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THE PROBLEM

The Problem of Religious Fraud
Trinity Foundation's original mission was to creatively explore multiple media to communicate the message of the cross of Christ. But we found there was an obstacle that was keeping many people from hearing the true gospel.

PROFESSOR TELLS WHY IRS IS LEAVING CHURCHES ALONE

Religion News Service’s Mark Silk, Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College, explains why the IRS is leaving churches alone for now… and this includes the fakes as well, as far as we can tell !

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

• How much money is involved in religious fraud?
• What are the different ways fraudulent ministries get funds?
• Specifically, how does this break the law?
• So why hasn't the government stopped these practices?
• What can I do?

WHY WE INVESTIGATE

Trinity Foundation is sometimes criticized for investigating religious fraud. Some say our investigations are an attack on Christianity itself. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Read more here.

SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE

In 2007 we began furnishing the committee information for its investigation into televangelists' finances and tax-exempt status. We were disappointed when, in 2011, the chairman Sen. Charles Grassley made recommendations that didn’t include any new legislation.

MEDIA INVESTIGATIONS

A sample of the investigations we have participated in and other findings on religious fraud.

OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS?

The state of Delaware provides the least transparency and the most secrecy for creating shell corporations, according to The New York Times. And the televangelists have taken notice.

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Video: An Introduction to Trinity’s Investigations

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GLOBAL RELIGIOUS FRAUD REPORTS

Click here for the latest reports on religious fraud from the U.S., Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

TIPS FOR PREVENTING RELIGIOUS FRAUD

If you have a loved one entangled with a greedy ministry, here are suggestions for identifying and preventing religious fraud.In addition, here's a helpful guide to scams targeting the elderly. Scammers tend to target elderly people with all kinds of schemes, taking advantage of their isolation, ease of trust, higher savings, and lack of tech savvy, among other things.

VICTIMS / INFORMANTS “HOTLINE”

Report fraudulent activity and fill out a victim abuse questionnaire
Note: you may also contact [email protected], or call 214-827-2625 if you would rather speak to a representative.

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TRINITY IN THE NEWS

God Doesn’t Need Ole Anthony — The Antichrist of East Dallas: The man televangelists hate from The New Yorker, Dec. 6, 2004.

Ole Anthony: End homelessness Dallas Morning News, Oct 27, 2005 …

From the U.K. — Julian Charles at themindrenewed.com interviewed Ole on May 10th, 2013 and the half-hour podcast can be found here.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Why be concerned about the homeless? Trinity's work with the homeless led directly to our work uncovering religious fraud. Read how you can help.

FEEDBACK

"I left church because I was so many times -what I call - 'spiritually abused'.... Please, please, please continue your work and expose these greedy and cruel liars." -- e-mail from Germany.
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VIDEO: TELEVANGELISTS TAKE TO THE AIR!

Video: Televangelist Ernest Angley practices touch-and-go landings... in his 747. ... But sometimes you can come down hard.
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BAKKER PEDDLING SURVIVAL ENEMAS?

Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker is betting on the coming (partial) apocalypse

WITTENBURG DOOR ON HOLD

The Wittenburg Door satire magazine has been 'on hold' since 2008. See the static website here.

OLE’S BIBLE STUDY PODCASTS

Ole's Bible study podcasts are on the Community on Columbia website here.