http://www.aboms.com/ News from Aboms.com en-us editor@covenantnews.com 2010-02-09T04:27:21-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013266.html Ugandan Christian minister Martin Ssempa has issued a strong rebuttal to Obama’s criticism of his country for considering passage of a law to discourage and punish certain homosexual practices. “Sodomy is neither the change we want nor can believe in,”... 13266@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-09T04:27:21-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013265.html BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A 26-year-old Buffalo man remained jailed Monday on charges of holding a 13-year-old runaway in his house for six months, having sex with her more than 100 times and making her baby-sit his 1-year-old son. Michael Abdallah... 13265@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-09T04:21:17-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013264.html DURHAM -- The woman charged with killing her ex- lover's fiancee told police she had an abortion about a year before graduate student Denita Smith was found shot to death outside her apartment, Durham police investigators testified Monday. Defense attorney... 13264@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-09T04:14:04-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013263.html WILMINGTON, Del. -- A 66-year-old habitual sex offender has been sentenced to 30 years behind bars for traveling to Germany to molest a teenage orphan. Thomas S. Pendleton received the maximum sentence Wednesday in federal court in Delaware. A jury... 13263@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-08T04:46:20-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013262.html Patrick Hughes, an 82-year-old priest, is upset that anyone should call him a paedophile. I’m only attracted to altar boys, he told the police. I’m not a paedophile. Remember the Murphy Report, do you? Remember all these bishops talking about... 13262@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-08T04:45:49-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013261.html A former teacher at an exclusive Melbourne school found with child pornography studied education after he realised he was interested in young boys, a court has heard. George Iliakis, a former Year 6 teacher at Brighton Grammar, has admitted binding... 13261@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-08T04:45:17-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013260.html LANCASTER PA -- The child was sexually assaulted "hundreds of times," for almost eight years, the prosecutor said. The man made another child watch at times, the prosecutor added, as he performed "every kind of sexual act" on the girl.... 13260@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-06T03:52:47-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013259.html CONWAY, NH -- The pastor and three elders of a church in Redstone were arraigned yesterday on charges they failed to report an alleged case of sexual abuse when they became aware of it last summer. The four men belong... 13259@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-06T03:51:58-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013258.html The now familiar narrative of systematic abuse of children by priests has scandalised Germans, but campaigners fear the church’s perceived lack of will to change will deny victims justice, writes DEREK SCALLY in Berlin. It is 23 years since Adam... 13258@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-06T03:51:21-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013257.html CUMBERLAND -- Monsignor Thomas Bevan, former pastor of the Church of St. Patrick on Centre Street, has been charged by Frederick County authorities for child abuse against an altar boy in 1976. The 73-year-old retired priest, of Cascade, was released... 13257@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-06T03:50:25-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013252.html Pastor married with three children (Exod.20:14; Lev.20:10; Prov.6:32; Matt.5:27-28; Gal.5:19-21) Minneapolis Star Tribune The former pastor of a church in Prior Lake pleaded guilty Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court to soliciting a prostituted woman. The Rev. John K. Erbele,... 13252@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-05T04:45:16-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013256.html SPOKANE -- The first of 19 Morning Star Boys' Ranch sexual abuse lawsuits stretched into its fourth week Monday in Spokane. Since the civil trial began, the courtroom has at times been packed with lawyers for the other cases waiting... 13256@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-05T04:44:16-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013255.html FAIRBANKS -- The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks is emerging from bankruptcy under a plan that will provide nearly $10 million -- and maybe much more -- to sexual abuse victims, send the bishop traveling to parishes where abuse occurred, and... 13255@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-05T04:43:22-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013254.html LA CROSSE, Wis. -- A visiting Catholic priest is expected to be charged next week with sexually assaulting a local woman he was counseling through a divorce. The 47-year-old woman told investigators the Rev. Edmund Donkor-Baine in August forced her... 13254@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-05T04:37:06-05:00 http://www.aboms.com/archives/013253.html BOSTON -- A "man" who battled the IRS over a tax deduction for the costs of his sex-change operation says "she" feels like "she" won a victory for all transgender people. Rhiannon O'Donnabhain (oh-DON'-oh-vin), who was born a man, sued... 13253@http://www.aboms.com/ 2010-02-05T04:29:17-05:00