In the leadup to a Wichita Falls pastor’s trial for charges related to child sex crimes, prosecutors are seeking records from religious campuses and calling for an expert in child sexual abuse to testify, court records show. Longtime Rephidim Church Pastor Ronnie Allen Killingsworth is scheduled for trial April 30 in 78th District Court for […]
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Man studying to be a priest is found with child pornography at seminary, Ohio cops say
A man studying to be a priest in Ohio was arrested on child pornography charges, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati said. Broderick Witt was a seminarian at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology, according to a news release. Police searched Witt’s room at the seminary on Feb. 9 and then arrested him, the archdiocese […]
Wyoming Seminary presents Winter Acting Workshop
Feb. 6—KINGSTON — Wyoming Seminary’s Drama Department will present its annual Winter Acting Workshop, a selection of short plays and scenes in two alternating slates, from Wednesday, February 7 to Sunday, February 11. Performances are free and open to the public, but seating is limited. The audience will be seated on stage in an intimate […]
Inside an Orthodox Jewish seminary that has lost 8 students in the Israel-Hamas war
YERUCHAM, Israel — Peering over tightly packed rows of books in the great hall of the white-brick seminary, the students pause their study of the Torah and Talmud each day for afternoon prayers, chanting the same words that Jews have been recited for centuries. But these days, as the young men rock back and forth […]