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December 2017

December 21, 2017

Mystery surrounds deaths of atheist billionaire and his wife

Almost 10,000 people – including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – today attended the funeral...

December 20, 2017

Grace Cathedral accused of swindling a mentally ill woman

Grace Cathedral, a megachurch in Ohio run by money-grubbing televangelist 96-year-old Ernest Angley, above, has...

December 12, 2017

Jailed for life: ex-priest who murdered a woman in 1960

It took 57 years for justice to catch up with John Bernard Feit, 85, who...

December 08, 2017

Catholic school sheltered child abusers, says former abbot

A former abbot at Downside Abbey in Somerset, Aidan Bellenger, above, claims that a school...

December 06, 2017

Toddler allegedly killed at Florida House of Prayer school

Anna Elizabeth Young, above, who ran the House of Prayer for All People religious boarding...

November 2017

November 23, 2017

Women arrested for procuring young girls for S African pastor

Two women were arrested this week in South Africa for allegedly procuring sex partners, some...

November 22, 2017

Abuse of children in Pakistan's madrassas is rife, say report

The photo above, showing a distraught Pakistani mother, Kausar Parveen, comforting her nine-year-old son who had...

November 13, 2017

Christian school teacher in Iowa faces 140 abuse charges

The arrest in October of fifth grade teacher Curtis Van Dam, 35, of Sioux Center...

November 07, 2017

Texas church massacre was God's way of answering prayers

Commenting on the shooting that claimed 26 lives at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland...

November 03, 2017

Bride's bid to escape forced marriage ends in 17 deaths

Aasia Bibi, 21, and her boyfriend, Shahid Lashari, pictured above in police custody, are accused of...

November 01, 2017

Priest, 96, showed child porn to visitors to his retirement home

Retired New York priest, monsignor Harry Byrne, faces 54 charges of possessing photographs on his...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Vicious Christian mum jailed for attack on daughter

Rhonda Shoffner, 41, a Pennsylvania woman who beat and tried to strangle her daughter for...

October 26, 2017

Thieves and fraudsters rob US churches of billions of dollars

Certified public accountant Lisa London, above, said in a press release issued this week that...

October 25, 2017

Bible used to justify leniency towards a violent criminal

Back in 2015, an unnamed man in Portugal was given a 15-month suspended sentence and...

October 21, 2017

Indiana pastor Gary Evans charged with molesting girls

The 72-year-old Rush County pastor, from the Baptist Temple in Rushville, faces three counts of child...

October 16, 2017

Breast-loving pastor, 84, under investigation for sexual assault

Pastor Ralph Gordon Stair, above, is being investigated for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and...

October 14, 2017

Vatican hit by fresh scandals

Indonesian Bishop Hubertus Leteng, above, has resigned following allegations by dozens of priests in the...

October 10, 2017

Food for the poor scam lands Chicago church couple in jail

Pastor Robbie Wilkerson and his wife Tasha have been jailed for defrauding a food scheme...

October 08, 2017

Christian rock singer faces prison for child porn possession

Mark Salling, above, a former Christian rock musician and star of the television series Glee has...

October 04, 2017

BC church couple charged with sexual assault & other crimes

Samuel Emerson and his wife Madelaine from the Cloverdale Christian Fellowship Church in Surrey, British Columbia,...

October 03, 2017

Anti-gun control politicians are now praying for Nevada victims

Yesterday, Barbara Comstock, above, a Republican congresswoman in Virginia and a Christian 'extremist' who opposes...

October 01, 2017

Devout Muslim, once jailed for rape, found guilty of assault

Soruth Ali, 42, who served a seven-year prison term in the UK for the 1995...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Canadian police issue arrest warrant for Vatican diplomat

Ontario lawyer Robert Talach, above, has lashed out at the Vatican, alleging that it swiftly...

September 28, 2017

'God makes no mistakes' pair charged over baby's death

A Christian couple – Rachel Joy Piland, 30, and her husband, Joshua Barry Piland, 36...

September 24, 2017

Rape arrest: another Indian 'godman' falls foul of the law

Falahari Maharaj , 70, a popular 'spiritual' guru, has been arrested in India for the...

September 24, 2017

Buddhists' religious ceremony caused environmental damage

Two Buddhists who who released foreign crustaceans into the sea at the UK resort of...

September 23, 2017

Christian teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with pupils

Jessie Goline, 25, pictured above with her husband Stephen, 26, was arrested this week at...

September 21, 2017

Court rejects racist's objection to Jewish and Indian lawyers

Dylann Storm Roof, sentenced to death for killing nine church worshippers in 2015, has been...

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 13, 2017

Hindu woman abducted and forced to marry a Muslim

Arti Kumari Sharma, 20, was allegedly abducted at gunpoint at the weekend in the Khairpur District...