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Church leaders and U.S. officials are condemning the arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun in Hong Kong by the national security police on Wednesday.

The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced an Iranian-Armenian Christian man to 10 years in prison for founding a house church and spreading “propaganda contrary to and disturbing to the holy religion of Islam.”

Former youth pastor Ronnie Hyde has been convicted of the 1994 murder of a 16-year-old boy and sentenced to life in prison.

An 80-year-old Catholic nun who stole around $835,000 from the school where she worked as the principal and used the money for gambling has been sentenced to one year in federal prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently published new guidelines allowing trans-identified inmates to be placed with female prisoners.

A pastor of a prominent Baltimore AME church came to the defense of state attorney Marilyn Mosby, 41, after she was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and making false statements on loan applications.

The lawyer of the man accused of murdering 69-year-old Evelyn Player at a Baltimore church last month says that his client should not be held criminally responsible for his actions.

According to court records, a Liberty University professor has been accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a student.

On Thursday, Baltimore Police announced that a 62-year-old man had been arrested for killing 69-year-old Evelyn Player on Nov. 16. inside of an East Baltimore church.

Religious groups and faith leaders across the country said the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case — that found all three white men charged in his death guilty of murder — is a sign of progress, even as they mourned Arbery’s death and said the church must continue to work toward justice and racial healing.