All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2024 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a Chapter 11 plan for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York that includes a $320 million fund to compensate victims of clergy sexual abuse and settles insurance...
Oct 2 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vermont has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it continues to face lawsuits over sexual abuse by its former clergy members in a state with no statute of limitations on...
Sep 27 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York reports that it has reached an agreement with survivors, insurers, parishes and other parties on a settlement of its bankruptcy case that includes a $323 million...
Sep 10 2024 // The Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich and its parishes, along with its insurer Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America, have filed a joint Chapter 11 plan of reorganization as the diocese seeks to emerge from...
Aug 26 2024 // AM Best said it has assigned and placed under review with negative implications a Long-Term Issue Credit Rating of bbb+ (Good) to the $40 million, 9.5% surplus notes due 2044 issued by Church Mutual Insurance Company,...
Aug 19 2024 // A recent Insurance Journal article decried the state of insurance for churches and it’s mostly about their property insurance issues and we all know that the property insurance space has struggled in recent years,...
Jul 25 2024 // The Rev. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40 years of ministry when he got a call from his church’s accountant with some bad news.Church Mutual, the church’s insurance company, had dropped them....
Jul 22 2024 // A fire all but destroyed the historic church sanctuary at First Baptist Dallas, sending smoke billowing over the city but causing no deaths or injuries, Dallas firefighters said.The fire in the Texas Historic Landmark, a...
May 13 2024 // The Catholic church is refusing to cooperate with a Washington state investigation into whether it unlawfully used charitable trust funds to cover up sexual abuse by priests, Attorney General Bob Ferguson said, asking a...
May 8 2024 // NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and...
Apr 24 2024 // A New York state appeals court has reinstated Chubb insurance companies’ bid for judgments declaring that they are not obligated to cover thousands of sex abuse lawsuits brought against the Archdiocese of New York...
Apr 18 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn to address years of reported mismanaging clergy sexual abuse cases.According to the Office of the Attorney General,...
Apr 1 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A 30-year-old woman in the U.S. on a student visa has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for setting fire to First Baptist Church in Montgomery in 2021, federal prosecutors said...
Mar 18 2024 // Almost three-and-one-half years after the Catholic Diocese of Camden, New Jersey filed for bankruptcy citing financial effects from the pandemic and sexual abuse settlements, its Chapter 11 reorganization plan has been...
Feb 15 2024 // HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a...
Jan 30 2024 // NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — An historic Connecticut church’s soaring steeple and roof collapsed on Thursday, leaving a gaping hole in the top of the building and the front reduced to a heap of rubble.No deaths or...
Jan 25 2024 // The United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month upheld a 2022 decision against Church Mutual Insurance Co. in favor of Sugartown United Pentecostal Church in Dry Creek, Louisiana, which sits about 50...
Jan 9 2024 // A Yale professor has filed a federal gender discrimination lawsuit against a prominent Harlem church after it did not hire her for its senior pastor job.The suit brought by Eboni Marshall Turman accuses Abyssinian Baptist...
Jan 4 2024 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, headquartered in Merrill, Wis., promoted Alan S. Ogilvie from president to president and chief executive officer. Ogilvie assumed the role from Rich Poirier, who retired after 12 years at...
Jan 3 2024 // Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. promoted Alan S. Ogilvie from president to president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2024.Ogilvie assumed the role from Rich Poirier, who has retired after 12 years of...