Women who say they survived sexual abuse within a group of conservative Baptist churches are using an unusual legal method to try and hold their alleged abuser accountable — the Racketeer Influenced ...

Sitting in her apartment in Highland, Joy Ryder looks back on two years of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her youth pastor and said it made her reevaluate her relationship with God and religion.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nanette Miles has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging child sex abuse against the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana; the church’s former youth ...

Jack Hyles, innovative pastor of one of the country’s largest congregations, First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, died February 6 from complications following heart surgery. He was 74. A ...

Every Sunday morning since the 1960s, the salvation motorcade has issued forth: hundreds of buses scouring the Chicago area as far north as Waukegan to bring the faithful–some of them on-the-spot ...

September 1959: The Rev. Jack Hyles is named pastor of First Baptist Church, moving to Hammond from a small 44-member church in Garland, Texas, to begin a thriving, fundamental new testament Baptist ...

A new docuseries about the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church takes viewers inside the shocking religious cult that allegedly enslaves women and abuses children. Entertainment Critic The ...

CROWN POINT -- The Rev. Jack Hyles, spiritual leader of more than 100,000 local Baptists, was born in 1926 in the back bedroom of a simple one-story white frame house in Italy, Texas, about 35 miles ...