An investigation has uncovered hundreds of abuse allegations against leaders of a deeply conservative, loosely affiliated network of evangelical Christian churches. An investigation has uncovered hundreds of abuse allegations against leaders of a conservative, loosely affiliated network of evangelical Christian churches. However, the newspaper said its reporters uncovered 21 new abuse allegations in the course of its eight-month investigation. ehrlif via Getty Images An investigation uncovers hundreds of cases of alleged abuse, including the sexual abuse of children, at independent fundamental Baptist churches across the U.S. and Canada. FluxFactory via Getty Images Abuses in the independent Baptist churches are more easily kept quiet because of the lack of a formal structure to the denomination.

Source: Huffington Post December 13, 2018 23:03 UTC