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A former teacher at a private religious school near Philadelphia who became the pastor of a Baptist church in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in state prison for sexually abusing ...
A man who used his position as a Bible teacher at a Colorado Springs church to gain the trust of parents and sexually abuse boys and girls as young as 8 years old pleaded guilty ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has claimed $150,000 in property from House of Prayer Christian Churches of America Inc. and its affiliated seminaries as retribution for what it calls a scheme to defraud the United ...
Chesterfield County Police Chief, Col. Jeffrey S. Katz said in a Jan. 10 Facebook post that he disagreed with Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Stacey Davenport’s recent decision to drop solicitation of prostitution from a minor charges ...
Money given to charities was up, but the number of individual donors was down during the period from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, 2022, according to a new report from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project.
Five women in California have filed a lawsuit alleging that the International Churches of Christ (ICOC) perpetrated a “systemic scheme of abuse” that included the sexual abuse of children as young as three years old ...
A Baptist church in Alaska is changing its name to better reflect its vision and to prevent any association with what its head pastor called “false religions.”
The Confessing Movement, a lay-led conservative Christian movement that pushed back against the influence of liberalism and progressivism in the United Methodist Church, has shut down in reaction to the recent launch of a new ...
An Iowa church that uses a hallucinogenic drug as part of its religious ceremonies is engaged in an ongoing fight to win tax-exempt status from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead was back at his multi-million-dollar New Jersey home last week after being arrested by federal agents Dec. 19 for allegedly scamming a member of his congregation out of $90,000.
