California detectives have arrested a minister and registered sex offender who started his own church on a charge of soliciting committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old.
Five victims have filed lawsuits against a Riverdale, California, church and school alleging sexual abuse over the past 30 years against children as young as age 8.
Watchdog Group Calls For Independent Investigation of Pastor Steve Morgan and “The Network”
Survivors of sexual assault in church settings and their advocates have been calling on churches for years to admit the extent of abuse in their midst and to implement reforms.
Police in the Canadian city of Hamilton have charged the disgraced former pastor of one of the country’s largest churches with sexual assault.
For decades, a handful of leaders in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination treated sexual abuse survivors as enemies of the church, denied responsibility for the actions of local churches, and downplayed the number of sexual ...
The former senior pastor of an Indiana megachurch has been released from prison nine months early after serving nine years of a sentence for sexually abusing an underage girl. Jack Schaap, 64, who previously led ...
A former Tennessee youth pastor and basketball coach pleaded guilty in federal court May 15 to sexual exploitation of children.
(RNS) In July 2021, Stewart Ruch III, bishop of the Anglican Church in North America’s Upper Midwest Diocese, went on leave after making what he called “regrettable errors” in handling cases of abuse in the ...
The breach of trust sparked the creation of ACCtoo, a group of anti-abuse advocates who were stirred by Proctor’s story to take up her cause. On Feb. 17, 2022, ACCtoo published an open letter ...