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A Connecticut pastor has been arrested and charged with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Peter Ventura of First Baptist Church of Woodbury is a registered sex offender. 

When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry was asked to defend his support for a new state law requiring public schools to display a version of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, he made sure to touch on the bill’s obvious religious connections.

Earlier this week, the board of elders of Gateway Church and the overseers of Pastor Robert Morris Ministries released a joint statement saying that "all future radio and television broadcast ministry from Pastor Robert Morris Ministries has been cancelled."

While admitting that he has “many skeletons” in his closet, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling a recent Vanity Fair article about his life “a lot of garbage.”

Some participants in the 2024 Fourth of July Parade in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, proudly carried crosses alongside American flags after the city’s chamber of commerce reversed its decision to ban religious and political symbols in the parade.

Don Logan, who has been pastor of the Eternal Church in Fort Mill, South Carolina, since 2015, was convicted of a child sex abuse charge in 1997. 

As it elected Bishop Sean Rowe its new presiding bishop at last week’s General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, the Episcopal Church adopted more than 20 resolutions related to Title IV, a section of the church bylaws that governs its response to allegations against clergy of abuse or misconduct.

The California Southern Baptist Convention, one of 41 regional groups that make up the Southern Baptist Convention, announced this week that it had cut six staff jobs, citing an ongoing decline in giving.