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October 2021

October 29, 2021

Holy crap! Churchgoers cheer as a woman takes a godly dump

DELIVERANCE services are a staple at fundamentalist Christian gatherings, where people, mesmerised by ranting preachers,...

October 24, 2021

Mad medic says vaccines are linking human brains to the Internet

DESCRIBED by Christianity Daily as a "brave doctor", but regarded by sensible people as a...

June 2021

June 21, 2021

Indian naturopath offering quack cures for Covid croaks aged 65

IN March Mohanan Vaidyar, above, was arrested by Kerala police and faced charges of spreading...

June 06, 2021

‘God has taken His servant.’ Pray-away-the-gay’ charlatan is dead.

T B Joshua died yesterday weeks after he was suspended by YouTube in April for...

May 2021

May 11, 2021

‘Rev Ernest Angry’ is ‘in heaven with his Lord and Master’

TELEVANGELIST Ernest Angley, above, the butt of many jokes because of his grotesque wig and...

May 03, 2021

India’s nightmare ignited by religion, quackery & complacency

DONALD Trump instantly springs to mind when one thinks of a deranged world leader who...

March 2021

March 09, 2021

Net closing in on UK faithheads touting quack LGBT ‘cures’

A PETITION signed by more than 250,000 people calling for the banning of mainly faith-based...

February 2021

February 13, 2021

Major fail for Copeland as fellow huckster Frederick K C Price snuffs it

AT the end of this week, televangelist Kenneth Copeland declared that God + prayer would...

February 13, 2021

Victoria ‘declares war on Christians’ by banning conversion therapy

WEARING my Pink Triangle Trust hat, I reported last week that Victoria had voted to...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

Head of a quack medical group arrested over Capitol breach

IN THE world of science, Simone Gold, above – founder of a wacky outfit called America’s...

November 2020

November 05, 2020

New faith-based film aims to help gays ‘migrate’ to heterosexuality

A CHRISTIAN 'pro-family' outfit in Quebec – Campagne Québec-Vie – has teamed up with veteran...

October 2020

October 12, 2020

US man must pay $800 costs after losing a ‘gay cure’ lawsuit

A YOUNG gay man who attempted suicide after being forced to watch a video featuring...

September 2020

September 12, 2020

Trump’s shyster friend Mike Lindell called a liar, threatens lawsuit

MYPILLOW'S CEO Mike Lindell, above, who went from crack to Christ and called Trump 'America's...

September 02, 2020

Anchorage dismisses fanatic’s supports of ‘gay cure’ therapies

A DESIGNATED American hate group – the Family Research Council – managed to insert one...

August 2020

August 27, 2020

Fresh inquiry launched into a UK church that sold quack cures

IN April we reported that Kingdom Church in London – headed by a British version...

August 21, 2020

Kenneth Copeland thrown over by TBN for a younger, prettier model

THE message will be the same: Jesus needs your money ... and lot's of it!...

August 13, 2020

‘Miracle cure’ charlatan and son arrested in Colombia

MARK Grenon, above, self-styled 'archbishop' of Florida's Genesis II Church of Health & Healing and...

July 2020

July 12, 2020

Christian fraud Morris Cerullo is ‘alive and well’ in the arms of Jesus

SO said one of his adoring followers after the millionaire 'miracle cure' huckster tumbled off...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Bishop blasts female learning: ‘They be smarter than their husbands’

IN his 1970 three-act play, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut Jr has one of...

May 2020

May 18, 2020

Harmful ‘gay cure’ outfit furious at being labeled … harmful

A NORTHERN-Ireland based Christian organisation that seeks to engender or amplify feelings of self-loathing among...

April 2020

April 30, 2020

London church probed for selling a quack COVID-19 cure

MEET 'prophet' – or should that be 'profit?' – Climate Wiseman, who's made a around...

April 21, 2020

Reach for a tissue. ‘Gay cure’ nutter Sy Rogers is in the arms of Jesus.

ONCE upon a time Rogers, above, was both gay and transsexual. But that ended when...

April 20, 2020

Evangelists and missionaries fall on hard times. Please send cheques.

THE first wave of IRS stimulus payments of $1,200 from America'a COVID-19 relief package went...

April 18, 2020

US judge halts sale of church’s ‘miracle’ COVID-19 compound

GENESIS II Church of Health and Healing squealed that its 'holy sacrament' had come under...

April 16, 2020

Televangelist about to go ‘totally broke’. Please send cheques.

Opening up with the words 'the warfare continues', crooked televangelist Jim Bakker – purveyor of...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

Florida pastor arrested for unlawful assembly at The River church

IN a round-up headed 'Coronavirus and the Christian crazies', published on March 17, I included...

February 2020

February 15, 2020

Disgraced evangelist teams up with a crank to sell a quack ‘cure’

AN unqualified naturopath teamed up last Wednesday with a disgraced televangelist to flog a product...

February 04, 2020

Pastor arrested for causing a ‘miracle oil’ stampede that killed 20

Whenever faith-based stunts are performed tragedies often come in their wake. Following the death of...

February 02, 2020

‘Prophet’ asks for $50-m to resurrect Kobe Bryant and his daughter

GHANAIAN 'prophet' Nigel Gaisie, above, said that the death last Sunday of NBA legend Kobe...

October 2019

October 17, 2019

‘Miracle water’ commercial just cost a broadcaster £25,000

TELEVANGELIST Peter Popoff – once exposed by religious fraud-buster James Randi as a complete charlatan...