A judge threw out the a grand-theft charge against Pastor Allen Jackson. He had been charged with steeling $13,000 from the Living Word Community Church. [Note:This is one of two pieces of good news on pastors this month. I the other I removed a post for a pastor who had been falsely accused.]
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Creflo Dollar came to the aid of Eddie long urging prayer and forgiveness instead of gossip and hypocrisy. Which is funny because Long caused the gossip by not disclosing his activities and committed the actual hypocrisy. These prosperity doctrine pastors stick together.
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Toby Stangel who is accused a horrific shooting spree that killed a mother of 10 and the son of a pastor, was involved in a knife fight that almost cost him his life in 2006. It is alleged the Stangel was the aggressor. It’s also becoming clear that Strangel had a long standing drug problem.
Mike Stangel, senior pastor of the North Shore Christian Fellowship, said that his son had entered a drug treatment program and seemed to be doing better.
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Rev. Eugene Klein, a Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Winona, Minn., was indicted for helping an imprisoned mobster conceal property from authorities. The church suspended him.
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Convicted murder pastor Matt Baker was denied an appeal. Baker goes back to prison to serve his 65 year sentence.
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Roman Catholic priest Rev John F. Regan is expected to plead guilty to charges that he stole $300,000 from parish funds to pay for a gambling habit.
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A Mexican governor and evangelical pastor stands accused of stealing $9 million in disaster recovery funds.
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A Christian pastor in India stands accused of the sexual harassment of minor girl. Paul Sundar’s case is under investigation.
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Pastor Randy White, formerly of Without Wall International Church in Tampa, was arrested for DUI. The poor guy was married to Paula White. I can understand why he might need a drink.
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A Roman Catholic group that licenses foster and adoptive parents has sued the State of Illinois over rules that stipulated they muse allow gay adoptions.
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The first witness took the stand in the sexual assault case against pastor Curtis Frankly. Her abuse started at age 12.
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Pastor Thomas Kreiser pleaded guilty to stealing $25,000 from St. Gregory Barbarigo Church in Garnerville. He used the funds to cover gambling expenses.
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Accused pedophile pastor Santos Adiel Rosado Jr., did not show up for court to face charges that he molested two young girls. Police are to arrest him on site. His daughters are already in trouble with the law over this case.
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Pastor John Edwards was found guilty of battery of a law enforcement officer. He faces five years in prison.
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Pastor Renato Campaner of the Philippine Independent Church of Christ was arrested for hacking a detractor with a scythe. Charges are pending.
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Pastor Lewis is using the “I didn't do it” defense in his Jamaican trial for the rape of a 15-year-old girl and molestation of a 14-year-old girl.
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Youth group leader Matthew Anastasia was sentenced to ten years in prison for molesting a 13-year-old girl his Walnut Hill Church.
