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.

A 40-unit supportive housing building for extremely low-income people was proposed on a St Cloud, Minnesota, Catholic church lot long used for parking and Christmas tree sales, subject to a planning hearing.

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.

Growing evangelical congregations are buying closed Catholic parishes in the Midwest, including a $1.75 million deal for St Jude in Joliet, as a broker says most church buildings sell to other faith groups.

Moray Council approved turning Speymouth Parish Church, the Red Kirk, founded in 1732 and closed in 2024, into a family home with a granny annex, with pews removed but the building kept largely as it is.

A Nashville judge approved a settlement requiring the sale of the former Central Church of Christ building, assessed at $11 million, with 80 per cent of proceeds going to the founder’s family estate after a court found a deed restriction was violated.

St Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, has broken ground on Greenway Village, 56 affordable rental homes in 14 buildings on land behind the church, with the diocese, Catholic Charities and the city.

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.

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.

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.