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On Friday, he called an emergency meeting of 800 global staff to detail what he described as Mr Houston's "indiscretions".

Unable to contain the leaks, acting Hillsong senior global pastor, Phil Dooley, decided to act. Last week, one elder resigned after reading a letter from one of the female complainants to his leadership team. This angered a group of Sydney-based church elders, who believed it amounted to a "cover up" by the board. He made no mention at the time of two women's complaints about his own inappropriate behaviour.

In January, Mr Houston announced he would step aside as the church leader to defend a criminal charge that he had concealed his father's child sexual abuse. Do you know more?Ĭontact Lorna Knowles on the Signal app +61 400 941 469 or on ProtonMail use this form to get in contact with the ABC Investigations team, or if you require more secure communication, please choose an option on the confidential tips page. Today, it is a global empire with ministries, a 24-hour television channel and colleges across six continents and has attracted celebrity worshippers such as Justin Bieber, Chris Pratt and Kylie Jenner. Mr Houston and his wife Bobbie established the church in 1983 in Sydney's north-west. Mr Morrison stood by Mr Houston then, but he has now become the latest, and unlikely the last, Hillsong ally to distance themselves from him. The friendship made international headlines in 2019 after it was revealed the Prime Minister’s bid to include Mr Houston on an exclusive guest list at the White House was rejected. "My first thoughts were with the victims, as they’ve rightly been described, and so very concerned," Mr Morrison told reporters. On Thursday morning, after days of silence, Prime Minister Scott Morrison commented on the controversy surrounding a man he thanked in his 2008 maiden speech in Federal Parliament. The 67-year-old’s inappropriate behaviour towards two women has sent shockwaves throughout Hillsong and its 150,000 weekly attendees across the world. Yet it was a lack of transparency from Hillsong that has sparked a major rift within the mega-church and led to the unravelling of Mr Houston's legacy. Three years ago, Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston tweeted: "Failure is never wasted if you are teachable, humble and transparent enough to grow and change."