Hillsong founder Brian Houston breaks silence with video stating ‘I will fight’ criminal charge in NSW

Pastor quit church in March after being charged with concealing information about alleged child sexual offences committed by his father. He has pleaded not guilty

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The Hillsong church founder, Brian Houston, has broken a months-long silence with a video broadcast on social media as he prepares to fight a charge he concealed child sexual abuse crimes committed by his father.

Houston on Thursday morning re-affirmed his commitment to contest the charge he concealed from New South Wales police child sexual abuse perpetrated by his disgraced father, Frank, in the 1960s and 1970s.

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