{"id":42070,"date":"2014-01-14T20:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_universal_church_of_the_kingdom_of_god_faces_complaints_over_f\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:01:21","slug":"london_times_universal_church_of_the_kingdom_of_god_faces_complaints_over_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42070","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times)  Universal Church of the Kingdom of God faces complaints over fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraising activities of one of the world\u2019s wealthiest evangelical churches have come under scrutiny after dozens of complaints.<br \/>\nMembers of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God went house-to-house raising funds this Christmas \u201cto keep the church doors open\u201d\u009d, despite accounts filed last month showing that it had \u00c2\u00a32.7 million in the bank. Globally, the rapidly expanding Brazilian-based Church has assets estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds.<br \/>\nIts British arm has sent hundreds of thousands of pounds to Brazil to help to build an \u201cexact replica\u201d\u009d of the biblical temple of Solomon at a cost of \u00c2\u00a3130 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3972014.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraising activities of one of the world\u2019s wealthiest evangelical churches have come under scrutiny after dozens of complaints. Members of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God went house-to-house raising funds this Christmas \u201cto keep the church doors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42070\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,357,149,168,184,108,208,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-brazil","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-south-america","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}