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June 2020

June 28, 2020

Op-ed: The fog thickens

People seem so confused right now – even more so than usual – about what...

June 26, 2020

South Korean cult is being sued for £66-m for spreading COVID-19

A GROVELLING apology made a few weeks back by self-proclaimed 'messiah' Lee Man-hee, 88, head...

June 25, 2020

Lockdown-defying rabbi detained and ‘tortured’ in Israel

ANGRY Orthodox Jews in New York City gathered on Tuesday outside of the Israeli Consulate...

June 22, 2020

UK broadcasting watchdog fails to grasp Christian ‘news’ content

IN MAY this year the regulatory body Ofcom sanctioned LoveWorld UK, headed by Nigerian pastor Chris...

June 21, 2020

Christian media ignore new UK study that shows the godless are least likely to be affected by COVID-19

AFTER the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed on June 19 that people who...

June 16, 2020

COVID-19 fury: Orthodox Jewish activists force open NYC playground

DESPITE the fact that all parks and playgrounds in New York City remain closed due...

June 14, 2020

COVID-19 raised to goddess status, thanks to superstition in India

SEEN under a microscope, the coronavirus is kinda pretty. If it were a plant and...

June 11, 2020

Archbishop stokes Trump’s ego in a letter that warns of ‘dark forces’

LAST week Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, above, who served as Papal Nuncio to the US ...

June 07, 2020

Keep calm, Muslims. Alcohol-based hand sanitisers are permissible.

AUSTRALIAN neuroscientist and author Dr Sumaiya Shaikh, above, has hit out at companies who are...

June 05, 2020

It’s official: Trump’s ‘gift from God’ Covid-19 drug is useless

IN March President Trump announced that administration was working to dramatically expand access to hydroxychloroquine...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Trump judge gets a bruising in SCOTUS religious liberty case

ON Friday the US Supreme Court rejected a church’s challenge to California’s COVID-19 restrictions by...

May 28, 2020

Death threat for bishops who spoke out against Dominic Cummings

UNLESS you're British, the name Dominic Cummings will probably mean nothing to you. But vast...

May 26, 2020

Op-ed: Lynching for Freedom by Ophelia Benson

PARTS of the US have been roiled for weeks by protests against the lockdown rules...

May 25, 2020

Moldova: church frightening people with mad conspiracy theories

THE Moldovan Orthodox Church (MOC), headed by Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova, above,...

May 24, 2020

Frankfurt learns that opening places of worship was a very bad idea

Donald Trump, take note! On May 1, the German city of Frankfurt lifted restrictions on...

May 23, 2020

Hocus POTUS, let places of worship open!

DESPITE the fact that churches have been hot spots of COVID-19 infections in America and...

May 22, 2020

God unleashed COVID-19 because he hates phone use in synagogues

THE closure of synagogues during the pandemic lockdown in Israel is God's way of punishing...

May 21, 2020

COVID-19 is God’s way saying ‘worship me or I’ll smite you’

PRIESTS who claim that pandemics such as COVID 19 are not a manifestation of God's...

May 19, 2020

UK broadcasting watchdog acts against Christian channel

OFCOM has taken action against Nigerian pastor Chris Oyakhilome, who has close ties with US prosperity...

May 15, 2020

‘This virus is real,’ says man who claimed God would protect him

BACK in April, COVID-19 skeptic Brian Lee Hitchens, who lives in Jupiter, Florida, used Facebook...

May 14, 2020

Ultra-Orthodox Jews defy lockdown, hundreds arrested in Israel

AS part of the ban on all traditional bonfires for the holiday of Lag BaOmer,...

May 11, 2020

Millionaire pastor offers bribe for people to pray away COVID-19

IF PASTOR Robert Jeffress, above, (net worth around $17-million) was offering a cash incentive for...

May 11, 2020

Diary of a quarantined Freethinker editor

MONDAY: Woke with a throbbing pain in a big toe. Gout. ‘Uhhhh. This is not...

May 10, 2020

FFRF lawyer says handouts of cash to religious bodies must stop

ANDREW L Seidel, Director of Strategic Response at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, has challenged...

May 09, 2020

Priest who said COVID-19 was good for family life gets the virus

THERE swills around Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov brain some pretty loopy notions. One is that radishes...

May 08, 2020

COVID-19 patients are being ‘prayer bombed’ in a new clinical study

An international team of godly doctors in the US are testing the power of 'divine...

May 06, 2020

Romanian church forces removal of ‘blasphemous’ COVID-19 posters

AFTER Romania’s Orthodox Church complained that a series of outdoor posters depicting nurses and doctors...

May 05, 2020

Cardinal says ‘you can’t put God in a bag. It’s insane & disrespectful’

THE head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, was responding with outrage...

May 04, 2020

Is conspiracy theorist David Icke’s life in danger? Many think so.

AFTER learning that the lunatic Icke's official channel on YouTube has been axed, and his...

May 01, 2020

Hot air rabbi says hair dryers will kill COVID-19 virus

NEW York rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, above, has placed himself on the rapidly growing list of...