NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More churches and religious groups are conducting background checks and taking other steps to protect children against mistreatment in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that has ...

There are more than 750,000 registered sex offenders across the country and, medical professionals explain, faith and community are often deemed a crucial part of their treatment to avoid re-offending ...

I’m still amazed,” declared Mary Alice Gran, the soft-spoken national director of children’s ministries for the United Methodist Church, based in Nashville. “Not all our [regional] conferences require ...

HENRICO, Va. -- Churches in Central Virginia are not required to conduct background checks on employees that work with kids, unless they work for a licensed daycare run by the church. Doctor Roscoe ...

Stevenson House seen from the parking lot of Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto on Aug. 3, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier. When Palo Alto agreed to allow local congregations to establish “safe ...

Soon, being a parent won’t get you an automatic pass into your kid’s Catholic school as a volunteer coach, playground monitor or teacher’s helper. If you want to contribute as a Sunday school leader, ...

Kwame Holman reports on the opening of the unprecedented meetings in Rome between the pope and U.S. cardinals regarding Catholic priests and the sexual abuse scandal. "The abuse which has caused this ...

Besides adopting a national charter for protecting young people from clergy sexual abuses, Guam’s Catholic Church now also seeks legal background checks for all its adult ministers and volunteers to ...

GOODMAN, Mo. - A little slower in movement but with the same joy in her heart, Joina Heck climbed the concrete steps and pushed open the doors of McNatt Baptist Church, just as she had 70 years before ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—More churches and religious groups are conducting background checks and taking other steps to protect children against mistreatment in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that has ...