However, despite repeated, explicit guarantees from GFA to donors, only a fraction of the donated money supports the people and causes for which it was donated, as Defendants redirect it for their own purposes.”
Well over one million unique donations are made to GFA each year from tens of thousands of donors who give one time or on a recurring, sponsorship basis. Gospel for Asia should return all the money it’s taken from donors who thought they were contributing to charity,” said Stanley.Īccording to the lawsuit: “Between 20, GFA solicited over $450,000,000 in donations from the United States alone, where the majority of GFA’s donors reside. Yohannan and his Gospel for Asia inner circle have been exploiting the goodwill and generosity of devout Christians around the country for years. GFA is present in numerous countries, including Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Laos and Thailand. Stanley said in a statement that GFA has been exploiting the goodwill of Christians, American Bazaar reported. The organization tells potential donors that it supplies the “poorest of the poor” with food, provisions, and a Christian message, but lead attorney Marc R. Gospel for Asia according to the lawsuit is a global missionary organization, founded in 1978, that operates in South Asia, primarily within India. He serves as the director of the Canadian affiliate of GFA. Emerick, according to the suit, is a United States citizen who resides in Ontario, Canada. Listed as defendants along with Yohannan are: his wife, Gisela, a member of the Board of Directors of GFA his son Daniel Punnose, also a member of the Board of Directors of GFA and a vice president David Carroll, who serves GFA in multiple capacities, including Chief Financial Officer and Pat Emerick. Matthew and Jennifer Dickson, who are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, charge defendants with violations of RICO and the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, as well as fraud and unjust enrichment. In the 108-page document acquired by The Christian Post, on February 16, plaintiffs allege that GFA, Yohannan, and other GFA officials misrepresented to donors how, when, and where charitable donations would be spent, and funneled hundreds of millions of dollars the organization had collected into for-profit businesses and an expensive headquarters. The lawsuit comes after the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) cut ties with the organization last October for violating five of its seven core standards. They are accused of fraudulently soliciting funds and misdirecting the money to the founder’s kitty. The class action lawsuit has also named several of his family members. The Kerala-born missionary is now settled in Dallas-Fort-Worth Metroplex, Carrolton, Texas. The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas has recently taken up the case filed by the Dallas-based Stanley Law Group against Kadappiliaril Punnose Yohannan or K P Yohannan, as he is known, the founder director of the Gospel for Asia (GFA), the second largest Christian missionary agency in America. A court in the United States has initiated a lawsuit against an Indian American Pentecostal leader who is accused of misdirecting millions of dollars his organization collected for charitable works.
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