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China has freed David Lin, a U.S. pastor who had been in jail since 2006, marking the release of a man who Washington claims was wrongfully detained. China releases American pastor who US says was ...
He was detained that same year, after working with a "house church" which was unauthorized by the Chinese government. [6] [8] He was formally arrested on charges of contract fraud in 2009. [6] Lin was convicted of contract fraud, and was sentenced to life in prison. [6]
David Yonggi Cho - Founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church. Sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling 13 billion won (US$12 million) in church funds, in 2014. [49] Kong Hee - Founder of City Harvest Church. Original sentence of eight years, reduced to three and a half years for misappropriation of church funds amounting to SGD50million, in ...
American pastor David Lin and his daughter Alice in 1984. Wells Jr., who is from Louisiana, and Hunt, who is from Chicago, were both arrested in China in 2014 in separate incidents.
Joshua Media Ministries, also known as the Kingdom of God Global Church or Kingdom Family Church, is a ministry and church based in Taylor, Michigan. [1] [2] Former members have described it as a cult, [1] and its president, David E. Taylor, has attracted accusations of sexual misconduct and criticism for his lavish lifestyle and high-profile real estate acquisitions.
A Chinese court sentenced U.S. pastor David Lin to life in prison in 2009, but he's been released ahead of China's Thanksgiving-like Mid-Autumn Festival. China frees 68-year-old U.S. pastor David ...
On May 22, 2022; Johnny Hunt, the longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Georgia; a former Southern Baptist Convention president who was serving as a member of the North American Mission Board, resigned from the North American Mission Board after the Guidepost report on sexual abuse in the SBC included an allegation that Hunt had ...
An evangelical pastor was arrested in Las Vegas on drug and gun-related charges after counter-terrorism cops found him with multiple firearms — and thought he was attempting to mimic the ...