Julie Roys

2 days ago | julieroys.com | Ann Marie Shambaugh |Julie Roys

A man died and a pastor suffered major injuries, after a tree and power lines fell on their car, while driving home from a Bible study in Toledo, Ohio. Northwest Baptist Church Pastor Andrew Edwards III was driving congregant Richard Miller home and waiting at a stoplight April 17 when the tree fell. Miller, 35, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Edwards was transported to a nearby hospital with multiple injuries.

3 days ago | julieroys.com | Adelle M. Banks |Fiona Andre |Julie Roys

Leaders from across the world, religious and political, are responding to the death of Pope Francis on Monday morning, at the age of 88. Notable for his clashes with conservative traditionalists and for his Argentinian background,  the first Pope from the Americas died a day after surprising the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday.

5 days ago | julieroys.com | Ruth Malhotra |Julie Roys

(Opinion) – One afternoon during my recent visit to India, I was walking the streets in a rustic east Indian town when I came across this old gate with a cross on it. Given that Christians comprise a small minority of the Indian population (estimated only 2%-3%)—and the fact that persecution is on the rise in many parts of the country—I was intrigued.

5 days ago | julieroys.com | Julie Roys

Messianic apologist Michael Brown engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct” with one young woman and an “inappropriate relationship” with a second married woman in the early 2000s, a third-party investigative report by Firefly has found. The sexual misconduct included physical touch with Sarah Monk, a then 20-year-old woman who worked for Brown, the Firefly investigative report stated. Brown also appeared to engage in a “calculated effort to evade accountability,” Firefly found.

6 days ago | julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys

Gary Thomas “Tom” Keesee, Jr.—the son of Ohio megachurch pastors, Gary and Drenda Keesee—was arrested today and charged with two counts of rape, according to a press release by the Licking County Sheriff’s office. More charges will be considered by a grand jury on Monday, the release stated. Until last summer Tom Keesee worked as the chief media officer at the church his parents founded, Faith Life Church in New Albany, Ohio.