More ministries call themselves a ‘church’ or ‘association of churches’ to avoid disclosure requirements
Since 2020, more than 80 of the 1,000 largest Christian ministries in the US have asked the Internal Revenue Service to classify them as an “association of churches.”
The bill might push ministries to avoid filing Form 990s through church classification.
A new piece of legislation introduced earlier this month would require not-for-profit organizations to report grants they make to foreign entities.
WORLD News Group (WNG) announced Sunday (Feb. 4) that the organization’s founder, Joel Belz, died from Parkinson’s disease complications at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 82.
Given her experience in many closed countries while reporting for WORLD News Group, author and former senior editor Mindy Belz told MinistryWatch there is a spectrum of ways she has seen organizations protect their workers. ...
Preemptive Love Coalition, a 13-year-old Texas-based relief organization that enjoyed stellar growth and glowing coverage in mainstream and Christian media outlets—at least until one of those outlets began investigating its questionable claims—announced last Friday it had ...
Longtime editor of WORLD Magazine Marvin Olasky has resigned, saying the media company’s decision to launch an opinions section on its website without his backing was effectively a “vote of no confidence.”
Family Care Ministries, Assemblies of God, Trans World Radio, Samaritan’s Purse
Family Care Ministries, Assemblies of God, Trans World Radio, Samaritan’s Purse
A WORLD Magazine expose of a Texas-based relief organization has sparked a war of words between the magazine and the ministry.
A Preemptive Strike. An investigative report by Mindy Belz at WORLD is calling into question the accuracy of claims made by the Christian non-profit Preemptive Love Coalition. According to Belz’s story: “Texas-based Preemptive Love Coalition, ...