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July 2018

July 25, 2018

Imam faces jail time over hate sermon in Danish mosque

In the first case of its kind in Denmark, prosecutors yesterday charged Imam Mundhir Abdallah, above,...

July 21, 2018

Big cash stash is found in Michigan priest's luxury home

Michigan State police say they discovered $63,000 hidden above ceiling tiles in the mansion of...

July 20, 2018

Arrested: wife of Idaho pervert chose prayer over police action

Sarah Kester, 50, a member of the Followers of Christ Church, told police after her...

July 16, 2018

'Strip Mother Teresa of Indian honour,' says BJP politician

Subramanian Swamy, above, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party MP who has attacked Mother Teresa for...

July 10, 2018

Deadly Oregon faith healing cult claims another victim

Travis Lee Mitchell, 22, and Sarah Elaine Mitchell, 25, were today sentenced to more than...

July 09, 2018

Woman who labelled Egypt a 'son of a bitch' country is jailed

Mona el-Mazboh, 24, a Lebanese tourist who used Facebook to attack sexual harassment she experienced...

July 08, 2018

Woman faces jail for stealing cash from a Catholic church

A Wisconsin woman, Deborah Marcellus, 63, inset, faces a lengthy jail sentence for stealing more...

July 07, 2018

Pressure mounts on Pope to sack convicted archbishop

Anger is mounting in Australia over the refusal of Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, 67, to...

July 03, 2018

Vicious UK imam jailed for 17 months for terrorising kids

Abdul Rauf, 51, described as "a nasty bully of a man" was jailed this week...

July 03, 2018

Clerical sex abuse: archbishop gets 12 months' detention

The most senior clergyman in the world to be convicted of concealing child sex abuse,...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

Vatican diplomat Carlo Capella jailed for child porn offences

At the conclusion the first such trial of its kind in the Vatican Monsignor Carlo...

June 05, 2018

Prayers for man who damaged a 'magic schlepping circle'

Following an appearance in court yesterday of Yerachmiel E Taube, inset, on charges related to...

June 04, 2018

Vandal destroys 'critical piece of Jewish infrastructure'

Yerachmiel E Taube, 28, of Sharon, Massachusetts, is due in court today (Monday) following his...

June 02, 2018

Tennessee pastor arrested for attempted rape of a young girl

William E 'Tim' Smith, Jr, pastor at the Tennessee Church of God in Palmer, has...

May 2018

May 31, 2018

Former UK imam jailed for abusing a boy in a mosque

Mohammed Rabani, 61, a former imam at a mosque in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, today (Thursday) received...

May 25, 2018

Convicted archbishop sparks fury with 'pray for me' letter

Australian Philip Wilson, the Archbishop of Adelaide who was found guilty this week of concealing...

May 24, 2018

'Wonderful' ex-pastor accused of breaking his infant's legs

Matthew Everly, 25, of Bloomington, Illinois, faces 11 counts of child cruelty arising out of...

May 23, 2018

Convicted Adelaide archbishop will leave his post this week

Philip Wilson, above, the Archbishop of Adelaide who had been found guilty of concealing child...

May 19, 2018

SA pastor gets a suspended jail sentence for hate speech

Back in 2014 South African pastor Oscar Bougardt, above, was ordered by a court to...

May 18, 2018

Missionary faces lengthy jail sentence for abusing orphans

Christian missionary Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, above, faces a minimum of 30 years in prison...

May 12, 2018

Outrage as teenage rape victim gets Islamic death sentence

Human rights groups around the world have expressed outrage over the fact that that a...

May 09, 2018

Abuse case: 'crap' sentences imposed on two Catholic friars

Pennsylvanian Franciscan friars Robert D’Aversa, 70, left, and Anthony Criscitelli, 63, have each been fined...

May 03, 2018

Bible Museum broke 'thou shalt not steal' commandment

Nearly 4,000 ill-gotten artifacts acquired by Hobby Lobby, a company run by Christian fanatics David...

May 01, 2018

Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on sexual abuse charges

Australian magistrate Belinda Wallington ruled today that there was enough evidence to proceed with a...

April 2018

April 29, 2018

Hondurans ask 'who will rid us of these Catholic scoundrels?'

The priests pictured above are Auxiliary Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, left, and Cardinal Oscar...

April 25, 2018

Indian 'godman' jailed for life for rape of teenage devotee

Millionaire Hindu guru Asaram Bapu, a sexual abstinence advocate, was today (Wednesday) jailed for life...

April 20, 2018

Anglican priest used Internet to share his paedophile fantasies

Melbourne priest Philip Murphy, 54, above, found himself in the dock of an Australian court...

April 19, 2018

Indian cartoonist who 'hurt Hindu feelings' faces charges

The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an...

April 18, 2018

Church elder & sex pest Ronald Allstaff narrowly avoids prison

Perth Sheriff Court heard last month that Allstaff, 73, an elder at Dunbarney Parish Church...

April 12, 2018

Girl, eight, was gang-raped in a Hindu temple then murdered

In what is thought to have been a brutal act of intimation against Muslims in...