From the Pope’s case for faith in public life in Paris to a church in Jamaica, Queens being sold for US$11.75 million and a covenant row in Kingston 6, this week’s church news kept returning to the same themes: buildings, money and the state.

The Barbados Diocesan Trustees plan to turn more than two and a half acres of Anglican land at Henry’s Lane, St Michael, into a medical facility with housing for patients needing specialised care, and to open investment opportunities to Anglicans.

After Hurricane Melissa damaged Clapham Primary School in St Ann, classes moved into St Paul’s Anglican Church while repairs went on. Back on campus, the principal now wants a STEM lab and has priced a 20-foot container at $520,000.

A South African court ordered a tribal chief to return the keys of an Anglican church in the Eastern Cape but declined to declare the diocese the owner, because it could not produce documents proving its right to use the communal land.

More than two years after Hurricane Beryl, a Union Island resident says the island’s historic Anglican church still lacks a roof and its Catholic church remains rubble, and he is asking church leaders to commit to rebuilding.

Barbados’ Codrington Trust, custodian of lands left to found an Anglican college in 1710, says 25 residents got property conveyances in a year under an $18 million reparations programme, with all residents meant to be landowners by 2028.

The Kingston Hub Disaster Relief Project, run by the Anglican Kingston Deanery and the District Grand Lodge of Jamaica, handed over mattresses and supplies at Christ Church and said $2 million had been donated for house repairs in western Jamaica.

Christchurch’s Anglican bishop rejected media claims of a $500 million ‘property empire’, saying parish property is worth about $250 million, is held in trust for specific purposes and cannot be sold without the parish’s decision.

Kenya’s Mbita Parish church was demolished and fenced off by rival claimants in February 2026, on land allocated to the Anglican Church in 1985, as the diocese plans to sue for more than $50,000.

Land grabbers have taken over more than 200 acres of a Ugandan Anglican diocese’s 425-acre estate, subdividing plots and selling them at night so buyers can build before the church can act.