Over the last seven days...

Alabama: Pastor Ralph Lee Aaron charged with 152 counts of sodomy, sexual abuse, sexual torture and possession of obscene matter involving children.

Manitoba: Pastor Raju Madanu pleads guilty to stealing church donations meant for an orphanage.

Missouri: Youth Pastor Michael Joy arrested for aggravated indecent solicitation of pre-teen child. Bonus: Joy was employed by the church despite spending most of the '80s in prison for the same crime.

Oklahoma: Pastor Josh Spires sentenced to ten years in prison for child molestation.

Georgia: The Catholic Diocese of Savannah agrees to pay $4M settlement to man molested by Father Wayland Brown.

California: Pastor Reuben Mitchell charged with two counts molesting pre-teen girls.

Spain: Catholic priest arrested in immigration scam in which over 100 foreigners paid $15K each to marry a Spaniard and gain residency.

Quebec: Father John Duarte arrested for molesting boys at Haitian mission he founded.

Poland: Father Norbert Jedrusinski arrested for bank robbery.

Australia: Archbishop Denis Hart tells local priests to disregard a letter written to several parishes by a woman warning about sexual abuses even though the imprisoned priest she claims raped her at seven years old has confessed to molesting dozens of children.

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Michigan: The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) charges that the Archdiocese of Detroit knew fully well that Father Joseph Skelton was a convicted child molester and allowed his ordination in the Philippines anyway. In 1988 Skelton was convicted of molesting a boy in his room at the Detroit seminary. The Archdiocese of Washington recently settled a lawsuit brought by a man who says that Skelton and Father George Stallings tag-teamed him as a boy.

Over the last seven days...

Texas: Pastor Tomas Gonzales sentenced to 15 years for molesting five year-old girl.

Uganda: Pastor Obiri Kojo Yeboah arrested for fraud for wearing a hidden electrical device to deceive parishioners into thinking his touch was slaying them in the Lord. Bonus: The Pentacostal Church is outraged at faked miracle healing.

New Jersey: Father Michael Fugee removed by Archdiocese, saying they just learned of his 2003 molestation conviction.

Michigan: Pastor Randy William Strong sentenced to one year in jail for molesting ten year-old boy.

DC: Pastor Henry Lyons, who served five years in prison for embezzling $5M from the National Baptist Convention, is now suing the organization, claiming they defrauded him of the votes necessary to once again become their president.

England: Vicar Peter Hedge found guilty of more than 30 counts of rape and sexual assault on underage boys.

Georgia: A new website has been launched to serve those molested and sexually abused by pastors of the Church of God In Christ.

Italy: Vatican bureaucrat Father Cesare Burgazzi gets charges dropped after high-speed chase through transsexual prostitution district during which he injured three cops. Friends in high places.

Israel: Rabbi Yosef Schneider arrested for defrauding investors of millions.

California: Rev. Christine Daniel arrested for selling fake cancer cure and hastening the deaths of at least six people. Bonus: Daniel used to sell her potions on TBN's Praise The Lord show.

Delaware: The Catholic Archdiocese of Wilmington declares Chapter 11 bankruptcy after petitioning the court in vain for an "equitable settlement" for 142 victims of molestation by priests.

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Vancouver: A man identified only as DJW has been found guilty of negligence for performing a home circumcision on his four year-old son after reading the book of Christian author Richard Hoskins, who says such a rite is demanded by the Bible (which also has the answers for "all of the problems in society, including the number of abortions and homosexuals.") Telling his son that it would give him "extra special protection from God," the man performed the surgery using a non-sharp, non-sterile razor and a blood coagulant "meant for horses." Because it was cheaper than human coagulent. Bonus: In 2005, DJW home-circumsized himself, resulting in unstoppable bleeding and an infection of his penis.

Over the last seven days...

Alabama: Pastor Simon Bussie arrested for sodomizing 11 year-old girl. Bussie was in the charge of the church's day care center.

North Carolina: Pastor Robert Lee Adams Reaves convicted of murdering a 21 year-old woman. According to testimony, Reaves stabbed the woman dozens of times because she was dating a man that Reaves was interested in.

New Jersey: Pastor Lonny Aleshire demands new trial after pleading guilty to raping underage girls.

Canada: Brothers Allen and Phillip Latimer reveal they were sexually molested by the late Father Allen McDonald while serving as his altar boys. The men came forward after last week's arrest of Bishop Raymond Lahey, who briefly hid from authorities after being charged with the possession of child pornography. Lahey had been in charge of Father McDonald's case.

Mexico: Father Jose Carlos Contreras Rodriguez charged with raping and murdering a 16 year-old girl.

South Africa: Unnamed pastor convicted of raping his two pre-teen daughters. His name is shielded to protect the victims.

New York: Pastor Eddy Mijares sentenced to 14 years in prison for molesting 13 year-old girl.

