/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鈥� 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鈥� 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 /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,鈥� 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 /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,鈥� 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/2017-07-24/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鈥� 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鈥� 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鈥� Tue, 30 May 2017 17:06:20 GMT /news/2017-05-30/jury-selection-begins-for-minister-accused-in-member-beating Associated Press /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鈥� 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 /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鈥� 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