The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the 50th anniversary of Prison Fellowship, honoring the nation’s largest Christian nonprofit serving current and formerly incarcerated people and their families.
A New Jersey man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for bringing more than 100 homemade explosive devices to a church in the nation's capital that was preparing to host a Mass traditionally attended by U.S. Supreme Court justices.
Creationism evangelist Kent Hovind, who served nearly nine years in federal prison on tax-related convictions, says that the U.S. prison system should be abolished in favor of biblical punishments such as restitution, corporal punishment or execution.
More than 25 years after her husband and two sons were burned alive by a Hindu nationalist mob in India, Gladys Staines is again speaking of forgiveness even as the Odisha state government is being pressured to release the primary convict in the case.
Randon Sprinkle, a former political strategist for the Democratic Party in Virginia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distributing child porn.
A Florida couple is being accused of confining four children in the cab of a semi-truck for more than six years, where the victims were forced to share a single bunk and subjected to various forms of abuse, according to the state's top prosecutor.
Venezuela has released Bishop Jylman Red Jurado Farfán from Rodeo III Prison in Miranda state after more than five years in custody that involved torture. He is reportedly among dozens of political prisoners freed by the Venezuelan government.
A Christian pastor has been sentenced to prison for two years for violating Indonesia’s law against blasphemy and hate speech in a case that has drawn scrutiny over the speed of his arrest and trial.
Self-styled prophet and leader of Kingdom City Church, Brian Carn Jr., is now in prison despite declaring last month, “I’ll never spend a day in jail,” after pleading guilty in January to obstructing the IRS’ efforts to collect more than $600,000 in outstanding taxes.
A judge has sentenced Adam Sheafe to life in prison for killing Pastor Bill Schonemann, 76, in a crucifixion-style attack inside Schonemann’s New River, Arizona, home in April 2025.
