has been said but what now is the outcome??? Any suggestions?? Should the those people continue to stay or should they move? Should the bishop sell the land or should he not? Should the diocese accounts be made public or should it not? What should the diocese do with the money if the land is sold?
We have all poured out our comment and opinions of which some has been done without sensitivity to any extant (aerias)and we should acknowledge everyone opinion and respect them except those of which who do not give respect too.
Why dont now change the mood to suggest ways to which the Bishop should handle this matter? Would this now be beneficial that just bamboo the church and its priest. Perhaps anil would send this note to bishop and hopefully he can listen to it then not just hear it.
My suggestive solutions to those questions above are as such :
1) the people should move out respectfully but the church HAS to HELP them get new homes of better if not similar to what they have now and not less. We cant expect the church nor anyone else to be over generous stripping all their money for the sake of the poor for which then the poor will remain the poor – how can u help others when u have made yourself helpless even for urself. reality check of todays world scenario and current human mentality (easy way out and easy way done even if at the expense of other -the poor or rich) We are not living 2000 yrs ago therefor i think we cant just live out the bible literally but absorb its concepts it tries to teach.
2)I dont think any bishop should sell any church land unless it is in a dire need of finances perhaps when it has done spending all its wealth to help the poor it itself becomes poor. As what has been suggested before many church lands (developed or not) are on strategic grounds now if not before and this is i believe God’s will and therefore it should be exploited for our religions sake. It would be hard now in this current Malaysia for the church to buy land if not free even if for cheap.
3)We dont put in money into the church coffers thinking we are investing. In one hand it is good for the church to make its statements public but it would just invite more vultures to attack the church for there might be people who would go after its money just like one said before donations is a lucrative business. Dont we at the same time want to protect the church, our church?? I guess there are better ways in letting the public know about the finances and also reasons why they dont want to. Money is the route of all evil including inviting evil to your doorstep so lets not be hasty on this issue.
4)evangelize, invest (so u get more money to do more work), charity, upkeep the churches of the diocese and building new ones, help more. What i feel is being done now is just keeping it in the back doing nothing.
Now any more suggestions???
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and so you who are angry with bishop anthony, have u booked your
advance-booking into seventh-heaven. and where do u think that
bishop anthony be – your say?
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Since we’re talking Church finances, how many of you remember that the Church sold the land where Gurney Plaza is, for many, many, many millions. Some people say the money went to Rome… I doubt the Malaysian govt would have sat by and watched that capital take flight.
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If the church can afford to have a lawyer surely the church will be able to get a basic old folks home for them.
All the residents are 60 and above plus they were given permission to stay on that land years ago.
I do hope Penang’s PR state government will be able to help in this case. They just wanted a shelter
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The Church’s public relations skills are zero. It should clearly explain the reason(s) why the residents are being asked to leave. Surely the plans for the redevelopment ought to be ready and should be revealed. People are reasonable but they hate it when the Church is hiding behind this cloak of secrecy….
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mmm on….
the money went to rome?
where u this theory…? i’ve heard this many years ago…but i do know where the money goes….it goes to church development!…not rome…
u ingat nk urus gereja senang ka? in a capitalism world like nowadays….everything needs money….
dun talking … lar.
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DeePo, pls read my post again. Did I say I believed the money went to Rome?
Do you know how much money the Church reaped from the sale? Interest on it alone, compounded all these years, can erect more than a dozen churches.
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The following is from the 19.04.09 church bulletin, from The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pulau Tikus, Penang. READ and digest, re-read, and read between the lines.
“Very often we priests hear of things happening in the Church, only after the fact, i.e. when your Bishop decided to sell part of the land in the compound of St. Francis Xavier, it was only after the sale that we heard about it… and we had to take the flak from you, the people.
Our Church teaches/preaches transparency but often forgets to practise it… could be partly the fault of us, the priests and you the Laity… we do not question our “superiors” enough, or we try a few times and when we are not listened to, we give up. This is one way in which we encourage
injustice/evil.
