Jeffrey Bedwell, a former youth pastor from Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested and charged with four sexual felonies Thursday, July 7. He was being held in jail with a $500,000 bond.
The Alabama State Supreme Court has declined a request to review the case of former youth pastor and evangelist Acton Bowen, who is currently serving a maximum 1,008-year prison term after pleading guilty in January ...
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.
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.
Steven Woyen, a former pastor and church musician in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who worked in Ohio, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, pled not guilty this week to sexual battery charges that date ...
Megan and Dominique Benninger, who brought to light their former pastor's record as a convicted child molester after the leadership of their Pennsylvania church failed to disclose it, have launched a new Baptist sex abuser database at BaptistAccountability.org.
A California appeals court ordered the dismissal of a criminal case Tuesday against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking on procedural grounds.
In the 1970s and 80s, radio personality Casey Kasem would often punctuate his “American Top 40” program with the phrase: “And the hits just keep on coming.” The expression became a catchphrase of the era. ...
Editor’s Note: Boz Tchividjian is a co-founder and the executive director of GRACE: Godly Response To Abuse in the Christian Environment. Tchividjian recently spoke at the Caring Well conference, hosted by the Southern Baptist ...
Editor’s Note: Warren Cole Smith recently appeared on Pilgrim Radio Network’s program “His People” to discuss the goals and activities of MinistryWatch.com. Here’s that conversation, with program host Bill Feltner. It has been edited for ...
