Washington: Influential evangelist Ravi Zacharias, who died last spring, engaged in “sexting, unwanted touching, spiritual abuse, and rape,” according to a report released Thursday by the global evangelical organisation he founded.
After initially denying accounts of his misconduct, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries announced that an investigation had found credible evidence of sexual misconduct spanning many years and multiple continents.
The announcement was the result of an investigation by a Southeastern law firm, Miller & Martin, which RZIM hired in October to investigate accounts of sexual misconduct by Zacharias.
“We believe not only the women who made their allegations public but also additional women who had not previously made public allegations against Ravi but whose identities and stories were uncovered during the investigation,” the ministry’s board of directors said in a statement accompanying the report. “We are devastated by what the investigation
Evangelist Ravi Zacharias taught his followers to ask tough questions - just not about his sexual conduct
Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, during a May 20, 2020 White House briefing, calls attention to the death of evangelist Ravi Zacharias.Washington Post photo by Bill O Leary
As a boy growing up in Canada, Daniel Gilman loved church and what he saw as compassion from the God of the Bible for those who suffer. As a college philosophy student, a question began to chip away: Is God just an inspiring fairy tale character, or does he exist? It was a celebrity evangelist named Ravi Zacharias who filled Gilman with confidence that it was possible to be an intellectual believer in a God who is real.
Famed apologist Ravi Zacharias has spent the past few weeks embroiled in a complex scandal in which he has had to defend himself from both accusations of
Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
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Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
Apologist Ravi Zacharias speaks at Wilberforce Weekend 2017 hosted by the Colson Center at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland on May 19, 2017. | (Photo: The Christian Post / Samuel Smith)
Author and apologist Ravi Zacharias is denying allegations that he had an inappropriate online sexual relationship with a woman who is not his wife and that he misrepresented his academic credentials.