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January 2020

January 11, 2020

Chicago pastor accused of stealing cash meant for needy kids

CHICAGO-based Rev Clarence Smith has been indicted on charges alleging he stole hundreds of thousands...

December 2019

December 25, 2019

H/Q of Brazilian comedy team attacked with Molotov cocktails

OUTRAGE over Netflix's 'blasphemous' gay Jesus festive season special spilled over into violence last night...

December 08, 2019

Lawyer asks US judge to consider abusive rabbi’s ‘good works’

A LAWYER representing a prominent Connecticut rabbi convicted of repeatedly abusing a teenage boy over...

December 08, 2019

Bible college head accused of groping a young man on a plane

THE alleged victim, a 19-year-old seminarian, was returning from a religious trip to Israel in...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Two priests and a lay employee jailed for abusing deaf children

CATHOLIC priests Nicola Corradi, 83, Horacio Corbacho, 59, along with a lay employee, gardener Armando Gomez,...

November 17, 2019

LEETHAN Bartholomew, above, who heads the UK's National FGM Centre – an organisation that monitors witchcraft-related...

November 10, 2019

London pastor jailed for fake insurance company claim

STEPHEN Olayinka, above, senior pastor at Watersprings Christian Centre (WCC) in Luton near London, has...

November 10, 2019

Australia to extradite alleged abusive priest to Scotland

FOR years, former Catholic monk Fr Denis "Chrysostom" Alexander, 83, has been fighting attempts by the...

November 08, 2019

London crime-buster church is accused of defrauding members

A LONDON church called Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church (SPAC) described here as being 'a cult'...

November 03, 2019

Church youth group member allegedly contacted girls via a Bible app

DOUGLAS Earl Kersey, inset above – a member of a church youth group in Hillsborough...

October 2019

October 29, 2019

US Senator: ‘Stop persecuting Christian paedophile’

EVANGELIST Dr Faiz Rehman, above, is currently in jail, awaiting trial in India for alleged sexual...

October 27, 2019

UK Catholic priest who wanted to abuse a two-year-old boy is jailed

UK PRIEST Fr Matthew Jolley, 32, above, has received a jail sentence of over three...

October 25, 2019

Revealed: a ‘Mafia-like’ culture at a Catholic abbey and school

FORMER abbot Laurence Soper, above, currently serving 18 years in prison for raping at least ten...

October 22, 2019

Catholic vandals target Amazonian statues gifted to the Pope

THE bellyaching among conservative Catholics has hardly ceased since Pope Francis, together with Amazonian indigenous...

October 18, 2019

UK church warden jailed for abusing and killing a university lecturer

BENJAMIN Field, a 28-year-old British church warden and son of a Baptist minister, has been...

October 14, 2019

‘Devout Christian’ paedophile murdered in a British jail

RICHARD Huckle, above, a regular churchgoer who infiltrated Christian communities in Malaysia and used his...

October 09, 2019

Boy, 7, died after a beating at a Catholic school, abuse inquiry told

ALDO Moroni, a pupil at a prestigious Catholic school in Scotland, was beaten so viciously...

October 04, 2019

Row erupts after judge gifts a Bible to woman jailed for murder

THERE was nothing 'inappropriate' in a Texas judge's decision on Wednesday to hand a convicted...

October 02, 2019

Cops accused of forcibly baptising a woman in Tennessee

SHANDLE Marie Riley, above, has launched an $11-million lawsuit against the Hamilton County government and...

September 2019

September 30, 2019

Russian ‘celebrity’ priest detained for alleged child sexual offences

FATHER Nicolay Stremsky, above, who heads the largest family in Russia – he has 70...

September 18, 2019

Former Catholic priest likely to die in prison for child abuse

ARTHUR Perrault, 81, has been handed a 30-year prison sentence for multiple sexual assaults on...

September 18, 2019

Violent gay exorcism: police investigating an Oklahoma church

THE First Assembly of God Church in Blackwell, Oklahoma, is currently under police investigation after...

September 13, 2019

Devoted Christian fined for lopping penis off a Maori carving

NEW Zealander Milton Wainwright, 78, was hit with a $2,000 fine yesterday (Thursday) for taking...

September 04, 2019

New Jersey rabbi jailed over encounter with an underage prostitute

RABBI Aryeh Goodman, who was jailed in 2015 for indecently assaulting a boy aged 12,...

August 2019

August 31, 2019

Censorious Kentucky school head arrested on child porn charges

BACK in 2009, Phillip Todd Wilson, above, head of Montgomery County High School, found himself...

August 29, 2019

Christian Scientist allegedly stole millions from his LA church

THE Church of Christ, Scientist – one of the world's dottier sects and the possibly...

August 23, 2019

Utah teens who refused to go to church got beaten with a guitar

A BOY, aged 14, suffered a broken arm after he was allegedly assaulted by his...

August 22, 2019

Priest spent stolen cash on men he met on a gay dating site

Thoughts and prayers are with a Philadelphia Catholic priest – Joseph McLoone, 56 – who...

August 22, 2019

Christian couple who ran a ‘gay cure’ camp face trafficking charges

GARY Wiggins and his wife, Meaghan, who operated the Joshua Home – 'a haven of...

August 15, 2019

Priest who joked about the sexual abuse of deaf kids is put on trial

BACK in 2017, Nicola Corradi, above, was filmed in Italy by an undercover reporter joking...