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May 2016

May 06, 2016

Addicted to debauchery: jail for deputy head of Catholic school

Peter Allott, 37, above, a respected deputy head at a prestigious London Catholic school, has...

May 01, 2016

Latest Bangladesh slaughter: victim was a 'blasphemer'

Nikhil Chandra Joarder, inset, who was hacked to death by at least two attackers outside...

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 26, 2016

Two more killed by Islamic terrorists in Bangladesh

Xulhaz Mannan, right, a top gay rights activist and editor of Roopbaan, the country's only...

April 24, 2016

Slain prof: humanists slam latest Bangladeshi atrocity

The murder yesterday of Professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, above, prompted the President of the International...

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 20, 2016

Tennessee votes to scrap law that protects faith healers

When Jacqueline Crank, above, was convicted in 2012 for child neglect after choosing faith healing...

April 19, 2016

Gay Pride 2015 attack: Yishai Shlissel convicted of murder

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish terrorist was found guilty today (Tuesday) by an Israeli court of murdering...

April 08, 2016

Run, rabbi, run: Eliezer Berland is finally nabbed in S Africa

Rabbi Eliezer Berland, 80, who has been playing hide-and-seek with law enforcement agencies in several...

April 07, 2016

Bangladesh: another good man dies at the hands of Islamists

Bangladeshi secularist Nazimuddin Samad, 28, whose family live in London, was killed by machete-wielding assailants...

April 07, 2016

Muslim shopkeeper was killed for 'disrespecting' Islam

Tanveer Ahmed, the man accused of murdering Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah, above, has issued a...

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...

April 02, 2016

Father charged with killing his devoutly Christian gay son

Los Angeles police have charged a father with murder, accusing him of killing his son,...

April 02, 2016

UK Muslim jailed for keeping his wife in a state of slavery

In what is believed to be the first trial of its kind in Britain, Safraz...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

Ontario priest gambled away money collected for refugees

Father Amer Saka, above, a priest working at the St Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in...

March 26, 2016

Shopkeeper slain after wishing customers 'happy Easter'

A Muslim shopkeeper in Glasgow, Asad Shah, 40, above, was killed on Thursday in what...

March 22, 2016

'Loving and caring' pastor allegedly abused a young girl

Maine State Police have arrested youth pastor Lucas Savage, 37, above, and charged him with sexual...

March 20, 2016

Texas taxpayers billed for lawmaker's quack 'Jesus shot'

Back in 2014, the Friendly Atheist reported on the activities of a certain Dr John...

March 17, 2016

People who paid for prayers will have millions refunded

Seattle man Benjamin Rogovy, inset above, made millions running a 'pay to pray' website, but...

March 16, 2016

Three former friars charged over paedophile cover-up

Three former leaders of a Franciscan religious order in Pennsylvania were yesterday charged with aiding...

March 09, 2016

Child-abuse missionaries jailed in separate American trials

Matthew Lane Durham, 21, above left, and Joseph Maurizio Jr, 71, have begun combined jail...

March 06, 2016

Muslim nanny: 'I am Allah's messenger. Hello everyone.'

Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, above, the nanny accused of beheading a four-year-old girl in Moscow on...

March 05, 2016

Two sisters die in Pakistan's latest 'honour' killing

Two days after a Pakistani filmmaker, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, won an Oscar for a documentary on...

March 05, 2016

UK imam praises executed killer of Pakistani governor

British Imam Muhammad Asim Hussain, above, has been slammed by the National Secular Society for...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Muslim cleric enraged over law to protect Pakistani women

Pakistani cleric Fazl-Fazlur Rehman, above, is not a happy Islamist. Why? Because he fears that...

February 24, 2016

Professor links high US crime rates to evangelical beliefs

A new book by criminologist Elicka Peterson Sparks, above, claims that Christianity is to blame...

February 22, 2016

Islamists in Bangladesh slaughter a Hindu priest

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the hacking death of a Hindu priest...

February 15, 2016

Paedophile priest's suspension lifted by Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic church has lifted the suspension of a Tamil Nadu priest convicted last...