Phil Rizzo is a successful real estate developer, the pastor of a small church, and a candidate for governor in New Jersey. But what’s getting attention is his plush parsonage, which is growing plusher by ...
A standoff revolving around an anti-discrimination clause and religious liberty has jeopardized Kentucky’s long-running relationship with a foster care and adoption agency affiliated with the Baptist church that serves some of the state’s most vulnerable ...
Gifts to mark church's 25th anniversary
Cincinnati-area megachurch Crossroads Church said it will mark its 25th anniversary by giving $2.5 million to local, national, and international nonprofit partners over the next 25 weeks.
At least 4,500 churches closed in 2019
A new study from Lifeway Research suggests more Protestant churches closed in 2019 than opened—continuing a decades-long congregational slide that is only expected to accelerate.
The Southern Baptist congregation aims to tell the truth about past sins while asking God to bring racial unity at the 100-year anniversary of an atrocity that this Oklahoma city—and the nation—tried for decades to ...
Pleaded guilty in 2015 to rape, sexual abuse, other charges
An Alabama pastor and Christian school principal in prison for sexually assaulting children was released May 19 after serving just five and a half years of a 15-year sentence.
Moore is gone, taking a job with Christianity Today, but expelling a nettlesome dissenter hasn’t solved a raft of serious problems. At the denomination’s annual meeting in Nashville next month, the leadership will face conflicts ...
The first accusations came in 2018, when two alleged victims and the father of a third alleged victim told police a prominent Kalamazoo, Michigan, pastor and his wife, both of whom worked for the local ...
William Randall served 30 years as the pastor of St. Simon Baptist Church in Orange Park, Florida. Now 76, he was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual battery ...
A church that previously filed a fraudulent deed claiming ownership of Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion also has produced paperwork saying it owns part of the late financier and convicted sex offender’s Zorro Ranch in Santa ...