The French Press
The inside story of how Ravi Zacharias’s ministry concealed and enabled his abuse.
(Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Kathrin Forbes/GTMO Public Affairs/Wikimedia Commons.)
In May 2018, the senior leadership of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) gathered together with two more junior employees RZIM’s public relations manager and spokeswoman, my longtime friend Ruth Malhotra, and global media director Nancy Gifford at an offsite conference room for a three day “conciliation” meeting. The group had spent months together serving as an impromptu task force designed to deal with the fallout from claims by a Canadian woman named Lori Anne Thompson that Zacharias, one of the Evangelical world’s most-respected apologists, had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with her. She claimed he’d “groomed” her over a period of months and persuaded her to send him inappropriate pictures, including nudes.