Sex Abuse in Humanitarian Groups, Christian Ministries: Who Is Left to Trust?

Residents queue up to receive humanitarian aid at the Palestinian refugee
camp of Yarmouk, in Damascus

In the wake of reports that Christian humanitarian ministries have been caught up in a wide net of sexual abuse allegations, many questions have emerged over who can be trusted.

While abuse of any kind is denounced, it hits a particular nerve when the people who have pledged to protect and help those in the most vulnerable situations are the abusers themselves.

Boz Tchividjian, the grandson of the late evangelist Billy Graham and who has devoted his career to exposing and confronting sexual abuse in the Christian environment, said human nature "is a sinful nature."

"It doesn't matter what ministry you're in," he told The Christian Post.  (more...)

Sex Abuse in Humanitarian Groups, Christian Ministries: Who Is Left to Trust?

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