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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.

Vermont’s Catholic Diocese of Burlington won bankruptcy court approval to sell its South Burlington headquarters for US$3.13 million as it works to resolve abuse claims from more than 100 survivors, moving staff to a college campus.

Vermont’s Catholic Diocese of Burlington won bankruptcy court approval to sell its South Burlington headquarters for US$3.13 million as it works to resolve abuse claims from more than 100 survivors, moving staff to a college campus.

A Vatican envoy asked the Indigenous Tallán community of Catacaos, Peru, for forgiveness over land disputes involving companies linked to the dissolved Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, in which two community leaders were killed.

Rockport Baptist Church in Arnold, Missouri, bought the former St David’s Catholic Church on seven acres for $1.75 million after the parish merged, gaining a large sanctuary, gym and classrooms.

Kenya’s land court ruled that a Kenya Pipeline line under Catholic land at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Eldoret can stay, even though the university’s easement deal was invalid.

A 40-unit supportive housing building for extremely low-income people was proposed on a St Cloud, Minnesota, Catholic church lot long used for parking and Christmas tree sales, subject to a planning hearing.

Myanmar’s army returned Christ the King Cathedral in Loikaw to the Catholic Church after using it as a base for about two and a half years, during which the pastoral centre was bombed and the bishop fled.

The Religious Sisters of Charity are seeking €40 million for St Mary’s Campus in Dublin 4, a 13.47-acre site founded in 1868 as a home for the blind, with a masterplan for about 360 apartments, care beds and a hotel.

Antigua’s historic Old Catholic School and Church near Government House is to become a permanent hub for creative workers, with renovations due by November 2026 ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

The Catholic Diocese of Honolulu paid $5.8 million for the 1898 Model Progress Building near its cathedral basilica, planning a reliquary chapel, a meeting space and outreach to the poor while commercial tenants remain for now.

More than 100 families on Kampala’s Nsambya Housing Estate faced eviction after a 49-year lease expired and the Catholic archdiocese moved to redevelop, until a government minister stepped in and suspended the deadline.

California’s Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa, in bankruptcy since 2023 and facing 260 abuse claims, listed five more properties including a 12.44-acre Napa Valley vineyard, after selling two unused churches in 2025.

A Manhattan Catholic parish has agreed a $96 million sale that will see its old school and convent replaced by a mixed-income building, keeping its church and rectory and gaining new community space.

The site of Bangladesh’s first church, built at Iswaripur in 1599, is now a garden occupied by a Muslim family, and Catholic efforts to buy it back have stalled for lack of money and support.