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June 2021

June 23, 2021

Rainbow lights flood Germany thanks to Hungary’s Christian PM

IN a backlash he never saw coming, Hungary's far-right authoritarian Prime Minister, Victor Orban, above...

June 04, 2021

Catholic abuse scandals: Church is at ‘a dead end’ says cardinal

GERMANY'S Cardinal Reinhard Marx, above, today (Friday) offered to resign over the Catholic Church’s 'catastrophic'...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

‘What a load of piffle’ – priests can bless plants & pets but not gays

A ROW simmering in Germany over same-sex church blessings is fast reaching boiling point as...

February 2021

February 04, 2021

Bishop had to take a sabbatical after reading a ‘gory’ abuse report

AFTER reading a report about the sexual abuse suffered by orphans at boarding houses run...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

In Germany religious posters ‘make people feel uncomfortable’

FOR almost 60 years the South German Poster Mission, started by three Americans, has been...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

Abuse victim says German nuns rented out children for sex

GERMANY'S Karl-Heinz Wiesemann, above, Bishop of Speyer, has revealed for the first time the details...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

Frankfurt learns that opening places of worship was a very bad idea

Donald Trump, take note! On May 1, the German city of Frankfurt lifted restrictions on...

February 2020

February 21, 2020

Swiss court rules in a bizarre case of a saint and a talking stag

ONE of the most popular herbal liqueurs in the world is Jägermeister, created in Germany...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Op-ed: Kindertransport

I think we need some refreshment from the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson....

January 19, 2020

Vandal in vigil to force German Church back to traditional nastiness

THERE'S no keeping a a good vandal down. Alexander Tschugguel, who became a poster boy...

January 02, 2020

German Cardinals and Bishops ‘have gone round the bend’

IN what is seen as a move to whip 'liberal' Catholic leaders in Germany back...

December 2019

December 17, 2019

German bishops say homosexuality is perfectly normal

TWO years ago Germany’s bishops’ conference 'expressed regret' over the country's decision to allow same-sex...

July 2019

July 08, 2019

Priest ‘shocked’ by hostile reaction to his paedophile sermon

Ulrich Zurkuhlen, above, a retired Roman Catholic priest in Germany, faced a 'screaming mob' after...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Op-ed: Learning some actual history

There was much outrage in the US last week when first-term Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...

June 02, 2019

Seven Islamists fined for operating ‘shariah police’ patrols in Germany

A POSSE of hardline Islamists were fined at the end of May for violating Geman...

May 2019

May 09, 2019

Consecrated hosts sold for satanic black masses alarm Catholics

AN e-commerce company that allowed a vendor to sell nine 'sacred' hosts on its site...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

Brexit forces UK Jews to apply for German citizenship

THE grandson of a 93-year-old UK woman who survived the Holocaust is among thousands of...

January 12, 2019

European court rules against Christian homeschooling family

EUROPE'S top human rights court has ruled against a Christian family who defied a German...