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December 2020

December 17, 2020

Pastor, charged over child porn, called Sunday booze sales ‘immoral’

In 2015 pastor William Milam, above, of Olivet Baptist Church in Milton, Florida, took a...

December 13, 2020

Muslim terrorist, deemed ‘too fat’ for US jail, is returned to the UK

ADEL Abdel Bary, 60, a former Osama bin Laden henchman serving 25 years for his...

December 11, 2020

UK church treasurer who led a ‘Christian lifestyle’ stole thousands

AS A result of its treasurer's dishonesty St James Church in New Barnet in north...

December 11, 2020

Christian extremist group supports preachers’ lawsuit against cops

THE frightful Andrea Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of the Christian Legal Centre, is back in...

December 07, 2020

Pastor who advocated ‘fleshly discipline’ allegedly molested a teen

BACK in 2016 Minneapolis pastor Robert McKenzie leader of Word of Faith Ministries, used YouTube to...

December 03, 2020

Lincoln Cathedral’s former Chancellor cleared of indecent assault

LINCOLN Cathedral has had a difficult few years. In 2018 Roy Griffiths, above, a former...

December 01, 2020

Supreme Court rejects Covid-19 dissenter’s plea not to be prosecuted

LOUISIANA'S ghastly attention-seeking pastor Tony Spell, above, who has had several brushes with the law...

November 2020

November 22, 2020

Teacher & ex-Salvation Army pastor faces multiple sex charges

DESPITE objections voiced by the family of an alleged victim of sexual abuse, an Australian...

November 21, 2020

UK man who blames Jews for COVID-19 wears swastika to court

A JUDGE at the Old Bailey in London ordered a man accused of stirring up...

November 13, 2020

Peter Sutcliffe, UK serial killer-turned-JW, has ‘gone to heaven’

KNOWN as the Yorkshire Ripper who brutally murdered 13 women and later claimed that the...

November 07, 2020

‘Blasphemy’ in Egypt: Education Minister orders arrest of academic

AFTER sociology professor Dr Mohamed Mahdaly allegedly told students that he 'didn't give a fuck'...

November 05, 2020

Church youth leader and judge admits abusing boys in his courtroom

MICHAEL Schechterly, above, a Perry County judge in Pennsylvania and a leading member of the...

November 04, 2020

Youth pastor used blackmail to obtain sex videos from young boys

  POSING as a teenage girl named 'Julie Miller', Sean Higgins, above –  youth pastor...

November 02, 2020

Wee problem: Pastor sued for $2-m after urinating on a woman

ALICIA Beverly, above, is seeking more than $2 million in damages weeks after she awoke...

October 2020

October 17, 2020

Teacher beheaded after showing class a Mohammed cartoon

SAMUEL Paty, 47, above, was decapitated outside his secondary school in a Paris suburb yesterday...

October 15, 2020

Vatican consultant lavished secret diplomacy cash on luxury goods

CECILIA Marogna, an 'expert in geopolitics and parallel diplomacy' who was given €500,000 ($588,000) by...

October 09, 2020

Three-on-an-altar sex romp: priest and two women arrested

REV  Travis Clark, 37, and two women – Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng – have...

October 05, 2020

Florida cop assaulted with an offensive weapon: a Bible.

BIBLE-bashing took an an unusual turn when a recent investigation into a burglary in Marion...

October 02, 2020

Evangelical pastor jailed in UK for sexually abusing boys and men

IN JULY we reported that Ben Thomas, above, a BBC presenter-turned-evangelical pastor, had pleaded guilty...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Pastor who led substance abuse services busted in a drug raid

IN 2017 the Facebook page of the House of Refuge & Deliverance Ministries in Mayflower,...

September 19, 2020

Vatican sets up outfit to ‘liberate’ the Virgin Mary from mobsters

CRIME bosses in Italy and beyond have apparently been 'exploiting' images of the Virgin Mary...

September 10, 2020

Florida pastor arrested after shooting dead his estranged wife

A 'POWERFUL internationally known prophet of the Most High God'  – Sylvester Ofori, above –...

September 05, 2020

‘Doomsday’ terror suspect applies to access online church services

AFTER a Christian couple in Northern Ireland – Robert James Templeton and his wife Natasha, above...

September 04, 2020

Trio of fake pastors alleged stole over $28-m from gullible believers

IT'S one of the the oldest lies ever told: 'Hand over your cash and God...

September 01, 2020

Fundraiser for gun-toting teenage ‘patriot’ divides Christians

AFTER  teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, above,  was charged with two homicides and one attempted homicide in...

August 2020

August 28, 2020

Delaware church’s youth leader faces over 80 counts of sex abuse

FURTHER proof that no youngster is ever safe in a religious environment comes from Delaware,...

August 12, 2020

Three die as Muslims in India riot over ‘blasphemous’ FB post

A LOCAL politician in Bangalore  – Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, inset above – was reportedly targeted...

August 08, 2020

Children of God cult member jailed for sexually assaulting girls

DEREK Lincoln, above, was handed an 11 year and six months sentence this week in...

August 07, 2020

Canadian pastor jailed in Myanmar for defying COVID-19 rules

DAVID Lah, above, known for bad-mouthing Muslims, Buddhists and gays, has been jailed for three...

August 07, 2020

NYC church asks for prayers & support after priest’s child porn arrest

FOLLOWING the arrest late last month of Catholic Fr Francis Hughes, above, on on charges...

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