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TRELAWNY, Jamaica, September 20, 2026 — Families displaced by the demolition of homes at Cooper’s Pen in Trelawny have begun…

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.

The Houston Housing Authority paid $11.4 million for the former ‘Dome Church’ site in the Fifth Ward, nearly $5 million more than a previous owner paid, then demolished it and has no plan for the land.

Fordhouses Methodist Church in Wolverhampton, closed in 2020 and later condemned after a partial roof collapse exposed asbestos, sold for £205,000 and faces demolition for nine new homes under a developer’s plan.

Enugu’s Central Methodist Church says a businessman holding a later certificate blocked its entrance and demolished its fence, even though the church holds a survey plan and Certificate of Occupancy from 1993/1994.

Bulawayo City Council served demolition notices on 12 churches in suburbs including Nkulumane and Emganwini over dilapidated or illegally built structures, alongside action against 47 run-down properties in the city centre.

Islamabad’s development authority demolished the 12-year-old Emmanuel Gospel Church in a Christian settlement in sector G8/4 during Lent 2021, without notice, after the church had asked to repair its roof.

Chinese authorities used dynamite and bulldozers to demolish the Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, a 7 million yuan building serving about 60,000 members of an unregistered congregation, in January 2018.

Khartoum North’s Evangelical Church saw buildings demolished, members detained and its gates locked under a court order as Sudanese authorities tried to sell its land to a businessman, Dabanga reported.