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A New York pastor accused of using church funds to pay for plastic surgery has been ordered to serve five years probation.
Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn't the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after he was forced to resign amid a sex scandal.
Former pastor Ted Haggard says his decision to hold prayer meetings in his Colorado Springs living room has attracted great interest from the media.
A retired police officer-turned-pastor shot and wounded a man who broke into his Detroit church, police said Monday.
Twenty-one miles and nearly 14 hours later, a northern Illinois pastor has fulfilled his goal of swimming the English Channel to raise money for a school in Africa.
Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.
The wounds suffered by a pastor killed inside her church indicate that she tried to fight off her attacker before her throat was slashed and she was nearly decapitated, according to a forensics expert who reviewed a preliminary autopsy report on Friday.
The son of the pastor who was brutally killed inside her Oklahoma church says her funeral will be another chance for his mother to spread the word of God.
A Virginia Beach pastor will spend 10 months behind bars for stealing more than $200,000 from his former church and its insurance company. Kenneth L. Montgomery was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison, with all but 10 months suspended.
A Michigan appeals court overturned a ruling on Wednesday that had sent a minister to prison for six months after warning a judge that he could be tortured by God.
Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems.
A former Texas pastor who admitted having more than 600 images of child pornography on his church computer has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
A northeast Ohio teen who shot and killed his mother and wounded his minister father was sentenced Tuesday to 23 years to life in prison for crimes rooted in his obsession with video games with violent themes. Daniel Petric, 17, who could have gotten life without parole, shook his head slightly, sniffled and held back tears but sat down without saying a word when given the chance by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge.
There was a lot of public attention when leaders of two obscure churches in the Ozarks woods were accused of ceremonially abusing girls, preparing them for "service to God" by molesting them.
Brad Froslee was installed as pastor of Calvary Lutheran Church at a special Sunday service attended by dozens of his fellow pastors, as well as Froslee's proud parents and grandmother, all devoted lifelong Lutherans.
A former pastor in New York City is accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his parish to pay for plastic surgery, Botox injections and prescription drugs. The Rev. William Blasingame cited medical reasons when he resigned in January from St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church on Staten Island.
Angry residents of a small central New Hampshire town are demanding that authorities remove a convicted child killer from their community.
A pastor in this quiet, picturesque New England town thought he was doing the Christian thing when he took in a convicted child killer who had served his time but had nowhere to go.
Authorities charged a South Carolina pastor accused of setting fire to his own church with second-degree arson. Anderson County Fire Chief Billy Gibson said Christopher Daniels, 40, reported a fire at Blue Ridge Baptist Church in Belton when he opened the church for services Sunday morning.
The suburban St. Louis pastor who was gunned down while delivering his Sunday sermon was known for helping his church's membership grow by the hundreds in two decades and was smart, "bouncy" and easy to relate to — so much that everyone simply called him "Pastor Fred."
Although a teenager's obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took "Halo 3" away from him, a judge ruled Monday.
A country preacher will serve a life sentence without parole for the murder of an elderly man who had entrusted him with his life savings.
Disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says he was sexually abused as a child and that the experience "started to rage in my mind and in my heart" when he was caught up in a sex scandal involving a male prostitute. Haggard made the remarks in two recent sermons in Morrison, Ill., ABC's "Good Morning America" reported Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking up the case of a southwestern Michigan minister who was sent to prison for warning that a judge could be tortured by God.
Barack Obama's former pastor complained Thursday that the media used him as a "weapon of mass destruction" in an attempt to derail Obama's campaign for the presidency.
Obama Critic Rev. Mannings Says Homeland Security Visited HimJames David Manning, the controversial pastor of the Atlah Missionary Church in Harlem, says Homeland Security visited him on November 16, 2009, after he placed a video post on his website entitled "Tea Party Please Go Birth Certificate Viral." Manning is a fierce critic of O …
The Clergy and the Fight for MembersIn spite of Jesus' prayer in John's Gospel that we would all be one, this has never really been a reality for the church. From the groups that split off to follow Paul while others followed Peter (see 1 Cor.
Obama's New Pastor Views Islam as Violent Faith - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum - FOXNews.comEvidently, Pastor Cash is quite different from Reverend Wright. Not that it will matter to the haters.
Jonathan Ayers . . . One Month LaterAbout a month ago, I wrote an article about Jonathan Ayers, a Georgia Baptist Pastor who was killed by a plain-clothes undercover narcotics officer during a botched raid.
