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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.

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.

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.

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The Anglican Church of Kenya’s Eldoret diocese has evicted more than 100 families from land in Kipkaren Estate that it says it owns, while residents who say they have lived there for 50 years plan to go to court.

Churches and a mosque in Nairobi’s Makongeni Estate were demolished or ordered out to make way for a Kenyan government affordable-housing project, with one pastor saying his church had invested 6 million shillings and asking for three months to relocate.

A Nairobi church hosting more than 80 orphans was demolished under an eviction order that its archbishop says covered a different plot, LR No. 60, about 100 plots away from the church’s land.

Kenya’s President Ruto intervened to give 20 contested acres in Nairobi’s Roysambu, claimed by the army and once held by Uchumi, to Jesus Winner Ministry, pledging Sh20 million towards a new chapel.

Kenya’s anti-graft commission went to court to recover five Nairobi plots meant for railway and road use, including one registered to Neno Evangelism Center, seeking Sh1.6 billion on two parcels.

A Nairobi megachurch’s perimeter wall was demolished as Kenya Railways reclaimed land for its 273-acre rail masterplan, with Bishop Margaret Wanjiru disputing that the land belongs to the state agency at all.

Kenya’s Lands Court ordered PCEA to vacate Sh650 million Kitengela premises, including a Sh80 million church and a school of 936 pupils, ruling that the government acquired the land in 1991 and the church’s titles were fraudulent.

Kenyan police found 15 starving followers on the property of Good News International Church pastor Paul Makenzi, four of whom died, and searched his land for a possible mass grave as residents said they had warned of cultism.

Nairobi churches are renting idle plots for as much as Ksh15,000 a month because land costs over Ksh3.5 million for an eighth of an acre, but disputes arise when landlords want the land back.

A Westlands parish that bought its Nairobi land for Sh100,000 in 1964 says the Anglican diocese, which has used it since 2012, owes more than Sh9 million in rent on property now worth Sh500 million.

Kenyan churches have invested billions of shillings in real estate, from a 10-storey Catholic office block in Nairobi to CITAM’s Sh7 billion gated estate in Karen, which Cardinal John Njue said helps the church become self-reliant.