Trey Lara, a beloved rising leader in the Foursquare Church denomination, died Sunday after suffering cardiac arrest while running the 26.2-mile Portland Marathon. He was 24, and days shy of celebrating his 25th birthday.
A former Mississippi youth pastor accused of using her position to groom a teenager under the age of 18 and transporting a child across state lines for illicit sexual purposes has accepted a plea deal, according to reports.
A former youth minister with a prominent Northern Virginia church has been indicted on child sex abuse charges.
Bucking a decades-long trend of disproportionate female participation, male teenagers now outnumber their female counterparts in church youth group attendance among self-identified Christian teens in the U.S., according to a new report from Barna and prominent Christian youth ministry, Christ In Youth.
Youth worldwide are reluctant to discuss who they are with pastors and religious leaders, and many don't feel like they belong in their faith communities, a new study suggests.
While a majority of religious youth admit to consuming religious content online and using it to explore their faith, most still list local faith leaders and their parents as the sources they trust most to handle questions about spirituality, according to a new study published by the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA
A former Florida youth pastor whose 8-year-old daughter died in a high-speed, impaired-driving crash has been charged months after the incident, authorities said.
A former youth pastor charged this week with murdering his wife nearly 20 years ago after investigators reopened what had long been considered an accidental death has died by suicide while in police custody, authorities said.
When the broader Trump accounts were first introduced, children in foster care were effectively excluded: opening an account required a parent, and many of these children no longer had one able to help.
A foster kid may have a financial lifeline: Social Security survivor benefits. In Minnesota, that lifeline is quietly intercepted and redirected.
