A federal lawsuit filed by televangelist Bishop T.D. Jakes against Pittsburgh-area pastor Duane Youngblood has been jointly dismissed, ending a year-long legal dispute that drew national attention in faith and media circles. The voluntary dismissal was filed October 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Jakes, 68, sued Youngblood, 59, after the latter—in two explicit 2024 podcasts posted to YouTube by Atlanta pastor-broadcaster Larry Reid accused him of att...| The Roys Report
Dallas megachurch founder Tony Evans, who stepped back from leading his church due to an undisclosed “sin” he announced last year, apologized to his congregation and his family on Sunday (Oct. 5), after the elder board of his Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship announced the pastor had completed a “restoration process” and will not return to leadership of the church. “To the flock, to the congregation, for the consternation I may have caused you with questions and wondering and uncertainty, ...| The Roys Report
The lead pastor at a North Texas megachurch has resigned after confessing to “sexual sin and moral failure.” John McKinzie, lead pastor at Hope Fellowship Church in Collin County, Texas, stepped down Monday, church leaders announced in an email to congregants. Hope Fellowship, with an estimated weekly attendance of 8,000 to 9,000, operates four campuses in Frisco, McKinney, and Prosper, Texas. The email described how leaders were blindsided by McKinzie’s confession on Sunday.| The Roys Report
Eight leaders of a Georgia-based church have been indicted for swindling more than $30 million from multiple banks and an untold number of U.S. veterans. The widespread fraud scheme was operated for decades by leaders of the House of Prayer Christian Churches of America (HOPCC), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia in a press release. The leaders allegedly targeted members of the U.S. military for indoctrination and then “exercised extreme control” to gain mon...| The Roys Report
Texas megachurch Gateway Church has canceled it popular annual conference in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving founder Robert Morris.| The Roys Report
