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July 2017

July 29, 2017

Connecticut rabbi, 77, arrested on sexual assault charges

A prominent Connecticut rabbi and hard-line morality campaigner, Rabbi Daniel Greer, has been charged with...

July 28, 2017

Muslim 'surprised' that wife-beating is illegal in Canada

An Iranian immigrant who systematically brutalised his wife, and was subsequently given a light prison...

July 24, 2017

North Carolina megachurch was used as a hub of slavery

She loves Jesus. And dogs. And infants. She's got big hair and a well-practised smile....

July 23, 2017

Pastor's wife was treated as a 'sex slave' and frequently raped

In a harrowing TV interview, Australian Joy Harris, 63, above, spoke for the first time...

July 18, 2017

More than 500 kids abused in Catholic schools over 60 years

Ulrich Weber, above, a German lawyer tasked with investigating abuse at two Catholic institutions –...

July 08, 2017

Sadistic Muslim teacher caged for 13 years for child sex abuse

Mohammed Haji Sadiq, 81, who taught Koran studies at a mosque in Wales, was sentenced...

July 06, 2017

UK Muslims failing to address sexism and victim-blaming

Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, above, the man who brought a case against a gang of abusers...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

Holy See 'regrets' charges against Cardinal George Pell

The Holy See today issued a statement in response to news that one of the...

June 22, 2017

Flaming June proves a harsh month for Church of England

First, came an accusation in mid-June from two Anglican churches in the UK that an...

June 14, 2017

Vicious Christian jailed for exorcism assault on daughter

William Ellis Watt, above, a Michigan man with a long history of violence, has been...

June 02, 2017

Washington youth pastor rapist handed a five-year jail sentence

Christopher Lee Trent, 37, a former Baptist youth pastor whose duties included advising adults on...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Orthodox Church flexes its muscles in Russian Parliament

It's become increasingly obvious over the past few years that the Orthodox Church has been...

May 19, 2017

Florida Christian assaulted 'provocative' eight-year-old

Sydney Allan Markland, above, who has a passion for 'teaching people the Bible', has been...

May 08, 2017

Ohio televangelist used slave labour to run his restaurant

Last month a federal judge ordered 95-year-old Cuyahoga Falls televangelist Ernest Angley, above, to pay...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Jailed pastor Kenneth Adkins: 'I'm innocent, pray for me'

Pastor Ken Adkins, of the Greater Dimensions Christian Fellowship church in Georgia, has been jailed...

April 24, 2017

US doctor admits mutilating girls for religious reasons

Jumana Nagarwala, above, a Detroit-area Muslim doctor accused of mutilating the genitals of young girls,...

April 21, 2017

Catholic official arrested for photographing underage boys

Evrard-Nicolas Sarot, 53, above right, employed by the Church to offer pastoral care at Schiphol...

April 20, 2017

Evidence linking Catholics to slavery surfaces in Ireland

Tom Wall, above, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers at a...

April 20, 2017

Irish revolt against a religious order getting a new hospital

More than 57,000 people have signed a petition seeking to prevent the Sisters of Charity...

April 15, 2017

Utah: 'An extraordinarily good' Mormon bishop jailed for rape

When Keith Robert Vallejo, above, was sentenced to life imprisonment for sexual abuse and rape,...

April 12, 2017

Kinky Georgia pastor Kenneth Adkins faces a long term in jail

Last August Charlotte Stormy Adkins protested at the arrest of her husband, pastor Kenneth Adkins,...

April 07, 2017

Spanish police arrest Muslim couple for abuse of daughter

In a case indicative of Spain's determination to clamp down on Islamic extremism and child...

April 05, 2017

American Atheists sue over forced baptism of Ohio boy

Pam Iorio, above, heads an organisation called Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. It was...

April 05, 2017

Salvation Army pair jailed for abusing a captive woman

A Northern Ireland couple who met when they were both working for the Salvation Army...

April 01, 2017

London bishop and accomplice jailed over sexual assaults

Bishop Benjamin Egbujor, 55, and his sectretary Rose Nwenwu, 43, of the Jubilee Christian Centre...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Bishop who helped expose Anglican clergy abuse resigns

Australian Bishop Greg Thompson, above, who has been diligently working to expose 'horrendous' child abuse...

March 11, 2017

Vicious Christians who ran a 'gay cure' boot camp jailed

Shortly before he was sentenced to 20 years in jail on three counts of aggravated...

March 06, 2017

Five Indian nuns among eight arrested over teenager's rape

Father Robin Vadakkumcherry*, above, along with five nuns and two doctors, have been arrested in...

February 2017

February 27, 2017

Monstrous Christian accused of abuse at N Carolina church

Jane Whaley, 77, above, who runs the Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale, North Carolina,...

February 27, 2017

Paedophile priests better inside the church than out

Last year it was reported that paedophile priest Mauro Inzoli, above, had agreed to pay...