Anne Stych, Author at MinistryWatch - Page 24 of 42
A former Alabama youth pastor will not serve time for impregnating a 14-year-old he later married after making a plea deal that downgraded charges against him from second-degree rape, a felony that could have resulted ...
Celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, Lakewood Church, will repay the more than $4.4 million in loans it received under the U.S. government’s Paycheck Protection Program after critics questioned whether the nation’s largest single-campus church ...
A Michigan pastor has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for defrauding investors through a Ponzi scheme while his co-conspirator will spend three and a half years behind bars.
Evangel World Prayer Center and its pastor, Bob Rogers, contracted to have the church’s programming broadcast on the Daystar Television Network, which is owned by the Word of God Fellowship. However, Evangel amassed $1.1 million in ...
An Alabama megachurch pastor has been sued for allegedly failing to protect a former intern at a Mississippi church from sexual harassment.
Louisiana televangelist Jesse Duplantis said during a fundraiser for fellow evangelist Kenneth Copeland’s ministry that the reason Jesus hasn’t returned is because people “are not giving the way God told them to give.”
The Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas has approved a policy permanently disqualifying registered sex offenders from church leadership, saying that any congregation that violates that standard “may be” considered “outside of ...
A survey of mostly faith-based charitable donors suggests that American nonprofits could have their best fundraising year ever in 2021 despite the pandemic.
The head of the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church encouraged congregations to review their financial practices after a Polk City woman was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for stealing ...
The former pastor of an Orange County, California, church has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for defrauding investors of more than $33 million.
