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April 2019

April 23, 2019

Christian university launches petition against Mike Pence’s visit

MORE than 6,600 have signed a petition calling on Taylor University in Indiana to cancel...

April 21, 2019

Pope ‘blindsides’ gay UK comedian with acceptance message

Stephen K Amos doesn't go a bundle on the Catholic Church, so when he learned...

April 20, 2019

Easter stunt goes horribly wrong for Impact City Church in Ohio

WHEN part-time pastor Jaddeus Dempsey, of Impact City Church in Pataskala, Ohio, invited kids to...

April 18, 2019

Church banishes priest who failed to properly control his wife

RUSSIAN Orthodox priest Father Sergii Zotov has a beautiful wife – and a vocation that's in tatters....

April 17, 2019

BBC excoriated by ex-staffer for being ‘ignorant’ about Christianity

A BLISTERING attack has been launched against BBC 1’s News at Ten by one its...

April 17, 2019

Christian clerk apologises over gay marriage licence refusal

THE town of Root in upstate New York found itself at the centre of a...

April 16, 2019

Notre Dame blaze: right-wing loons are having a field day

IT was a fire. It was devastating. It damn near destroyed one of the world's...

April 16, 2019

RCC caught out lying about ‘dangers’ of non-Catholic Irish schools

The Catholic Church is Ireland has been accused by an Irish academic of spreading misinformation...

April 14, 2019

Christian rugby player booed over his support for homophobia

THE row sparked by Israel Folau, the anti-gay Australian rugby player, took a new twist...

April 13, 2019

Canadian bigots rally against soon-to-be-released gay ‘loonies’

AT the beginning of the year Canada announced that its one dollar coin – called...

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...

April 12, 2019

‘Gay cure’ courses: Catholic Church accused of breaking Spanish law

SPAIN has tough anti-homophobia laws, and promoting or carrying out so-called 'conversion therapy' is banned...

April 11, 2019

Rise of atheism deals a further blow to Catholic Church in Spain

AN English language weekly newspaper in Spain, Euro Weekly News, today published the following report...

April 11, 2019

Because of Jesus career of top Australian rugby player is in ruins

'RELIGIOUS nutter' Israel Folau is about to be sacked by Rugby Australia and the NSW Rugby...

April 10, 2019

Raped Indian nun: Catholic bishop charged after a lengthy delay

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, above, was arrested in India last September, but it was not until...

April 10, 2019

Anti-vax student sues Kentucky health authority – and loses

JEROME Kunkel, 18, above, refused to to be vaccinated against chickenpox on religious grounds, wrongly...

April 09, 2019

Proposed UK divorce law reform upsets Christian conservatives

CHRISTIAN Concern's scary Chief Executive Andrea Minichiello Williams threw another of her tedious tantrums...

April 08, 2019

US-based hate groups pour millions in ‘dark money’ into Europe

WE'VE been aware for years that US-based Christian extremists have been funding far-right groups in...

April 07, 2019

Come Rapture day, who will be left to care for Christians’ pets?

BACK in 2009 US atheist Bart Centre launched a website called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, a...

April 06, 2019

Shock and indignation follows Amsterdam priest’s ‘coming out’

AT the beginning of April Catholic priest Father Pierre Valkering, above, celebrated the 25th anniversary...

April 05, 2019

Angry Christians oppose nuclear weapons church service

LONDON'S Westminster Abbey plans on holding a service in May to recognise '50 Years of...

April 05, 2019

Producers of Easter items must ensure they don’t offend Christians

THE UK's advertising watchdog says there's a 'fine line' between humour and sacrilege and companies...

April 04, 2019

Holy smoke! Book-burning priest fined for illegal bonfire

THE Rev Rafal Jarosiewicz, a Catholic priest who recently led a book-burning ceremony in Gdansk,...

April 03, 2019

Pastor warns local paper that she has a knife and cuts people

CALIFORNIAN pastor Hope Carpenter, above, on a weekend visit to South Carolina, told the congregation...

April 02, 2019

Catholic priests’ book burning was ‘psychological child abuse’

A clutch of Catholic priests in northern Poland set off a firestorm on social media...

April 01, 2019

‘It’s worrying’: far fewer UK students are taking theology courses

President of the British Academy, writer and historian Sir David Cannadine, above, is a worried...

April 01, 2019

Op-ed: Log Cabin Republicans have a queer view of equality

Log Cabin Republicans are a deluded group who work to persuade their fellow Republicans not...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Fascists and Christian extremists unite for World Congress of Families

THE World Congress of Families, a coalition of far-right politicians, conservative activists and religious leaders,...

March 30, 2019

No ifs or butts: women shouldn’t wear leggings – especially in church

A CATHOLIC mom has sparked a lively debate in an Indiana University's student newspaper over...

March 29, 2019

Catholics rail against NJ’s legalisation of assisted suicide

BOTH chambers of New Jersey's state Legislature have passed a bill allowing assisted suicide –...