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A 13-member Adventist team from Belize helped rebuild or repair 15 homes in Westmoreland, including Seaford Town, after Hurricane Melissa, building seven from the ground up with zinc, lumber and plywood.
People often talk about “the good old days.” They remember Jamaica through the soft glow of memory — the smell of fresh…
Winnipeg’s Holy Trinity Anglican Church, an 1884 National Historic Site found in 1989 to have no foundation, needs more than $7 million in repairs, and Heritage Winnipeg says it should have been sold before costs grew so high.
The Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth listed Église Sainte-Marie in Church Point, Nova Scotia, a 1905 wooden church of 15,000 square feet, for $250,000, but repairs are estimated at $10 million and the province says it cannot buy it.
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.
The Church of England announced £9 million from its Buildings for Mission fund: £6.2 million in grants of up to £12,000 per church for urgent repairs, and £2.8 million for 30 specialist church buildings support officers.
FEMA had obligated nearly $3.2 million to repair 21 houses of worship in the US Virgin Islands damaged by hurricanes Irma and Maria, along with church-run schools and shelters, the St. Thomas Source reported.
Atlanta Magazine found churches across the city being sold to developers, from Kirkwood sanctuaries replaced by townhomes to a converted Druid Hills church with condos from $640,000, as congregations weigh repairs against rising land values.
Islamabad’s development authority demolished the 12-year-old Emmanuel Gospel Church in a Christian settlement in sector G8/4 during Lent 2021, without notice, after the church had asked to repair its roof.
Aleppo’s Maronite Cathedral of St Elijah, damaged by mortar fire from 2012 to 2016, was set to reopen in July 2020 after a restoration supported by $460,000 from Aid to the Church in Need.
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