Jack Hayford, prominent Pentecostal pastor in Southern California, has died
United StatesRNS Rev Jack Hayford, a popular Pentecostal leader and pioneer of the megachurch movement, often regarded as a “pastor to pastors,” died on Sunday (8th January) at age 88. Hayford died peacefully in his San Fernando Valley home in Southern California, according to a statement from The Church on the Way, a church in Sherman Oaks […]
Texas megachurch pastor sent to prison for fraud scheme
Houston, USAP A former Houston megachurch pastor who once was an adviser to presidents has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for his part in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. “They trusted me with their money, and I abused that trust,” Kirbyjon Caldwell, former pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, an 18,000-member […]
US church Willow Creek names Michigan pastor David Dummitt as new leader
RNS Willow Creek Community Church announced today that David Dummitt, a megachurch pastor from Michigan, will be the church’s new senior pastor. The announcement comes just over two years after Willow Creek’s founding pastor resigned after being accused of abusing power and sexual misconduct. Dummitt is the founding pastor of 2|42 Community Church, a Michigan megachurch with seven campuses […]
US: ROBERT JEFFRESS ON GOD, TRUMP AND NORTH KOREA – A PASTOR EXPLAINS HIS POLITICS
Texas-based pastor, Robert Jeffress, made headlines around the world last week when he said God had given President Donald Trump “authority to take out Kim Jong-Un”. BOBBY ROSS, Jr, of Religion News Service, meets the controversial preacher…
US megachurch pastor Joel Hunter to step down from Orlando church he founded
RNS Rev Joel Hunter walks up the sanctuary steps at the Northland, A Church Distributed in Longwood, Florida, in 2006. Rev Hunter is among a handful of increasingly high-profile evangelical leaders preaching new politics. PICTURE: AP Photo/John Raoux Megachurch pastor Joel Hunter, who tried to lead the nation’s evangelicals toward more moderate, centre-right positions on […]
Alabama Senate gives US megachurch the right to form its own police force
RNS An Alabama Presbyterian church may soon become the first in the US to form its own police force, invested by the state with the rights of “regular” police. Officials at Briarwood Presbyterian Church, which belongs to the smaller and more conservative of the nation’s two major branches of the denomination, say their church, with 4,100 […]