| Weekly briefing: Hurricane Dorian devastation, Benny Hinn, House of Hope Atlanta |
 US Coast Guard via Getty Images/Adam StantonIn this USCG handout image, views of the Bahamas from a Coast Guard Elizabeth City C-130 aircraft after Hurricane Dorian shifts north September 3, 2019. Hurricane Dorian made landfall Saturday and intensified into Sunday. The Coast Guard is supporting the Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency and and the Royal Bahamian Defense Force, who are leading search and rescue efforts in the Bahamas. |
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We've compiled the top stories of the week. Here's what you need to know: |
Hurricane Dorian death toll rises to 30 after pounding Bahamas |
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Samaritan’s Purse sent 30 tons of emergency items as well as disaster relief team specialists to the islands. The organization also airlifted its Emergency Field Hospital, which can receive up to 100 patients daily. |
Dorian moved up the southeast coast, sparing Florida while causing massive flooding on North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Friday. |
— Benny Hinn renounces prosperity gospel |
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“It’s an offense to say give $1,000. I think it’s an offense to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the Gospel. I’m done with it. I will never again ask you to give $1,000 or whatever amount, because I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it.” — Benny Hinn |
— Atlanta megachurch accused of covering up rape |
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The woman said she received a threatening message in her mailbox in an attempt to silence her. |
Online media personality and former pastor Larry Reid said the woman revealed to him that she was drugged and raped by a then staff member of the church. She was also allegedly pressured to sign a legal agreement with the church to keep silent. |
Reid had also signed an agreement with church officials that he said he was tricked into. It effectively stopped him from reporting on anything negative about the church and its leaders, including the allegation that Pastor E. Dewey Smith Jr. fathered a child out of wedlock. |
— At Daleiden hearing, Planned Parenthood staffer admits to supplying aborted body parts to broker |
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At the preliminary criminal hearing in San Francisco, Doe 7, who performed abortions for Planned Parenthood Northern California, said she regularly provided fetal tissue from the abortions. She also said she had heard of cases in which StemExpress, a biotech firm known for its procurement of fetal body parts for research purposes, was involved and money was exchanged. |
Daleiden and Merritt are facing 15 counts of felony invasion of privacy for their undercover videos of conversations with abortionists at the National Abortion Federation’s 2014 and 2015 meetings. |
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Pastor Hkalam Samson, who could be prosecuted for speaking to President Donald Trump about being oppressed by the Myanmar military government |
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Rain by Planetshakers (Sept. 6) |
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