All the headlines from our Church Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2020 // A church bus and an SUV crashed on Feb. 2 in Ohio, and the bus driver died, the State Highway Patrol said.The patrol’s Lebanon post reported the crash occurred around 9:30 a.m. on Dixie Highway in Warren...
Jan 24 2020 // Travelers Companies Inc. has set aside a “modest” amount of additional money to cover its possible exposure to child sex-abuse claims, the insurer’s finance chief, Daniel Frey, told analysts during an...
Jan 23 2020 // A Wyoming company has settled a federal lawsuit by a former employee who claimed she was pressured to take Scientology courses as a condition of her employment.Julie A. Rohrbacher filed the lawsuit in 2018 against Teton...
Jan 21 2020 // A former western Pennsylvania church administrator has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in the theft of $1.2 million that prosecutors said he and his wife used for vacations, sports tickets and other personal expenses.An...
Jan 16 2020 // Police in Alabama are looking for a man who disguised himself as Batman while stealing musical instruments from churches.A burglary happened on Dec. 11 at King’s Way Church in Irondale, AL.Com reported. The caped...
Jan 6 2020 // Merrill, Wisconsin-based Church Mutual’s conversion of its corporate structure to a mutual holding company became effective Jan. 1, 2020.According to the company, the move provides the organization more flexibility...
Dec 24 2019 // The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints saw a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year – and still some regions that haven’t reported any allegations at all.The...
Dec 19 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured at least a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Dec 18 2019 // A swarm of tornadoes and storms that left a trail of destruction across the Southeast killed four people, injured a dozen more and left victims to bundle up against the cold as they picked up pieces of their homes...
Dec 16 2019 // During Pope Francis’ recent visit to Japan, Harumi Suzuki stood where his motorcade passed by holding a sign that read: “I am a survivor.”Katsumi Takenaka stood at another spot, on another day, holding up...
Dec 4 2019 // A wave of new laws in 15 states that allow people to make claims of sexual abuse going back decades could bring a deluge of lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church that could surpass anything seen so far in its clergy...
Dec 3 2019 // West Virginia’s Roman Catholic diocese said last week that it wants a former bishop to pay it more than three-quarters of a million dollars after a series of alleged sexual and financial scandals.Diocese of...
Nov 25 2019 // Two impoverished Mississippi men who say they were sexually assaulted by Franciscan missionaries filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming that Catholic officials pressured them into signing settlements that paid them...
Nov 18 2019 // A West Virginia judge is looking to the state Supreme Court for guidance after dismissing a case that alleges a Catholic diocese and its former bishop knowingly employed pedophiles. Wood County Circuit Court Judge J.D....
Nov 4 2019 // Solon, Ohio-based Suracy Insurance Agency Inc. (formerly AmVenture Insurance Agency Inc.) has launched a sub-brand, Suracy Faith.Suracy Faith focuses on providing insurance solutions for churches and other religious...
Oct 18 2019 // Federal prosecutors say a sporting goods retailer violated the law by selling an AR-15-style rifle and large capacity magazine to a man who used them to kill more than two dozen worshippers at a Texas church.The Department...
Oct 18 2019 // A former western Pennsylvania church administrator has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.2 million that prosecutors say he and his wife used to pay for vacations, sports tickets and other personal expenses. Fifty-year-old...
Oct 11 2019 // Federal authorities are investigating a fire that was intentionally set at a vacant church in Memphis, Tennessee.Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Michael Knight says the blaze at First Church...
Sep 17 2019 // Burglars overnight broke into England’s Blenheim Palace [on Saturday, Sept. 14], the birthplace of Winston Churchill, and stole an 18-karat gold toilet on display as part of an art exhibition.The thieves took the...
Sep 3 2019 // Industrial-sized circular fans pushed humid air down the warehouse alleys, lightening the mid-90s afternoon temperatures for the workers. The group removed lids from plastic buckets, organized cleaning supplies and...