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A historic Black church in downtown Washington, D.C., has received more than $1 million in a lawsuit against a far-right group activist group.

Officials for the City of Detroit have dropped a lawsuit against gospel singer Marvin Winans and his Perfecting Church in Michigan.

An appellate judge has reopened a lawsuit against McLean Bible Church in Tysons Corner, Virginia, a church led by pastor and author David Platt.

Christian finance guru and best-selling author Dave Ramsey is being sued by former followers for $150 million for his endorsement of a failed timeshare exit company that defrauded customers out of millions of dollars.

A school board in Maine has rejected a church's application to hold worship services at a high school as part of a long-term lease.

The parents of a seventh-grader in Massachusetts who was removed from school for wearing a T-shirt declaring “there are only two genders” is suing the school district, saying the student’s constitutional rights were violated.

A Manhattan federal jury has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation for sexually assaulting her in the spring of 1996.

A Christian substitute teacher who was ousted from her job for opposing a same-sex-themed book has been reinstated and awarded $181,000 in damages and attorneys' fees in a settlement with a Georgia school district on Monday.

Former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary have been dismissed from a sexual abuse lawsuit against Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee member Paul Pressler.

Fox News on Tuesday agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million as part of a settlement that also included a statement from Fox saying it acknowledges it made false statements about Dominion in the days and weeks after the 2020 election. Dominion alleged that Fox News hosts knowingly told lies about the company that damaged its reputation. The settlement came just before a jury trial was set to begin and less than a month after a judge ruled that the evidence “demonstrates that it’s CRYSTAL clear that none of the Statements relating to Dominion about the 2020 election are true.”