Word of Faith Fellowship, based in Rutherford County, has been accused of operating as a cult over the last several years.

"This cult still continues, and law enforcement is still looking the other way," journalist Mitch Weiss, co-author of the new book Broken Faith, tells PEOPLE John Cooper was only a toddler — “a little ...

The secretive Word of Faith Fellowship is the focus of tonight's episode of People Magazine Investigates: Cults Christina Bryant was 11 years old when she traveled with her mother and siblings from ...

(AP) — The leader of a secretive church in North Carolina has been named in federal court records as someone who “promoted” an unemployment fraud scheme involving businesses owned by members of her ...

A controversial church in Rutherford County, that has been accused of abuse by former members, received a loan through the federal government’s small business relief program, records released this ...

ASHEVILLE - The federal investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship is over. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina announced in a Sept. 26 press release that it has ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. — Former members of the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Rutherford County who say they were abused physically and psychologically shared their stories at a community forum ...

This conversation has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. For most of us, being removed from the outside world is a very new reality. According to a new book by investigative journalists, ...

On August 3, 2009, Texan televangelist Kenneth Copeland gave an impassioned sermon to a crowd of more than 9,000 at the Southwest Believers Convention in Fort Worth amid one of the worst economic ...