A Buffalo man was awarded $30 million in damages by the New York State Supreme Court Sept. 29 after a jury determined a Lutheran pastor had molested him when he was a child.
A civil lawsuit filed on behalf of three John Does claims that a church in Florence, Alabama, enabled a man who held various leadership positions there to sexually abuse them.
A former youth pastor from New York has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for the sexual abuse of a Missouri teenager in 2013.
(RNS) — A long-awaited third-party report on sexual abuse reveals that leaders in an Anglican Church in North America diocese failed to act on tips about sexual misconduct and abuse and defended an alleged abuser ...
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The Southern Baptist Conventions’ top administrative body voted to cut ties with two congregations on Tuesday—an LGBTQ-affirming church in North Carolina that had itself quit the denomination decades ago and a New Jersey congregation it ...
YouGov America's poll earlier this month reveals a decline in America's faith in churches to prevent and handle sexual abuse cases appropriately.
A Tennessee pastor of what was originally a Southern Baptist church has resigned after a local newspaper published the story of a former parishioner who came forward with allegations that he abused her when he ...
(RNS) — For years, Jules Woodson has advocated for reform in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, hoping to assist survivors of sexual abuse and hold abusers to account.
Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of La Luz del Mundo, is facing a new lawsuit filed by five women who allege he sexually abused them while other church members groomed them and used the religion ...
