Retired African Methodist Episcopal Church pastors have filed at least three federal class-action lawsuits alleging the church mishandled tens of millions of dollars in pension funds.
AARP Foundation attorneys will act as co-counsel in a class-action lawsuit alleging the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church mishandled nearly $90 million in retirement funds, the organization said.
The defense team for the leader of a California Spanish megachurch who is accused of sex crimes, including grooming and raping teenage girls and possessing child pornography, has filed a lengthy motion ahead of his ...
Two more leaders of Hillsong Church U.S. campuses have announced they’re taking their campuses in a different direction in the wake of founder Brian Houston being ousted by the church’s board for breaching its code ...
The metropolitan New York synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is suing a pastor who recently sold the church-provided apartment where he has lived for 30 years, saying that although the pastor’s name ...
Survivors of abuse and anti-abuse advocates in the Anglican Church of Canada are calling for the denomination’s general secretary to resign, saying he and other ACC leaders have continued to bungle their response to the ...
A South Georgia pastor will forfeit the Mercedes-Benz S-Class sedan he bought with nearly $150,000 in fraudulent pandemic business disaster loans in accordance with a plea agreement after pleading guilty to two counts of wire ...
Florida megachurch senior pastor Tim Timberlake told the congregation at Jacksonville’s Celebration Church last week that he and his wife “aren’t going anywhere” amid a lawsuit filed by founding pastor Stovall Weems against the church.
Less than a week after the Hillsong board released a statement revealing its cofounder, Brian Houston, had sent inappropriate text messages to a staff member and spent time in a woman’s hotel room, the board ...
Two Baptist preachers known for their claims that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination is becoming too liberal will be nominated for top roles in the Southern Baptist Convention.