Praedial larceny costs Jamaica an estimated $14 billion a year. A new police unit, real arrest numbers, and why farm theft is organised crime, not petty pilfering.

Kingdom City Church has left its Charlotte campus after its landlord won a judgment for $75,600 in unpaid rent and a writ of possession; the church blamed maintenance problems it said were the landlord’s duty.

The New Testament Church of God in Barbados is converting its Fairchild Street headquarters into a community refuge centre, estimating about $500,000 in infrastructure costs and applying for a matching grant from a government fund for faith-based organisations.

US churches are turning underused land into housing under new YIGBY laws in California, Florida and Virginia. Jamaican churches hold the same kind of land, just losing it to squatters instead of building on it.

A church’s deal to buy Cape Town’s heritage-listed Good Hope Centre collapsed, and a mosque has emerged as the proposed buyer, though the city has not disclosed the price or conditions.

Two former property officers of Goa’s Catholic archdiocese face trial over the 2007 sale of 2,479 square metres, with prosecutors alleging forged documents and a tenant family deprived of its rights.