Trinity Foundation in 2015 expanded its coverage of religious fraud to include the whole globe. We will post news reports related to religious fraud and ecclesiastical crime here as they occur.
UNITED STATES
JUNE 2017
Jury Awards Televangelist Grand-daughter $2 million
March 2017
Faith-Healing Church Members Under Fire for Death of Premature Baby
Televangelist Ernest Angley Ordered to Pay $388,000 for Using Unpaid Labor at Buffet
April 2016
Indiana Pastor Turned Flock into Drug Runners
October 2016
Alexandria Pastor Charged with $1.2 Million Dollar Congregant Fraud Scheme
February 2015
National Prayer Breakfast Highlights the Fellowship’s Support for Sudan
Val Kilmer’s Family Says Christian Science Is Hurting His Health
Multisite Elevation Church Buys $10 Million Shopping Center to ‘Secure’ Future in Matthews, NC
Lawsuit Accuses Televangelist Giant Of Threatening Whistleblowers, Funneling Millions To Personal Accounts The Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) is facing a lawsuit…
Kansas Cult leader Daniel Perez faces murder and rape charges
Inside the secluded world of Father Divine
January 2015
James Randi retires from foundation at age 86
Pat Robertson Claims Evolution Is To Blame For Lack Of Miracles In America
AFRICA
May 2017
Nigerian Pastor Tim Omotoso charged with Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
Pastor’s words haunt sexually abused victim
Oyedepo’s Church Received Large Sum from Army General Involved in Massive Fraud
November 2016
Millions later, still no church building say Bushiri congregants
January 2016
Bushiri–I Am Too Filthy Rich to Use Church Offerings
August 2015
Adeboye–Richest Man in the World
February 2015
Bushiri Caught With Pants Down–Again
January 2015
Burundi pastor arrested for stabbing his wife
October 2014
Bishop Oyedepo banned from the UK over church corruption
April 2013
Adeboye interview by Al Jazeera–Private Jets, You can’t oversee 160 nations on a bicycle
ASIA
February 2017
Money Laundering Case ED to Probe Financial Transactions Between Zaki Naik
May 2016
Gospel for Asia Staff Exodus Amid Negative Publicity
November 2016
Thai Prosecutors Charge Influential Buddhist Monk Over Money Laundering
January 2015
Indian Guru, Rockstar Baba accused of rapes, murders…
February 2015
Singapore – City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee admits to $19.2 million embezzlement
China executes cult members guilty of McDonald’s murder
EUROPE
February 2015
Ireland – Is Scientology a ’nonsense, pay-as-you-go religion’? One man thinks so
Ireland – Injunctions maintained in Church of Scientology intimidation case
January 2015
England – Con artist masqueraded as a faith healer to dupe vulnerable victims out of £650,000
MEXICO / CENTRAL AMERICA
October 2016
Dominican Republic – Genesis II Church claims cancer cure for Master Mineral Solution
September 2015
“Cash” Luna & the assassination of Pastor Claudio Martínez Morales
SOUTH AMERICA
February 2014
Israeli filmmaker looks at Edir Macedo’s Temple replica in his movie ‘Inferno’