You could add Quebec in North America to the list. Right up through the 1970s, the Roman Catholic Church was a practical part of the Quebec government. The Church ran almost all schools and had an outsized impact on community life. Society was organized into parishes, and parish priests wielded significant secular power, on par with or superior to mayors and other local elected leaders.

Pretty much nothing got done without Church approval. Also, historians claim that the Church worked hand in hand with provincial and national leaders to keep English speakers (generally Protestants) in charge and French speakers subservient.

Why? Apparently, like in your example of the charity, the Church had made a series of bargains with politicians that gave the Church a lot of power and authority, and they either didn't know how or didn't want to extricate themselves from the results.

I moved to Quebec after the subsequent "Quiet Revolution" that essentially drove the Church out of the province. It's still there in name, but finding an actual believing/practicing Christian in Quebec is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Quebec is the most overwhelmingingly atheist society I've ever lived in, and I've lived in Germany, which is pretty darn atheist.

The Roman Catholic Church shot itself in the foot in Quebec by partnering with the State, embracing State power, and then wielding it in oppressive ways.

As a result, the Quebecois today scorn religion, particularly Christianity, and most particularly Roman Catholicism — about which grandparents still tell horror stories to their grandkids.

I'm delighted with the outcome, to be honest. (I have never lived anywhere like Quebec, where even in the early 2000s my gay partner and I were accepted wholeheartedly, by everyone we knew. Homophobia seemed not to exist even conceptually in Montreal.)

But Christians who value their religious institutions and don't want them to disappear could take Quebec as a cautionary tale.