The Anglican Church is selling seven church properties on southern Vancouver Island to pay down its deficit.

"It's been an extremely hard decision," Chris Pease, asset manager for the Diocese of British Columbia, said Monday. "It's a sad time. People have been part of a community and some of their families actually constructed these churches.

Some feel anger. Some feel sadness because it's part of their community that's dying."

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