A planning report recommended replacing Christ the Redeemer Parish Hall in Lagmore, west Belfast, with 43 social homes, citing significant housing need despite 98 objections over traffic and lost community facilities.

The Diocese of Southwark was awarded £217,000 from the Church of England’s Buildings for Mission scheme to hire a church buildings fundraising officer and give parishes repair grants of typically £5,000 to £10,000.

A year after the Coming Home report, the Church of England’s housing bishop highlighted projects including more than 40 affordable homes in Keswick on a parish plot and 13 homes approved in Kent with a community land trust.

In East Syracuse, a 25-member American parish shares its church building with a South Sudanese refugee congregation. It is a practical model for putting underused sanctuaries to work.

A closed Catholic church on Duluth’s Park Point, on just under an acre beside Lake Superior, was offered for $650,000, with the land expected to become nine house lots and proceeds going to a poorer parish.

The NLA aims to issue 20,000 land titles in three years through a new area-by-area registration process. How Systematic Land Registration actually works, parish by parish.

A group claiming to act for Ejido’s mayor tore the padlocks off and seized the parish halls and soccer field of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Venezuela’s Mérida state in May 2018.

The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester sold Diocesan House, a 1913 mansion on East Avenue that had been its headquarters since 1954, for about $1.2 million, invested the proceeds and moved into rented space at a parish church.

Growing too fast for its downtown home, St Joseph Catholic Church in Athens, Georgia, handed its six-acre Prince Avenue site to developers and moved to a 47-acre campus, with the 1912 church to become a restaurant.

Jonesboro’s historic Blessed Sacrament Church agreed to sell its downtown property to St Bernards Medical Center, funding the parish’s move to a new church beside its school on Highland Drive.