At the ceremony the Reverent Fr Cyril Pinto, Parish Priest of Holy Spirit Church, Bajal, blessed the premises.
Patrao claimed that Mangalore Special Economic Zone Limited (MSEZ) had taken his land, which they now denied, and demolished his house.
Louis Lobo of the IFKCA said, "The authorities on the first place did not give Gregory an opportunity to use his right to move to the court.
"[6] On 1 July 2011 Ronald Colaco, president of the IFKCA, met with RSS leader Dr Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, with the goal of strengthening relations between the Christian and Hindu communities and bringing communal harmony.
The Chief Minister promised to ensure the cases were withdrawn, and to constitute the Christian Development Board.
They said that almost 4% of the 62 million people in Karnataka were Christian, with large populations in Mangalore, Udupi-Chikmagalur, Karwar, Shimoga, Dharwad, Belgaum, Mysore and Bangalore.
[10] In October 2014 Ronald Colaco led a delegation of Christian leaders that met Siddaramaiah, Chief Minister of Karnataka, and thanked him on behalf of the Christian community for rejecting the report by the Somshekar Inquiry Commission concerning the 2008 attacks on Churches, and for directing a fresh inquiry.