The Rev. Kenneth Flowers, the prominent former leader of the Greater New Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, once described by a judge as a “Christian superstar,” was sentenced to spend four to 15 years in prison for the sexual assault of a 17-year-old boy in his home.
A judge handed a life sentence to a Muslim man found guilty of abducting and raping a Christian girl, but ignored accusations of forcible conversion and fraudulent marriage, the victim’s attorney said.
An Iranian Christian who fled a decade-long prison sentence for participating in a house church was deported from Turkey and arrested on arrival in Iran. The 37-year-old man had attempted to travel from Turkey to Europe after fleeing Iran earlier this year.
More than 700 inmates and prison staff gathered last week at the John H. Lilley Correctional Center in Boley, Oklahoma, for an outreach event led by Victory Christian Center, one of Tulsa’s largest churches.
Three leaders of the Linfen Covenant Home Church in China's Shanxi Province have been sentenced to prison on fraud charges in a closed-door proceeding.
An Iraqi-born Chicago man faces the possibility of 130 years in prison after he was convicted of using social media to promote violent jihad and recruit operatives to carry out attacks on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
A Michigan pastor has been sentenced to serve multiple years in prison after confessing to having placed a hidden camera in a bathroom at his church's property.