AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
September 18, 2014
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
The popular Hillsong Church will come under the scrutiny of the child sexual abuse royal commission when it examines Australia’s Pentecostal institutions at its next public hearing in October.
It will look at allegations made against Frank Houston, who admitted sexually abusing a boy in New Zealand in the 1970s.
Houston was sacked by his son Brian Houston, now the Hillsong Church’s senior pastor, when the allegations became public in 2000. The disgraced evangelist died in 2004.
Frank Houston, widely regarded as the father of Australia’s Pentecostal movement, admitted sexually abusing a boy in New Zealand in the 1970s.
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