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Todd Benkert, a Southern Baptist pastor who helped force reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination's sexual abuse policies, has stepped down from a task force he was appointed to last year to implement those reforms.

Bishop David G. O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Los Angeles, was found dead Saturday (Feb. 18) in his home in Hacienda Heights, a suburb in Los Angeles County, according to news reports.

In Thursday’s session of the Catholic Church’s corruption trial, the president of the Vatican Bank said he had no choice but to report what he knew about the London real-estate deal at the heart of the inquiry.

Kyle Meyaard-Schaap offers personal accounts, theological frameworks and practical advice for Christian climate action.

On Feb. 8, following an ordinary chapel service at Asbury University, students were encouraged to stay after chapel if they wanted to continue worshiping God. More than a week later, that service hasn’t stopped.

Authorities say an elderly California woman, who is hearing-impaired and experiencing homelessness, was hospitalized after being targeted by a hit-and-run driver in a church parking lot in Castro Valley.

He Gets Us has responded to criticism some people have vocalized following the airing of its two ads during the Super Bowl last Sunday. In a statement to ChurchLeaders, He Gets Us addressed the idea that the money spent on the ads should have gone elsewhere.

Francisco Barajah, who was pastor of Santa Trindade Evangelical Church in the city of Chimoio in Mozambique, perished after 25 days of self-deprivation.