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Belo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 with fellow East Timorese independence icon Jose Ramos-Horta for campaigning for a fair and peaceful solution to conflict in their home country as it struggled to gain independence from Indonesia.

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Southern Baptist Convention's handling of sexual crimes by clergy and church staff. The question is: Why the SBC, and why now?

A Department of Justice investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention is currently directed at one entity and no individuals. As of Aug. 15, only the SBC Executive Committee had been subpoenaed.

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades. This is a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them.

Send Relief announced its intent June 8 to give $3 million to fund the proposed SATF recommendations for sexual abuse reform, and an additional $1 million to establish a survivor care fund.

The existence of the Southern Baptist report on its abuse crisis is a triumph of congregational polity, aided by the minutiae of church bylaws and the fierce determination of survivors and advocates to say enough was enough. And yet, the abuse investigation almost never happened.

Police asked for the public’s help in tracking down those who vandalized and threw two Molotov cocktails into the office of a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group’s office that was damaged by fire.

Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, has released a 22-page report with the findings of the investigation into its former leaders, Stovall and Kerri Weems. The report finds Stovall Weems guilty of fraud, narcissism and “rampant spiritual and emotional abuse."