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DAYS ahead of an annual conference in New York’s Madison Square Garden, the founder of the Hillsong music and church empire is facing strict scrutiny for what he knew about sex abuse allegations lodged against his father.

Armstrong elected not to renew his credentials with the Assemblies of God months after criticizing Assemblies of God General Superintendent Doug Clay for making comments that he believes minimized the abuse Savala is accused of perpetuating on young men through Chi Alpha.

Brian Houston, the founder of Sydney's mega church Hillsong, is being questioned over what he did when he discovered his father had molested children in Australia.

THE Los Angeles County district attorney's office says 50-year-old Gordon Barrington Solomon was charged Friday with seven counts of committing a lewd act on a child, one count of continuous sexual abuse and one count of oral copulation of a person under age 14.

A mother in Germany has been sent to jail for refusing to pay a fine for taking her children out of government-run sex education classes.

The 167 member group led by Indian Christian Women Movement consisting nearly 70 nuns 15 priests and the laity exhorted the Church leadership to prove its “zero tolerance to sex abuse” in the Church with the removal of the prelate from all pastoral responsibilities.

IN his last two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for raping and molesting children, more than twice as many as the two years that preceded a 2010 explosion of sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond.

AS many as 180,000 Catholics quit the church last year in the wake of persistent child sex abuse scandals, a media report said recently.

The convention's statement said the church (referring to Saddleback) “has a faith and practice that does not closely identify with the Convention’s adopted statement of faith, as demonstrated by the church having a female teaching pastor functioning in the office of pastor.

ROMAN Catholic cardinals prayed on Tuesday for divine help in choosing a new pope, hours before they go into a conclave to elect a pontiff who will face one of the most difficult periods in the Roman Catholic Church's history.