Hillsong Church Announces Co-Founder Brian Houston Resigned After Two Women Made Complaints Against Him
23.03.2022 - 20:01
/ perezhilton.com
It’s more bad news for Hillsong Church.
The celebrity megachurch has taken hit after hit following the resignation of star pastor Carl Lentz in 2020. Not only did Justin Bieber’s fave preacher have a number of allegations against him, but many others came forward with complaints about other pastors or the general workings of the church. Even worse, co-founder Brian Houston stepped back from his duties amidst charges that he intentionally covered up his late father Frank Houston‘s child sex offenses.
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But apparently, Brian isn’t just grappling with his father’s sins, but his own alleged misbehavior as well. Hillsong revealed last week that they had been privately dealing with complaints made against the founder by two separate women over the last ten years.
The church claimed they did not previously go public with these complaints “because we were still working through a number of issues privately with Pastor Brian,” but acknowledged “that there has been a significant breach of trust.” With this statement, they wanted the congregation to “hear from us, understand the truth, and have knowledge of the actions of the board” now the matter had become public.
The statement read:
Yikes. The statement continued:
An “investigation by the integrity unit” was not able to substantiate “all parts” of this complaint, but did find that Brian’s conduct was “of serious concern” and found that he had indeed “breached the Hillsong Pastor’s Code of Conduct.” They added that “whatever the circumstances at this time, this person did not deserve to be placed in the situation she found herself in by Pastor Brian.”
The Australian-based institution insisted that
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