Senior pastor Greg Laurie didn’t say why two top leaders at his Riverside, California, church left suddenly in the early 2020s. No one acknowledged pastors Jeff Lasseigne and Brad Ormonde’s absences to the 15,000 people at Harvest Christian Fellowship’s three…[Continue Reading...]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A historic $395 million settlement has been reached between the Archdiocese of San Francisco and hundreds of survivors who accused the church of childhood sexual abuse. The settlement will compensate more than 500 survivors, many of…[Continue Reading...]
“You look so beautiful,” the pastor wrote his 26-year-old bookkeeper on a party napkin at a church wedding back in 2004. At the time, Rachel thought he was just being a friend. She wanted to work at Christian Assembly, a…[Continue Reading...]
Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe has agreed to file charges against Buddhist monks arrested over various crimes under the names listed on their birth certificates, provided the respective sect (nikaya) of such monks take steps to disrobe them. The agreement between…[Continue Reading...]
A blistering report issued last week accuses the University of Notre Dame of failing to take action against a former priest despite years of alleged sexual misconduct against students while he was a dorm rector and while he worked at…[Continue Reading...]
ACatholic priest from Nigeria has been found guilty by a Texas court of sexually abusing several women under his spiritual care, a felony crime in that state. Fr. Anthony Odiong, a priest of the Diocese of Uyo, Nigeria, had been…[Continue Reading...]
LONDON — An Orthodox organization has retracted its expulsion of a synagogue led by a rabbi accused of sexual misconduct after less than a day. Monday morning, the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for Haredi institutions in…[Continue Reading...]
Michael Delar Morris, 76, led a young men’s group at the Livermore church and also served as a Boy Scout leader. Prosecutors say the allegations involve multiple victims and date back to the 1990s and early 2000s. Charges span a…[Continue Reading...]
A prominent Buddhist monk has been arrested in Sri Lanka for allegedly sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl, in the highest-profile case involving a local religious leader. Authorities took 71-year-old Pallegama Hemarathana into custody on Saturday from a private hospital in…[Continue Reading...]
A jury in Oakland has awarded $16 million to a survivor in a civil lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, a verdict that could have broad implications for hundreds of similar clergy abuse cases. The case was one…[Continue Reading...]
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