CANADA
Cape Breton Post
SYDNEY — A review of churches by the Diocese of Antigonish isn’t about closing churches but instead about ensuring the diocese is properly fulfilling its mandate, an official says.
The diocese already completed a review of churches in Cape Breton and Victoria counties, which led to a number of closures. It is now turning its scrutiny to churches in Richmond, Inverness, Antigonish, Guysborough and Pictou counties.
Rev. Donald MacGillivray, the director of pastoral planning, said the region covered by the diocese is undergoing tremendous demographic change.
“Cape Breton is in decline, in terms of the population, we lose about one per cent of our population per year on Cape Breton Island, and that is pretty well true of most of rural Nova Scotia,” MacGillivray said.
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