AUSTRALIA
Christian Today
Child abuse allegations against Frank Houston, the father of Hillsong’s lead pastor Brian Houston, are to be investigated by a national inquiry, the Guardian reports.
In particular, Australia’s royal commission on sexual abuse will examine the way in which the churches Houston was linked with dealt with the abuse.
Originally trained as a Salvation Army officer, Frank Houston later became a Pentecostal pastor in the Assemblies of God. He founded Sydney Christian Life Centre, which was in 1999 merged with his son Brian’s church – Hills Christian Life Centre, now known as Hillsong.
He is therefore credited with building a movement that became one of the largest megachurches in the world.
Before his death in 2004 aged 82, Houston confessed to sexually abusing a boy in New Zealand three decades earlier, and was immediately removed from ministry by Brian
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