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Joy Tabernacle Full Gospel Church in Mobile, Alabama, is mourning the death of Pastor Robert Matthews. Police say the church leader was shot and killed last Sunday evening (Oct. 20) by his daughter, 36-year-old Charity Matthews.

A former youth pastor has been convicted of abusive sexual contact aboard an aircraft. Justin Baker, 41, was arrested March 14 after sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman on a flight from Burbank, California, to Seattle. 

"Conclave," Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, dramatizes the Catholic process for choosing a new supreme leader in a film that has already won top prizes at multiple film festivals and seems well positioned for awards show season. 

Former Maverick City Music singer Dante Bowe recently sat down with Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church to discuss his transition from gospel music to R&B.

The American church has a porn problem. Nearly 1 in 5 pastors (18%) in the United States currently struggles with pornography. Two-thirds (67%) have engaged with porn at some point in their lives. And 74% of practicing Christians “who have engaged with porn” say no one is helping them avoid it.

Stephen Johnson, who served as a volunteer youth pastor and counselor for 12 years in Alabama, has been charged with living off the earnings of a teen prostitute.

Preacher, author, and activist John K. Amanchukwu Sr. recently told attendees of the Modern Church Leader Conference that if they weren't being persecuted for their faith, they might be doing something wrong.

Following what police said seems to be a random stabbing incident, an Episcopal rector in Florida is hospitalized in stable condition.