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.

Angry residents of a small central New Hampshire town are demanding that authorities remove a convicted child killer from their community.

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

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

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.

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.

The Brazilian government has promised to pay compensation to a U.S. pastor who was arrested, beaten and tortured in 1974 under the former military dictatorship.

A former pastor has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for stealing his church’s hurricane relief funds. Noah Thomas pleaded guilty to a federal charge in April.