Probe of Georgia pastor's shooting expected to take another monthLAVONIA, GA (ABP) -- An investigation into the September 1 police shooting of a Southern Baptist pastor in northeast Georgia is expected to last another month.Brian Rickman, district attorney of Mountain Judicial Circuit, said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is continuing its …
Anti-abortion activists want clinic co-owner to be charged with murder A Pompano Beach pastor and other anti-abortion activists demanded today that Miami-Dade prosecutors file more serious charges against a woman accused of mishandling an abortion.
Swedish pastor drunk in charge of funeral A family from Skåne in southern Sweden has demanded compensation from the Church of Sweden claiming that the pastor employed to conduct a funeral had consumed a glass too many in the vestry.
Video: Pastor shot to death after severing deputy's handClay County Sheriff's Department Sergeant Jason Freeman is recovering after surgeons re-attached his right hand" 48-year-old Curtis Watts was being served with a Protective Order signed by his wife at his Saw Mill Road home"
Off-duty cop charged in DWI crash that killed pastor's daughter: police, fellow Finest a passengerAn off-duty cop who was driving drunk struck and killed the daughter of a Brooklyn pastor early Sunday, police said.
Female pastor jailed for abusing 5 girls -A California pastor has been sentenced to life in prison for beating and drugging her five adopted daughters and locking them in a garage.
Steve Huff: Did a Good Deed Lead Pastor Jonathan Ayers to his Death?LAVONIA, Ga. (CBS) Pastor Jonathan Ayers had a question for paramedics as they treated him for bullet wounds on Sept. 2. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ayers asked, "Who shot me?"
Pastor Jonathan Paul Ayers Killed in Georgia Drug StingATLANTA (Sept 4) -- Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.
Friends: Pastor Mistakenly Killed In Drug Sting -- A pastor was shot and killed following a drug sting in Stephens County, Ga., on Tuesday, and the officers involved and friends of the pastor are giving different versions of what led up to the shooting.
Meet Some Folk That Want Obama Dead!Pastor Steven Anderson is praying for the death of President Obama.
ILL-FAVOURED PRODIGY BRILLIANT OR BEWITCHED? TB JOSHUA TELLS ALL To many, Friday 28th August 2009 was just another day, another event, another occurrence in the cycle of life, quickly to be forgotten.
Q. My husband brings a woman to the house and introduces her to me as his friend. Now they are together. What can I do? Should I ask the friend about it? When we are at church she goes and gets him tea and if she is going to the shop he sits and waits for her.
Report: Murdered Pastor Found Naked in 'Crucifix Position' Inside ChurchOklahoma police found the naked, mutilated body of a murdered pastor stretched out in a "crucifix position" behind her church altar last Sunday, sources close to the investigation told The Oklahoman.
Slaying details of Oklahoma City pastor shockingPolice found the mutilated body of the Rev. Carol Daniels in a "crucifix position" behind her church altar last Sunday, The Oklahoman learned from sources close to the investigation
Rare Crime: Pastor Ritually Murdered in OklahomaThis was a rare type of murder, one where the victim's body was ritually posed after death. This is reminiscent of the BTK killings in Kansas city, KS. She was killed in a church on a Sunday, while she was preparing her sermon.
Married pastor faked kidnapping to visit girlfriend A Hillsborough County pastor faked his kidnapping so he could cheat on his wife without getting caught, Hillsborough Sheriff's deputies said.
Pot Raid Targets Local ChurchAuthorities raided a church in the Elysian Valley area of Los Angeles Thursday after reports of pot sales at the venue. Craig X Ruben, pastor of The Family Church and owner of the Beverly Hills Green Cross said, "I think this is ridiculous.
Lutheran churches vote to allow gay pastorsIn a historic change, noncelibate gays and lesbians can now lead parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Man having sex with 12 year old girl, runs from mother when caughtA man who was having sex with a 12-year-old girl in the child's own home was arrested by Holly Hill officers Thursday morning as he ran from the youngster's mother, police said.
DCF report says pastor's may have helped teen convert run away -- OrlandoSentinel.comDid the Orlando pastors who sheltered an Ohio teen convert who feared her Muslim family help the girl run away to Florida?
Update: Pastor of suspect's church responds to HIV-child rape sex casePolice say they have one of the worst cases of child molestation they've ever seen. A church volunteer is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy he was mentoring and police say the suspect is HIV positive.
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