The former senior pastor of an Indiana megachurch has been released from prison nine months early after serving nine years of a sentence for sexually abusing an underage girl. Jack Schaap, 64, who previously led ...
A former Tennessee youth pastor and basketball coach pleaded guilty in federal court May 15 to sexual exploitation of children.
(RNS) In July 2021, Stewart Ruch III, bishop of the Anglican Church in North America’s Upper Midwest Diocese, went on leave after making what he called “regrettable errors” in handling cases of abuse in the ...
The investigation of alleged mishandling of sexual abuse has cost the Southern Baptist Convention more than $1.7 million so far, a number that exceeds the original estimate made last fall.
On Tuesday (April 5), a group of self-identified survivors and advocates who attended an Anglican church in Washington, D.C., published an open letter saying diocesan leaders mishandled their allegations of spiritual abuse. The letter asks ...
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 ...
A worship leader at a Texas church has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for child solicitation and indecency.
A former pastor and tattoo artist who co-founded a Haitian ministry to help poor children has been arrested in Pittsburgh and indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of engaging in sex with a ...
At least four self-identified survivors of abuse by Mark Rivera, a former Anglican Church of North America lay minister, spoke out against ACNAtoo, the anti-abuse advocacy group that has advanced charges against Rivera since last ...
The pastor of a New Hampshire church has been removed from his duties after being charged with possession of child pornography, but conditions of his bail require that he continue living at the church.
