Suspect’s previous jobs were focused on children and youth
A Baptist pastor’s long history of working with children is raising questions after his arrest for child sexual abuse.
The minister was outspoken against sexual abuse reforms in the SBC
A Florida pastor is facing a minimum sentence of life without parole over harrowing child rape allegations and could receive capital punishment if convicted.
Court documents reveal he lives in $2.8-million mansion.
Andy Thompson, pastor of megachurch World Overcomers Christian Church in Durham, N.C., has divorced his wife of 33 years.
At its June meeting in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, the Anglican Church in North America’s governing bodies added two sections to church bylaws about safeguarding and reporting misconduct.
Many churches use summer for international missions work. These Southern Baptists envisioned something closer to home.
A total of 1,169 mostly Southern Baptist churches in North Carolina participated in NC Cares, fielding volunteers for a week of service helping vulnerable populations including homeless people, orphans, prisoners, refugees and the elderly.
Scandal-laden North Carolina Pastor Rodney Finch apologizes for secrecy
The congregation of Calvary Chapel Cary in Apex, North Carolina, was shocked to discover its own church listed for sale online for $11.5 million with a pending buyer. Then, as mysteriously as it appeared, the ...
Clint Pressley does not have a national following or big social media presence. As SBC president, his goal is to tone down the acrimony.
Clint Pressley, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has built a multiracial, multigenerational megachurch that draws some 3,000 people each Sunday.
Abuser’s youngest known victim was 6 years old. California elderly parole law will allow abuser parole after 20 years.
A former youth counselor at Vineyard Anaheim in California has been sentenced to 125 years to life for collecting and creating child pornography materials and molesting four girls between the years 2009 and 2014.
Shrinking churches means the market for Christian print resources diminishes, too.
If the 1970s were dubbed in Christian circles as “the bookstore revolution,” the first two decades of the 21st century might be more aptly referred to as the bookstore roller-coaster.
Michael Paustian sentenced to 8 years to life for sexually assaulting 6-year-old in early 2000s
A Colorado man has been sentenced to at least eight years in prison for sexually abusing a child, with the possibility of life behind bars.