All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2021 // A federal investigation is underway after arson damaged a historic Kansas City, Missouri, church that now serves a congregation predominantly made up of people from the South Sudan.John Ham of the Kansas City office of the...
Jul 19 2021 // The Texas Supreme Court in late June ruled survivors and relatives of those killed in a 2017 mass killing at a church can’t sue a sporting goods chain for selling the gunman the rifle used in the attack.The court...
Jul 16 2021 // Pamela Stampen has been named chief people officer of Merrill, Wisconsin-based Church Mutual Insurance Co., reporting to Rich Poirier, president and CEO.Stampen’s role will encompass all the essential elements of...
Jul 8 2021 // A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Air Force is mostly responsible for a former serviceman killing more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 because it failed to submit his criminal history into a database,...
Jun 25 2021 // Jim Bakker and his southwestern Missouri church will pay restitution of $156,000 to settle a lawsuit that accuses the TV pastor of falsely claiming a health supplement could cure COVID-19.Missouri court records show that a...
Jun 24 2021 // Church Mutual Insurance Co., based in Merrill, Wisconsin, has promoted Alan Ogilvie to executive vice president in addition to his existing role as president – subsidiaries.Ogilvie joined Church Mutual in March 2015 as...
Jun 18 2021 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” (Excellent) from “a-” (Excellent) of Southern Mutual Church...
Jun 8 2021 // Three priests have been placed on leave in response to claims in a lawsuit filed last month that they sexually abused a boy in the 1990s, the Diocese of Buffalo announced Saturday.Bishop Michael Fisher said the priests all...
May 3 2021 // Baltimore County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a religious discrimination lawsuit over a county board’s denial of a church’s expansion plan.The Baltimore Sun reports that the county and Hunt Valley...
Apr 29 2021 // A fire early on April 28 caused extensive smoke damage to a central Illinois church, authorities said.Crews were called to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Lexington after a passerby discovered smoke coming from the...
Apr 21 2021 // A Maine man accused of setting fire to a Massachusetts church with a predominantly Black congregation been charged with hate crime offenses, federal prosecutors said.Dushko Vulchev is charged in federal court with four...
Apr 14 2021 // Missouri lawmakers on April 12 advanced a sweeping firearms bill that would allow concealed guns on public transportation and in churches.The Republican-led House gave the measure initial approval in a voice vote. It needs...
Apr 12 2021 // A top official with the Archdiocese of Santa Fe says a financial flood from clergy sex abuse claims is coming and a settlement would serve as the dam to prevent devastation to parishes across northern New Mexico.A letter...
Mar 30 2021 // Rockwood Programs Inc., a full-service managing general agency, has appointed Carol Cole to chief marketing officer.In this role, Cole is responsible for marketing employment practices liability, insurance agents errors...
Mar 29 2021 // Officials are trying to determine what caused a fire early Friday that destroyed a historic Black church in northeast Florida.Clay County Fire Rescue tweeted that no one was injured in the fire that started around 11 p.m....
Mar 15 2021 // Vimeo Inc. is immune to a lawsuit by a church whose account it deleted for promoting gay conversion, the federal appeals court in New York ruled, amid a battle over online speech.Church United and its president and...
Feb 12 2021 // The Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota says it has reached a $21.5 million settlement with 145 individuals who were sexually abused by its clergy members.It’s the last Catholic diocese in the state to settle...
Jan 14 2021 // Church Mutual Insurance Co., based in Merrill, Wis., has promoted Bruce Carter to assistant vice president – Diversity & Inclusion and John Tribble to vice president – Customer Relationship and Business...
Jan 7 2021 // A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a major municipal water main.The...
Dec 17 2020 // All nine judges in Louisiana’s Second Circuit Court of Appeal have recused themselves from a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Shreveport and a late priest.Following the full court recusal, the...