Explosive statements warn of an 'evil within our midst'
- Evangelical Christians 'sacrificed souls' to hide sex abuse and have 'got the Gospels backwards'
- Grandson calls Christian missions a 'magnet' for abusers which recycle sicko priests
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Billy Graham's grandson claims Evangelicals are 'worse' than the Catholic Church on responding to sex abuse claims.
Speaking at a conference hosted by the Religion Newswriter Association on Thursday, Professor Boz Tchividjian, the third-eldest grandchild of Reverend Billy Graham, also said that Christian missions overseas are a 'magnet' for sex abusers.
'I think we are worse [than Catholics],' Tchividjian told the audience at the Austin, Texas, conference according to Religion News Service. In an uncompromising address, Tchividjian added that too many Evangelicals had 'sacrificed the souls' of young victims.
Professor Boz Tchividjian with grandfather Reverend Billy Graham. Tchividjian claims Evangelicals are 'worse' than Catholics in responding to sexual abuse case
'Protestants can be very arrogant when pointing to Catholics,' Tchividjian said. 'We’ve got the Gospels backwards.'
Tchividjian is a law professor at Liberty University, a Christian college in Virgina founded by Jerry Falwell, the Southern Baptist pastor who died in 2007.
Falwell is remembered for defining televangelism and founding the Moral Majority, a right-wing Christian political organization.
Tchividjian told the Austin RNA conference that Christian mission agencies keep reports of sexual abuse secret and fail to report abuse to local authorities.
Reverend Billy Graham in his 1957 prime. His grandson claims Evangelicals have failed to respond to claims of sex abuse in the church
The agencies fear being barred from working in foreign countries, according to research by Tchividjian.
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