/tags/word-of-faith-fellowship Word of Faith Fellowship en-US Copyright Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:04:00 GMT /2020-02-17/word-of-faiths-pattern-of-abuse-got-worse-over-time-says-broken-faith-author Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr detail the alleged secret life of abuse in the Word Of Faith Fellowship: "They take more and more control of your lives" over time, they say. Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:04:00 GMT /2020-02-17/word-of-faiths-pattern-of-abuse-got-worse-over-time-says-broken-faith-author Rachel Martin /news/2019-05-08/members-of-secretive-sect-plead-guilty-to-fraud-charges A father and son who belong to a secretive evangelical church in the foothills of North Carolina pleaded guilty Friday to federal criminal charges in an… Wed, 08 May 2019 19:08:54 GMT /news/2019-05-08/members-of-secretive-sect-plead-guilty-to-fraud-charges Associated Press /news/2019-05-08/member-of-secretive-church-set-to-enter-plea-in-fraud-case A member of a secretive North Carolina church will enter a plea on a federal fraud charge as part of an investigation into an unemployment scheme… Wed, 08 May 2019 19:02:22 GMT /news/2019-05-08/member-of-secretive-church-set-to-enter-plea-in-fraud-case Associated Press /show/the-state-of-things/2017-07-26/brazilians-detail-being-forced-to-work-like-slaves-at-church-in-western-nc Over the course of two decades, church leaders of the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina manipulated and abused congregants from Brazil,… Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:24:54 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-07-26/brazilians-detail-being-forced-to-work-like-slaves-at-church-in-western-nc Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Anita Rao /news/2017-07-26/brazilians-detail-being-forced-to-work-like-slaves-at-church-in-western-nc Over the course of two decades, church leaders of the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina manipulated and abused congregants from Brazil,… Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:24:54 GMT /news/2017-07-26/brazilians-detail-being-forced-to-work-like-slaves-at-church-in-western-nc Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Anita Rao /news/2017-07-24/brazilians-funneled-as-slaves-by-us-church-ex-members-say When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the… Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:21:37 GMT /news/2017-07-24/brazilians-funneled-as-slaves-by-us-church-ex-members-say Associated Press /news/2017-06-06/juror-contempt-prompts-mistrial-in-church-abuse-case A judge held a juror in contempt and declared a mistrial Tuesday in the case of a North Carolina church minister charged in the beating a congregant who… Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:23:33 GMT /news/2017-06-06/juror-contempt-prompts-mistrial-in-church-abuse-case MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR /news/2017-05-30/jury-selection-begins-for-minister-accused-in-member-beating Jury selection began Tuesday for a North Carolina church minister accused of beating a man to expel his "homosexual demons."Brooke Covington, 58, a… Tue, 30 May 2017 17:06:20 GMT /news/2017-05-30/jury-selection-begins-for-minister-accused-in-member-beating Associated Press /show/the-state-of-things/2017-03-09/church-in-western-nc-accused-of-abusing-members UPDATED 12:11 P.M. ON FRIDAY, MARCH 10 North Carolina district attorney David Learner said Friday that two assistant district attorneys no longer work for… Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:17:53 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-03-09/church-in-western-nc-accused-of-abusing-members Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio /the-state-of-things/2017-03-09/church-in-western-nc-accused-of-abusing-members UPDATED 12:11 P.M. ON FRIDAY, MARCH 10 North Carolina district attorney David Learner said Friday that two assistant district attorneys no longer work for… Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:17:53 GMT /the-state-of-things/2017-03-09/church-in-western-nc-accused-of-abusing-members Charlie Shelton-Ormond, Frank Stasio