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5 days ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
Charismatic leader Rick Joyner said Mike Bickle, disgraced founder of the embattled International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), should be fully restored to ministry. “Mike, in my opinion, he has been one of the great leaders in the body of Christ in our time and his time’s not up,” Joyner said Monday morning.
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2 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
Disgraced Messianic apologist Michael Brown claimed he’s been the target of a “plot” during a tearful interview online Wednesday with Fort Worth-based Mercy Culture Church Pastor Heather Schott. Brown called many of the allegations of sexual misconduct against him “lies.”“There was a plot,” Brown said. “In other words, it wasn’t just someone with the grievance. . . .
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2 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
A criminal case involving the son of Ohio megachurch pastors that has drawn massive media coverage in central Ohio intensified on Monday when a grand jury added five additional charges, including two additional counts of felony rape. The total number of sex abuse charges against Gary Thomas “Tom” Keesee, Jr., 36, now add up to 32, court records show. He is the son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, pastors of Faith Life Church in New Albany, just east of Columbus, Ohio.
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2 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
This May 14, Leah Sharibu should have been enjoying the fruits of a college education and spending her 22nd birthday with her family. Instead, she’s living her seventh year in Boko Haram captivity somewhere in Nigeria because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. Her advocates across the globe mobilized a time of prayer last week. They urged the world not to forget about the woman who was kidnapped at age 14 by Nigeria’s most notorious Muslim extremist terrorists.
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3 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
As Messianic apologist Michael Brown faces sexual misconduct allegations from outside his organization, he’s losing support from within. All three members of Brown’s board have left this year, The Roys Report (TRR) has confirmed. This is during the same time period a sex abuse scandal has eclipsed Brown’s Line of Fire ministry. “One by one, they left,” said Ron Cantor, president of Shelanu TV and former Brown confidant.
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3 weeks ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
A 134-page indictment against Messianic apologist Michael Brown released last Friday may be the most damaging report yet on the Bible teacher’s sexual misconduct with his former secretary. With new allegations on sexual and spiritual abuse, cover-ups, and complicit leaders including Brown’s wife, Nancy, the bombshell report is calling for Michael Brown’s permanent removal from ministry.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
A charismatic Canadian pastor overseeing one of British Columbia’s largest churches has been slammed with two lawsuits alleging that he groomed and sexually abused two girls between 10 to 25 years ago. In 2001, Art Lucier befriended a vulnerable 11-year-old foster child, Jasmine Hall, at a mall parking lot in Kitimat, a small town in western Canada and invited her to church, according to a lawsuit filed this week. He then groomed and sexually abuse her for the next eight years, the suit claims.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
Accusations and counter-accusations are ricocheting about charismatic circles after the release of an elders’ report that exonerated apologist Michael Brown this week. It effectively dampened a months-long investigation that concluded Brown engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct.” Some Brown supporters have taken to social media to toss “spirit of Jezebel” and “cancel culture” accusations at Brown critics.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
An accountability team of elders has cleared apologist Michael Brown for ministry, after they publicly rejected a recent third-party investigation conclusion that he engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct.”These findings came after Brown’s Line of Fire board commissioned Jim Holler of Firefly, a third-party investigator, in January to investigate reports of alleged sexual misconduct by Brown.
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1 month ago | 
julieroys.com | Rebecca Hopkins |Julie Roys
Embattled Daystar TV is refusing to refund donations to a long-time donor who complained network President Joni Lamb misused money to “purchase mansions” and “dismissed the sexual assault of her own granddaughter.” The network denied the allegations and blamed them on Joni’s son, former Daystar TV Vice President Jonathan Lamb, who has taken on “a corrupt spirit of greed and power.” Bonita Beth Brock, who contacted Daystar TV this week expressing concern about the network’s recent scandals,...
