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An Episcopal Church charitable organization has received an $8 million grant to expand its work to combat violence against women and girls in hard-to-reach African communities, hoping to reach half a million people with "proven approaches and interventions."
Attorneys for Harvest Christian Fellowship and its founder, Greg Laurie, are seeking to dismiss 22 federal lawsuits filed by former wards of the California megachurch’s now-defunct children’s homes in Romania. The claimants allege they were sexually abused and trafficked by former pastor Paul Havsgaard, who has dismissed the allegations as “ugly lies.”
Wiley Drake, a politically outspoken pastor and former vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention known for his advocacy for the poor, has died at the age of 82.
Assemblies of God Executive Presbyter and Senior Pastor of First Assembly of God in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Rod Loy, has denied allegations made in a recent lawsuit by his former youth and executive pastor’s wife that he sexually abused her for 20 years, beginning when she was just 16.
Assemblies of God Executive Presbyter Rod Loy has stepped aside from his role and will face an investigation following a recent lawsuit from a former member who claims he sexually abused her for 20 years, beginning when she was 16.
A church in Tennessee has secured a $996,000 grant to build a memorial in remembrance of enslaved people at the site of a former slave market near their sanctuary.
Events from this week in Christian history include the birth of Henry Venn, the exiling of Athanasius of Alexandria and the death of Cotton Mather.
God has forgiven convicted Gateway Church founder Robert Morris who is currently serving time in an Oklahoma jail for child sex abuse and is expected to be release during Easter according to his “spiritual son” and protégé, Pastor Landon Schott, of the multi-campus Mercy Culture Church in Texas.
A formal complaint has been filed with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission, raising concern about the ongoing ties between the new Bethel Sydney campus and Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church in Redding, California, where leaders have admitted to mishandling allegations of data harvesting to generate fake prophecies and sexual misconduct against Christian minister Shawn Bolz.
