From Australia-There has been uproar in the small parish community of St Aidan's Anglican Church, at Black Springs in Oberon, after the Bishop of Bathurst, Ian Palmer, wrote to parishioners informing them the church would be shut and sold.
"I am committed to showing practical compassion to people who have been abused and I will work with people in the diocese in order to do it in a way which is helpful to us all," Bishop Palmer said.
"We've got more than a dozen properties across the diocese that we are in the process of selling in order to meet the challenges of paying redress for those who have been abused."
Two churches in Wyalong and Trangie had already been sold as part of the plan to raise money to pay compensation to victims of child sex abuse.
But local parishioners locked out of the church argue the revenue raised from the planned sale of St Aidan's would be minuscule.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-21/st-aidans-anglican-parishs-sale-redress-child-abuse/9277186
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