White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday highlighted the abuse of the U.S. asylum system and reiterated the importance of mass deportations in the wake of a shooting that killed a member of the National Guard and critically injured another last week in Washington, D.C.
The attorney for former youth minister Lindsey Whiteside has pushed back against an effort to resentence his client on allegations that she produced two fraudulent letters of support to reduce her punishment after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse.
Mark Vega, senior pastor of Ignite Life Center Church in Gainesville, Florida, who is also the former chaplain of the Gainesville Police Department, has been arrested for failing to report a case of suspected child abuse.
A new lawsuit alleges that Grace Community Church of Sun Valley, California, a prominent nondenominational church once led by John MacArthur, aided and abetted a child abuser.
Six more men have filed federal lawsuits in the last week claiming they were sexually abused and trafficked by Paul Havsgaard, a former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor, while living in now-defunct church-run children’s homes in Romania.
The head of the Anglican Church in North America has been temporarily suspended from engaging in ministry, pending the results of an investigation into alleged abuse.
Lindsey Whiteside, the former youth minister of Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi, who was set free pending trial for child sex abuse after a recent conviction for a similar crime, is back in jail and will remain there until her trial next year.
Members of an Ohio church that has been shut down by its diocese amid an ongoing abuse investigation have called on their bishop to reopen the sanctuary.
Brian Coffey, the interim lead pastor of the multi-campus Chapelstreet Church in Geneva, Illinois, has been accused in a lawsuit of knowingly allowing a former youth leader, who admitted to abusing a minor, to continue to work with children resulting in the sexual abuse of the son of two missionaries connected to the church.
A Florida high school employee is facing multiple charges after authorities reportedly discovered hundreds of images and videos depicting child sex abuse and sexual acts with animals after searching the suspect's home and digital accounts.
