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Gateway Church is a non-denominational, evangelical Christian multi-site megachurch based in Southlake, Texas, near Fort Worth. [1] As of 2023, it was ranked as the 9th largest in the United States, with attendance of 25,805. [ 2 ]
Warren Jeffs - Once President of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a polygamist Mormon sect), convicted of rape as an accomplice (overturned in 2010). Jeffs was convicted in a Texas state court of child sex charges and sentenced to life plus 20 years. He is incarcerated at the Powledge state prison.
Ecclesiastical prisons were penal institutions maintained by the Catholic Church. At various times, they were used for the incarceration both of clergy accused of various crimes , and of laity accused of specifically ecclesiastical crimes ; prisoners were sometimes held in custody while awaiting trial , sometimes as part of an imposed sentence .
The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States. In April 2014, the State of Texas took physical and legal possession of the property.
The following month, Ronald Gaines, 51, who founded and led Koinonia Church in Arlington, Texas, was taken into custody in relation to an ongoing sexual assault investigation. He was charged with ...
This is a list of state prisons in Texas. The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.
The church building was established by televangelist W. V. Grant as the Eagles Nest Family Church. It is located in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas right next to Dallas Baptist University . After Grant was convicted of tax evasion in 1996 he sold the facility to T. D. Jakes , a fellow televangelist, who renamed it and relaunched it as The Potter's ...
Watermark Community Church is a nondenominational evangelical megachurch based in Dallas, Texas. Watermark was founded in November 7, 1999 with an outward-focused ministry that sought to minister to "the unchurched, dechurched, dead-churched and unmoved."