Movement to build affordable housing on church land reaches Florida
RNS As Miami-Dade County in Florida grapples with a housing affordability crisis, houses of worship are being recruited to build affordable homes on vacant or underutilised church land. The national non-profit Enterprise Community Partners last Thursday announced $US1.3 million in grant funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation that would go toward helping 15 South Florida […]
Spain hands list of 1,000 contested church properties to local authorities
Madrid, SpainReuters Spain’s government handed over a list of almost 1,000 properties claimed by the Catholic Church on contested legal grounds to a federation of local authorities on Thursday, taking a first step towards resolving long-running feuds over ownership. The conflict stems from a law introduced by former conservative Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in […]
French Catholics agree to sell property to compensate abuse victims
Paris, FranceReuters France’s Catholic Church said on Monday it would sell real estate and, if needed, take out loans to set up a fund to compensate thousands of people sexually abused by clergy. A major investigation found in October that French clerics sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years. A Christian […]
Protests erupt against new Montenegro government over religion law
Podgorica, MontenegroAP Several thousand people rallied Monday in Montenegro, accusing the young country’s new government of being pro-Serb because of its plans to amend a religious property law that is strongly opposed by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Carrying Montenegrin flags and chanting “Treason”, protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Podgorica, the capital, where lawmakers […]
Who owns the church? Sudan court puts elders on trial for trespass and theft
World Watch Monitor A criminal case against eight leaders of a Sudan church is testing the application of a law that puts church property under the control of the government. The eight leaders of the Sudanese Church of Christ were arrested in August, 2017, after they refused to hand over control of the church’s property to a […]
Eviction of pastors upheld, scores of Christians in court as Sudan takes over church properties
Morning Star News An Islamist judge in Sudan upheld the eviction of two pastors from their church-owned homes while 60 other Christians have been summoned to court over their refusal to relinquish property, sources said. Judge Adam Tahir Haj Adam on 3rd December rejected an appeal of the 15th August eviction of Rev Yahia Abdelrahim […]