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July 2017

July 06, 2017

Artefacts for Museum of the Bible were looted from Iraq

This autumn will see the official opening in Washington DC of the Museum of the...

July 05, 2017

Faith-based stripper sign in Salem removed after outcry

Cynthia Shaver, above, found herself at the centre of media attention this week after a...

July 04, 2017

Another Christian nut says that the rainbow belongs to God

A while back I posted a piece about American evangelist Bryan Fischer, who claimed that...

July 03, 2017

Poles apart: religion and the real world

When I was growing up in a religious Polish family I found myself really close...

July 03, 2017

Oz's godlessness blamed on aggressive atheists & 'queers'

It was widely reported last week that the number of atheists in Australia had increased...

July 01, 2017

Christian hate group rejects 'hate group' label … and sues

Liberty Counsel, founded by far right Christian lawyer Mathew ('Mat') Staver, inset above, this week...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Christian Institute 'shocked' over award given to gay singer

Earlier this month Vicky Beeching, pictured above with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, was...

June 29, 2017

Floundering Ark Encounter seeks to avoid new safety tax

Ken Ham's $100-million white dinosaur, the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, says it has been...

June 28, 2017

'Jesus freak' destroys another 10 Commandment monument

Michael Tate Reed, above, the man accused of ramming a car into the newly erected...

June 28, 2017

OGOD wins South African religious education lawsuit

In April we carried a report that the Organisation for Religious Education and Democracy (OGOD),...

June 25, 2017

Pastafarian gives Melbourne's 'hellfire' bikes a make-over

Bicycles used by an evangelical group to put fear of eternal damnation into the good...

June 24, 2017

Something for the collection plate? A card will do nicely.

Around 40 churches in the UK will soon be equipped with handheld terminals to process...

June 23, 2017

Is a fascist Christian theocracy REALLY the stuff of paranoia?

When Hulu launched its highly-acclaimed dramatisation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale earlier...

June 22, 2017

Flaming June proves a harsh month for Church of England

First, came an accusation in mid-June from two Anglican churches in the UK that an...

June 21, 2017

Ex-pastor lived high on the hog in Australia on stolen cash

David Owen Parkinson's lavish lifestyle, funded by $3-million (£1.7-million) stolen in property investment scams, came...

June 21, 2017

Pious politicians told to 'get off you knees and get to work'

America's Freedom From Religion Foundation is demanding a written assurance from Minnesota state representative Abigail...

June 20, 2017

Crazy Russian cleric: 'men with beards are less likely to be gay'

Metropolitan Kornily Titov, above, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church, said men should stop...

June 18, 2017

Christians angered by Muslims praying at Virgin Mary statue

A row has broken out in the Spanish city of Grenada, where Muslims gathered last...

June 16, 2017

Connecticut pastor charged with stealing a $1.5-m church

'Bishop' Franklin L Fountain, 55, above, has been charged with first-degree larceny and second-degree forgery...

June 15, 2017

Tim Farron was the victim of prejudice against Christians

The Catholic Cardinal of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, above, left, has added his voice to those...

June 14, 2017

Sick Missouri lawmaker kills chicken in abortion protest

Republican State Representative Mike Moon decapitated a chicken then ripped out it heart in a...

June 14, 2017

Vicious Christian jailed for exorcism assault on daughter

William Ellis Watt, above, a Michigan man with a long history of violence, has been...

June 13, 2017

N Ireland bigots angry that the media portrays them as bigots

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has launched a petition calling on Prime...

June 13, 2017

Christian group wants mentally ill people barred from churches

A national Christian group in Australia – led by Reverend Ashley Saunders, above – is...

June 11, 2017

Trump kicks church/state separation into the long grass

To the delight of the evangelical clowns who adore him, President Trump said this week...

June 10, 2017

Perth: senior church member attacks Qantas chief with a pie

Tony Overheu, 67, who shoved a cream pie into the face of gay Qantas CEO...

June 09, 2017

Theresa May turns to N Irish bigots to keep her in power

A clot of homophobes, climate change deniers and creationists – collectively known as the Democratic...

June 09, 2017

Prominent Boston pastor arrested in prostitution sting

Back in 2013, 'Bishop' Archie Livingston Foxworth, 68, gave a blessing to Massachusetts' Republican Governor...

June 08, 2017

Evangelical women in Australia get in a tangle over hair length

Last weekend in Australia a bunch of evangelical women – several thousand actually – flocked...

June 04, 2017

Jesus Christ tells preacher not to help save a Ghanaian soldier

Controversial Ghanaian cleric 'Bishop' Daniel Obinim, above right, claims that he could have prevented a soldier...