Abuse Archives - MinistryWatch
Stephanie Householder, co-owner of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch, sentenced to 5 years probation
Five years after the doors of Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in Humansville, Missouri, were closed, its owner Stephanie Householder pleaded guilty to abuse charges.
Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead is making headlines following an incident on Sunday (September 18), wherein he forcefully grabbed a woman by the back of the neck for disrupting his live sermon, leading her out of ...
An insular ‘Quiverfull’ church in New York’s North Country faces a reckoning
A scathing investigation of former head megachurch pastor Stovall Weems commissioned by Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, paints a picture of a self-absorbed leader who manipulated employees, fraudulently used the church’s money, and sometimes appeared ...
The status of Bobbie Houston, the long-time co-pastor and co-founder of Hillsong, the troubled global megachurch based in Australia, is uncertain after the church’s board and her husband, the church’s former head pastor Brian Houston, ...
The following stories had the most page views at the MinistryWatch website during the month of February. We present them here in a “countdown” format, from 10 to 1.
More than 350 people have signed a petition calling the Anglican Church in North America to honor abuse survivors’ wishes regarding an investigation into the handling of abuse allegations.
Preemptive Love Coalition, a 13-year-old Texas-based relief organization that enjoyed stellar growth and glowing coverage in mainstream and Christian media outlets—at least until one of those outlets began investigating its questionable claims—announced last Friday it had ...
A federal lawsuit filed this month claims boys and young men at a church-related farm business in Pennsylvania were subjected to forced labor and punishment that included dragging chains and breaking up rocks with a ...
A woman alleging a New York church ignored her frequent abuse at the hands of its former youth pastor has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.
