{"id":44027,"date":"2025-09-09T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44027"},"modified":"2025-09-08T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:44:19","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-canada-is-losing-its-churches-can-communities-afford-to-let-that-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44027","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Canada is losing its churches\u2026 can communities afford to let that happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/512px-StJohns_GowerStreetChurch_by_Magicpiano_Commons_Wiki_080925.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/512px-StJohns_GowerStreetChurch_by_Magicpiano_Commons_Wiki_080925.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/512px-StJohns_GowerStreetChurch_by_Magicpiano_Commons_Wiki_080925.png 512w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/512px-StJohns_GowerStreetChurch_by_Magicpiano_Commons_Wiki_080925-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:StJohns_GowerStreetChurch.jpg\">Gower Street Church, St Johns, Newfoundland<\/a> by Magicpiano, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a> , via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From housing to disaster relief, faith spaces have long filled civic gaps. A new report calls them essential public assets, reports <em>Broadview.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Broadview<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026 religiosity in Canada is declining \u2014 but when faith-based buildings disappear, it\u2019s not just congregations that lose out. Communities do too.&nbsp; \u2026 a new report from the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) explores the broader social impacts of Canada\u2019s faith-based spaces and calls for them to be re-envisioned as community hubs\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report highlights the concept of the \u2018halo effect,\u2019 a term that describes the positive impact of faith-based institutions on their surrounding communities.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/broadview.org\/cui-report-church-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Gower Street Church, St Johns, Newfoundland by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons From housing to disaster relief, faith spaces have long filled civic gaps. A new report calls them essential public assets, reports Broadview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,57,40,18,23,29,79],"class_list":["post-44027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-church","tag-community","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-heritage","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44029,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44027\/revisions\/44029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}