A Liberian court ruled that the United Methodist Church’s worship centres, schools and hospitals stay with the UMC, finding that the breakaway Global Methodist Church forfeited any interest when it disaffiliated.

Cayman’s Churches Incorporation (Amendment) Act 2025 is now in force, requiring boards of officers, ensuring church assets serve only church purposes and updating property provisions, as the territory prepares for a 2027 financial crimes evaluation.

A Gleaner reader pointed out that Airbnbs may already fall under Jamaica’s Rent Restriction Act, a law that predates the platform. Nobody has ever enforced it against short-term rentals.

The BOJ cut its policy rate 125 basis points in a year, but commercial banks have been slow to pass the savings on. Even the central bank governor has publicly called out the lag.

Oregon’s House Bill 2964 would give congregations up to $200,000 to cover early housing costs on church land, as many Methodist churches in the region have 25 or fewer weekly worshippers.

The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, which financed the sale of 20 closed churches to other congregations over 15 years, announced it would leave the mortgage business after finding the loans had not always been monitored carefully.

Cameroon sealed 200 of 615 churches in Yaoundé’s 4th subdivision after a ministerial warning to unregistered congregations, in a country where only 47 are registered and approval requires the president.

The Central Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists installed a 60 kW solar system at its Spanish Town offices, cutting its electricity bill by about 70 per cent since it was switched on in March 2024.

Egypt legalised 2,815 churches in five years under its 2016 Church Building Law, with a committee of officials and church leaders reviewing unlicensed buildings and the state funding churches in new cities.

Nearly one in four United Methodist congregations, 7,659 in all, left the denomination by the end of 2023 under a rule that let them keep their buildings if they paid apportionments and pension liabilities, though some had to go to court.