A Methodist chapel built in 1895 in Snainton, North Yorkshire, with eight members and four or five regular worshippers, is to become a three-bedroom house after the circuit said spending far exceeded income and planners approved the conversion.

Barbados Housing Minister Chris Gibbs told Parliament the government would compulsorily acquire about 2.21 acres at Ebenezer, St Philip, owned by Ebenezer Methodist Church, to build around 30 homes as part of a drive for 2,000 homes a year.

Mansfield councillors have unanimously backed plans to demolish Chesterfield Road South Methodist Church and replace it with a smaller church and a block of 12 supported-living apartments for disabled people.

A historic Texas chapel with an 1860s cemetery is at the centre of a dispute after its congregation left the Methodist denomination and the conference said it was using the property without consent.

The former Trinity United Methodist Church in Roanoke, Virginia, has been converted into Trinity Commons, 15 one-bedroom apartments for people aged 55 and over, including people who have experienced homelessness.

Mass demolitions in Lagos’ Makoko waterfront community displaced more than 40,000 people, according to UN estimates, and the Methodist Church Makoko opened its doors to shelter more than 40 displaced residents.

Property investor Samuel Leeds offered £225,000, then £250,000, for a closed Methodist church in Darlaston, Walsall, promising to hand it rent-free to a congregation rather than see it converted by one of 16 interested developers.

Toronto’s Berkeley Church, built in 1871 as a Wesleyan Methodist church and later an event venue, has been bought for $3.75 million, after its operator went into receivership, by a developer planning to restore and reopen it.

Duffield Parish Council in Derbyshire bought the village’s former Methodist church in December 2025, with an anonymous donor paying for the purchase, and plans to turn it into a village hall and community facility.

Hurricane Melissa destroyed a 145-year-old Methodist church and a 125-year-old Baptist church in Duanvale, Trelawny. Church leaders want to keep the Methodist ruins as heritage, but engineers say they must be demolished and rebuilt.