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September 2018

September 20, 2018

Catholic bigots indulge in a petty act of banner burning

An artefact that connected a Chicago Catholic priest with the church in which he served...

September 19, 2018

Pastors made to look fools during Banned Book Week

To mark America's national Banned Book Week – an anti-censorship initiative launched in the 1980s...

September 17, 2018

More faith-heads in the House of Lords? Secularists say NO!

The National Secular Society and Humanism UK have rubbished a suggestion put forward by Lord...

September 15, 2018

Christians lash out at Satanists who care for the environment

In Zionville, Indiana, a local chapter of the Satanic Temple are engaged in a highway...

September 12, 2018

Probe launched into God's own oil company, drilling in Israel

This you should know about Zion Oil and Gas, founded by American 'born-again Christian' John...

September 11, 2018

The future of humankind rests on an unblemished red heifer

Creators of religious laws must surely have been giggling hysterically into their beards when they...

September 10, 2018

Teen dies after being forced into a 40-day religious fast

Titilayno A Omosebi, 48, and her husband Kehinde S Omosebi, 49, are facing criminal charges...

September 08, 2018

Christian, forced to remove billboard, shrieks 'persecution'

An elderly Christian nutter from Petrolia in Ontario is deeply upset over the fact that...

September 06, 2018

Major fail for bigot who tried to wreck photographer's business

When a prospective client – a devout Christian – discovered that Houston-based photographer Alicia Verdier,...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Muslim cleric: 'I'd nuke the Netherlands if I had the power'

A firebrand Muslim cleric in Pakistan, Khadim Rizvi, said that if he had the power...

August 29, 2018

'Fascism in the flesh': Trump's state dinner for evangelicals

Reacting to a warning sounded by President Trump that that there will be 'violence' if...

August 28, 2018

Pope slammed for advocating psychiatry for young gays

On his way back from his bruising visit to Ireland, a beleaguered Pope Francis was...

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 23, 2018

Prophet: Trump will be toppled by the forces of witchcraft

Witchcraft is taking over America, and President Donald Trump is unlikely to survive the onslaught....

August 22, 2018

Noisy mosque complaint lands a Buddhist woman in prison

An ethnic Chinese woman known as Meiliana has been sentenced in Indonesia to 18 months...

August 21, 2018

Indonesia: kindergarten apologises for a 'Jihadi' parade

The head of the TK Kartika kindergarten in Probolinggo City, East Java, claims she had...

August 19, 2018

Mormon's objection to medical cannabis is 'abjectly stupid'

Later this year, Utah will vote on Proposition 2 which would legalise cannabis for patients...

August 13, 2018

Preacher says he met an angel in 'really tight' ballet pants

Canadian evangelist and faith healer Todd Bentley, 42, has homo-erotic fantasies – and he's happy...

August 03, 2018

'Distressed' Christians compel cathedral to remove nudes

Four nude paintings have been removed from Portsmouth's Anglican cathedral after worshippers and visitors expressed...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Top Hindu: Don't use sacred imagery for 'mercantile greed'

The job of being President of the Universal Society of Hinduism (USofH) entails – among...

July 23, 2018

Non-Orthodox weddings: Rabbi gets nabbed by Israeli police

In a 5am raid on his home last week, Rabbi Dov Haiyun, above, was hauled...

July 22, 2018

'Prophet' tricked family into digging up a dead relative

After swallowing the New Testament myth about Lazarus, and how he was brought back to...

July 17, 2018

In Alabama, a vote for Sandra Little Brown is a vote for Jesus

If Jefferson County Commissioner Sandra Little Brown is re-elected today, her victory will have been...

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

Catholic priest tells mourners 'get the hell out of my church'

Father Michael Briese, pastor of St Mary’s Parish in Newport, Maryland, has been forced to...

July 04, 2018

This man says Depp's life is in a mess, and he needs a Jesus fix

Under the heading 'Will Johnny Depp Turn to God in His Time of Crisis?', Larry...

July 01, 2018

This Indian man believes that President Donald Trump is God

Bussa Krishna, a resident of Konne village in Telangana, India, worships Donald Trump – so...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

Ultra-Orthodox nutters disrupt an El Al flight from New York

By refusing to sit next to women or engage in any way with female flight...

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 09, 2018

Op-ed: stop teaching Christian crap to kids in Florida schools

Ever since he took office, Donald Trump has been feverishly working alongside evangelical Christians to...