Michigan: Pastor Timothy Allen Ortiz charged with forcible sexual conduct on underage girl.

Virginia: Pastor Steven Joplin charged with seven counts of sexual assault on pre-teen girls.

Ohio: Father Gerald Robinson loses his appeal to overturn his conviction for murdering Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, whom he stabbed 31 times in the face and neck.

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Pennsylvania: The parents of two year-old Kent Schaible have been charged with manslaughter for allowing their "faith healing" pastor to pray over the child, rather than seeking medical attention for his bacterial pneumonia, which could have been cured with simple antibiotics. The father is a teacher at First Century Gospel Church, whose members believe in healing by prayer rather than medicine. Before his death, little Kent suffered from "a sore throat, congestion, liquid bowel movements, sleeplessness and trouble swallowing," yet his parents continued to pray.

Over the last seven days...

California: Pastor Jose Campoverde charged with molesting four girls living in church housing for needy families.

England: Father David Pearce confesses to sexually assaulting five underage boys.

Ohio: Pastor Joshua O'Bannion accused of molestation by two girls who came forward after O'Bannion was arrested in Arizona on the same charge.

Alabama: Pastor Curtis Willis shot and killed by police after he axed off the hand of a deputy who'd arrived to serve an order of protection for Curtis' wife. The deputy's hand was successfully reattached.

New York: Iman Ahmad Wais Afzali charged with lying to FBI during terrorism inquiry.

England: Church of England under fire for not revealing that Vicar Dominick Stone had been arrested for possession of "indecent photographs."

Louisiana: Rev. James Ford accused of "inappropriately touching" three girls whose parents were arrested for allowing Ford to molest them.

Maryland: Father Michael Barnes arrested for molesting a boy from '77-'82.

Virginia: Father Rodney L. Rodis appealing his conviction for embezzling more than $600K-$1M from his churches.

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Italy: Vatican official Father Cesare Burgazzi was arrested after leading police on a 20-minute high-speed chase after being found "driving slowly" through a red light district known for transsexual prostitutes. Two wrecked police cars and three injured officers later, Burgazzi was taken into custody screaming, "You have no idea who I am. You don't know who you are messing with!" This, after attempting to run the officers down with his car. Burgazzi works at the Vatican State Department and is Master of Ceremonies at St. Peter's Basilica. He claims he thought the police were robbers and denies that they found the front seats of his car in the reclined position. His lawyer said, "My client is not a user of prostitutes or transsexuals - he did not have condoms in his car."

Over the last seven days...

South Carolina: Pastor John David Helmuth busted in internet sting for trying to meet what he thought was a 13 year-old girl for sex.

Connecticut: Rev. Iura Godenciuc charged with defrauding school district of $76K.

New York: Father William Blasingame pleads guilty to stealing $86K from his diocese for plastic surgery and botox. Linked photo proves he did not spend wisely.

Massachusetts: Rabbi Stanley Zusia Levitt charged with sexually assaulting two pre-teen boys.

Illinois: Father Fred Lenczycki, the first Catholic priest ever declared "sexually violent," has been released from prison after only five years after confessing to sexually assaulting over 30 boys.

Pennsylvania: Rev. Vincent Navorro Meekin charged with embezzling funds donated to build his church a new roof.

Arizona: Father Dale Fushek to have five separate trials for sexual crimes against minors. Bonus: Fuskek is the founder of Teen Life Ministries.

Illinois: Father Daniel McCormick may be indefinitely confined under the state's Sexually Violent Persons Act. McCormick is due for release after confessing to molesting five boys ages 8-12, but the state fears he will reoffend.

North Carolina: Pastor Robert Reaves has fired his attorneys and wants to defend himself in the 2008 stabbing murder of a woman who was seeing a man Reaves was reportedly interested in. Reaves has previous convictions for sexually abusing boys.

New Jersey: Rev. John Harris Jr. charged with sexually harassing a church employee who says she was fired for refusing his advances.

North Carolina: Pastor Brian Andrew Klein sued by parishioner who claims he coerced her into a sexual relationship when she was a minor.

Israel: Rabbi Avichai Zehavi under house arrest after four families come forward with allegations of sexual abuse of minors.

New York: Angelo Serrano, Director of Religious Education at St. Lucy - St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, charged with molesting 10 year-old boy. Cops say there may up to 17 other victims.

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Oklahoma: Pastor Ted Haggard is telling a local newspaper that he is now "completely free of homosexual compulsions." Haggard and his wife have been holding weekly "meetings" with fellow Christians in his Colorado Springs home. Haggard: "As a church, we're God's primary hand to help people with sin problems, whether it be gluttony, pride, hate, high-mindedness, selfishness, immorality (such as) fantasizing, porn, masturbation, homosexuality, bisexuality."