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January 2018

January 14, 2018

Archbishop Anthony Apuron faces fresh abuse allegation

Catholic Church officials in Guam say they have notified the Vatican of a new sexual...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

'Godlike' Baptist and former judge allegedly abused teen

Retired Texas state judge Paul Pressler, above, has been hit with a lawsuit which alleges...

December 08, 2017

Christian music festival leader charged with child abuse

Harry L Thomas, who launched America’s largest and longest-running Christian music festival, has been “indefinitely...

December 08, 2017

Catholic school sheltered child abusers, says former abbot

A former abbot at Downside Abbey in Somerset, Aidan Bellenger, above, claims that a school...

December 06, 2017

Toddler allegedly killed at Florida House of Prayer school

Anna Elizabeth Young, above, who ran the House of Prayer for All People religious boarding...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

Women arrested for procuring young girls for S African pastor

Two women were arrested this week in South Africa for allegedly procuring sex partners, some...

November 22, 2017

Abuse of children in Pakistan's madrassas is rife, say report

The photo above, showing a distraught Pakistani mother, Kausar Parveen, comforting her nine-year-old son who had...

November 20, 2017

Jesus was the key cause of a nasty family breakup in India

Pictured above are the wife and four children of a Hindu man in India who...

November 14, 2017

Roy Moore's week has just taken a turn for the worse

The tearful woman pictured above is Beverly Young Nelson, and yesterday she accused Judge Roy...

November 13, 2017

Christian school teacher in Iowa faces 140 abuse charges

The arrest in October of fifth grade teacher Curtis Van Dam, 35, of Sioux Center...

November 03, 2017

Satanic Temple sign ruffles feathers in a small Texas town

In July this year, the town of Three Rivers (population 1,900) voted to reinstate corporal...

October 2017

October 24, 2017

Catholic diocese won't allow the word 'rapist' on tombstone

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Michigan has come into conflict with a man...

October 22, 2017

Jehovah's Witnesses hit with a massive child abuse lawsuit

A $66 million class-action lawsuit has been launched against the the Jehovah's Witnesses leadership, claiming...

October 21, 2017

Indiana pastor Gary Evans charged with molesting girls

The 72-year-old Rush County pastor, from the Baptist Temple in Rushville, faces three counts of child...

October 16, 2017

Breast-loving pastor, 84, under investigation for sexual assault

Pastor Ralph Gordon Stair, above, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and...

October 04, 2017

BC church couple charged with sexual assault & other crimes

Samuel Emerson and his wife Madelaine from the Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church in Surrey, British Columbia,...

September 2017

September 23, 2017

Christian teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with pupils

Jessie Goline, 25, pictured above with her husband Stephen, 26, was arrested this week at...

September 20, 2017

Abuse in the Catholic Church: seven priests to go on trial

Philippe Barbarin, the Archbishop of Lyon, above – along with six other priests – is to...

September 14, 2017

Lawman and part-time school bus driver harassed a gay pupil

Robert Belt, a Sheriff Deputy in Clay County, West Virginia, is not only a devout...

September 13, 2017

Anti-porn youth pastor busted over indecent images of boys

An unnamed South African youth pastor from the Cape Town suburb of Rondebosch has been...

September 10, 2017

Nuns buried hundreds of children in unmarked graves

The lead story today in Scotland's Sunday Post reveals that that more than 400 children...

September 03, 2017

Pastor broke no law when he oiled up a young woman

Pastor Mitch Olson of Michigan's Grace Ministry Center won't be prosecuted for a 'highly questionable'...

August 2017

August 25, 2017

New Mexico cult: four more 'aggressive' Christians arrested

Following the recent arrest of members of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps – including...

August 21, 2017

'Cowardly, evil' Catholic brother jailed in Brisbane for 8 years

Francis Brophy, 87, above, began an eight year jail sentence today (Monday) after Brisbane District...

August 20, 2017

Protest in Coventry halts circumcision of boy aged 14

On August 1, a teenager posted a message on Reddit ExMuslim, in which he said...

August 18, 2017

Racial hatred: This message got a Newcastle man arrested

Jimmy Lamb, 24, was arrested earlier this month for appearing in public with the slogans,...

August 15, 2017

Pastor's hand 'accidentally' slipped into a woman's panties

Police in Michigan are reportedly investigating Mitch Olson, above, senior pastor at Grace Ministry Center...

August 10, 2017

Abuse: 'Everything in God's kingdom happens for a reason'

The headmaster of a Christian school in Nashville alleged told a 12-year-old boy who had...

August 08, 2017

Yet another 'whoops' moment for the Roman Catholic Church

At the beginning of July, Marcin A Nurek, 37, above, was ordained a priest –...

July 2017

July 30, 2017

Worshipping an evil god

In Pakistan a village council ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl because her brother...