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Catholic deacon and Gleaner columnist Peter Espeut argued that reparations are an ethical duty, cited the Coral Gardens trust fund and Crown land transfer, and insisted that not one cent of reparations money should go to the Jamaican government.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore raised nearly $10 million from church sales as it closed parishes, but a bankruptcy judge ruled the proceeds belong to parishes and are not available to more than 900 abuse survivors.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore raised nearly $10 million from church sales as it closed parishes, but a bankruptcy judge ruled the proceeds belong to parishes and are not available to more than 900 abuse survivors.

The Alpha Mercy Historical Centre, a $100 million museum funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund, opened on the Alpha campus in Kingston to record about 150 years of the Sisters of Mercy’s work, with officials calling it an investment in heritage tourism.

The Alpha Mercy Historical Centre, a $100 million museum funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund, opened on the Alpha campus in Kingston to record about 150 years of the Sisters of Mercy’s work, with officials calling it an investment in heritage tourism.

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.

Bishop Joseph Gontrand Décoste of Jérémie told Aid to the Church in Need that gangs have forced the closure of 40 parishes in Port-au-Prince and 25 more elsewhere, while Catholic schools have been burned or turned into gang bases.

Bishop Joseph Gontrand Décoste of Jérémie told Aid to the Church in Need that gangs have forced the closure of 40 parishes in Port-au-Prince and 25 more elsewhere, while Catholic schools have been burned or turned into gang bases.

A Kenyan land court has ruled that a Catholic church in Siaya County, which built a permanent church on land it agreed to buy in 1976, can be evicted because it never paid the Sh50,000 purchase price.

Sister Mary Susan Frazer, area administrator of the Sisters of Mercy in Jamaica, has died. She was known for the extensive development of the St John Bosco Vocational Training Centre in Hatfield, Manchester, and her work with Alpha in Kingston.

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.

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.

A South African Catholic diocese that donated land in 2003 says conveyancers wrongly transferred all three of its properties; a court has now ordered occupiers off the 74-hectare church site within 48 hours.

A South African Catholic diocese that donated land in 2003 says conveyancers wrongly transferred all three of its properties; a court has now ordered occupiers off the 74-hectare church site within 48 hours.

ForHousing has submitted plans for 60 affordable flats on the one-acre site of the former St Boniface Catholic Church in Lower Broughton, Salford, vacant since the church was demolished more than a decade ago.