SPINDALE, NC -- It was the most dreaded place on the Word of Faith Fellowship grounds - a one-story, four-room structure that former members of the sect say was reserved for the most brutal physical ...

A man who says members of a secretive North Carolina religious group held him down and beat him wants the prosecutor kicked off his case, accusing the district attorney of siding with a church that ...

There are new details Saturday about alleged abuse at the hands of members of a controversial mountain church. Former members of Word of Faith Fellowship gathered in Spindale Saturday for a second ...

On Thursday, Matthew Fenner gave testimony to a brutal attack by members of his evangelical church, allegedly to exorcise his “homosexual demons.” The Associated Press reports that the assault and ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The trial for a member of a church that’s been called a cult has now been postponed. Word of Faith Fellowship is based in Rutherford County. Over the last ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr, journalists who have been exposing these stories, spent time interviewing hundreds of people who have been connected to the church over the years — ...

Word of Faith Fellowship in western North Carolina has faced scrutiny from prosecutors and anti-cult activists. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, is holding a fundraiser ...