Die Polizei sagte, das Geld sei am 10. November bei einem Renovierungsprojekt entdeckt worden.
Laut Polizei wurde in einer Mauer eine große Menge Geld gefunden, darunter Bargeld, Schecks und Zahlungsanweisungen.
SIEHE AUCH: Mehr als eine halbe Million Dollar aus dem Safe in der Kirche von Joel
The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed.
“A small group of people, inside and outside this church, coordinated a divisive effort to use disinformation in order to persuade others to vote these men down as part of a broader
“Now that I have preached about a dozen sermons I find I am repeating myself,” a young minister wrote despairingly in his diary in 1915. He was barely out of school and only a few months into his first call, at Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit. “The few ideas that I had worked into sermons at the seminary have all been used, and now what?” It would be fourteen years before anyone else read those words, published under the title
Pope Francis today expressed his personal shame at the scale of child abuse carried out by clergy in France’s Catholic Church that saw attacks on 330,000 children.
The pontiff told of his ‘sadness’ for the victims after a damning report found nuns used crucifixes to rape girls during decades of abuse which was covered up by a ‘veil of silence’.
The 2,500-page landmark report was released Tuesday after more than two years of investigations by an independent commission, in France’s
In 2007, when Obe and Jacqueline Arellano were in their mid-20s, they moved from the suburbs of Chicago to Aurora, Illinois, with the dream of starting a church. They chose Aurora, a midsize city with about 200,000 residents, mostly because about 40 percent of its population is Latino. Obe, a first-generation Mexican American pastor, told me, “We sensed God wanted us there.” By 2010, the couple had “planted a church,” the Protestant term for starting a brand-new congregation. This summer,
