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May 2016

May 23, 2016

Priest on trial for sexually assaulting boy, 9, in church

Irish Catholic priest canon Mortimer Stanley allegedly sedated a schoolboy before sexually assaulting him at...

May 22, 2016

New website exposes dangers of a 'faith-based' education

Launched earlier this month, Faith Schoolers Anonymous sets out to to document the experiences of...

May 22, 2016

Gay men can't be 'alpha males' says AFA representative

Sandy Rios, above, a representative of the the right-wing American Family Association this week criticised...

May 20, 2016

Cash meant to feed poor kids was stolen by 'Prophetess'

Jeanette Jives-Nealy looks like she's not short of a dollar or two in the above...

May 18, 2016

Idiots who taunted Muslims with pig's head are in the clear

The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals bench has ruled that a bunch of Christian...

May 17, 2016

Muslim cleric claims Christians worship Jesus Christ's penis

I cracked up laughing, and you will probably too, when you watch Egyptian cleric Ahmed...

May 15, 2016

Tyson Fury: 'It's hard to follow religion in today's world'

When asked in a newly-released video why he has never been backed by 75 percent...

May 11, 2016

It was a decision that almost cost the young man his life

In the first of a chilling two-part expose, the Des Moines Register reports on how...

May 10, 2016

Bible & gun nut threatened to hang seven Arkansas mayors

Maverick Dean Bryan, 55, of Mineral Springs, Arkansas – awaiting trial on seven counts of...

May 10, 2016

Islamic bus ads are 'proof' of bias against UK Christians

Still seething over the fact that a Christian prayer ad had been banned a while...

May 08, 2016

Sadistic vicar who abused women and children is jailed

Howard Curtis, 73, above, a pastor at the Coulsdon Christian Fellowship in Greater London, has...

May 02, 2016

Singapore pastor sees red over country's Pink Dot movement

Yang Tuck Yoong, senior pastor of Singapore's Community Church, has expressed outrage over a promotional...

May 01, 2016

C of E faith schooling edged me towards atheism

I had the misfortune of going to a Church of England first school. Christianity was...

May 01, 2016

Pennsylvania church shooting: man dies in row over seating

Mark T Storms, 46, above left, has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Judge told of an exorcism that 'cleansed' a killer of demons

A South African judge, due to sentence Aljar Swartz, above, for murder, said this week...

April 29, 2016

ITV dramatises shocking case of murderous Christian dentist

At 9pm tonight (Friday), ITV begins a four-part dramatisation of the murders committed by a...

April 24, 2016

Pat Boone – remember him? – wants blasphemy punished

Pat Boone has refused to back down from his harsh critique of the recent 'Saturday...

April 22, 2016

Pervy priests arrested for sex offences in separate incidents

The Rev Joshua C Scheil, 28, left, and pastor Stephen Glenn Charest, 66, were arrested...

April 19, 2016

Lawmaker wants faith-based day-care centres regulated

Aggressive lobbying by Christian organisations in Alabama in the 1980s made it possible for faith-based...

April 17, 2016

School accused of persecuting 'Jesus Lunch' providers

Every Tuesday, in a park near Middleton High School in Wisconsin, a bunch of faith-heads...

April 16, 2016

Victim of faith-healing parents wants them prosecuted

A disabled 20-year-old Idaho woman who was born with a hole in her heart that...

April 15, 2016

Christian Concern urges people to see 'God's Not Dead' sequel

Why? Because they say that the God's Not Great 2 storyline 'could be taken out...

April 15, 2016

Vetoed: a bill to make the Bible Tennessee's 'official' book

It was a damn stupid idea from the very start. But lawmakers in Tennessee recently...

April 13, 2016

Evidence of pastor's ascension to Heaven was allegedly stolen

On Easter Sunday, South African 'prophet' Paseka Motsoeneng, of the Incredible Happenings Church in Katlehong,...

April 12, 2016

Porn company punishes North Carolina over anti-LGBT law

North Carolina has been drawing national attention for new legislation that blocks cities and local...

April 11, 2016

Atheist ad campaign success: thousands ditch Danish church

First came an bus ad campaign launched by Denmark's Atheist Society – Ateistisk Selskab– with...

April 09, 2016

Welby can keep his job, but he will turned from heaven's gate

It's just been revealed that the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby, is a...

April 08, 2016

UK law 'skewed to favour religions that aren't Christian'

After losing yet another court battle, Andrea Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal...

April 06, 2016

Mississippi gives green light to faith-based discrimination

Last week Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal vetoed Georgia House Bill 757, which would have given...

April 06, 2016

NI abortion sentence 'unduly lenient' says Christian crackpot

Bernadette Smyth, above, founder of Northern Ireland's largest anti-abortion outfit, Precious Life, has expressed anger...