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Contradictory statements further strain relationships between abuse survivors and SBC
Last week, lawyers for the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee say they were contacted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and were told an investigation into the committee’s handling ...
Department of Justice closes investigation into SBC Executive Committee’s handling of abuse
Federal officials have concluded an investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee with no charges being filed.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has faced a financial crisis and now a feud among board members over calls for audit
Aaron Sligar, the former pastor of Living River Chapel, a Baptist church in tiny Sutton, West Virginia, believes in the mission of the Southern Baptist Convention and encouraged his congregation for years to give generously ...
The Department of Justice announced an agreement with victims’ families for $144.5 million.
The United States Justice Department has reached an “agreement in principle” to provide financial compensation to the families of 26 victims killed in a tragic mass shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, ...
The Department of Justice’s investigation of violence against pro-life pregnancy resource centers has resulted in the indictment of a man and woman from Florida.
A former Virginia youth pastor who was convicted of two counts of soliciting sex acts from a minor over the internet in 2014 has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography online in April.
In her impassioned letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Congresswoman Lisa McClain (R-10-MI) declared that religious freedom is under attack in the United States and called on the Department of Justice to respond to a ...
EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Hillsong, Southern Baptists, and The King’s College
Federal officials have begun an investigation into sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, Southern Baptist Convention officials announced Friday.
In 2009, a conman bilked members at Bethel Church in Redding, California, out of more than $650,000. Now, two shysters peddling a Ponzi scheme have reportedly struck the controversial megachurch again—this time defrauding investors of ...
