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November 2021

November 27, 2021

Altar boy abuse is an ‘old Spanish custom’ priest told victims

WHEN Robert Friscic, above, was being molested by a Catholic priest from the age of...

November 20, 2021

‘Son of God’ charged with a raft of sexual abuse crimes

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, above, head of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church, and two of...

November 07, 2021

Priest used confessional to extort indecent pics from boys

*** Update *** McWilliams has received a life sentence. BEHIND the jovial and benevolent face...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

Bishop facing abuse lawsuits blamed for sacking a gay teacher

GAY New York music teacher Matthew LaBanca, above left, has blamed Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio,...

October 19, 2021

Haitian kidnappings: Dark side of US missionary group exposed

WHEN news first broke last Saturday that a group of 17 missionaries had been kidnapped...

October 08, 2021

Only secular law can bring justice to French victims of clerical abuse

AN inquiry commissioned by the Catholic Church into clerical abuse in France has just concluded...

October 01, 2021

Staff at Baptist couple’s Missouri school charged with abuse

Agapé Boarding School, set up in 1990 by Baptists James and Kathy Clemensen, above, to...

September 2021

September 08, 2021

Mom attacked a Catholic pre-school teacher who hurt her toddler

VIOLENCE, we all know, should be avoided if at all possible, but sometimes there are...

September 06, 2021

McCarrick abuse trial: further allegations surface

LAST Friday Theodore McCarrick, 91, the only US Catholic cardinal, current or former, to...

August 2021

August 24, 2021

BBC: Bishop helped keep a convicted paedophile priest in service

BISHOP Michael Turnbull, above, reportedly played a role in keeping paedophile priest David Beater in...

July 2021

July 25, 2021

Abuse lawsuit launched against New Hampshire Catholic bishop

"HERE we go again, with another allegation against a bishop." These are the words of...

July 22, 2021

Let us prey: yet another youth pastor accused of sexual abuse

SAME old story, different miscreant: Jeff Bedwell, above, of Chets Creek Church, a multi-campus Southern...

July 16, 2021

C of E’s support of an abusive cult could cost it thousands

BACK in 1995, a former curate at St Thomas's Evangelical Church in Sheffield, the Rev...

July 01, 2021

Catholic priest ‘cured’ gay seminarians … by having sex with them

FOR years it's been an open secret in France that Msgr Tony Anatrella, above, in...

June 2021

June 22, 2021

Pastor nabbed for sex offences after telling people to ‘obey the law’

IN a video posted on YouTube last year Trent Holbert, above, head pastor at...

June 12, 2021

Pastor’s refusal to apologise to abuse victim costs him $500,000

AFTER pastor Lewis Clemons, of Kingdom Awareness Ministries International in Columbus, Georgia, refused to acknowledge...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

Christian cruelty: two profuse apologies in a single week

EVERY time a story breaks about the abuse inflicted on youngsters in religious environments, the...

May 19, 2021

Teens targeted with racist & anti-gay abuse at Christian camps

A CHURCH-run boot camp where teens were pushed so hard to find Jesus that some...

May 11, 2021

‘Rev Ernest Angry’ is ‘in heaven with his Lord and Master’

TELEVANGELIST Ernest Angley, above, the butt of many jokes because of his grotesque wig and...

April 2021

April 27, 2021

Spain: RCC named ‘an accomplice in sexual violence against children’

HUMAN rights legislation in Spain continues to progress at an impressive pace, much to the...

March 2021

March 11, 2021

Couple charged with abusing kids at a house of horror Christian school

THE owners of a Christian reform school in southwest Missouri have been charged with over...

February 2021

February 23, 2021

Thai authorities are turning kids into fodder for Muslim clerics

THE Muslim cleric pictured above – interviewed about the activities of youngsters in a Muslim...

February 09, 2021

‘Team Trump’ anti-abortion fanatic harboured baby-rape fantasies

IN 2013 Ruben A Verastigui, above, addressing a March for Life rally, banged on about...

February 04, 2021

Bishop had to take a sabbatical after reading a ‘gory’ abuse report

AFTER reading a report about the sexual abuse suffered by orphans at boarding houses run...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Op-ed: Paris trial sent an appalling message to clerical abusers

LAST month, the Pope’s former Ambassador to France, ex-Papal Nuncio Luigi Ventura, above, was tried...

December 24, 2020

Abuse victim says German nuns rented out children for sex

GERMANY'S Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, above, Bishop of Speyer, has revealed for the first time the details...

December 18, 2020

Priests behaving badly: a Friday round-up

TOP of the list of crimes committed mainly by Catholic priests is Manuel La Rosa-Lopez,...

December 13, 2020

Homo-hating Christian politician suspended from House of Lords

A NORTHERN Ireland member of the House of Lords – Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, above...

December 09, 2020

Lawsuit alleges Catholic priest groped a cleaner and tried to bed her

FOLLOWING our earlier report today about a priest's alleged sexual assault on a female security...

December 09, 2020

NY priest, caught watching gay porn, accused of sexual assault

A 'CELEBRITY' New York priest, who last year expressed horror that Ireland had sunk into...