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Beginning in 2020, survivors of childhood sexual abuse in California were provided with a powerful tool to address their abusers and the institutions that employed them.

A shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school and church left two children dead and 17 people injured, including 14 kids during a mass Wednesday morning.

Brian Anthony Browning, 31, opened fire outside the CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Mich., shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday, sending parishioners inside running for shelter, footage posted on X by BNO News shows.

A historic Black church located in downtown Memphis, which served as the organizing hub for Martin Luther King Jr.'s last campaign, caught fire early Monday morning

The South Solon Meeting House has a secret unknown even to some who drive through the tiny Maine town every day. The interior of the building is covered in 70-year-old fresco murals that encourage some in the state’s art community to describe it as “Maine’s Sistine Chapel.” The murals were painted by artists in the 1950s and, while they have long been appreciated by visitors, the recent creation of a website dedicated to them by students at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has generated new interest in the paintings.

Eddie Shed, affiliated with the Empowerment Ministries Christian Center in Gulfport, lost his life when 24-year-old Tyran Deion Gable reportedly began shooting after a "child custody disagreement" on Saturday afternoon

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Arturo Laguna, a pastor at the Casa de Adoracion in Phoenix, allegedly installed the recording device in the church bathroom last fall and recorded the women in October and early November.

A pastor from California, skilled in mixed martial arts, defended his church from a burglar wielding an axe who broke in on Thanksgiving

The priests clashed in a frightening scene that included sticks, buckets, pieces of fence, and even benches being used as weapons

The mosaics of a mediaeval cathedral in Sicily, built by the island's last Norman king, are set to regain their golden lustre thanks to careful restoration work and new lighting.

Mayor Eric Adams compared himself to the Bible’s long-suffering Job and asked a local bishop to “pray for me” when at two Brooklyn churches Sunday -- days after the feds targeted some of his top lieutenants.

Alvin Bragg's Abyssinian Baptist Church deacon pal Jerome Yeiser is under investigation for allegedly bilking members out of thousands.

A pastor from a large church in Texas has been compelled to resign due to a "troubling pattern of behavior" that involved unsolicited "sexual" communications with women

A long-lost altar dating from the times of the crusades was discovered hidden in plain sight by archaeologists at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem — one of the holiest sites in Christianity where Jesus is believed to have resurrected from the dead.

Randy Maldonado Avila, 30, is accused of using a hammer to destroy the statues and then the glass doors of St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church in Bensonhurst. He reportedly continued his rampage by breaking a pedestrian walk sign and two bus shelters belonging to the MTA

A shooter has been taken into custody after brandishing a weapon at a pastor during a sermon, in a terrifying incident that was captured on video

Teima Sohaib was taken into custody following the discovery of his girlfriend, Auriane Laisne, found in an abandoned Italian church, drained of blood, and suffering from both stab and gunshot wounds, potentially linked to a TikTok challenge

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the country’s migrant crisis a “government blunder'' Sunday, taking aim at fellow Dems Gov. Hochul and President Biden during a speech at a Bronx church.

Herbert Miller, 63, the now-former reverend of Woodbury United Methodist Church, skipped his arraignment on Friday, leading a judge to issue a warrant for his re-arrest and set his bail at $100,000.

A video from Pastor Joe Osteen's Lakewood Church appears to capture the moment a woman opened gunfire at the Houston-area place of worship, sending parishioners fleeing for their lives at the start of a Spanish service.

Chris Avell, the pastor of Dad’s Place church in Bryan, Ohio, argues that city officials are trying to stifle him from exercising his religious beliefs by preventing him from housing those in need of shelter in his 43-age complaint filed in the United States District Court for Northern Ohio on Monday.

According to the prosecutor's charge sheet, 180 of the 191 deceased children have yet to be identified

A seasoned pastor at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church alleges in a lawsuit that her attempt to replace Rev. Calvin Butts was denied due to her gender

In 2019, Edoardo Santini, now 21, was named Italy's most handsome man in a pageant held by the fashion company ABE when he was 17