So far in the 21st century nearly a third of a billion children have been sexually abused, most of them multiple times, some thousands of times. 6 out of 7 are girls. Anything you can do to get this message to as many people as possible will help save abused children all over the world, and maybe even some of the abusers. Please read "Save A Child from Sexual Abuse by 3:15 PM" under "First Time Visitor?" May God bless you and anoint this ministry.
Everyday thousands of children are being sexually abused. You can stop the abuse of at least one child by simply praying. You can possibly stop the abuse of thousands of children by forwarding the link in First Time Visitor? by email, Twitter or Facebook to every Christian you know. Save a child or lots of children!!!! Do Something, please!
3:15 PM prayer in brief:
Pray for God to stop 1 child from being molested today.
Pray for God to stop 1 child molestation happening now.
Pray for God to rescue 1 child from sexual slavery.
Pray for God to save 1 girl from genital circumcision.
Pray for God to stop 1 girl from becoming a child-bride.
If you have the faith pray for 100 children rather than one.
New lawsuits allege child sex abuse by priests at former Bronzeville Catholic church
Seven lawsuits filed Tuesday allege the Archdiocese of Chicago knew about sexual abuse at the former Holy Angels Parish in Bronzeville.
Several adults who said they were abused by Catholic priests decades ago when they were children filed lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Chicago for allegedly failing to protect them.
Attorneys with Hart McLaughlin & Eldridge filed seven civil lawsuits on Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against the archdiocese, but said dozens more clients will be filing lawsuits in the coming days.
All of the accusers and the accused have ties to the former Bronzeville church, known as Holy Angels, between 1969 and 2002. The Archdiocese of Chicago said in a statement it does not comment on lawsuits.
“Some of these children were as young as 5 years old. Five-year-old children being sexually abused," said attorney Steven Hart. “Holy Angels was not a sanctuary for children. It was a sanctuary for predators.”
The lawsuits zero in on four priests, all of whom have since died. None were criminally charged. Among them was Rev. George Clements, a trailblazing Black priest who was regarded as a civil rights hero by many African American Catholics.
“The allegations in the complaint are not whispers – not rumors. They are documented decades-long betrayal of the most vulnerable children in the city,” Hart said.
Attorneys said they conducted hundreds of hours of research and interviews with survivors. All shared sensitive information decades later.
Angela Walker, with the Survivor’s Network of Those Abused by Priests, also known as SNAP, said "the church hierarchy needs to be held accountable."
"Compensate the victims for all they have gone through," Walker said. "We really commend them for coming forward, this is never easy to do."
Attorneys representing survivors said they believe there are more victims and hope they will come forward.
A federal judge has rejected the Catholic Diocese of Oakland's $180 million Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, ruling that the church failed to prove its proposed compensation for 345 clergy sexual abuse survivors met federal requirements. The decision prevents the diocese from moving forward with its proposed reorganization as it seeks to resolve hundreds of abuse claims through bankruptcy.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William J. Lafferty III issued the 109-page decision on October 2, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. He found material errors in the diocese's calculations of what creditors could receive if its assets were liquidated, a comparison required before a court can approve a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
The diocese filed for Chapter 11 protection on May 8, 2023, amid hundreds of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy and other church personnel. The filing allowed it to continue operating while pursuing a court-supervised plan to resolve the claims, many of which followed California legislation that reopened the window for survivors to sue over abuse from years or decades earlier.
The rejected plan proposed up to $180 million in contributions to a survivors' compensation trust, including $150 million from the diocese and up to $30 million from the Roman Catholic Welfare Corporation, a related church organization. Of that amount, approximately $172.3 million was designated for known abuse claims, with another $7.7 million reserved for potential future claims.
Lafferty found that the diocese had improperly included the additional $30 million in its calculation of funds available to all 345 survivors. That contribution was restricted to certain claimants with potential claims against the Welfare Corporation, meaning the full $172.3 million was unavailable for general distribution among known claimants.
Federal bankruptcy law requires a Chapter 11 plan to provide each impaired creditor who has not accepted the proposal with at least as much as that creditor would receive if the debtor's assets were liquidated under Chapter 7. To demonstrate compliance with this best interests of creditors test, the diocese submitted an analysis estimating its liquidation proceeds after legal expenses and other costs. Lafferty identified material errors in the calculations, including unsupported property valuations and unreasonable assumptions about liquidation expenses, leaving the church unable to establish that its proposed payments satisfied the requirement.
