In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo at very top, founder of the Sydney-based global Hillsong Church Brian Houston leaves a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearings in Sydney, Australia. Houston has been charged with concealing child sex offenses, police said on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
Team Jesus, please pray over this situation.
FROM CHURCHLEADERS:
Brian Houston, global senior pastor and co-founder of worldwide evangelical megachurch Hillsong, has been charged by New South Wales (NSW) Police Force for allegedly concealing child sex offenses. Houston’s lawyers were served on Thursday August 5, 2021.
The charge comes after a two-year investigation that concluded Houston failed to report his father Frank Houston’s sexual abuse of a 7-year-old boy during the 1970s. The investigation revealed that Houston was aware of his father’s alleged abuse in 1999, and rather than reporting the truth to the authorities, he chose to look the other way so his father could retire quietly. His father admitted to the abuse before his death in 2004.More Here