AUSTRALIA
Central Western Daily
By NICOLE KUTER Oct. 21, 2014
A MONTH after being asked to come up with $200,000 to help save the Bathurst Anglican diocese, Orange’s Anglican parishioners are a long way from the target, and the Anglican diocese debt has increased by about $14 million.
That target fund could have doubled at the last church council meeting if Bishop Ian Palmer’s request for parishioners to pay more was granted.
The Bathurst Anglican diocese is being sued by the Commonwealth Bank over millions of dollars owed to it. Holy Trinity parishioners were asked to contribute $128,000, while St Barnabas Church’s contribution was set at $75,000 towards a fighting fund to defend the action in court.
However, it has been revealed that not only does the church owe money to the Commonwealth Bank, but it has internal “financial pressures” such as $100,000 to be set aside for professional standards issues such as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.
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