Child Sexual Abuse

An independent commission examining sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France believes 3,000 child abusers—two-thirds of them priests—have worked in the church over the past 70 years.

Significant majorities of Protestant pastors agree that abusive pastors should be disqualified from ministry, according to a new study from Lifeway Research.

Ministry leaders have a lot of power, says Rachael Denhollander, to damage sexual abuse survivors further, but also great power to help in their healing. Here is what pastors can do to serve survivors well.

Rachael Denhollander says, “There is so much beauty in a gospel-filled response to abuse.” This week on our podcast, Rachael shares how pastors can avoid doing further harm to sexual abuse survivors and instead point them to the hope found in Jesus.

A Catholic archbishop in Australia is the most senior Catholic globally to be convicted for failing to report child sexual abuse. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, has been given a maximum sentence of 12 months in detention.

This isn't the first complaint about Roblox, dubbed the “number one gaming website” for kids.

Safeguarding churches from child predators in light of Rachael Denhollander’s sentencing hearing of Larry Nasser.