A significant majority of Protestant church leaders in the United States believe pastors who commit child or adult sexual abuse should permanently withdraw from public ministry.
A North Carolina pastor facing three child sex abuse charges has resigned from the Buncombe County church where he was head pastor.
A pastor and former volunteer girls’ basketball coach has been arrested in Tennessee on multiple child sexual abuse charges.
Robert Shiflet, a former youth pastor who engaged in sex with teens in churches in Texas and Arkansas decades ago, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison during an emotional hearing Tuesday. He also ...
A New York Christian camp director who has been accused of inappropriately touching 21 girls has filed a lawsuit seeking $3.1 million in emotional and financial damages from his accuser, a Buffalo church where he ...
As the delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting gathered on Monday (June 14) in Nashville, Tennessee, for the next day’s opening gavel, the denomination’s Executive Committee rejected a request to broaden an inquiry ...
Eight survivors of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention have issued a statement ahead of the opening session of the denomination’s 2021 meeting calling for an outside organization to oversee an audit of sexual ...
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.
The board of directors of humanitarian organization Mercy Corps has apologized for the “extensive failures” of its leaders in the 1990s to properly investigate after the daughter of the organization’s co-founder came forward alleging sexual ...