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August 2019

August 09, 2019

Deranged pastor needs $100-m to walk folk through the ‘End Times’

RICK Wiles, the lunatic behind TruNews TV – 'God’s answer to Satan’s fake news!' –...

August 06, 2019

There’s something rotten at the heart of Mountain of Fire Ministries

AT the beginning of 2019, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries International (MFM) – a...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

UK man among four charged in Uganda over God’s ‘miracle’ cure

SAM Little, 25, from Arlesey in Bedfordshire, a former 'clairvoyant' and an active member of...

July 06, 2019

Amazon pulls gay ‘cure’ quack’s books. Will the Bible be next?

MARCH 8, 2017, was a significant date, for it saw the long-overdue demise of an...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Georgia church hires woman to make contact with the dead

God told Lakara Foster, above, that in order to prove that there's life after death,...

May 17, 2019

The princess and the shaman: a tale of love, money and ‘bullshit’

BETWEEN May 19 and 23, four 'spiritual' Nordic workshops are due to be jointly held...

May 16, 2019

Discredited UK doctor addresses anti-vaxx Orthodox Jewish rally

ON Monday, a 'vaccine symposium' attended by hundreds of mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews took place in...

April 2019

April 25, 2019

Meet the woman who uses anal inserts to cure homosexuality

WHEN one thinks of gay 'cures' in an Islamic context stonings, lashings, beheadings and plunges...

April 21, 2019

Cult, founded by a geezer from ‘another galaxy’, causes grave concern

IN October 2016, an ABC News "20/20" investigation exposed the dangerous activities the Genesis II Church...

April 12, 2019

Trial of alleged serial rapist pastor will resume next week in S Africa

LAST year South Africans were shocked and angered by the aggressive tactics used to cross...

March 2019

March 24, 2019

S African court rules against church’s reversion to homophobia

THE authorities in South Africa have been trying for some time to crack down on...

March 17, 2019

Church that mishandled its finances needs prayer … and more cash

Chicago's troubled Harvest Bible Chapel, which financed the lavish spending of its former senior pastor...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Diabetic boy died after Californian herbalist took him off insulin

Timothy Morrow, 84, who believes that 'tumours are a gift from God', is to serve...

February 27, 2019

Resurrection stunt exposes pastor to ridicule & possible prosecution

AFTER a 'dead' man sat up in his coffin outside a church in South...

December 2018

December 23, 2018

Winnipeg penis butcher suspended after botched circumcisions

Winnipeg doctor Ejaz Ahmad, above, has been suspended for five months by the College of...

December 09, 2018

Renowned Brazilian healer accused of sexually abusing women

Joao Teixeira de Faria, who claims that the spirits of more than 30 doctors work...

November 2018

November 04, 2018

Australia: Incarnation of Leonardo Da Vinci loses his defamation case

A Supreme Court jury in Australia has ruled against a charlatan who sued a former...

October 2018

October 22, 2018

SA pastor who says dog meat is the flesh of Jesus sparks outrage

A South African culture and religion watchdog has accused pastor Penuel Mnguni of 'making a...

October 20, 2018

Christian witch sows consternation among True Believers™

I've noticed a plethora of reports about the growth of witchcraft in the US recently....

September 2018

September 28, 2018

Family Radio kills off Camping – five years after his death

After doomsday prophet Harold Camping – former President and co-founder of Family Radio – fell...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

Speaking whale backwards

Let’s take a look at Gwyneth Paltrow and Goop (her company) and 'wellness'. What is...

May 2018

May 30, 2018

A jet, not a donkey, would today be Jesus's mode of travel

Hop over to televangelist Jesse Duplantis's website, and there you find a video of him...

May 16, 2018

Movie glorifying billionaire evangelist fails to fill cinemas

Nada a Perder (Nothing to Lose) is an authorised biopic of Edir Macedo, founder and...

April 2018

April 25, 2018

Indian 'godman' jailed for life for rape of teenage devotee

Millionaire Hindu guru Asaram Bapu, a sexual abstinence advocate, was today (Wednesday) jailed for life...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Thai girl dies after drinking 'holy water' given by monks

The teenage girl shown in the framed picture died in Thailand last weekend after three...

March 30, 2018

'Ex-gay' Christian threatens action against NI university

Core Issues Trust Director, Dr Mike Davidson, above, has vowed to lodge a complaint against...

March 11, 2018

'Gay cure' therapist guilty of having sex with male patients

Toronto psychiatrist Dr Melvyn Iscove, 72, who believes homosexuality is a 'sexual disorder' that can...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Woman dies after claiming God cured her lesbianism & cancer

Mari Lopez, above, a Texas woman who used YouTube to tell the world that God...

February 11, 2018

Dangerous Danish cult recruits 'world famous' singer Lou Bega

The photo above shows Lou Bega, right, praying with Torben Sondergaard, leader of 'a really...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

Faith healer arrested for inducing false pregnancies

More than 700 women in the west African Republic of Guinea were allegedly conned into...