The former pastor of a Decatur, Illinois, church accused of sending inappropriate messages to a 15-year-old girl tried to wipe evidence from his phone when he was confronted, a sworn police affidavit said.
A former Alabama youth pastor will not serve time for impregnating a 14-year-old he later married after making a plea deal that downgraded charges against him from second-degree rape, a felony that could have resulted ...
Churches and ministries are facing mounting pressures to implement youth protection policies, shifting from a retroactive mitigation strategy towards a more proactive and preventative approach. This could include requiring safety training, watching for abuse indicators ...
The pastor of an Illinois church and co-founder of an addiction recovery program has resigned after allegations that church leaders should have been aware of sexual misconduct within the church and affiliated programs.
A contractor who provided audio-visual services for Fort Worth area churches has been charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor after allegedly seeking sexual acts from a young woman he hired as ...
A former Florida pastor and college professor was sentenced to 20 years in prison Aug. 16 after pleading no contest to 20 charges of possessing child pornography.
A Cleveland-area former youth pastor and his wife, who both pleaded not guilty earlier this year to charges that they had sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the mid-2000s, have been indicted on additional counts ...
A Presbyterian oversight group has determined that the former head pastor of a Korean church near the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois can remain an ordained minister despite allegations of sexual misconduct against ...
The president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) this week became the organization’s third staff member to publicly apologize for playing a role in perpetuating sexual abuse by the organization’s founder.