I have been hearing rumours that our Bishops are wanting to sell part of College General lands ‐ is it the Bishops or Propaganda Fidei (The Propagation of Faith), in the Vatican?
What are we going to do ‐ especially when the Penang people are trying so desperately to preserve what green remains in Penang and we are faced with the evils of hillside developments. Another rumour is that College General is to be leased out… remember what happened to Wisma Uskop, which was built for you, with much of your money! Look into these rumours, and if true, see what could be done.. Godbless.”
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Hmmm… couldn’t help but notice Astro dishes on the roofs. While I do sympathise with these people because of their age, they have been staying on the land as tenants for years at a minimal rental rate. I’m sure they were working at one time because they must have had to sustain themselves. At RM60 to RM200 a month, where did the rest of their funds go? And I’m sure their children must have went to school and on to better things. Where is their responsibility in taking care of their aged parents? I’ve heard that some of these children have their own houses, but their parents don’t want to ‘burden’ them. Yes, charity is great, especially when it’s only asked from the church.
Additionally, some of the tenants (maybe not the ones you have highlighted, Anil) are not even the original tenants as the original residents have passed on. Is the church expected to sustain these people too? And for how long? When does it ever stop? If there are genuine cases of residents that can not support themselves, then I think it only right that the church steps in. But I can’t help the feeling that some of these residents are just taking advantage of the situation while hoping to prolong the years of cheap rental and accomodation long provided by the church.
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To all Catholics responding to this report, as yr brother in Christ, i would like to advise you NOT TO condemn the Bishop, Clergy or Church in such manner or God’s wrath and fury might come upon you and your families. If you have anything to say to the Bishop, clergy or church, use the proper approach and channels instead of venting out your frustrations in a site that is visible to just anyone.
To Anil,
I hope you will remove this post. It is going to do more harm than good.
I appreciate your concerns – but this post remains as the issues raised here are valid and are of public interest. – Anil
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Shalom.
I was at Holy Spirit Church in greenlane last sunday when the priest highlighted this matter and in his wisdom encouraged us to investigate further for the truth before shooting off our feelings. Many of our feelings may have been based on so called facts that we feel are true, to our knowledge that is.
I have to agree that the Bishop could have and can still have better means to deal with this matter. The reasons why there is such ill feelings towards the Bishop ( I cannot say the Church because obviously, the Bishop is not the Church ), is, from my point of view, he has decided and acted in ways that are not transparent as pointed out by some of the bloggers here.
For what purpose is the urgency to evict these squatters? I do not know and have not seen the urgency in any of the responses given by the Bishop. He has at best been vague over the matter. What I am asking is, can the Bishop lay out the proposed plans for the development of the place? And the proposed plan for the relocation of the squatters? I am sure he could get more support if the proposed plan can help many more people in need as well as his thought for those who have lived their lives on the grounds.
Can the Bishop do these?
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To all Catholics responding to this report, as your brother in Christ, I would like to advise you NOT TO condemn those who hi light the plight of the poor in such manner or God’s wrath and fury might come upon you and your families.
I quote from the gospel Matthew 25:41 -
“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels”.
These were the words of Jesus.
http://www.jerrymohan.blogspot.com
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“WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BRETHREN, THAT YOU DO UNTO ME”.
The church must ensure it doesn’t qualify itself as “the cursed” in Matthew 25:41
To all the Andrews & Khoo’s, you are spot-on in understanding and practical application of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles.
To all the gregs and Samuels, read and re-read the 4 gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. A SPM form 5 student can finish these books over the weekend and understand the gist of the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles.
To Dissapointed, you qualify yourself as “the cursed” in Matthew 25:41
http://www.jerrymohan.blogspot.com
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Anil,
Why laaa you deleted all my comments from here?
I think cos the same comments were sent to different posts at the same time, but I thought they were all duplicate for the same post. – Anil
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