This marks one year since MinistryWatch began our quarterly survey of the leaders of the largest Christian ministries in the country. The results are summarized below.
Each quarter, MinistryWatch conducts a survey of the leaders of the largest 1,000 Christian ministries in the country.
The executive secretly used his LLC to pocket nearly $155K dedicated to the school’s website and branding overhaul
A judge has sentenced a former executive at Southeastern University to 15 months in prison for wire fraud.
A Florida pastor arrested for fraud charges in obtaining $8 million in COVID-19 relief funds for the “ministry” he founded has been determined to be incompetent to stand trial by a psychiatrist ordered to conduct ...
Two Christian ministry leaders in Florida have been arrested for their part in fraudulently obtaining COVID relief funds totaling over $8 million.
Three people claiming to be pastors in the Houston area admitted to using a now-defunct church to commit bank and wire fraud.
A pastor in Tyler, Texas, and his son have recently pleaded guilty to charges of stealing from an elderly couple in his congregation, Open Door Bible Church.
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Charles J. Southall, III, a New Orleans pastor who was charged initially for unlawfully transferring $100K to his private accounts, has pleaded guilty to laundering close to $900K.
The former administrator of a Pennsylvania-based Episcopal nonprofit insurance corporation is under investigation for fraud after a forensic audit uncovered a $1.4 million discrepancy in the organization’s books.
A scathing investigation of former head megachurch pastor Stovall Weems commissioned by Celebration Church in Jacksonville, Florida, paints a picture of a self-absorbed leader who manipulated employees, fraudulently used the church’s money, and sometimes appeared ...