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Thursday June 21, 2007
Local Church:
On June 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court brought an end to The Local Church’s six-year, $136 million legal battle against Harvest House Publishers and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon. The Local Church was appealing a January 2006 Texas appellate court ruling in favor of Harvest House. After the appellate decision, The Local Church requested a rehearing, which was denied. The Texas Supreme Court also rejected the case twice.
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
Local Church:
On February 16, 2007, the Texas Supreme Court denied a petition for rehearing that was submitted by the Local Church and Living Stream Ministry in their $136 million defamation lawsuit against Harvest House Publishers and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon.
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Monday February 5, 2007
Local Church:
Five people, members of the Witness Lee’s Local Church, were detained in Saratov in mid-January.
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Monday January 8, 2007
Local Church:
More than 60 evangelical Christian scholars and ministry leaders from seven nations have signed an unprecedented open letter asking the leadership of the Local churches and Living Stream Ministry to withdraw unorthodox statements by their founder, Witness Lee. The letter also calls on the movement’s leaders to renounce their decades-long practice of using lawsuits and threatened litigation to respond to criticism and settle disputes with Christian organizations and individuals.
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Sunday December 3, 2006
Local Church:
On December 1, 2006, the Texas Supreme Court denied review of the Local Church and Living Stream Ministry’s $136 million libel lawsuit against Harvest House Publishers and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon. At issue in the case was the book Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions (ECNR), which The Local Church claimed was defamatory of them.
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Saturday October 21, 2006
Local Church:
Led by the Association of American Publishers (AAP), a coalition of groups representing publishers, booksellers and librarians have filed a brief urging the Texas Supreme Court not to review a ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals in Houston, an intermediate appellate court, which granted summary judgment to Harvest House Publishers in a libel action brought by a group called The Local Church. The brief characterizes the ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals as correct in all respects.
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Friday October 13, 2006
Local Church:
In a move that has Christian apologists and countercult experts puzzled and upset, Hank Hanegraaff – the already controversial president of the Christian Research Institute – has come out in support of the Local Church which, theologically, is considered to be a cult of Christianity.
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Sunday January 8, 2006
Local Church:
On January 5, 2006, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas issued an opinion in favor of Harvest House Publishers and authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon, dismissing a $136 million libel lawsuit that The Local Church and its publishing arm, Living Stream Ministry, had filed in December 2001 in relation to the book Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions.
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Saturday January 7, 2006
Local Church:
The following is quoted from the Opinion issued January 5, 2006 in the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas in the case of a lawsuit brought against two authors and the publisher of their book - the Encyclopedia of Cults and New Religions - by the Local Church/Lord's Recovery Movement, which theologically is a cult of Christianity.
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Monday October 17, 2005
Local Church:
(AgapePress) - A civil liberties group is asking a court to toss out a defamation lawsuit brought against a group of Christian publishers and ministries.
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Thursday March 18, 2004
Local Church:
Harvest House Publishers and Authors John Ankerberg and John Weldon
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Friday January 31, 2003
Local Church:
Reading Chronicle (England), Jan. 30, 2003
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Sunday January 19, 2003
Local Church:
The Apologetics Index entry on the so-called 'Local Church' has been updated with information about that movement's latest lawsuit.
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Thursday October 17, 2002
Local Church:
Bible smugglers and hosts of illegal churches risk freedom for God.
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The Orange County Register, Oct. 13, 2002
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Most Read about Local Church
- Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Harvest House and Its Authors, John Ankerberg and John Weldon
- Leading Evangelical Scholars Call On Local Churches/Living Stream Ministry to Renounce Doctrines, Legal Attacks
- Strong opinions surround Lee's Local Church
- CRI’s Hank Hanegraaff Supports a Cult of Christianity
- Texas Supreme Court Rules Again in Local Church v. Harvest House Case
- Decision in Local Church/Harvest House case
- Local Church: Texas Supreme Court Denies Petition for Review of Defamation Lawsuit
- Secret passages
- U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Local Church Lawsuit against Harvest House
- Saratov authorities shut down Local Church sect
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