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The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire is leasing Christ Church Portsmouth’s land at no cost for 98 years for 44 affordable workforce homes, a survivors’ centre with transitional units and a childcare centre, while worship continues on site.

Macon’s oldest standing house of worship, completed in 1829 and later owned by the county, is being sold by the local development authority for $180,000 to buyers who plan to keep it as a church.

Lindisfarne Uniting Church, built in 1903 on Hobart’s eastern shore, was sold and will become the House of Guidance Hobart mosque, with Uniting Church leaders welcoming its continued use for worship and community.

Hurricane Melissa destroyed the Porto Bello Pentecostal Worship Centre in Montego Bay. About 30 members worshipped under two tents on the site as the pastor said they must pool their resources to rebuild.

About 2,000 UK churches expect to stop being places of worship by 2030, a survey found, as six West Midlands churches show new futures, from a Wolverhampton banqueting suite to five flats in a Stourbridge Baptist church.

Stateline reported in 2025 that St John’s Lutheran in Madison is replacing its 1905 building with a 10-storey block of 100-plus affordable homes and worship space, as Florida opened religious land to housing and Colorado’s bill failed.

Releven Realty, Canada’s first charitable brokerage for houses of worship, launched in 2025 to help congregations facing falling membership manage their buildings, from buying a storefront church to finding tenants that pay for repairs.

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Rwanda closed more than 4,200 churches and mosques in about a month in 2024 over substandard buildings, poor hygiene and noise, following more than 9,000 closures of places of worship in 2018.

Trinidad’s Spiritual Shouter Baptist Council of Elders rejected plans for one Baptist cathedral in Balmain, Couva, after the prime minister said Cabinet would consider a further $10 million grant, saying the groups worship too differently to share.

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A small church meeting in a Bedford, New Hampshire, house was ordered to stop for lack of an occupancy permit, and the dispute fed into a new state law limiting zoning bans on religious uses.

Hong Kong’s Methodist International Church worships in Wesleyan House, a 21-storey tower on an 800-square-metre plot with a worship hall, offices, staff housing and a chapel on the top floor.

Winnipeg’s St Matthew’s Anglican Church, facing a leaking roof and black mould, leased its building for $1 to a non-profit that turned it into WestEnd Commons, an $8.5 million project with 26 affordable homes and continuing worship.