Youth

St Luke’s, an 1863 Gothic Revival church on Belfast’s Northumberland Street sold by the Church of Ireland 12 years earlier, was listed at £185,000, with the agent suggesting youth, leisure, commercial or residential uses.

After a five-day Seventh-day Adventist Pathfinder Camporee at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium, Falmouth’s mayor said the underused venue needs more such events, noting that local farmers profited, one selling out of 10,000 coconuts.

Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church and Addis Ababa’s city administration clashed over ownership of Meskel Square, which the city had recently renovated with underground car parks, after a Protestant fund-raiser was held there.

Angolan pastors who broke from the Brazilian-led Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in 2020 claimed control of 220 of about 300 temples, while the church said its buildings had been invaded.

Illinois Public Media looked at closed churches reborn as apartments and a chamber of commerce office in Springfield, a restaurant and brewery in Peoria, and a youth ministry centre in Jacksonville.