Christian boot camp accused of ‘abuse’ and ‘targeting Black and LGBT+ teens’
Bethany Church leader Jonathan Stockstill has apologised for the "painful experiences" of the bootcamp's participants. (Facebook/ Jonathan Stockstill) A Christian bootcamp run by the Bethany Church megachurch allegedly used homophobic and racist slurs against teens, and forced them to fight each other until they were bleeding. The “220i” leadership programme was run Bethany Church, a megachurch based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 2005 to 2013. The bootcamp, which referred to participants as “interns”, marketed itself as a programme to turn young people into “ministerial material”, according to NBC News. But according...