MinistryWatch President Warren Smith comments on two stories in the week’s news, Kanakuk Kamps and the Allen Stanford settlement.
Kanakuk abuse survivors testified at a hearing last month on new legislation that would modify the legal process for reporting child sexual abuse.
Logan Yandell is a Kanakuk camp sexual abuse victim who filed a lawsuit for fraud against the camp today.
A documentary made by VICE News about the alleged sexual abuse cases at Kanakuk camps in southwest Missouri won a 2022 Emmy award for “Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Long Form.”
A series of stories published by the Springfield News-Leader today tells the stories of previously silent sex abuse victims and others who say Missouri-based Kanakuk Kamps did not do enough to protect them when they ...
Two Branson, Missouri, men have shared their stories of abuse at the hands of a former counselor at Kanakuk Kamps with the Springfield News-Leader, saying Pete Newman groomed them for abuse starting when they were ...
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has named Kanakuk Kamps to its annual “Dirty Dozen List.”
Kanakuk Kamps, a large Christian ministry near Branson, Missouri, that has been plagued by uncertainty since a counselor was convicted of sexually abusing campers a decade ago, responded to a recent open letter from victims ...
Kanakuk Ministries was the subject of a recent investigative report by VICE Media that, for the first time, publicly named one of the survivors of the sexual abuse that took place at the popular Christian ...
A group of sexual abuse victims and family members went public with their concerns about former Kanakuk counsellor Peter Newman in an interview that aired on the CBS affiliate in Dallas. The story aired last ...