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February 2017

February 26, 2017

Christian parents jailed for life for causing their son's death

Rather than seek medical help for their diabetic son Alexandru, above, a Calgary couple – Emil...

February 11, 2017

Action urged against rabbis who support abusive husband

Israeli women’s rights activist and lawyer Batya Kahane-Dror, above, has lodged a complaint against three...

February 10, 2017

Priest jailed for 28 years for abusing vulnerable children

Roy Lovatt, 71, above, a Catholic priest and housemaster at a Yorkshire children's home, received...

February 06, 2017

RCC spokesman in tears over Australian abuse revelations

The enormity of child sexual abuse within the Australian Catholic Church has been revealed after...

February 04, 2017

Court hears 'vile' Muslim child abusers shout 'God is great'

Tayab Dad, above left, and Amjad Ali, right, shouted 'Allahu Akbar' ('God is great') when...

February 03, 2017

Sadistic Christian 'morality campaigner' accused of abuse

In a programme scheduled to be screened tonight (Friday) Channel 4 News will report that...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

'Depraved' and 'evil' Christians jailed for life in Ohio over abuse

Timothy Ciboro and his son, Esten Ciboro, above, who used the Bible as as their...

January 25, 2017

Three face jail over abuse at an Alabama Christian boot camp

Alabama pastor 'Bishop' John David Young Jr, above, is due to be sentenced on February...

January 24, 2017

Child abuse pair claim 'Bible is the only defence we need'

A father and son accused of child abuse are relying on their Bibles rather than...

January 20, 2017

Inquiry exposes widespread child abuse in Northern Ireland

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA), headed by Sir Anthony Hart, above, reveals that children's...

December 2016

December 28, 2016

Argentine abuse case: Pope Francis 'lives outside of reality'

The Pope and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are keeping schtum...

December 22, 2016

Sadistic US pastor and son accused of beating a boy of 12

Dong Wook Kim and his 19-year-old son Joo Seong Kim, above, of the Good News...

December 07, 2016

Church law loophole allowed a paedophile to keep his job

Paedophile Catholic priest Fr Kevin Gugliotta, 54, above, is currently languishing in jail, awaiting trial...

December 04, 2016

Catholics sorry that a priest abused a disabled woman

The Catholic Church today publicly apologised to a disabled woman who was abused over a...

December 01, 2016

Catholic Church in Norway fined over membership fraud

Last year it was reported in Newsweek that Bernt Ivar Eidsvig, the bishop of Oslo,...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

Staff abused over school's plan to charge £1 for nativity play

A plan to charge a £1 entrance fee for three performances of a nativity play...

November 27, 2016

A Survivor’s Conversation with Christianity

[An earlier version of this article appeared on the website No Longer Quivering] SIX years...

November 24, 2016

Former Anglican priest on trial in Perth for molesting boys

Raymond Sydney Cheek, above, is facing charges of molesting five boys, one of whom was...

November 19, 2016

Turkey to free child rapists if they marry their victims

If passed, a draft bill in Turkey law will free prisoners guilty of sexually assaulting...

October 2016

October 31, 2016

Abuse victims launch lawsuit against Catholic school

Five former pupils at a Catholic school headed by James Carragher, above, who is now...

October 27, 2016

Iran's top Koran reciter stands accused of raping his students

Saeed Toosi, 46, above, one of Iran’s most celebrated Koran readers, has been accused of...

October 24, 2016

Son of former archbishop arrested over sex abuse claim

Rev Mark Carey, 51, above right, the son of former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey,...

October 23, 2016

In Texas, 'evil' pastor's wife gets five life sentences

Misty Rae Hopkins, above, the widow of a Burnet pastor, has been sentenced to five...

October 13, 2016

Imam, convicted of sex offences, flees from the UK

Hifiz Rahman, 58, above, vanished at the weekend after being found guilty of assaulting two...

October 08, 2016

Religious coercion blamed for the death of an Indian teenager

A 13-year-old girl who undertook a 68-day religious fast, apparently after being told that it...

October 04, 2016

Lengthy jail sentence imposed on Australian Catholic priest

Robert Patrick Claffey, 73, above, who sexually abused 12 Victorian children over decades in a...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Imam banished to India by mosque after raping a boy

When elders at a mosque in Rugby learned that imam Noor Walile, above, had raped...

September 20, 2016

Guam's law change could bankrupt Catholic Church

An archbishop sent to Guam to investigate abuse allegations against a fellow cleric has urged...

September 14, 2016

Devout Christian admits child rape – and blames his victim

When Richard Keenan, above, became Mayor of Hubbard in Ohio in 2010 he vowed to...

September 11, 2016

Church fearful for the safety of alleged paedophile priest

The Russian Orthodox Church has agreed to do what it can to help protect priest...