All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2021 // A.I.M. Mutual’s board of directors elected Daniel Landers as vice president and chief operating officer, effective October 1. In this capacity, he continues to report to President and CEO Michael Standing.As COO,...
Oct 7 2021 // A trial to assess damages owed to families of the victims of the Sutherland Springs church massacre began with vivid witness accounts of the shooting.John Porter Holcombe testified for several hours on Sept. 4 about the...
Oct 1 2021 // A lawsuit accuses the Catholic Diocese of Nashville of failing to protect a minor child from sexual abuse by an employee at a Murfreesboro church.The suit filed in Circuit Court in Nashville claims the diocese received...
Sep 22 2021 // A weekend fire destroyed a historic church in Chicago’s far southern suburbs that had appeared in the 2002 film “Road to Perdition.”Officials said nearly a dozen fire departments responded to the Sept. 19...
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...