http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24525/singapores-city-harvest-church-controversy-comes-to-the-hollywood-hills http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24525/singapores-city-harvest-church-controversy-comes-to-the-hollywood-hills#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:51:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24525 Over the past few weeks, City Harvest Church pastor Kong Hee, a Christian leader in the Charismatic Movement who oversees more than 40 affiliates in such places as Singapore, Taiwan, and Indonesia, has been the focus of a police probe in Singapore for the possible misuse of church funds. Now Hee's questionable financial dealings may be surfacing in L.A. Hee's pop star wife, singer Ho Yeow Sun, who's better known as Sun Ho, is renting a Hollywood Hills mansion for $20,000 per month, according to The New Paper. Asian journalists, who have jumped on the story, don't know if anything is illegal about the expensive accommodations, but it's certainly a huge public relations gaffe for the embattled Hee and City Harvest Church.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24525/singapores-city-harvest-church-controversy-comes-to-the-hollywood-hills/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24378/city-harvest-church-under-investigation-by-cad-and-commissioner-of-charities http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24378/city-harvest-church-under-investigation-by-cad-and-commissioner-of-charities#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:20:04 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24378 A day after City Harvest Church completed a massive five-day seminar which involved 30,000 people including foreign evangelists, police rounded up several individuals linked to the church for alleged misuse of church funds.

The 17 people who are 'assisting police with investigations' included the megachurch's founder and Senior Pastor Kong Hee, who was picked up early Monday morning.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24378/city-harvest-church-under-investigation-by-cad-and-commissioner-of-charities/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24377/city-harvest-church-questioned-over-its-310-million-stake-in-suntec http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24377/city-harvest-church-questioned-over-its-310-million-stake-in-suntec#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:03:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24377 City Harvest Church (CHC) has been questioned by the Commissioner of Charities over its $310 million purchase of a stake in Suntec Singapore which it announced two weeks ago, the Straits Times reported today.

The stake raised some eyebrows among Singaporeans who questioned if registered charities should be allowed to go into business and if the income collected by CHC through its Suntec rentals would be taxed.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24377/city-harvest-church-questioned-over-its-310-million-stake-in-suntec/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2148/poon-says-sorry-pastor-asks-church-to-forgive http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2148/poon-says-sorry-pastor-asks-church-to-forgive#comments Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:46:20 +0000 Editor http:/?p=2148 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2148/poon-says-sorry-pastor-asks-church-to-forgive/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2017/i-have-done-nothing-wrong http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2017/i-have-done-nothing-wrong#comments Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:36:25 +0000 Editor http:/?p=2017 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2017/i-have-done-nothing-wrong/feed 0