Officials at Futures Church headquartered in Australia were left in shock last Wednesday after Daniel Menelaou, a youth pastor with the Alpharetta, Georgia, campus of the global megachurch, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
A judge has blocked two executive orders by President Donald Trump that banned the federal funding of trans surgeries and chemical castrations of youth exhibiting confusion about their sex.
Another man who says he worked as T.D. Jakes’ youth pastor in the 1990s has accused the megachurch leader of trying to kiss him too, a week after Jakes formally denied allegations he sexually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager or his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood.
Tim Somers, a youth pastor with Steven Furtick's Elevation Church in North Carolina, was fired from his role after he was accused of engaging in inappropriate conduct with former students at Oaks Church in Texas, where he served as an intern and staff member more than 10 years ago.
The U.S. federal government is spending around a million dollars to fund an LGBT mentorship program for children as young as 12 through an activist organization that supports body-mutilating interventions for minors who claim to identify as the opposite sex.
Intelligence agents of the Sudan Armed Forces arrested and tortured at least seven Christians in Shendi, about 93 miles northeast of Khartoum, sources said.
Lindsey Whiteside, a former youth minister with Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi, is now facing 30 years in prison after she was charged with having sex with an underage girl under her guardianship.