The diocese also argued that certain financial demands could interfere with its religious mission, invoking the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Lafferty rejected that argument, finding that applying the Bankruptcy Code's confirmation requirements did not substantially burden the church's religious exercise.
The judge distinguished the requirement to account for church property when calculating potential liquidation proceeds from an order compelling the sale of places of worship. Religious institutions, he concluded, must satisfy the same bankruptcy confirmation standards as other debtors.
The survivors' committee opposed the plan, arguing that the diocese sought to preserve substantial church assets while offering inadequate compensation to abuse claimants. The dispute also produced a competing reorganization proposal filed in March 2026.
Under that proposal, the diocese would contribute approximately $195.2 million to a survivors' trust. The plan also offered the Welfare Corporation the option of contributing another $118.9 million in exchange for resolving abuse claims against it, bringing the potential total to approximately $314.1 million. The additional contribution was conditional on the affiliated organization agreeing to participate, an option it had rejected.
Lafferty rejected the committee's allegations that the diocese had pursued the bankruptcy or proposed its reorganization in bad faith. He also found that the church could continue its ordinary operations and meet the financial obligations contemplated by the proposal.
The court separately found insufficient evidence that the diocese's plan could satisfy the Bankruptcy Code's fairness requirements for imposing a reorganization on dissenting abuse claimants. Federal law permits a judge to approve a plan over creditor objections only when additional conditions governing the treatment of affected creditors are met.
The decision sends the diocese back to negotiations over a reorganization that could resolve the abuse claims through a compensation trust. Lafferty indicated that a revised plan with different financial terms, potentially involving larger contributions, could satisfy federal bankruptcy requirements.
The case has been pending since May 2023, with 345 abuse survivors still awaiting compensation through the proceedings. The judge noted that more than three years of bankruptcy litigation had yet to produce any recovery for them.
Australian bishop sentenced for abusing young indigenous men
Catholic cleric Christopher Saunders preyed on Aboriginal youth for over a decade in a remote diocese
Published 7 Oct, 2026 18:25
A former Australian Catholic bishop has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for sexually abusing two young indigenous men over the course of a decade.
76-year-old ex-bishop Christopher Saunders is one of the most senior Australian clerics to be convicted in a series of scandals that have shaken the Catholic Church for decades. In August, Saunders was found guilty on 13 out of 19 sexual abuse charges pertaining to two accusers he victimized between 2008 and 2019.
Saunders narrowly dodged a harsher punishment, with all the charges related to his alleged sexual relations with minors flopped in court. Four charges related to the alleged abuse of a child younger than 13 were dropped on the first day of his trial, while he was acquitted of six further charges involving a 16-year-old child.
All the crimes were perpetrated by Saunders when he led the remote Broome Diocese between 1996 and 2021, when he resigned from the position over allegations of sexual misconduct. While the territory of the diocese covers an area larger than France, it has a population of only some 50,000, predominantly indigenous people.
The cleric fell under the Vatican’s crosshairs in 2022, when it launched an internal probe into his predatory behavior. While the report was never made public, the Holy See shared its findings with the Australian authorities the next year, and Saunders was ultimately charged in 2024.
The scale of sexual misconduct by the ex-bishop was likely significantly greater than the crimes he was convicted of. The Church’s internal report was leaked to Australia’s Seven Network and indicated that Saunders likely sexually assaulted at least four and groomed a further 67 indigenous minors and young men.
Don't worry. He still has to stand before Jesus Christ!
The sentencing has been welcomed by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, with its president, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, insisting it reflected the gravity of the crimes committed.
“To each victim and survivor who courageously revealed what they had endured, we want to say this: We are sorry for the pain and suffering that was inflicted on you. We are sorry that your trust was so directly and profoundly betrayed by a leader of the Church,” Costelloe said in a statement.
Pastor Adam Hamilton appears in a U.S. Senate campaign ad released in September 2026. | YouTube/Kansas Senate 2026
The U.S. Senate campaign of United Methodist megachurch Pastor Adam Hamilton is again facing questions about how he handled reported sexual abuse by a volunteer at a church youth camp two decades ago, which is now featured in a seven-figure ad buy from his GOP opponent.
