A team of scammers who created a sham theology school to defraud the U.S. Department of Education’s financial aid programs of millions of dollars has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud.
A Florida judge has dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed by former Celebration Church pastors Stovall and Kerri Weems on the grounds that the suit concerns an ecclesiastical matter and is therefore outside the court’s jurisdiction.
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.
Steve Greisen, a Christian filmmaker and veteran of the Jesus movement’s 1970s-era music scene, was arrested last month in Colorado Springs following “a summer long collaborative effort to identify and arrest child sexual predators” involving ...
Below is a list of the 50 largest evangelism and discipleship ministries, according to the MinistryWatch database. Please note that we do not have a single “Evangelism and Discipleship” category in the MinistryWatch database, so ...
Two Brooklyn men have been charged with armed robbery for their roles in a brazen jewelry theft seen during a livestreamed church service in July.
The recent establishment of the Faith-Based Security Advisory Council and a call for congress to appropriate additional funding to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program highlighted the federal government’s focus on security and anti-terrorism initiatives for ...
(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 ...