A former Orange County pastor will spend decades behind bars after he used his trusted position as a spiritual leader to molest girls as young as 4 over the course of eight years, according to ...

SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana pastor was convicted Monday of sexually assaulting three girls he met through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Ana. Carlos Ramirez Valdez, 61, was arrested in 2021 ...

Jim Duran was elected to the Ventura City Council last year by a comfortable margin, unseating the incumbent and winning 42% of the vote in a four-way race to represent District 6. Duran is the lead ...

NBC News uncovered a 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. This article is part of “Pastors and Prey,” a series investigating sex abuse ...

A 29-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl in a Mountain View church restroom, authorities said. David Chiklak was arrested Sunday on a felony count of first-degree ...

(RNS) — For the past 25 years, Southern Baptists have officially banned women pastors. That hasn’t stopped churches from having women serve in that role. (RNS) — The Southern Baptist Convention’s ...