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 former Las Vegas elementary school teacher and church pastor who pleaded guilty to a child sex crime has been sentenced to six to 15 years in prison after a judge rejected his lawyer’s request ...
More than four decades after sexual abuse claims against a Catholic priest first made national headlines, spurring accusations, lawsuits, a series of newspaper investigations, and billions in settlements, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating ...
The U.S. State Department is investigating claims that Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area, a refugee resettlement agency in the Washington D.C. region, has mistreated Afghan refugees.
Federal officials have begun an investigation into sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, Southern Baptist Convention officials announced Friday.
Two mothers have filed a lawsuit against a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, church and an off-duty Sheriff’s deputy who was acting as a chaperone after their teenage sons were falsely accused of sexual battery and left in ...
A series of stories published by the Springfield News-Leader today tells the stories of previously silent sex abuse victims and others who say Missouri-based Kanakuk Kamps did not do enough to protect them when they ...
The investigation of alleged mishandling of sexual abuse has cost the Southern Baptist Convention more than $1.7 million so far, a number that exceeds the original estimate made last fall.
A former pastor and tattoo artist who co-founded a Haitian ministry to help poor children has been arrested in Pittsburgh and indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of engaging in sex with a ...
The pastor of a New Hampshire church has been removed from his duties after being charged with possession of child pornography, but conditions of his bail require that he continue living at the church.
