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Fredericton’s Anglican diocese weighed selling two properties beside Christ Church Cathedral and building a multi-storey block with condos or rentals under a 40-year lease, warning that sale cash is often only a quick fix.

First Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, which once drew 400 to 500 worshippers, sold its 1950s sanctuary to a Hispanic Pentecostal congregation and moved into a nursing home chapel as attendance fell to about 40.

Kirk House, a converted church in Dull, Perthshire, with its stained glass, panelled ceiling and original organ kept as a design feature, was listed at a £210,000 guide in 2015.

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.

National Capital Presbytery sold one camp to a homebuilder, borrowed millions to develop a 358-acre replacement, then found itself paying about $70,000 a month in debt. A pastor who lived through it sets out the lessons.