Insurers have asked the judge in the bankruptcy case against the Boy Scouts of America to further investigate what they say are tens of thousands of fraudulent claims among the real cases of sexual abuse ...
A youth leader at a Utah church has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy who was a member of the congregation.
A former youth pastor at a Fort Wayne, Indiana, church was charged Sept. 20 with having a sexual relationship with a girl beginning when she was age 14 and threatening to hurt himself if she ...
The daughter of a former Delaware pastor has been awarded $1.5 million by a federal jury in a civil lawsuit that found her father was liable for sexual abuse against her when she was a ...
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston told church members in a Sept. 17 email that he has stepped down from his role on governing boards for the Australia-based church, making the move just weeks before he ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State said a Kentucky court case calling for taxpayer-funded residential childcare providers in the state to disclose their religious affiliations has been ...
The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church has sued Mt. Bethel Church in East Cobb and is seeking to seize control of the church's assets after mediation attempts to keep the church within ...
A civil trial was set to begin Monday in the U.S District Court of Delaware for a former pastor whose daughter has accused him of raping her when she was a young child and selling ...
The Southern Baptist Convention has retained independent compliance firm Guidepost Solutions to investigate its executive committee in connection with its past handling of sexual abuse issues.
The pastor of an Illinois church and co-founder of an addiction recovery program has resigned after allegations that church leaders should have been aware of sexual misconduct within the church and affiliated programs.