The allegations — which resurfaced during Hamilton’s Democratic primary campaign for Kansas’ U.S. Senate seat — date back to 2005, when a camp leader at Hamilton’s Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, reportedly molested two teenage boys at a church youth camp.
Hamilton, the church’s founder and lead pastor, kept Scott Moore on as a church volunteer even after Moore was accused of child molestation in 2005 and 2006, according to the campaign attack ad from Hamilton’s opponent, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan.
“What did Hamilton do when victims reported him to church leaders? Parents were ignored, and Hamilton never called the police,” the ad’s narrator says. “The next fall, Hamilton welcomed him back. Free to lurk for new victims, later convicted of more child sex crimes.”
“Adam Hamilton protected a pedophile,” the narrator says, before concluding, “He should never be our senator.”
In a statement to The Christian Post, Hamilton campaign spokesman Tyson Brody called the Marshall campaign's ad "a shameful attack."
“This is a desperate and shameful attack from a losing politician on his own state’s largest church," Brody said in a statement. "These smears from Roger Marshall were already examined in the primary by local reporters who found the church reported the incidents to law enforcement, and Adam later personally worked to help get this predator convicted.”
The video, part of a reported $1.2 million ad buy by the Marshall campaign, refers to allegations that first surfaced in local Kansas media in May, when Democratic state Sen. Patrick Schmidt accused Hamilton of a cover-up and called on him to drop out of the race.
Both teenagers said they told church leadership the day after the 2005 incident about what happened with Moore but were accused of “slander” by a youth minister, according to trial testimony reviewed by The New York Post.
“Essentially he told us that we were trying to slander Scott’s name and trying to make him look bad, and basically told us that we were messing with his life, and there could be serious repercussions for that,” the first victim was quoted as saying. “And besides that, he really didn’t take any action to look into this further.”
Two church employees reportedly investigated the matter but couldn't definitively prove that Moore was at fault for the alleged molestations. Moore was allowed to return as a counselor to the church in late 2006 even though the children's parents were not told about the results of the church's investigation.
After returning as a camp leader in 2006, court documents say that Moore again entered teenage boys’ rooms. This prompted the church to report Moore to local law enforcement, but prosecutors declined to pursue charges, The Kansas Reflector reported.
Brody told the newspaper in May that the church began updating its volunteer and staff policies after the 2005 allegation. Moore passed the church's criminal background check at the time.
“In 2006, when students reported another allegation, the church called law enforcement, and Adam was personally in contact with them,” Brody was quoted as saying, adding that Moore was then banned from having a role with the church. The church also notified the regional UMC conference and Boy Scouts of America, where Moore also volunteered.
Moore was convicted in 2013 of a misdemeanor for inappropriately touching a 16-year-old boy during a sleepover at his home in 2010. The earlier youth camp allegations were used as evidence during that trial.
Moore also faced a similar charge in Massachusetts in 2011 but was not convicted. In 2015, Moore was found half-naked in a car with a teenage boy shortly before his death.
Hamilton has denied any cover-up. But he told The Kansas Reflector in July that he would have “absolutely” handled the 2005 incident differently by notifying law enforcement directly. The outlet reports that the church went directly to police in 2006.
In 2010, a former Kansas resident visited Hamilton after learning of Moore’s alleged abuse and said Moore had sexually abused him as a young child in 1979, according to court documents cited by The Kansas Reflector. Although the statute of limitations — the legal deadline for filing charges — had expired, Hamilton reportedly encouraged the man, whose name has not been released, to report the allegations to law enforcement.
On Monday, the Hamilton campaign posted a video ad response on social media defending how he handled the allegations. The ad's narrator says the church “conducted an internal investigation” and “reported to law enforcement.”
The church later “cut ties” with Moore, according to the video, which accused Marshall of “lying about [Hamilton] to cover up his own record” and cited Marshall’s vote to block the full release of the Epstein files, government records related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Brody accused Marshall of "resorting to these desperate lies and false attacks."
“Roger Marshall is desperate to hide from his record of protecting predators and preying on low-income families in Kansas," Brody told CP.
With nearly a month to go before Election Day, polls show Hamilton and Marshall in a virtual dead heat, even as Republicans reportedly plan to shift $8 million in campaign spending from North Carolina to the Kansas race.
