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                                                <h1 class="first">Texas pastor Joel Osteen responds to backlash over not opening his megachurch to Harvey victims</h1>
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<p>After facing days of backlash, Texas televangelist Joel Osteen has said the massive Lakewood Church will open its doors to flood victims displaced by Tropical Storm Harvey.</p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/joel-osteen-faces-criticism-social-media-closing-houston/story?id=49480146">Osteen told ABC News</a> Monday the Houston megachurch &#8220;will continue to be a distribution center for those in need&#8221; and is &#8220;prepared to house people once shelters reach capacity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Osteen had faced a firestorm of online criticism after <a href="https://twitter.com/JoelOsteen">tweeting prayers</a> for Harvey victims while Lakewood Church, the former home of the NBA&#8217;s Houston Rockets that seats 16,000 people, remained empty for days.</p>
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Seriously quite sickening when people spread negative news without knowing the situation. This is the situation of our church <a href="https://twitter.com/lakewoodch">@lakewoodch</a> <a href="https://t.co/0KKBmu6hW8">pic.twitter.com/0KKBmu6hW8</a><br />
&#8212; Lynne Gabriel (@heyitslynneg) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/902230475619610624">August 28, 2017</a>
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<p>A <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/29/us/joel-osteen-houston-megachurch-criticism/index.html">spokesman told CNN</a> Tuesday the church is set to open on Tuesday at noon, and disputed the criticisms that had been levied against the church.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have never closed our doors. We will continue to be a distribution center for those in need,&#8221; Lakewood Church spokesman Donald Iloff told CNN.</p>
<p>A Facebook post on Sunday said the megachurch was &#8220;inaccessible due to severe flooding&#8221; and directed residents to other Houston shelters, which have been taking in thousands of displaced victims.<br />
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<p>Iloff told CNN that at least three people who had sought help from the church were redirected to Houston&#8217;s George Brown Convention Center, which has accepted more than 7,000 people.</p>
<p>The church provided photos that showed standing water in parts of the building, which Iloff said Monday had begun to recede.<br />
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