In today’s roundup: a UFO cult promotes the Swastika; yet another one of Jehovah’s Witnesses needlessly dies in obedience to the cult’s teachings; and the Trinity Broadcasting Network is reeling from yet another revelation.
Also: do people join cults due to depression? Plus: links to additional religion news stories of note.
The Trinity Broadcasting Network has failed to convince an appraiser to reclassify a couple of million-dollar lakefront mansions in Florida as parsonages to avoid a property tax.
The request was denied last years but the issue came to light only recently as part of a lawsuit filed against TBN in Southern California.
A man claims that the Trinity Broadcasting Network — the world’s largest Christian TV network — wrongfully sued him over inexistent contracts, to retaliate after his nephew’s wife “uncovered and reported illegal distributions and other unlawful self-dealing by Trinity Broadcasting’s directors exceeding $50 million.”
The suit includes allegations of multiple cover-ups of sexual and criminal scandals.
The granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Paul and Jan Crouch has accused the world’s largest Christian broadcaster of unlawfully distributing charitable assets worth more than $50 million to the company’s directors.
Koper’s complaint is directed against two attorneys who handle some of TBN’s legal work.
A confidential settlement has been reached between a gay broadcast engineer and his former employer, Trinity Broadcasting Network
Brian Dugger sued Trinity last March, claiming he was harassed and discriminated against by employees of the world’s largest Christian broadcasting empire.
A multimillion-dollar building project involving a Haitian pastor and the Trinity Broadcasting Network has collapsed in recriminations, leaving behind a half-built hospital with a giant cross-shaped hole in one wall.
The South Africa station does not receive funding from its mother organization in the United States.
Holy Land Experience’s transfer to Trinity Broadcasting Network was a complex deal involving five nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations.
For many of the longtime Holy Land workers let go since Trinity took the reins, the Crouches have been more like a wrecking crew. Paul, Jan and their management team have acted like “a cross between the Sopranos and the Beverly Hillbillies,” said Keith Wright, Holy Land’s former security chief.
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