An agency that conducted 5,000 background checks for 450 churches said it found serious felonies in 80 cases and more than 600 people who had some type of criminal history that may have disqualified ...

Community members in Hernando claim church leaders have stayed silent after former youth pastor Lindsey Whiteside’s ...

CASTLETON — In light of media attention, a local church is standing by its decision to hire its current pastor, who has a criminal record, without first conducting a background check. John Longaker, ...

Stevenson House seen from the parking lot of Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto on Aug. 3, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. When Palo Alto agreed to allow local congregations to establish “safe ...

Soon, being a parent won’t get you an automatic pass into your kid’s Catholic school as a volunteer coach, playground monitor or teacher’s helper. If you want to contribute as a Sunday school leader, ...

There were protestors demonstrating outside as some 300 American Catholic bishops gathered in a Dallas hotel this morning to address the sexual abuse scandal in their church. (Singing ) Bishop Wilton ...

Kwame Holman reports on the opening of the unprecedented meetings in Rome between the pope and U.S. cardinals regarding Catholic priests and the sexual abuse scandal. "The abuse which has caused this ...