For generations, calling Jamaica a Christian nation required little explanation. Christianity was everywhere. In schools and Parliament, at funerals and weddings, in…

The Church of Christian Compassion in West Philadelphia opened Compassion Senior Living, a $20 million, 38-apartment building where one-bedroom rents range from $900 to $1,300 depending on income.

Broadleaf Church of God’s Bishop Calbert Spence says gang warfare and weekend curfews from 6pm have stopped his church holding night services since March, as police list Manchester communities still under curfew.

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.

A South African court refused the Apostolic Faith Mission leave to appeal an order returning the keys of a building to a pastor couple, drawing a clear line between ownership and possession.

A Chattanooga Baptist church will ground-lease its land for 53 rental cottages for seniors and families, the first project under the city’s new flexible zoning programme, with construction due in 2027.

Raleigh congregations including St Paul AME, the city’s oldest Black church, Edenton Street United Methodist and St Michael’s Episcopal are exploring homes on church parking lots and land, helped by the city’s 2022 end to minimum parking rules.

Trinity Uniting Church in North Albury has sold for $1.1 million to the dentist next door, after seven religious groups and three developers showed interest in the 2,750-square-metre site on Mate Street.

A Beauce entrepreneur bought two rural Quebec churches, one for about $50,000, planning about 20 short-term rental units in one and housing for workers in the other, while warning that such projects need deep pockets.

Kingston’s municipal corporation says it will enforce a long-standing no-vending rule in front of Kingston Parish Church and along upper King Street, urging vendors to move into stalls at the nearby 65 Mall Arcade.