Thirty-two religious societies benefited from EU funding to instal solar panels worth €1.2 million.
Among them were the Discalced Carmelite Fathers. All four of their properties – St John’s church in Ta’ Xbiex, St Theresa sanctuary in Birkirkara, St Theresa church and Carmelite convent in Cospicua – now have solar panels. Funding to them amounted to €400,000.