Religious university without students on Missouri campus raises questions
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LEXINGTON, Mo. — From the Los Angeles Times, to Newsweek, even Christianity Today is writing about a Christian college system embroiled in controversy from coast to coast.
And now that system is expanding in the Show Me State, raising concerns among some who live nearby.
In Lexington, Missouri, a sprawling campus once home to Wentworth Military Academy has been taken over by Jubilee University, a Christian music college.
The school opened four years ago, but if you take a walk on its campus, it’s eerily quiet. There are no students.
That’s something that Chloe Heisler, who lives nearby, can’t help but notice.
“It’s very odd,” she said.
That’s not all that’s odd about Jubilee University. It’s part of a larger network of schools connected to World Olivet Assembly – a church started by controversial South Korean Pastor David Jang, who was once a follower of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church.
So far, the state of New York has shut down another of Jang’s schools, Olivet University. The state rescinded the university’s certification after some of its executives were convicted in a money laundering investigation by the New York District Attorney’s office regarding a $35 million scheme.
And in California, two Olivet universities there are fighting expulsion by the state agency that oversees religious colleges. Plus, four former students filed suit against one of the campuses, claiming they were held hostage, required to work for free and didn’t get the education they were promised.
Multiple news reports claim Homeland Security is investigating the California schools over allegations of money laundering, visa fraud and labor trafficking.
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