Swedish church million trips for your money – Aftonbladet

Trips for millions.

The dinners, wine shows and football matches.

The Swedish Church has pin-lived in your church tax, shows a review that echo done.

6.2 million Swedes are members of the Swedish church and pay church fee is 1.01 percent of income.

on his website, writes the Swedish church that fee goes to the open nursery school, community meetings for older people, work for people in vulnerable situations, a rich music scene and maintenance of church buildings.

What the church forgets to write is that the membership fee also goes to the sometimes extravagant trips with entertainment, dining and alcohol for both lunch and dinner.

Football Tickets

There is a Swedish radio news that reviewed parishes trips are called “field trips” “conference travel,” educational trips “or” personal travel “.

In many cases, this involves travel for millions.

a church has paid more than 1 000 apiece for tickets to a Premier League -match to study the similarity between a church and the football game.

in his report says Alexander Gagliano and Bo-Göran Bodin, one of the poorest parishes in Sweden, Botkyrka.

the members are gain and other parts of the country must contribute funds. It has not stopped Botkyrka congregation to erect close to 3 million since in 2010.

Reconnaissance

Besides the main trips that both the governing politicians and employees participated in have invested tens of thousands of crowns on two “reconnaissance flights” for each destination.

According to the church Council President Anna-Marie Carlsson trips to Israel and Sarajevo were important:

– You get the more understanding of those who come from these environments.

the theme of the trip was to “preserve the wholeness and community in our church in times of cutbacks.”

Reporter broadcast in P1 Tuesday, May 31 at 16.00.