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Last updated Nov 1 2005 01:45 PM NST
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Residents in a small town with a large church have launched a fund-raising campaign to prevent the church from falling into the wrong hands.
Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church in Port au Port West is one of the oldest wooden structures in the province, and is one of the properties put on the real estate market by the cash-strapped Diocese of St. George's.
Our Lady of Mercy church in Port au Port West is one of the oldest wooden structures in the province.
The diocese needs to raise about $13 million, and has put properties on the market to help pay its obligations under a claim involving sexual abuse victims, almost all of them at the hands of priest Kevin Bennett.
"We have to keep it. It can't go."