Since 2018, the main Protestant churches have been demanding more independence from state organizations that try to control them or do not recognize them as having legal status.
A Chicago circuit court has dismissed an appeal from a former pastor in an Evangelical Covenant-connected church who said he lost his position after the ECC took too long to investigate a sexual abuse claim ...
A former Indiana youth pastor has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for molesting pre-teen boys who participated in a church youth group he led.
A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations, including one that was slammed during the tornado that killed more ...
A pastor accused of failing to take appropriate action in a sexual misconduct case involving one of his relatives, a minor, has been placed on a leave of absence.
George Oliver Wood, the longtime Assemblies of God leader who died last week at age 80, once recalled how he grew up listening to his mother and other women preach.
A Nebraska insurance agent and pastor was sentenced to 15 weekends in jail and five years’ probation for mail fraud for making false claims against insurance policies he had issued to himself.
A former lay pastor in a conservative Anglican denomination was charged Dec. 29 with two felony counts of criminal sexual assault in the Kane County, Illinois, circuit court. The charges come a year after Joanna ...
A Louisiana pastor’s lawsuit over Gov. John Bel Edwards’ past COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings was rejected for a second time Wednesday by a federal judge.
Eastbrook is a bit of an outlier these days, a place where refugees, immigrants and international students are welcome at a time when American evangelicals are increasingly suspicious of newcomers to the United States.