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April 2019

April 12, 2019

Trial of alleged serial rapist pastor will resume next week in S Africa

LAST year South Africans were shocked and angered by the aggressive tactics used to cross...

April 02, 2019

Pastor accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a young man

CHRISTOPHER Cox, above, pastor at Long Lake Church in Traverse City, faces charges of drugging...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

Priest accused of groping ill woman while giving her last rites

THE Catholic Church is not – I repeat NOT – crammed to the rafters with...

March 19, 2019

Angry gays may have sparked trial of ‘scapegoat’ Cardinal Pell

AN acquaintance of convicted sexual predator George Pell, above, has claimed that not only Pell...

March 15, 2019

‘Sex mad’ Catholic priest jailed in UK for abuse of six youngsters

AFTER a jury at Aylesbury Crown Court delivered a guilty verdict against a 75-year-old priest...

March 13, 2019

‘Arrogant’ George Pell, sentenced to six years, ‘could die in prison’

IN passing sentence on convicted child abuser George Pell, above, Chief Judge Peter Kidd today...

March 09, 2019

UK’s first successful FGM prosecution sees mother jailed for 11 years

Following our report last month that a 37-year-old woman had been found guilty of genitally...

March 07, 2019

Cardinal sin: another senior Catholic cleric is sentenced over abuse

CARDINAL Philippe Barbarin, above, has been given a six-month suspended sentence for his role in...

March 07, 2019

Judge who invoked God at woman’s trial had a bout of ‘delirium’

TEXAS Judge Jack Robison, above, was portrayed in the media last year as stark raving...

March 03, 2019

Child sexual abuse: South Carolina church hit with two lawsuits

IN the wake of the the arrest last year of Jacob Hazlett, inset above, for...

March 02, 2019

Muslim dress code enforcer sentenced for threatening behaviour

A LONDON man who police claim habitually harangued Muslim women for not wearing traditional Islamic...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Diabetic boy died after Californian herbalist took him off insulin

Timothy Morrow, 84, who believes that 'tumours are a gift from God', is to serve...

February 26, 2019

Child molester Cardinal George Pell will almost certainly be jailed

AUSTRALIAN Cardinal George Pell, 77 – the Vatican treasurer and a close adviser to Pope...

February 13, 2019

UK body modification trial raises questions about circumcision

CIRCUMCISIONS carried out for religious reasons on children who are unable to consent to the...

February 09, 2019

Head of ‘loving’ Christian school arrested for alleged sexual abuse

CHARLES Aguon, 34, headmaster at Kingdom Preparatory School in Auburndale, Florida, was arrested on Tuesday...

February 05, 2019

Sexual abuse inquiry: Papal nuncio should be expelled from UK

THE Pope’s representative in Britain, Archbishop Edward Adams, ought to be jailed or kicked out...

February 04, 2019

Mother used witchcraft to avoid genital mutilation prosecution

Cows' tongues, pepper and fruit formed part of a witchcraft plan used by a woman...

January 2019

January 23, 2019

SC pastor alleged choked a pregnant woman in his Baptist church

A ROW in a South Carolina church last week resulted in the arrest of pastor...

January 18, 2019

NJ’s new Clergy Abuse Task Force nabs it first alleged miscreant

FATHER Thomas P Ganley, 63, a priest at Saint Philip & Saint James Church in...

January 10, 2019

Diplomatic immunity protects Vatican big-wig from going on trial

THIS week saw the start of a high-profile trial in France of six people accused...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Retired Pope’s money-laundering laws used to jail rogue contractor

Before he retired Pope Benedict XVI, above, introduced laws to prevent money laundering and the...

December 25, 2018

Two-year-old boy dies in Italy after botched religious circumcision

Following our report last week that a Muslim doctor had been suspended for a string...

December 22, 2018

‘Turn yourselves in and face justice,’ Pope tells abusive priests

In a pre-Christmas address yesterday, Pope Francis urged priests who have sexually abused minors to...

December 17, 2018

Trump’s ‘fixer’ may go to a prison known for its tasty Jewish food

If you're a Jewish miscreant who has to do jail time in New York, pray...

December 16, 2018

Media who reported on Pell’s conviction could face ‘jail time’

An Australian probe is considering whether news outlets outside of the country can be prosecuted...

December 12, 2018

Prominent Vatican official, Cardinal Pell, is found guilty of sex abuse

At the end of a trial believed to have cost him millions, the Vatican’s third...

December 08, 2018

Irish professor brutally slain in France by ‘very pious’ Muslim student

John Downing, 66, above, An Irish professor working in France, died of multiple stab wounds...

December 05, 2018

Riot over ‘holy’ cows leads to death of a senior Indian cop

An attempt by police to quell a riot over the slaughter of cows in the...

December 01, 2018

S. Carolina church hit with an abuse lawsuit after volunteer’s arrest

A lawsuit brought against NewSpring Church in North Charleston this week alleges that it failed...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Priest who threatened to rape a woman and a cop is now fully cured

Investigations into abusive Catholic priests in Iowa have have brought to light a bizarre episode...