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September 2018

September 06, 2018

Major fail for bigot who tried to wreck photographer's business

When a prospective client – a devout Christian – discovered that Houston-based photographer Alicia Verdier,...

September 05, 2018

Flanders politician re-ignites religious broadcasting debate

Last year Sven Gatz, above, Minister for Media in Flanders, tried unsuccessfully to abolish religious...

September 02, 2018

Swiss politician slammed for objecting to Christian ads

Mohamed Hamdaoui, inset, a journalist and left-wing Social Democratic Party representative for the city of...

September 01, 2018

Australia: comedy duo skewers Prime Minister’s Christianity

Ever since Scott Morrison, inset, seized power last month, the godless masses in Australia –...

September 01, 2018

Catholic Church in Australia is far wealthier than it claimed

An investigation, published this week, reveals that the Catholic Church in Australia concealed its massive...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Child porn: warning sign to be posted outside pastor's home

Soon to appear outside James Rankin's home in Hurst, Texas: a sign saying 'A person...

August 29, 2018

'Fascism in the flesh': Trump's state dinner for evangelicals

Reacting to a warning sounded by President Trump that that there will be 'violence' if...

August 28, 2018

Pope slammed for advocating psychiatry for young gays

On his way back from his bruising visit to Ireland, a beleaguered Pope Francis was...

August 28, 2018

Bible is for white people only, wrote man accused of murder

John Daniel Carothers, currently in a Tennessee prison awaiting trial for setting fire to a...

August 27, 2018

The standards of the day

Since the Pope’s weekend in Ireland is in the news, including here, I thought it...

August 27, 2018

Thousands rally against Pope's visit to a very different Ireland

When Pope John II came to Ireland in 1979 he was given rock star treatment...

August 26, 2018

Priests who cover up sexual abuse are 'shit' says the Pope

Pope Francis referred to those who cover up abuse in the Catholic Church as 'caca'...

August 25, 2018

Priest used holy water to 'clean up' after a gay pride parade

Orthodox Ukrainian priest Fr Oleg Mokryak, head of the Missionary Department for the Diocese of...

August 24, 2018

Catholic reporter barred from family conference in Dublin

Attendees at a conference set up as an alternative to the World Meeting of Families...

August 23, 2018

Prophet: Trump will be toppled by the forces of witchcraft

Witchcraft is taking over America, and President Donald Trump is unlikely to survive the onslaught....

August 23, 2018

'Disgusting' abortion ice cream condemned by pro-lifers

It was inevitably that outrage would follow when What's the Scoop?, a Portland ice cream...

August 20, 2018

Ireland: drive-thru confessional pokes fun at Catholic Church

An enormous drive-thru confessional has been erected in Dublin to coincide with the Pope's visit...

August 18, 2018

Crazed US missionary racially abuses Ugandan hotel workers

Screaming 'You hate Jesus', Jimmy L Taylor, above, went into meltdown in a Kampala hotel,...

August 18, 2018

'Catholic Church must stop ordaining homosexual men'

Daniel Mattson, author of Why I don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual...

August 17, 2018

'Ex-gay' Christian outfit sues UK cinema chain – and wins

Vue Cinemas, which refused to screen a 'pray away the gay' film, has settled a...

August 16, 2018

New website names Catholic clergy who covered up abuse

A newly-launched website – ComplicitClergy.com – identifies ten American bishops who 'should have known' about...

August 16, 2018

Christian baker Jack Phillips sues over alleged harassment

Phillips, above, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, this week filed a lawsuit...

August 15, 2018

Argentina: Catholics urged to quit church after abortion vote

Last week, despite massive demonstrations in support abortion in Argentina, the country's Senate voted against...

August 14, 2018

Survey shows that Scotland is no longer a faith-based country

Commenting the findings of a poll commissioned by Humanist Society Scotland, Gordon MacRae, above, Chief Executive...

August 13, 2018

Preacher says he met an angel in 'really tight' ballet pants

Canadian evangelist and faith healer Todd Bentley, 42, has homo-erotic fantasies – and he's happy...

August 12, 2018

Anti-LGBT Baptist pastor busted for soliciting gay sex

Timothy Lee Reddin, 67, of Springdale, Arkansas, is in police custody as a result of...

August 11, 2018

Church of England priest jailed for 12 years for abusing boys

Canon Terrence Grigg, 84, retired rector of St Mary's Church, Cottingham near Hull, began a...

August 09, 2018

'Catholic Church is woefully incapable of policing itself'

That was the reaction of lawyer Richard Scorer to a report published today about the 'appalling'...

August 09, 2018

Pro-gay priest WILL speak at WMF despite Catholic hysteria

Despite the fact that at least two petitions are demanding that Fr James Martin –...

August 08, 2018

Nuns who expelled a Ugandan from a shelter face a backlash

A gay rights organisation in Holland – Rozelinks – announced on Facebook that it was...