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August 2018

August 25, 2018

Priest used holy water to 'clean up' after a gay pride parade

Orthodox Ukrainian priest Fr Oleg Mokryak, head of the Missionary Department for the Diocese of...

August 24, 2018

Catholic reporter barred from family conference in Dublin

Attendees at a conference set up as an alternative to the World Meeting of Families...

August 18, 2018

'Catholic Church must stop ordaining homosexual men'

Daniel Mattson, author of Why I don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual...

August 17, 2018

'Ex-gay' Christian outfit sues UK cinema chain – and wins

Vue Cinemas, which refused to screen a 'pray away the gay' film, has settled a...

August 16, 2018

Christian baker Jack Phillips sues over alleged harassment

Phillips, above, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, this week filed a lawsuit...

August 12, 2018

Anti-LGBT Baptist pastor busted for soliciting gay sex

Timothy Lee Reddin, 67, of Springdale, Arkansas, is in police custody as a result of...

August 09, 2018

Pro-gay priest WILL speak at WMF despite Catholic hysteria

Despite the fact that at least two petitions are demanding that Fr James Martin –...

August 08, 2018

Nuns who expelled a Ugandan from a shelter face a backlash

A gay rights organisation in Holland – Rozelinks – announced on Facebook that it was...

August 07, 2018

Irish PM to tackle Pope over LGBT issues and clerical abuse

When Pope Francis arrives to in Ireland on August 25 for the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting...

August 06, 2018

Christian bigot will continue to serve as a town councillor

Last month the Bible-thumping Mayor of Ferryhill in County Durham – Richard Smith – was...

August 04, 2018

Boys removed from 'horrific' Christian camp in Texas

Eight boys, ages 10 to 17, have been removed from the Joshua Home in Bertram,...

August 03, 2018

Northern Ireland needs more marriages – but not gay ones

At the beginning of 2018, Tracy Harkin, above, who heads a Christian think tank –...

August 01, 2018

Hate group given a prominent role in Trump's administration

A listed American anti-LGBT hate group – Alliance Defending Freedom – has been linked to...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

UK faiths schools are under a sustained attack from the state

John Denning, Education Officer at The Christian Institute, has attacked Government draft guidance on how...

July 28, 2018

Cash bonanza for gay teen who refused to attend church

A $20,000 crowdfunding campaign for Seth Owen, a Florida teen who became homelessness after refusing...

July 27, 2018

Mom objects to abused girl's placement with a gay couple

A Wisconsin mother, Michaela Sousa , above, brutally abused her infant daughter in 2016. The child...

July 24, 2018

Pride events 'belittle' Catholic Church & make it look foolish

A pro-gay Scottish priest has incurred the wrath of the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal,...

July 22, 2018

Sacking of priest signals the end of Scottish Christianity

That's the view of a student at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) which sacked anti-gay Catholic...

July 15, 2018

Court rules against Catholic fostering agency's homophobia

Reggie Shuford, above, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, has welcomed...

July 13, 2018

Indiana: cannabis church loses a 'religious freedom' lawsuit

Bill Levin, above, is the 'Grand Poobah' of First Church of Cannabis in Indiana –...

July 11, 2018

Christian bigot threatens legal action over ferries' rainbow flag

Earlier this month BC Ferries announced that it would be raising Pride flags on every...

July 05, 2018

Christians join Pride march to apologise for past intolerance

Members of the Church of Freedom in Christ Ministries – 'an inclusive and LGBT affirming'...

July 04, 2018

Provocative? Well, yes!

The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain’s (CEMB) presence at London’s Pride event last year was...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

The 'dirty little secret' of the Mormons scrutinised again

Last November Michael Stone, of the Progressive Secular Humanist wrote that 'the aggressive interrogation of...

June 26, 2018

Ex-Irish President says infant baptisms violate human rights

Mary McAleese, Ireland’s President from 1997 to 2011 and an outspoken critic of the Catholic...

June 21, 2018

Police issue arrest warrant for crazy 'green zombie' preacher

Back in 2016 William 'Bill' Whatcott, inset, a Canadian evangelist notorious for his anti-LGBTQ activism,...

June 20, 2018

Trouble ahead for Pope's World Families gathering in Ireland

The World Meeting of Families congress, scheduled to take place in Dublin in August with...

June 12, 2018

Faith-centred gym shuts down after nixing a gay pride event

If you 'live, move, and breathe in God’s world' a warm welcome would have awaited...

June 09, 2018

Baptist buffoon's 'no gays' sign reposted at his hardware store

When Jeff Amyx, above, learned that the US Supreme Court had ruled in favour of...

June 04, 2018

US Supreme Court sides with Colorado Christian cake artist

When the Colorado Civil Rights Commission found that Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had...