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December 2020

December 07, 2020

Pastor who advocated ‘fleshly discipline’ allegedly molested a teen

BACK in 2016 Minneapolis pastor Robert McKenzie leader of Word of Faith Ministries, used YouTube to...

December 03, 2020

Lincoln Cathedral’s former Chancellor cleared of indecent assault

LINCOLN Cathedral has had a difficult few years. In 2018 Roy Griffiths, above, a former...

November 2020

November 24, 2020

Pakistan politician withdraws ‘Macron behaving like a Nazi’ tweet

GIVEN Pakistan's shocking inability to safeguard its women, children and members of minority religious and...

November 12, 2020

NY rabbi who avoided jail for child sex abuse dies of COVID-19

BACK in 2012, Rabbi Joel Kolko, above, avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to...

November 05, 2020

Church youth leader and judge admits abusing boys in his courtroom

MICHAEL Schechterly, above, a Perry County judge in Pennsylvania and a leading member of the...

October 2020

October 23, 2020

An ex-Bishop of Chester abused children with impunity

HUBERT Victor Whitsey – shown in this archive photo at his consecration as Bishop of...

October 16, 2020

TATES CREEK Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, announced on Thursday that well-known contemporary Christian music...

October 15, 2020

Violent sexual abuse in the Vatican: two priests put on trial

CATHOLIC priest Gabriele Martinelli, above, accused of repeatedly raping a pupil at a pre-seminary, as...

October 02, 2020

Evangelical pastor jailed in UK for sexually abusing boys and men

IN JULY we reported that Ben Thomas, above, a BBC presenter-turned-evangelical pastor, had pleaded guilty...

September 2020

September 07, 2020

Vatican diplomat honoured by Ratzinger faces abuse investigations

A TWO-pronged investigation was launched today (Monday) into claims that a once high-ranking Vatican diplomat...

September 04, 2020

Catholic diocese paid paltry sums to two poor, black abuse victims

A SURVIVOR of clerical abuse, and now the Mississippi coordinator of the Survivors Network of...

August 2020

August 29, 2020

Big payout for a woman abused by a ‘popular playboy priest’

A LAWSUIT filed almost four years ago against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in...

August 28, 2020

Delaware church’s youth leader faces over 80 counts of sex abuse

FURTHER proof that no youngster is ever safe in a religious environment comes from Delaware,...

August 20, 2020

Fundraiser launched for ‘vindicated’ cardinal Pell’s legal expenses

FALSELY claiming the Pell was 'completely vindicated' of charges relating to sexual abuse – he...

August 18, 2020

Ex-jailbird Pell: Vatican has swept out ‘most, if not all of its crooks’

CARDINAL George Pell, above, who spent 400 days in an Australian prison before having his...

August 08, 2020

Children of God cult member jailed for sexually assaulting girls

DEREK Lincoln, above, was handed an 11 year and six months sentence this week in...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Evangelical church ‘shocked’ after ex-pastor admits abusing kids

RESPONDING to news that its former pastor, Ben Thomas, above, had pleaded guilty to 40 sex...

July 20, 2020

RCC triples payout to man abused by J R R Tolkien’s son

A UK man who was sexually abused by the late Fr John Tolkien, above, son...

July 04, 2020

Child porn: ‘deeply religious’ ex-ambassador avoids jail in Hungary

ANGER is being expressed in Hungary after Gábor Kaleta, above – who served as the country's ambassador...

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Kenyan orphanage was a cover for missionary’s abuse

AMERICAN Christian missionary Gregory Dow, above, went to Kenya in 2008 with his wife to...

June 05, 2020

‘Bewildered’ UK bishop to face child safeguarding investigation

FOLLOWING his suspension last year – a move that left him 'bewildered' – Christopher Lowson,...

May 2020

May 27, 2020

Israel to extradite ultra-Orthodox child sex abuser to Australia

A FORMER headmistress of an ultra-Orthodox school – Malka Leifer, above, is to be sent back...

May 14, 2020

Australian paedophile priest has two years added to his jail time

GERALD Ridsdale, above, sentenced to 34 years in 1994 for abusing at least 69 children...

May 07, 2020

Pell’s reputation further shredded as hidden details emerge

EVIDENCE showing that Cardinal George Pell had systematically covered up clerical child abuse finally emerged...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

Study reveals rampant abuse of pupils in Pakistan’s religious schools

AN investigation by The Associated Press has uncovered dozens of police reports alleging sexual harassment,...

April 11, 2020

Cardinal Pell claims RCC has cut out ‘moral cancer’ of child abuse

IN a letter published today (Saturday) in The Australian Cardinal George Pell, 78, released this...

April 06, 2020

Victims of horrific cruelty demand closure of a UK evangelical charity

IN A statement issued at the weekend, victims of a sadistic evangelical Christian barrister –...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

‘God’s helicopter’ will bring Jesus (and diseases) to indigenous tribes

BACK IN January Ethnos360, an evangelical Christian missionary group proudly unveiled a shiny new black...

March 12, 2020

Predatory pastor’s new Florida church appointment sparks fury

THE recent appointment of Darrell Gilyard, above, a convicted sex offender, to the post of preacher...

March 05, 2020

Mexican survivors of clerical abuse sceptical over new Vatican probe

ALLEGATIONS of abuse committed by Catholic priests in Mexico have been mounting for years, and...