http://www.aboms.com/ News from Aboms.com en-us editor@covenantnews.com 2010-09-03T04:00:32-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014822.html Armagh, Northern -- Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has "moved on" and will not resign. "I've moved on... 14822@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T04:00:32-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014821.html BRUSSELS -- According to secretly-recorded tapes made public, a former leader of Belgium's Catholic church advised a victim of sexual abuse to remain silent until after the retirement of the perpetrator, who was both the victim's uncle and the Bishop... 14821@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:59:58-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014820.html BALTIMORE -- A former pastor confessed to taking out million dollar life insurance policies on a blind man, then ordering him killed. Kelly McPherson has the latest. The insurance money from a 2007 church fire was used by its pastor... 14820@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:59:37-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014819.html PHOENIX -- If you read the headline to this post and think you're experiencing a case of deja vu, we assure you, you're not. Leaders of a church being accused of molesting kids is nothing new, to say the least,... 14819@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:59:19-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014818.html A Dublin-based priest has been jailed for four years for sexually abusing three sisters nearly 50 years ago. In May, Rev Eugene Lewis, a former provincial superior of the White Fathers, was convicted of indecently assaulting the young girls at... 14818@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:59:02-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014817.html Dublin based priest Rev Eugene Lewis, unanimously convicted of sexually abusing three sisters in their Co Ferrmanagh home going back almost 50 years, has been jailed for a total of four years in a Belfast Court. However, the 76-year-old disgraced... 14817@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:58:42-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014816.html The joint synod of Italy's Waldensian and Methodist Protestant churches has, as the denominations' highest governing body, agreed to authorise the blessing of same-sex couples in church under certain conditions. The Synod president, Marco Bouchard, described the 26 August decision... 14816@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:58:16-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014815.html NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- It's the conundrum Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets are desperate to solve: How to stem the decades-long losses and attract new worshippers. The United Methodist Church, the third largest denomination in the country, thinks... 14815@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:57:57-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014814.html A Southern California man has been sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and beating to death his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter. Twenty-nine-year-old Antonio Rodriguez was sentenced Thursday in a San Fernando courtroom for the 2004 attack. He was convicted in July... 14814@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:57:19-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014813.html COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A condemned inmate had his life spared Thursday when Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland cited "legitimate questions" about evidence used to convict the inmate, even though the governor believes the prisoner committed the crimes. . . . Police... 14813@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T03:14:02-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014812.html Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s confession to being an accomplice in her husband’s murder on Iranian state TV is a fabrication, her former cellmate Shahnaz Gholami (pictured) told FRANCE 24. -- The TV ‘confession’ of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by... 14812@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-03T02:59:03-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014811.html Centreville Man Accused Of Child Sex Crimes Arrested In Poland An international manhunt for a Centreville man described by U.S. Marshals as one of the most wanted child sex offenders in the country ended last week in Poland. Former Little... 14811@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-02T04:25:20-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014810.html The family of a 14-year-old Loomis girl molested by a youth pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Rocklin are now suing him and the church for allowing the abuse to occur. The church is also known as Rocklin Foursquare Church... 14810@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-02T04:24:23-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014809.html BALTIMORE, MD -- A former Catholic school teacher convicted of raping one of his students in the mid-1970s has filed an appeal that he hopes will improve his chances of being released from prison. A federal judge has ruled that... 14809@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-02T04:23:58-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/014808.html SANTA ROSA, CA -- Shame and fear of ridicule kept him quiet about alleged sexual abuse by a Catholic priest in Eureka nearly 30 years ago, a Humboldt County man said Tuesday. “For a man, there is so much shame... 14808@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-09-02T04:23:10-05:00