Monastery

Mozambique’s Archdiocese of Nampula says squatters have occupied a seminary, parish and monastery land, destroying walls and cashew trees, while a May 2025 court order to evict them goes unenforced.

Hanoi’s Thai Ha Parish opposes a US$10 million hospital building on 61,455 square metres the Redemptorists bought in 1928 and the state borrowed in 1959 and 1973 and never gave back.

The Benedictine Community of New Norcia in Western Australia decided to sell most of its 8,000-hectare farm, estimated at about $40 million, to meet redress for historical abuse and sustain the monastery.

Turkey returned the title deeds of the 2,000-year-old Mor Gabriel Monastery, its church, cemetery and fields, to a Syriac foundation after they were transferred to the state treasury in 2014.

Israel’s Supreme Court blocked a separation barrier route through the Cremisan Valley that would have cut through land around a Salesian convent, a monastery and olive groves, ending a nine-year fight.