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4 days ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
Popular worship leader Sean Feucht, who made his fame five years ago by staging impromptu worship concerts in protest of Covid shutdowns, has been accused of spiritual abuse and financial mismanagement at his various ministries.
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1 week ago | 
wng.org | Liz Lykins
A social worker filed a lawsuit against an Oregon school district on Wednesday after officials banned him from displaying several children’s books about God’s design for gender. Rod Theis, a licensed clinical social worker at InterMountain Education Service District in Umatilla County, wanted to display the books He is He and She is She in his office. The books explain to children ages 2-8 how they can embrace and love the way God made them.
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2 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
A Phoenix pastor and his church are among 22 individuals and businesses that have been charged for allegedly defrauding Arizona’s Medicaid program out of $60 million, according to an indictment released from the Arizona attorney general’s office on Tuesday. Pastor Theodore Mucuranyana and his congregation, Hope Of Life International Church, in Glendale, Arizona, were indicted last month on a combined 10 felony counts of money laundering.
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2 weeks ago | 
religionunplugged.com | Liz Lykins
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker has pleaded for viewers to send him $1 million, saying his ministry will be shut down if he doesn’t get the funds. Bakker, who was at the heart of a notorious religious financial scandal in the 1980s, said he needs cash now to keep running Praise the Lord (PTL) Network, and his program, “The Jim Bakker Show.”Bakker was convicted in 1989 for eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.
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2 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
A former teacher at a Christian school in Indiana has been accused providing a 13-year-old girl with drugs and sending her sexually loaded texts, according to court records obtained by The Roys Report (TRR). The teacher was fired in December for disobeying a school order against texting with students. It was only in recent months that local police discovered drugs were involved.
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2 weeks ago | 
wng.org | Liz Lykins
In a world awash with sexual messaging, legislators have met repeated First Amendment roadblocks in their attempts to protect children. A ruling in Naples, Fla., is the latest in a string of court decisions that lean on free speech rights to limit efforts at putting safeguards around content like drag shows or online pornography. Last week, U.S. District Judge John Steele called the city of Naples’ efforts to protect children from viewing drag shows “clearly invalid” under the First Amendment.
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3 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
NBC News has released a massive investigation calling out the pastor of Jim Bakker’s Morningside Church for allegedly raping multiple children over several decades. On Monday, the investigation by NBC News called “The Children’s Pastor” detailed five women’s allegations against Joseph Lyle Campbell, a former Assemblies of God (AOG) cleric who worked at churches across the South and Midwest.
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3 weeks ago | 
wng.org | Liz Lykins
Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth | Donate Liz is a correspondent covering First Amendment freedoms and education for WORLD. She is a World Journalism Institute graduate and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and Spanish from Ball State University.
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3 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker has pleaded for viewers to send him $1 million, saying his ministry will be shut down if he doesn’t get the funds. Bakker, who was at the heart of a notorious religious financial scandal in the 1980s, said he needs cash now to keep running Praise the Lord (PTL) Network, and his program, The Jim Bakker Show. Baker was convicted in 1989 for eight counts of mail fraud, 15 counts of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Liz Lykins |Julie Roys
Megachurch pastor John Gray publicly apologized to his wife on a podcast last week for the multiple inappropriate relationships that almost ended their marriage, blaming it on childhood trauma. On April 27, in a nearly three-hour long podcast episode on the show “Dear Future Wifey,” Gray and his wife, Aventer, said their once-troubled marriage is in a better place thanks to God and therapy. They were on the brink of divorce in 2018.
