03-29-2005, 10:24 AM
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"The church has about 1,800 to 2,000 families under it, needs to register births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, etc, and it runs hospitals, schools and many other services. To manage all these, we decided about a year ago to go for software on an experimental basis,"
For instance, every year, elections are conducted to appoint trustees and other officials, and members have to fulfil certain criteria to run for the elections, as well as to cast their votes.
<b>"Those who haven't made at least one confession in a year are not eligible to be candidates. Or those who have arrears due to the parish cannot also contest,"</b>Â <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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"The church has about 1,800 to 2,000 families under it, needs to register births, deaths, marriages, baptisms, etc, and it runs hospitals, schools and many other services. To manage all these, we decided about a year ago to go for software on an experimental basis,"
For instance, every year, elections are conducted to appoint trustees and other officials, and members have to fulfil certain criteria to run for the elections, as well as to cast their votes.
<b>"Those who haven't made at least one confession in a year are not eligible to be candidates. Or those who have arrears due to the parish cannot also contest,"</b>Â <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2...8/stories/
2005032800070100.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->