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Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first.

The response from at least some portion of Facebook's 3.5 billion users to its five-hour outage on Monday went something like this: “Good, I’m glad it’s down, may it stay down forever. But our faith communities rely on the platform to stay connected to each other.

The SBC Executive Committee has finally voted to waive attorney-client privilege in the investigation into whether or not it mishandled allegations of sexual abuse.

A lawyer for Brian Houston said his client will plead not guilty to the charge of concealing his father’s alleged child sex abuse.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in early September that Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID-19 as white Americans. For that reason, Black churches are erring on the side of caution.

Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country's first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.

For many Americans, Pat Robertson, the Christian television pioneer and onetime presidential candidate, will always be remembered for his wacky pronouncements made at inflection points of American history. 

Evangelical Christian Francis Collins announced that he is stepping down as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is the longest serving NIH director and the only director to have served under more than one president.