Climate activism is finding a new home in Jamaica’s churches. After Hurricane Melissa, the bigger question is whether environmental stewardship will change how churches build, insure and manage the enormous property footprint under their control.

Jamaica has long carried one of those statistics that sounds almost too perfect to resist repeating: the island has more churches per…

Across Jamaica, the island’s spiritual landscape is punctuated by church buildings — many historic, some now underutilized, and a growing number completely…