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intro This list will be updated as more information becomes available. Please note that this is just the material we have accrued and not a complete list. Clergy Gone Wild can provide a more through list.

Homicide

• Parents in faith-healing case never considered calling a doctor
• Wis. jury: Father guilty in prayer death case
• Pastor Arrested for Shooting & Killing Man During Church Service Over Alleged Affair with His Wife
• Former pastor pleads in murder case involving missing woman
• Baptist pastor sentenced to 50 years for hiring mistress and her husband to set his wife on fire
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Fraud

• Tracking a Pastor and His Promise of Jobs
• Little Boy Who Claimed to Die and Visit Heaven Admits He Made It Up
• http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47307792/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/#.WXsdJmLyvFh
• Austin pastor arrested for sexual abuse of youth member
• N.J. pastor pleads not guilty to charge he faked assault
• Former Ardmore pastor arrested for writing bogus checks
• pastor suspected of lottery scamming arrested
• Indiana Pastor Turned Flock Into Drug Runners
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Physical Abuse

• Indiana pastor, church employee arrested for beating school boys
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LBGTQ+ Discrimination

• Archbishop tells woman to reject gay son or suffer eternal damnation
• Catholics 'cannot accept gay marriage'
• Same-sex couple barred from Lexington Catholic prom
• Pastor Orders His Flock to Beat Gay Couple Arriving At Church
• The 3 Michigan Churches Who Are Quitting the Homeless Because Another Church Dares Tolerate LGBTs
• War over gay clergy brings a whole religion to “the brink of schism”
• Catholic Bishop Decrees Lawmakers Who Voted for Same-Sex Marriage Should Not Receive Communion
• The Glaring Double Standards Of The Air Force’s Most Homophobic, ‘Bible-Believing’ Chaplain
• Salvation Army busted discriminating against transgender people (again)
• BYU-Idaho fires adjunct professor after LGBT Pride Month post on Facebook

Sexual Abuse

• Abuse hotline set up by Catholic Church in Germany melts down on first day as 4,000 people phone in
• Boys 'rented out' for abuse at Salvation Army boys' home at Bexley in Sydney's south
• Montreal Catholic Church will fingerprint all priests working with children Priest who molested 'maybe 20 boys' says he was ordered to pray as punishment
• Priest who molested 'maybe 20 boys' says he was ordered to pray as punishment
• Youth pastor sexually exploited teens to ‘help them gain purity’
• Retired priest facing charge of touching teen 14 years ago
• Texas pastor charged with sexually assaulting child
• Sex Abuse among Evangelicals worse than for Catholics
• Parent claims Washington County district violated son's due process right in punishment for hazing
• Disgraced Catholic priest loses appeal of 'sex tourism' convictions for molesting orphans
• Overland Park Catholic priest charged with child sex crimes
• Retired Catholic priest charged with forcing 10-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him
• Hundreds of German choir boys allegedly abused, report says
• Students say Christian college turned a blind eye to serial rapists
• Youth leader facing sex charges claims teen was 'keen as a jellybean'
• Former Rainbow City youth pastor arrested for producing pornography
• Police arrest pastor who raped his 14-year-old step-daughter
• Local pastor arrested for sexual battery
• Pastor found guilty on child molestation, sexual battery charges
• Youth pastor fired by California church and arrested for rape, sodomy, sexual assault
• Darlington pastor jailed on charges of sex crimes against a child
• Local pastor arrested after being accused of indecency with a child
• Trinity Fellowship sued over accusations of sexual assault of child by volunteer pastor
• Former Pastor Arrested on Child Sex Assault Charge: Police
• Former Anson youth pastor arrested for indecency with a child
• COGIC Pastor Arrested For Sexually Abusing Teen Family Member
• New Orleans Pastor Arrested For Sexually Assaulting Relatives As Young As 5 Years Old
• Darlington pastor accused of inappropriately touching boy
• OC Youth Pastor Arrested On Suspicion Of Engaging In Inappropriate Conduct With Children
• Youth Pastor Arrested for Lewd Molestation
• Former Norfolk pastor sentenced for spying on woman via hidden camera
• Austin pastor arrested for sexual abuse of youth member
• Longtime priest in the Bronx accused of sexually abusing minors
• Greenville County Pastor Arrested on Sexual Assault of a Minor Charges
• Seminary Student Travels to San Diego for Sex With Infants: ICE
• Toronto pastor Brent Hawkes charged in 1970s sex assault
• Pastor arrested over rape of teenage girl
• Youth pastor arrested; foster child described 3 years of abuse
• NJ Pastor Accused of Molesting Teens Who Attended His Church: Prosecutors
• UPDATE: Former Church Pastor Gets Life in Prison for Sex Abuse
• TBI: Sullivan Co. grand jury indicts Bristol pastor on child rape charges
• Former youth minister, substitute teacher arrested on child molestation charges
• Avoca pastor accused of sexually assaulting teen congregation members
• Pastor arrested for raping 7-yr-old daughter of his friend
• US pastor raped Malawian boys
• Two ministers nabbed in child-prostitution sting
• Pauls Valley teacher arrested on child abuse complaints related to students
• Former pastor at Pomona church pleads no contest to molesting a child
• Alberta pastor charged with child luring after discovery of ‘sexually explicit’ text messages
• Youth pastor faces third sex-abuse charge in Pearl River County
• Baptist Church Was Led By Sex Offender For Years
• Jackson Co. pastor charged with sexual abuse of a child
• Tolleson PD: Youth pastor Robert Jerez arrested for having sex with underage churchgoer
• East Bay minister charged with 23 counts of child sex abuse
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Unclassifiably Weird

• Ted Haggard Had a Sex Toy Molded After Himself, Used It
• US: Christian group begins ‘fasting’ to stop same-sex marriage, but members can still eat food
• Ghana's witch camps: last refuge of the powerless and the persecuted
• Married Atlanta Pastor Arrested For Allegedly Spreading HIV At Church
• Pastor Arrested With Suspected Human Meat
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http://listverse.com/2017/07/23/10-outrageous-scandals-that-rocked-the-vatican-in-recent-years/

Fascism

• Italian Catholic Priest Welcomes Believers with Swastika on His Right Arm
• Evangelical Corporations Try To Force Their Employees To Follow Their Religious Beliefs
• Australia Post Unknowingly Handed Out Anti-Gay Flyers With Nazi Imagery

See ten thousand ministries See the holy righteous dogs, They claim to heal, but all they do is steal, Abuse your faith, cheat, and rob, If God is wise, why is he still, When these false profits, call him friend, Why is he silent, is he blind!? Are we abandoned in the end?

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