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 ...
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How To Read A Form 990. This webinar has proven so popular that we’ve repeated it three or four times over the past two years. And we’re going to do it again. ...
The Duke Endowment, a North Carolina-based private foundation with $5.9 billion in assets that often awards grants to rural United Methodist churches, remains tight-lipped on its stance regarding the denomination’s ongoing schism.
Claiming “false allegations” had ruined his life, former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt returned to the pulpit Sunday (Jan. 15), eight months after allegations that he had sexually assaulted another pastor’s wife became public.
In the three decades since the religious liberty organization Open Doors has been compiling its World Watch List of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution for their faith, that persecution has never ...
A church treasurer in Kentucky will begin a 33-month prison sentence in March for wire fraud and must pay over $500,000 in restitution to the church he stole from.
Chesterfield County Police Chief, Col. Jeffrey S. Katz said in a Jan. 10 Facebook post that he disagreed with Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Stacey Davenport’s recent decision to drop solicitation of prostitution from a minor charges ...
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Beatrice First Church of the Nazarene in Nebraska has added a Spanish service, hoping to reach the state’s some 300,000 Spanish-speaking residents.
I’ve lost count as to how many lawsuits there are involving former Celebration Church pastor Stovall Weems. At least three, that I know of, though one of them was settled recently.