AUSTRALIA
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The involvement of Hillsong pastor Brian Houston in handling abuse allegations against his father is one reason the Pentecostal movement will review its conflict of interest rules, an inquiry has heard.
Wayne Alcorn, the national president of the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) group that represents 1000 affiliated churches, said today the conflict of interest rules only covered financial matters not familial.
He was giving evidence at the end of a two-week hearing in which the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse looked at three cases of child abuse in Pentecostal institutions.
In two of these cases, there was a familial conflict of interest.
In the first case, well-known Hillsong church senior pastor Brian Houston, who was then president of the ACC, handled complaints against his father Frank Houston.
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