A cult trauma recovery councillor has warned there are thousands of cult victims in Victoria who have escaped highly ...

SYDNEY (RNS) The ubiquitous praise song “Shout to the Lord” can be found in many U.S. churches on any given Sunday. What fewer people probably realize is that it comes from a megachurch on the ...

Worship music in church often comes from what seems an exclusive group of songwriters that includes worship leaders Chris Tomlin, who grew up in Texas, and Matt Redman, who grew up in Britain, and ...

Brian Houston is due in a Sydney, Australia, court in October Chris Harris has been a senior true crime reporter for PEOPLE since late 2015. An award-winning journalist who has worked for Rolling ...

Hillsong founder Brian Houston announced Sunday he is stepping down from his ministry roles. Houston cited the ongoing court case in which he has been charged with covering up sex abuse. Hillsong, ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston was found not guilty Thursday of concealing his father’s child sex crimes in a case in Australia. Houston, 69, was the Sydney-based church’s ...

Australian police accused Hillsong co-founder Brian Houston of concealing the sexual abuse of a young boy. A government report in 2015 previously found that Houston failed to contact police after his ...

(RNS) — 'Our beautiful church is losing its soul,' Brian Houston concluded in an Instagram post Friday in response to Hillsong board's treatment of his wife and co-founding pastor, Bobbie Houston.

Sexism and homophobia are not the first things most people would think of when evangelical mega-church Hillsong is mentioned. However, underneath the glitzy veneer of rock concert religious services ...

SYDNEY (RNS) The ubiquitous praise song “Shout to the Lord” can be found in many U.S. churches on any given Sunday. What fewer people probably realize is that it comes from a megachurch on the ...