During a week that will mark the five-year anniversary of the viral #MeToo movement, "That 70's show" actor Danny Masterson will stand trial in a criminal rape case that could end up highlighting what ...

APPLETON, Wis. — On a morning about 10 years ago, the Rev. Amy DeLong woke up in disbelief that she was still a reverend. The day before, June 23, 2011, she had stood trial at Peace United Methodist ...

(RNS) — The United Methodist Church’s recent difficulties, even as enormous as they are, hardly make them unique among religious organizations. But their difficulties are the ones I know best, having ...

A church court in the Anglican Church in North America has acquitted a bishop of charges of failing to carry out his duties.

(RNS) — On Monday (July 14) — six years after a 9-year-old child came forward with sexual abuse allegations against a lay minister in an Illinois church — a long-awaited church trial will begin for ...

A dispute over whether unhoused residents camping on church property violates Montrose city nuisance ordinances played out Wednesday in the form of an exhaustive trial that featured 14 witnesses and ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday rejected a new trial for a man convicted of raping and impregnating a 15-year-old member of his church, a case that gained national ...

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) — The trial began on February 8 for Benjamin Cole, the man accused of molesting teens at a Mansfield church nearly two decades ago. He is charged with two counts of indecency ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Opening statements were heard in the trial for Marc Ward Tuesday. Ward is accused of running over and killing 61-year-old Calvary Church security guard Daniel Bourne in ...

Even as the top leader of the Anglican Church in North America faces a church trial for alleged sexual misconduct, a church court has acquitted another bishop of charges of failing to carry out his ...