
New Abuse Suits Could Cost Church Over $4B
Across the U.S., attorneys are scrambling to file a new wave of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy.
Across the U.S., attorneys are scrambling to file a new wave of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy.
A federal court is allowing a Kentucky man to personalize a license plate with the phrase “IM GOD” after a three-year legal battle over the custom engraving.
A pastor wearing a colander on his head offered the opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to open a local government meeting in Alaska.
Students at Liberty University in Virginia gathered to protest in the wake of news reports containing allegations that school president Jerry Falwell Jr. improperly benefited from the institution and disparaged students in emails.
A Southern California ministry whose leaders are charged with using deadbolt locks to detain homeless residents and making them turn over panhandling money was no fly-by-night operation.
A reverend said the books contain actual curses and spells that can summon evil spirits.
About a third of evangelical Protestants think a gay man should be accepted as a clergy member in their faith, compared with about twice as many Catholics and mainline Protestants.
"All civilized nations must join together in this effort."
A long-standing permission allows local Catholics to eat muskrat "on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent."
Lawmakers voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.
The Mormon church said it still considers same-sex relationships to be a "serious transgression."
President Donald Trump was just doing what he could to raise spirits when he signed Bibles at an Alabama church for survivors of a tornado outbreak, many religious leaders say, though some are offended and others say he could have handled it differently.