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Thursday May 28, 2009
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Celebrity evangelist Brian Houston has defended his Hillsong ministry against allegations it is a “cult-like” organisation as the Sydney megachurch opened a “campus” church on Brisbane’s southside recently. Houston is interested in expanding further into Europe, where Hillsong already operates in London, Paris, Kiev, Stockholm and Moscow.
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Sunday July 27, 2008
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Hillsong describes Shine as a “practical, life-equipping, values-based course” and its website is awash with glowing testimonials from young women whose lives have been improved by learning about “being a good friend” and “learning about myself”.
But serious concerns have been raised by teachers, adolescent developmental experts and parents groups. They say the program is inappropriate for troubled young women, that the under-qualified facilitators are reinforcing gender stereotypes. and that some parents have not been properly informed.
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Saturday August 4, 2007
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When a former member of the Hillsong congregation started asking hard questions, she was thrown out…
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Saturday July 28, 2007
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The poster adorning shopping malls across suburban Sydney showing the perennial party girl Katie Fischer knitting seems incongruous given her reputation for painting the town red. But James Packer’s former fiancee admits she is a changed woman, or rather the socialite who found God.
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Wednesday July 4, 2007
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With themes of unity, courage, justice and freedom, this year’s opening of the annual Hillsong conference had the ring of a United Nations convention rather than a church gathering.
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Monday September 25, 2006
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Members of Sydney’s Hillsong Church lost millions of dollars in an illegal property investment scheme, a court has been told. The businessman behind the project, Robert John Orehek, is accused of illegally issuing securities, and of using investor funds to buy his $3.05 million harbourside home.
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Saturday July 15, 2006
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The news that the Federal Government has registered the welfare arm of Hillsong Church as the state's - and possibly the country's - biggest charitable provider of financial counselling services to indigent unemployed people has raised alarm bells in some quarters.
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Thursday July 13, 2006
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The welfare arm of the Hillsong Church will be the biggest non-government provider of services to unemployed people in NSW under a new Federal Government welfare-to-work program.
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Thursday March 2, 2006
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Sections of the Labor party are moving to placate Hillsong Church, fearing attacks over funding scandals could result in political retaliation from the evangelical church.
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Hillsong Church's benevolent arm has parted with its third source of federal funds in a month, amid allegations the organisation misused millions of dollars in grants intended for Aboriginal communities.
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Friday February 17, 2006
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The Hillsong Church's benevolent arm has been dumped from a second federal funding relationship amid claims it spent indigenous development grants on itself, rather than on the Aboriginal entrepreneurs for whom it was intended.
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Wednesday February 15, 2006
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A federal department failed to check whether an Aboriginal group, named by the Hillsong church in a grant application, supported the project.
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Tuesday February 14, 2006
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An Aboriginal community association in Sydney's west says it has been misled by the charitable arm of a prominent pentecostal church over grant funding from the Federal Government.
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Hillsong Church's benevolent arm has been stripped of a $414,479 federal grant following allegations it obtained the funds by exploiting and deceiving the Aboriginal community that was supposed to benefit from it.
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An evangelical church's charitable arm has rejected claims it has not been transparent in spending a Federal Government grant to help Indigenous business.
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Monday February 13, 2006
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Indigenous development grants to Hillsong's benevolent arm have gone almost entirely to employing and providing offices for church staff, with only a trickle reaching Aborigines.
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Friday August 12, 2005
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The ministry established by Brian and Bobbie Houston, senior pastors of the dynamic Hillsong Church, has become a $1 million-plus business.
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Tuesday August 2, 2005
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When Brian Houston established a tiny house of worship in Sydney 20 years ago, he never dreamed he would be at the helm of Australia's largest indpendent church. He tells Australian Story what the experience has been like.
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CAROLINE JONES, PRESENTER: Hello, I'm Caroline Jones. Tonight, a revealing look at the family behind the Hillsong phenomenon. When Brian and Bobbie Houston established their own tiny house of worship 20 years ago, they didn't dream they'd end up at the helm of the biggest independent church in Australia. While Hillsong revels in chart-topping CDs and the beaming approval of some prominent politicians, it does divide observers. Some admire the church's material and spiritual success. Others suspect a political agenda and worry about Hillsong's financial arrangements. Through it all the Houstons have avoided personal media scrutiny, but tonight, for the first time, they've allowed cameras into both their church and their private life so people can judge for themselves. This is their story.
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Monday February 9, 2004
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MAXINE McKEW: Earlier this week the Treasurer, Peter Costello, attended a religious gathering of more than 16,000 people, underscoring Government support for an increasingly important part of the electorate - the Hills District of Sydney.
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