A former lay pastor in a conservative Anglican denomination was charged on Wednesday (Dec. 29) with two felony counts of criminal sexual assault in the Kane County, Illinois, circuit court. The charges come a year after Joanna Rudenborg reported Mark Rivera, her former neighbor, to Kane County police, accusing him of raping her in 2018 and again in 2020.
A former vice president of Liberty University has filed a lawsuit against the schools, alleging that he was fired after he complained about how Liberty handled sexual assaults on campus.
A third-party investigation at Menlo Church, one of Northern California’s most prominent megachurches, ended this week with a report that found no evidence the pastor’s adult child had acted on his confessed attraction to minors.
The Executive Committee has voted to waive attorney-client privilege amid a sexual abuse investigation within the denomination. SBC president Ed Litton prayed that the approved decision would not "divide and separate brothers and sisters."
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will meet for the third time in three weeks — hoping to resolve a stalemate over the details of an investigation into the committee’s own handling of sexual abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
Financial donors are requesting financial information from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries to determine if their donations were used to perpetuate Zacharias' sexual abuse.
An Illinois pastor who was recently charged with sexually violating a church member but continues to preach from the pulpit.
Despite the often emotional sessions about sex abuse at the annual meeting and a 2019 investigation by the Houston Chronicle that detailed hundreds of abuse cases in the SBC still haunting them, Southern Baptists may not be on the same page about how to deal with abusers or sex offenders.
In an email published online, Margie Zacharias, the wife of the late apologist Ravi Zacharias, denied that her husband was involved in the sexual or spiritual abuse of several women.
A Tennessee pastor who confessed to statutory rape 20 years ago has resigned after his church was recently removed from the Southern Baptist Convention for hiring him.
