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September 2017

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 19, 2017

Evangelicals don't want to be seen as a blight on Keswick

Back in August we reported that evangelicals who converge on Keswick annually for a convention...

September 17, 2017

Never mind the non-believers, feel Scotland's 'spirituality'

The number of Scots who say they are not religious has risen to almost three...

September 17, 2017

Jewish and gay: Texas disaster volunteer 'sacked' by church

Carmen Hix, pictured above left with her partner Christia Fiddmont-Norfleet, got the bum's rush from...

September 16, 2017

New horror movie will outrage Christians, Catholics especially

In a scathing attack on a movie called Mother!, Kyle Smith of The National Review...

September 15, 2017

Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments

Gaurav Tyagi, a new contributor to the Freethinker, reflects on the recent row over an...

September 15, 2017

Portland, Tennessee, to be targeted by angry drag queens

Back in 2014, Portland – a city of about 12,000 with 42 churches – found...

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 12, 2017

More – especially the young – discard Christianity in the UK

Britain is fast becoming one of the least religious countries in the world. Although vestiges...

September 11, 2017

C of E school's acceptance of transgender boy sparks row

Nigel and Sally Rowe, above, are Christians. Christians who find trangenderism so icky that they've...

September 11, 2017

Texas churches, denied storm damage aid, launch a lawsuit

The photo above shows damage done last month to the First Baptist Church of Rockport,...

September 08, 2017

Christians angry over removal of cross from food packets

Food chain Lidl has been forced to apologise for removing a cross from a church...

September 07, 2017

'Biblical economist' jailed for 'end of the world' cash scam

'Fine Christian man' Larry Bates, 73, former House of Representative for Tennessee and ex-Chairman of...

September 05, 2017

Sounding a very sour note at London's St Sepulchre Church

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in Holborn, central London, has been known as the National Musicians’ church for...

September 04, 2017

Grace-free ceremony: Belfast's new mayor upsets faith-heads

Belfast has a new Lord Mayor. And Nuala McAllister, an atheist, has started her new...

September 04, 2017

Catholic priest resigns after Ganesh is paraded in a church

Catholic priest Juan José Mateos Castro has been forced to resign after he allowed the...

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'...

September 03, 2017

Anti-gay marriage propaganda ignored by young Australians

The debate in Australia over same-sex marriage took a turn this week that's left Catholic...

September 03, 2017

Signs of godliness

Christians, as a rule, don't wear ridiculous garb. They leave that to their poncy spiritual...

September 02, 2017

Wales: Feed my Lambs Church accused of being anti-Muslim

Caernarfon councillor Kenny Khan, above, was asked by locals Muslims to find them a venue...

September 02, 2017

Minister at 'freaky' Yorkshire church guilty of sexual assaults

Pastor John Wilson, 70, who sexually abused six vulnerable women has been warned by a...

September 01, 2017

'Abominable' lesbian couple awarded cash and an apology

When Amanda Abramovich, right, and Samantha Brookover went to to their county clerk’s office in...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Australian anti-gay marriage adverts dismissed as 'rubbish'

Seeing as I am now in Gibraltar just days away from my wedding to my...

August 29, 2017

Why did Houston bear the brunt of Hurricane Harvey?

A quick trawl through fundamentalist Christian threads today provides the answer: Houston, in Harris County,...

August 28, 2017

Paper accused of 'generating hatred' in a Muslim report

One of the most widely covered reports in the UK today concerns a 'white Christian'...

August 27, 2017

Priest's anger with God caused him to download child porn

Kevin Gugliotta, above, a former Catholic priest in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, reportedly told authorities that he...

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 23, 2017

South Korean Protestants not happy with church tax plan

When it was announced in June 2017 that South Korea planned to start taxing churches...

August 22, 2017

Romanian bishop, featured in a gay sex video, leaves his post

Corneliu Barladeanu, 51, the Bishop of Husi in Romania, resigned suddenly last Friday amid a...