for instance, traveled ten politicians and eighty officials from Botkyrka Assembly to Istanbul at the conference trip in 2010. Total cost: 997 000 crowns. The aim was to “increase understanding of the society in Botkyrka” and “write Assembly instructions”, reports the Echo on Swedish Radio.
2012 traveled the same ward, 70 people in total, to Sarajevo. Now stayed expense 772 000. The journey was motivated by that one would “preserve the whole community and in our church who are in times of cutbacks.” Must it happen abroad? wonder of echoes reporter.
– We thought that the church council. There we were in agreement, says Anna-Maria Carlsson, the Council’s moderate president.
When 99 people from Huddinge parish in 2014 went on a five-day conference trip to Malta landed bill 796 000 – twice as much as the same assembly received via the collection plate during the year. Purpose of trip was to politicians and employees would have the opportunity to meet with the ward when the newly appointed vicar.
More than six million Swedes pay through their taxes for its membership in the Swedish Church. That some churches are traveling and Drinking church money is “pure rip-off phase are” according to Chris Siwertsson, moderate church politicians in Östersund.
– They do violence to the Christian message and the Church.
Even Aftonbladet has set Swedish church under the microscope and examined the activities of the Swedish Church abroad. The audit shows that high spiritual leaders of the Swedish Church Abroad has made private trips abroad and lived in luxury for the church’s money.
Supreme Head of operations, Anders Bergkvist, let the church pay for a private vacation to San Francisco. And Bishop Sven-Bernhard Fast received money from the church to pay for a stay at the four-star hotels in Australia.
Swedish Church Abroad, contributions of close to 193 million per year from the collections, donations and membership fees, writes Aftonbladet .
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