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July 2019

July 31, 2019

UK man among four charged in Uganda over God’s ‘miracle’ cure

SAM Little, 25, from Arlesey in Bedfordshire, a former 'clairvoyant' and an active member of...

July 30, 2019

Sadistic Catholic priest receives an 18-year jail sentence

AT the conclusion of his second trial – the first was 2017 – Father Michael...

July 28, 2019

Spiderman hands are a ‘hate crime against the church’

A WOMAN is demanding that a 6ft sculpture, located near the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in...

July 27, 2019

‘Purity’ advocate dumps Christianity, apologises to gays

JOSHUA Harris, who, at the age of 20, became the darling of celibacy cranks after...

July 26, 2019

By law, S Dakota schools must now display ‘In God we trust’ signs

EARLIER this year, South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem, above, signed a daft law that compels...

July 25, 2019

South Carolina memorial put into storage after it rocks a community

IT'S anyone's guess what the fate will be of a police memorial recently erected,...

July 24, 2019

‘Oh crumbs, it’s all true’: ex-Lib Dem leader speaks about his faith

TIM Farron, a devout Christian who resigned as leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat Party...

July 23, 2019

Car-crash priest found in possession of $95k of stolen church funds

WHEN father Oscar Diaz, 56, of Santa Rosa’s Resurrection Parish in California, crashed his car...

July 22, 2019

Mayoral decree unleashed the ‘Holy Spirit’ on an Illinois town

A WHILE back John Lewis, Mayor of Mount Vernon, Illinois, issued a proclamation calling on...

July 20, 2019

Senate hearing told YouTube restricts access to Ten Commandments

DENNIS Prager, above – right-wing commentator, climate-change denier and all-round hater of all things gay...

July 19, 2019

Religion is for suckers: priest exorcised demons with oral sex

THREE men have accused Rev Dr William Weaver, 69, of Linden Presbyterian Church in New...

July 18, 2019

Christian tax-dodgers ordered to pay $2-m by Tasmanian judge

CHRISTIAN missionaries Fanny Alida Beerepoot and her brother Rembertus Cornelis Beerepoot told the Supreme Court...

July 17, 2019

US TV is too gay: John Merrill sounds a lot like Mary Whitehouse

WE heard it all before in the UK decades ago when the nation’s nanny –...

July 16, 2019

Atheism, Race, and the Freethinker at the Turn of the 19th Century

WHAT is the historical relationship between atheism and racism? This is a question I...

July 15, 2019

Sacked pro-choice teacher teacher sues Catholic school

THREE Facebook posts that attacked anti-abortionists led to the firing of Elizabeth Cox from her...

July 14, 2019

Pastor at a homophobic church had an ‘affair’ with an underage boy

AUTHORITIES in Florence, Alabama, believe that more children may have been abused by John Martin,...

July 13, 2019

Baptist pastor’s wife faces underage sex and grooming charges

SHANNON Griffin, 49, a teacher at Jordan Baptist School in Burbank, Illinois, appeared in court...

July 12, 2019

Christian loons on the warpath against ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’

MORE rampant bigotry from America's religious right ... Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), according to...

July 11, 2019

‘Is a faithless society a better society?’ LBC phone-in fails to excite.

I imagined – I really, REALLY did – that the question above would send flocks...

July 11, 2019

New York wedding dress designer could be sued for homophobia

DOMINIQUE Galbraith, above, is a talented wedding dress designer. She is also a dyed-in-the-wool Christian...

July 10, 2019

Victim of a workplace Bible pest is awarded a large payout

A Bible-thumping homophobic civil servant has cost the Californian city of San Diego $300,000. Sheila Beale,...

July 09, 2019

UK doc uses Jesus to defend his position on gender issues

CHRISTIAN Concern, defender of 'persecuted' Christians in the UK, has just found itself a new...

July 09, 2019

‘It can be pretty embarrassing to be a Hinn’, says conman’s nephew

BENNY 'The Hair' Hinn has a long history of extorting money from people in poor...

July 08, 2019

Priest ‘shocked’ by hostile reaction to his paedophile sermon

Ulrich Zurkuhlen, above, a retired Roman Catholic priest in Germany, faced a 'screaming mob' after...

July 07, 2019

Heavens to Betsy! Pope moves to create another furshlugginer saint.

The Vatican's saint-creating machine has gone into overdrive. After examining saints in a feature on...

July 07, 2019

NY priest who supports LGBT rights just got himself suspended

FATHER John Duffell, above, would certainly have had a black mark placed against him when,...

July 05, 2019

Pope accused of ignoring sex abuse priest’s ‘terrifying dossier’

THE Vatican’s third most powerful prelate, Archbishop Peña Parra – pictured above with Pope Francis...

July 04, 2019

Poland’s Justice Minister enters the fray over a ‘persecuted’ Christian

POLAND's Justice Minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, inset, has reportedly ordered the national prosecutor’s office to investigate...

July 04, 2019

‘Persecuted’ Christians jubilant over rare UK court victory

ANDREA Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre – an...

July 02, 2019

Priests owe it to God not to report abuse confessions

AN intransigent Vatican is digging its heels in over pressure to have priests report sexual...