Two IHOPKC security guards approached a Star reporter Tuesday morning at the entrance to the prayer room. They said the reporter would need to contact an IHOPKC spokesperson for comment.

IHOPKC denied that Larry Lucky had led a youth group or had any key role in its Student Ministries program. It said Lucky had been playing bass guitar on a worship team in the organization’s ...

Staff members who sign a non-disclosure agreement with IHOPKC “will be legally silencing your own voice, forfeiting your right to free speech,” the parents of one alleged victim warn.

The International House of Prayer of Kansas City has released a report of its initial findings involving sex abuse allegations against the ministry’s founder. The report discounts some of the ...

IHOPKC leaders declined comment Tuesday afternoon. “We will not be commenting further about our staff or re-litigating a matter that was concluded more than four years ago,” they said in an email.

IHOPKC leaders told The Star last week that the organization has hired Theresa Sidebotham of the Colorado-based Telios Law firm “to help us build a culture which prevents sexual harassment and ...

IHOPKC founder Mike Bickle misused his position of authority “to engage in sexual misconduct with multiple victims,” the ...

At the time, IHOPKC leaders said they had only identified five of some eight women who the advocate group said were Bickle's ...

Mike Bickle, founder of IHOPKC, addressed the scandal in a vague, rambling statement Tuesday where he acknowledged “past sins” but denied “more intense sexual activities that some are ...

IHOPKC leaders released an initial report in November casting doubt on the allegations against Bickle, based on an internal review, but Volz announced earlier this month that IHOPKC had hired the ...

At IHOPKC, Bickle emphasizes fasting, prophesy, the spiritual realm, and the end times. Some consider his ministry a part of the independent charismatics, though he has rejected the “New ...

Bickle was initially accused of clergy sexual abuse by former IHOPKC leaders in October 2023 based on allegations from several women that spanned multiple decades. In December 2023, he confessed ...