All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2008 // State and local authorities are investigating an apparent burglary and arson that left an Albany, Ga., church heavily damaged.The fire was reported about 7:30 a.m. Monday at Metropolitan Baptist Church. The Georgia...
Dec 20 2007 // A man who pleaded guilty to setting fires at three Greenville, N.C., churches last year has been sentenced to 10 years to 12 years in prison. A Pitt County Superior Court judge sentenced 28-year-old Seth Parker Price of...
Nov 30 2007 // A former Carlsbad, New Mexico, resident who claims a Franciscan brother sexually abused him as a teenager in the late 1970s is suing the brother, the order he belongs to and two local parishes.The civil lawsuit, filed...
Nov 29 2007 // Two fair-housing groups have sued an Iowa insurance company that pays policyholders’ church tithes if an injury at home leads to lost income.The insurance company also doubles medical limits if someone is hurt while...
Nov 5 2007 // Surrounded by gold leaf, the brightly painted image of Christ on a donkey glowed through scaffolding under an artist’s lamp.The almost complete religious icon is a victory for the 105-year-old All Saints Orthodox...
Oct 30 2007 // Bishop Michael Cote of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. says a settlement of $170,000 will be paid to a Pawcatuck man who claims he was molested by a priest in a Stonington church.The word of the settlement came in a letter...
Oct 29 2007 // Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Mass., clergy abuse victims and the insurance carriers confirm that the sides have agreed to enter nonbinding settlement talks in a two-year old lawsuit.More than...
Oct 21 2007 // A tornado damaged a church, a daycare center and the city’s major shopping mall as violent thunderstorms made their way across the western Florida Panhandle last week. There were no reports of injuries.The Oct. 18...
Oct 5 2007 // A $25 million sex abuse lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America filed in Oregon alleges that child abuse has been widespread since the 1960s and little was done to...
Sep 25 2007 // A prominent pastor accused of filing fraudulent life insurance claims to funnel money to church groups he controlled appeared in court in Centennial, Colo.Acen Phillips, 72, was accompanied by defense lawyer Gary Lozow but...
Sep 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute authorizing limited discovery of a defendant’s insurance coverage does not include authorization to look into reinsurance agreements as part of facilitating a...
Sep 24 2007 // Santa Rosa diocese to pay $5 million in priest sex abuse settlementThe Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa has agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle a sex abuse lawsuit involving fugitive priest Xavier Ochoa and 10...
Sep 24 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute authorizing limited discovery of a defendant’s insurance coverage does not include authorization to look into reinsurance agreements as part of facilitating a...
Sep 14 2007 // The Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa has agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle a sex abuse lawsuit involving fugitive priest Xavier Ochoa and 10 alleged victims, lawyers and the diocese said.The diocese will pay the...
Sep 6 2007 // State Farm Insurance Co. does not have to pay to defend the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth of Jackson, Miss., from a civil lawsuit filed by a Maryland woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2001 in her home, a...
Aug 29 2007 // The California Supreme Court has ruled that a statute authorizing limited discovery of a defendant’s insurance coverage does not include authorization to look into reinsurance agreements as part of facilitating a...
Aug 16 2007 // The Davenport, Iowa Diocese has asked for more time to file its reorganization plan while it negotiates with insurance companies to compensate victims of clergy abuse.The diocese, which filed for bankruptcy last October...
Aug 9 2007 // A Navy doctor who was awarded $41 million in a civil lawsuit against a pedophile priest has filed a second lawsuit against Roman Catholic officials.Attorneys for Cmdr. Kenneth Whitwell, 39, of Quantico, Va., filed the...
Jul 23 2007 // Negotiations have produced a landmark $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse has concluded, with insurers will be picking up a large...
Jul 17 2007 // After a whirlwind weekend, the negotiations that produced a landmark $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse has concluded. Insurers...