In his statement to CP, Brody repeated a Hamilton campaign ad's contested claim that in 2011, Marshall, an OB-GYN, had a woman who was eight months pregnant “arrested” for missing a $50 payment to him. The Hamilton campaign says she was one of more than 700 patients Marshall sued while practicing as a physician.
Last month, Marshall's attorneys sent Hamilton’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter over the Hamilton ad making that claim, which they called defamatory.
“The unmistakable message to a reasonable viewer is that Senator Marshall caused a pregnant patient to be arrested and jailed for missing a single $50 payment. That message is false in every material respect,” the letter reads.
Michael Tait accuser responds after pastor posed for photo with former Newsboys frontman
Michael Tait of Newsboys performs during filming of "Candace" on Sept. 13, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee. | Getty Images/Jason Davis
One of the men who accused former Newsboys lead singer Michael Tait of sexual assault is criticizing a pastor who posed for a photo with the contemporary Christian musician and appeared to equate the artist's actions to a “stumble.”
Nathan Mudd, pastor of Ottawa Community Church in Ottawa, Kansas, shared a photo of himself with Tait on social media last week. Mudd has since made his Facebook and Instagram profiles private.
But a screenshot of his Facebook post, shared on Threads, shows the two men posing together with this caption: “Just gave Michael Tait a hug! So glad to see him at a KC MO [Kansas City, Missouri] gathering for pastors. We all stumble in many ways but in Christ our past is God’s weapon!!!”
Last year, Tait faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and substance abuse, and an extensive investigation was published by The Roys Report. The investigation spanned more than two years with interviews with over 50 sources. The accusers said Tait engaged in predatory behavior while they were in their early 20s. They all described similar patterns of grooming, alcohol use and non-consensual physical contact.
Randall Crawford, one of many men who have come forward in recent years to allege sexual abuse by Tait, responded to Mudd’s post in a message that investigative journalist Julie Roys shared on X over the weekend.
“I’m one of the men who came forward about Michael Tait, and calling what happened a ‘stumble’ is exactly what is wrong with celebrity Christianity,” he wrote. “I believe in grace. I believe in forgiveness. But forgiveness is not the same thing as restoration to a platform.”
“Repentance requires accountability and Michael has never contacted me to apologize or ask my forgiveness for what he did to me,” Crawford added. “Yet pastors are already embracing him while survivors were left wondering where the Church was when we needed those open arms.”
Crawford’s allegations against Tait became public in July 2025, after Tait made a public statement. Crawford accused Tait of drugging and sexually assaulting him 25 years earlier. He said he blacked out after drinking alcohol and woke up to find Tait performing a sex act on him.
The Christian Post contacted Mudd for comment but did not receive a response by press time.
Crawford worries that “this becomes the predictable comeback story … the book, the interviews, the tour, and eventually another stage.” He insisted that Tait “can receive God’s grace without ever receiving another microphone.”
He urged Mudd and anyone else trying to rehabilitate Tait’s image to “Stop reducing serious allegations to a ‘stumble’” and “Stop taking one truth about grace and using it to erase everything Scripture teaches about repentance, justice, accountability, and protecting people.”
“Before the church rushes to restore the platform, maybe it should finally reach out to the people who say they were harmed,” he concluded.
Tait responded last year to a wave of allegations against him. By then, he had already stepped down as lead singer of Newsboys for unrelated reasons.
“I want to say I’m sorry to everyone I have hurt. I am truly sorry,” he said at the time.
“I have hurt so many people in so many ways, and I will live with that shameful reality the rest of my life.” He also admitted, “For some two decades, I used and abused cocaine, consumed far too much alcohol, and, at times, touched men in an unwanted sensual way.”
“I am ashamed of my life choices and actions, and make no excuses for them. I will simply call it what God calls it — sin,” Tait said.
Tait also expressed regret for deceiving those close to him. “[I] lied and deceived my family, friends, and even misled my bandmates about aspects of my life,” he said.
“I was, for the most part, living two distinctly different lives. I was not the same person on stage Sunday night that I was at home on Monday. I was violating everything I was raised to believe by my God-fearing Dad and Mom, about walking with Jesus and was grieving the very God I loved and sang about for most of my life,” Tait said.
