AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
The famous preacher behind the Hillsong Church to give evidence at royal commission about how he responded to his own fathers admission of child sex abuse
By Amy Ziniak for Daily Mail Australia and Aap
High profile Hillsong senior pastor Brian Houston is expected to give evidence at an inquiry into how Pentecostal churches responded to child sex abuse allegations against his father Frank Houston and two other men.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual abuse sitting in Sydney on Tuesday will hear how Hillsong and the Pentecostal association, Assemblies of God, responded to abuse allegations against William Francis ‘Frank’ Houston – the famous preacher behind the movement which gave birth to the mega-church.
His son Brian Houston was national president of the Assemblies of God (AoG) in Australia from 1997 to 2009. More than 1000 Pentecostal churches are affiliated to the AoG which is now commonly known as Australian Christian Churches (ACC).
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