A former member of a highly controversial Rutherford County church was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with breaking into the home of a church leader while carrying a gun. The break-in follows ...

Two award-winning journalists have written a book revealing new details about an infamous North Carolina church — often characterized as a cult — that has been at the center of federal criminal ...

“Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults,” Hanover Square Press, by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr Few religious leaders purport to hear directly from ...

Weird cults normally seem to exist somewhere far away, like the People's Temple in South America, Heaven's Gate and the Manson Family in California or the Aum Shinrikyo, who launched a poison gas ...

When former schoolteacher Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam, founded Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC in 1979, no one could have imagined all that the institution would become: a religious ...

The Word of Faith Church has been investigated before for abuse. Oct. 22, 2012— -- A North Carolina church that has previously faced allegations of harassment and child abuse is the subject of a ...

Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Sign up Few religious leaders purport to hear directly from God but those that ...

When former schoolteacher Jane Whaley and her husband, Sam, founded Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, NC in 1979, no one could have imagined all that the institution would become: a religious ...