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• The Roys Report2026-10-15✓ Read

  Russell Brand, author of conversion book, goes on trial on rape charges in London

  Comedian Russell Brand, baptized in 2024 and author of a book about becoming a Christian, went on trial Wednesday in London on charges of rape and sexual assault. Brand, 51, denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault involving six women between 1999 and 2009. He will

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• The Roys Report2026-10-15✓ Read

  Seattle pastor who planned new social media platform charged with $13 million fraud

  Cristian Popescu warned his church that trouble was coming. He preached in 2024 that he had a vision of three high-ranking demons sitting at a table, plotting against him. “The enemy is furious for our church,” Popescu told Passion for Christ, a predominantly Romanian congregation in Kirkland, Washington, a suburb east of Seattle. “He has

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• The Roys Report2026-10-14✓ Read

  SBC seminaries see new generation of leaders with R. Scott Pace installed at Southeastern

  Standing in full academic regalia on the stage of Binkley Chapel yesterday, R. Scott Pace was inaugurated president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, promising that “in everything we do, it’s all going to be about one name”: Jesus. The change of the guard, following the retirement of Daniel Akin earlier this year, signals a new

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• The Roys Report2026-10-14✓ Read

  IHOPKC relocates its 24/7 prayer room after Mike Bickle sex scandal

  Three years after a sex scandal that dismantled the decades-long ministry of Mike Bickle at the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), the ministry’s 24/7 prayer room is moving. Church leaders announced Tuesday via a webinar that the  24/7 prayer room would be moving to a different location for the first time in 27

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