An agency that conducted 5,000 background checks for 450 churches said it found serious felonies in 80 cases and more than 600 people who had some type of criminal history that may have disqualified ...

As a former police officer and PCA elder, I believe this basic step can protect congregations from predators. Update (6/13/24): The Presbyterian Church in America voted not to require background ...

A former youth leader is now charged with 35 counts of child porn possession after the Hernando County Sheriff's Office says ...

Stevenson House seen from the parking lot of Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto on Aug. 3, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. When Palo Alto agreed to allow local congregations to establish “safe ...

A pastor in Texas learns his rectory housekeeper had been arrested for prostitution 20 years ago. A volunteer at a parochial school in the Northeast has a DUI in his background. A parish bookkeeper ...

Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to ...

GOODMAN, Mo. - A little slower in movement but with the same joy in her heart, Joina Heck climbed the concrete steps and pushed open the doors of McNatt Baptist Church, just as she had 70 years before ...

After 27 years under the leadership of the Rev. Gary Faleide, the Burr Ridge United Church of Christ has a new pastor, and a new direction. The Rev. Timothy Rhodes took over Dec. 1 on an interim basis ...

WASHINGTON – The Air Force's failure to transmit the criminal record of the Texas church shooter Devin Kelley to the FBI – which would likely have stopped the sale of a rifle used in Sunday’s massacre ...

A suspected drunk driver crashed into St. Ambrose Church at Empire Boulevard and Culver Road early Sunday, causing damage but ...