By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, January 10, 2025 Jerry Nickerson. | Screenshot/Hope Fellowship Church The lead pastor of the multi-campus Hope Fellowship in Texas, John McKinzie, has announced the firing of one of the megachurch’s student pastors, Jerry Nickerson, after he voluntarily confessed to engaging in “inappropriate contact with a minor” 10 years ago. … Read more
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Sunday, July 07, 2024 Thousands listen as Pastor Robert Morris speaks at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, June 2, 2018. | Gateway Church Just two months before Gateway Church founder Robert Morris resigned over an explosive allegation of child sex abuse, the megachurch settled a lawsuit in which at least … Read more
Lucknow: In Pilibhit, the kidnapping and rape case of a minor daughter of a granthi has caused the head of the Akal Takht to issue an ultimatum to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath to expedite arrest of all the accused, also warning him that if the police fails, the Sikh community will be forced to … Read more
Representative image. Champawat: A BJP leader was booked for allegedly raping a minor girl in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district and efforts are being made to arrest him, police said on Friday. Champawat is the assembly constituency of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. Champawat Superintendent of Police (SP) Devendra Pincha said Kamal Rawat, a local leader of … Read more
Residents in many areas of B.C. reported feeling the effects of a minor earthquake that struck in B.C.’s Coast Mountains, about 220 kilometres north of Vancouver on Sunday afternoon. Earthquakes Canada says the quake was recorded at 3:23 p.m. PST and registered at a magnitude of 4.9, but so far there are no reports of damage or secondary impacts, … Read more
