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May 2016

May 25, 2016

The test of spirituality

You know how Karen Armstrong, above, likes to say that compassion is at the heart...

May 23, 2016

Priest on trial for sexually assaulting boy, 9, in church

Irish Catholic priest canon Mortimer Stanley allegedly sedated a schoolboy before sexually assaulting him at...

May 08, 2016

Sadistic vicar who abused women and children is jailed

Howard Curtis, 73, above, a pastor at the Coulsdon Christian Fellowship in Greater London, has...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

'Devil boy' allegedly starved and beaten by RCMP officer

A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted police, currently suspended without pay, told a court...

April 19, 2016

Lawmaker wants faith-based day-care centres regulated

Aggressive lobbying by Christian organisations in Alabama in the 1980s made it possible for faith-based...

April 16, 2016

Victim of faith-healing parents wants them prosecuted

A disabled 20-year-old Idaho woman who was born with a hole in her heart that...

April 04, 2016

One Christian arrested, another jailed for abusing children

The principal of a Seventh-day Adventist Church Washington state, Douglas J Allison, 55, left, has been...

April 02, 2016

Father charged with killing his devoutly Christian gay son

Los Angeles police have charged a father with murder, accusing him of killing his son,...

April 02, 2016

UK Muslim jailed for keeping his wife in a state of slavery

In what is believed to be the first trial of its kind in Britain, Safraz...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Lawsuit claims Navajo children were abused by Mormons

Spencer W Kimball, pictured above, was a Mormon "prophet" who masterminded a programme that placed...

March 22, 2016

'Loving and caring' pastor allegedly abused a young girl

Maine State Police have arrested youth pastor Lucas Savage, 37, above, and charged him with sexual...

March 16, 2016

Three former friars charged over paedophile cover-up

Three former leaders of a Franciscan religious order in Pennsylvania were yesterday charged with aiding...

March 12, 2016

UK 'intactivists' plan protest against a 'mutilation' clinic

Anti-circumcision activists led by Mike Buchanan, above, are to mount a protest on March 22...

March 09, 2016

Child-abuse missionaries jailed in separate American trials

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, above left, and Joseph Maurizio Jr, 71, have begun combined jail...

March 01, 2016

'Family values' guys exposed in court as vicious wife-beaters

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, left, has lost a years-long battle with his own children...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Catholic abuse movie wins Best Picture Oscar award

Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo, above left, star of Spotlight, was among protesters outside Los Angeles'...

February 29, 2016

Muslim cleric enraged over law to protect Pakistani women

Pakistani cleric Fazl-Fazlur Rehman, above, is not a happy Islamist. Why? Because he fears that...

February 28, 2016

'Compromise' proposed over FGM: a little 'nick' will suffice

There’s much discussion on social media of a piece in the Journal of Medical Ethics...

February 21, 2016

Deaf victims of Catholic abuse in Quebec get a huge pay-out

A judge has ordered a Catholic religious order, the Clercs de St Viateur du Canada,...

February 15, 2016

Paedophile priest's suspension lifted by Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic church has lifted the suspension of a Tamil Nadu priest convicted last...

February 07, 2016

Cardinal Pell too ill to testify in person at sex abuse inquiry

Australian judge, Justice Peter McClellan, will decide tomorrow whether Cardinal George Pell, above, should be...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Car that ferried Pope around Philadelphia sold for $82,000

Will the cash raised in action this week for what has been dubbed the 'Pope...

January 31, 2016

Ohio seminary student planned to have sex with infant girls

Joel A Wright, above, who was studying to be a Catholic priest at the Pontifical...

January 28, 2016

Victims of a Christian sect led by an ex-Nazi seek justice

When ex-Nazi paedophile Paul Schäfer, above, fled from Germany in 1959 after being charged with...

January 27, 2016

Priest punished for informing on paedophile colleague

Shortly after his arrival in the US from India, Catholic priest Fr Jose Palimattom, above,...

January 22, 2016

Australian abuse victim told to repay compensation cash

An over-zealous lawyer had been blamed by the Catholic Church for a 'ham-fisted' letter sent...

January 21, 2016

Catholic Church moves dodgy Archbishop to fresh pastures

A Catholic Archbishop forced to resign after a major sex abuse scandal is now whining...

January 14, 2016

Exposed: schools that abuse kids and keep them ignorant

Documents, submitted to a government consultation on the threat of radicalisation within British schools and...

January 09, 2016

Hundreds abused at boys' choir school run by Pope's brother

For 30 years Pope Benedict’s 'sadistic' elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, 91, above, ran a famous...

January 08, 2016

Tortured for Jesus: kids were abused in Christian shelters

Thirty children, all from poor familes, have been removed by police from two homes run...