All Entries Tagged With: "pastor"
Pastor of Sound Doctrine Church charged with first-degree rape of a child
Malcolm John Fraser, the assistant pastor of Sound Doctrine Church in Enumclaw, Washington, was formally charged with first-degree rape of a child.
In 2009 the church was in the news in relation to a custody ruling involving a female member of the church, friends and family members of who describes Sound Doctrine [...]
Rumors of Imminent Execution of Iranian Pastor Unconfirmed
Lawyers for an Iranian pastor awaiting a final decision on his death sentence have not received communication from authorities that their client will be executed, despite reports that his death is imminent.
Rumors of an imminent execution of Yousef Nadarkhani — who is a pastor in a movement considered to be theologically a cult [...]
Dead children of faith healing pastor and his wife had been beaten, starved
Police in South Korea arrested a pastor and his wife Saturday after three of their four children were found dead.
The couple has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and starving their children to death
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Former pastor gets life behind bars for murder of disabled man
A former pastor was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for ordering the murder of a blind, developmentally disabled man in Baltimore so he could collect $ 1.4 million in life insurance policies.
In addition to the life sentence, Kevin Jerome Pushia was sentenced to 45 years in prison for charges [...]
Controversial pastor Eddie Long vows to move past allegations
Controverisal megachurch pastor Eddie Long says he’s moving ahead with his ministry at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and won’t discuss allegations of sexual misconduct made by four young men who were members of his congregation.
But two of the men now say they are writing a tell-all book about what they claim happened [...]
Cuban Pastor, Family Arrive in U.S. after Suffering under Regime
An evangelical pastor once jailed by the regime of Fidel Castro arrived in the United States from Cuba yesterday with his family under a special resettlement program for political refugees.
The Rev. Carlos Lamelas was granted asylum in the United States due to persecution he has endured for more than five years at the [...]
Megachurch pastor Eddie Long settles sex-misconduct lawsuits
Sexual-misconduct lawsuits filed by four men against Georgia megachurch pastor Eddie Long have been settled, according to attorneys.
The lawsuits are expected to “be dismissed, with prejudice, by close of business tomorrow.”
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Florida pastor Terry Jones’s Koran burning has far-reaching effect
Un-Christian behavior on the part of an attention-seeking ‘pastor’ and his 30-person fringe church in Gainsville, Florida, has led Muslim extremists in Afghanistan to savagely murder innocent people.
Terry Jones, the 58-year-old fundamentalist pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, presided over what he called an “International Judge the Koran Day” on March 20, [...]
Update: Pastor not ‘fired’ for not believing in hell
[Update] Turns out that the pastor of a rural United Methodist church was not ‘fired’ from his job after voicing his doubts that sinners live an eternity of torment.
It was initially reported that Reverend Chad Holtz was dismissed from Marrow’s Chapel in Henderson, North Carolina, when he posted a note on his Facebook page [...]
Wife of ‘miracles babies’ pastor jailed for another 3 years for stealing a baby
The wife of controversial UK-based televangelist Gilbert Deya has been jailed for three years for stealing a baby at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
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