A North Carolina Pastor accused by a girl’s parents of grooming their daughter and manipulating custody pleaded guilty to a statutory sexual offense.
Recently, the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville won a legal push to force an alleged rape victim to use his legal name instead of a pseudonym protecting his identity before continuing a lawsuit he filed against ...
MinistryWatch President Warren Smith will comment on one or more stories in the week’s news, adding an additional perspective or, sometimes, a behind-the-scenes look at how the story came to be.
A former teacher at a private religious school near Philadelphia who became the pastor of a Baptist church in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in state prison for sexually abusing ...
Andi Rozier, a longtime worship leader and former Vertical Worship band member, has been terminated from New Life Church in Colorado Springs.
The Department of Justice’s investigation of violence against pro-life pregnancy resource centers has resulted in the indictment of a man and woman from Florida.
Authorities have sentenced a former Florida youth pastor to seven years in state prison for child pornography. The Jacksonville man is already serving a life sentence for murdering and dismembering a teen he fostered.
A Georgia Baptist pastor is awaiting a trial date in a North Carolina Superior Court over abuse charges filed in 2020 that prompted an investigation and his eventual arrest.
A California woman is suing the Salvation Army and its Pomona Corps, alleging she was sexually abused by a youth group leader when she was a minor.
A former church youth leader who was recently a PTA president in Tennessee has been arrested and extradited to Troup County in Georgia. Dustin Spillers, 34, has been charged with one count of aggravated sexual ...