ICE protests and little girls being abused in Minneapolis

30 more people indicted over anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church, Bondi says

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

PBS NewsSarah Raza, Associated Press

Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.

In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.

ProPublicaJessica Lussenhop, Andy Mannix, and Leila Navidi

5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Leaders of a Minnesota Church Community Enabled a Child Abuser

ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune found that victims of abuse within an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth were told to forgive and forget. Here’s what to know from our reporting.

ProPublicaJessica Lussenhop and Andy Mannix

What a recorded interview between police and preachers reveals about how a Minnesota church handled sexual abuse

A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.

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That a man many knew as the “fun uncle” had touched them sexually under their skirts and tops.

I don't like those naughty “nieces” being so aware of themselves around the boys at such a young age, gossiping about a “fun uncle” and then showing up at the police station 15 years later after presumably failing to find a husband.

There are cock-and-bull stories, sure, many of the accusations are false as to the particulars of them, but that's still too much unseemly partying for it all to be false. Plenty of other abusers, too. Not just one man who was “caught" and not by any means in any one particular church.

County attorney offers perspective on Duluth church abuse case

The prosecutor called it “truly heartbreaking” that justice was delayed for several years and explained why charges were not brought against preachers for failing to report a member’s crimes.

Duluth News TribuneTom Olsen

St. Cloud priest’s bail set at $0 in alleged sexual abuse case

Bail set at $0 with conditions by a Stearns County judge for a Catholic priest accused of alleged sexual abuse.

St. Cloud TimesCorey Schmidt

Church volunteer accused of sexually assaulting kids found incompetent to stand trial | AlphaNews.org

A St. Paul man charged last spring with sexually assaulting four young children while volunteering at a local church was ruled incompetent.

Alpha News MNHayley Feland

Twin Cities archdiocese to pay $210 million to sexual abuse victims

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has agreed to a $210 million settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of its plan for bankruptcy reorganization, making it the second-largest U.S. payout in the scandal.

PBS NewsSteve Karnowski, Associated Press

You really do have to “forgive and forget” in order to find peace and joy in your own heart and move on with your life regardless of what has happened or might have happened in the past. No preacher is lying to say that. Otherwise it's that anger that just keeps eating away at you and destroying your soul.

That's all a preacher can counsel you on, to point the way to Jesus Christ so you can find that inner peace and joy within your own heart and with your own personal relationship with God.

Something just keeps eating away at certain women, though, and they never find that peace and joy that comes with a good conscience.