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February 2021

February 12, 2021

Missionaries say vaccines will turn tribes ‘into alligators’

AFTER a long delay – due mainly to far-right President Jair Bolsanaro's scepticism about COVID-19 vaccines...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

Op-ed: Bibles and basketball

My attention was snagged today by a tweet dated August 5 from one Brooks Buser,...

August 15, 2020

Missionaries declared ‘essential workers’ by Brazil’s Bolsonaro

EFFORTS to keep missionaries away from protected tribes in Brazil continue to be thwarted by...

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Kenyan orphanage was a cover for missionary’s abuse

AMERICAN Christian missionary Gregory Dow, above, went to Kenya in 2008 with his wife to...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Judge sides with Brazil’s indigenous tribes, sacks Bolsanaro appointee

WHEN the Bolsanaro government in Brazil appointed Ricardo Lopes Dias, above, to head the Uncontacted...

April 2020

April 18, 2020

Judge orders missionaries to stay away from Brazilian reserve

THERE'S not a lot of good news coming out of Brazil, a country headed by...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

‘God’s helicopter’ will bring Jesus (and diseases) to indigenous tribes

BACK IN January Ethnos360, an evangelical Christian missionary group proudly unveiled a shiny new black...

July 2019

July 22, 2019

Mayoral decree unleashed the ‘Holy Spirit’ on an Illinois town

A WHILE back John Lewis, Mayor of Mount Vernon, Illinois, issued a proclamation calling on...

July 18, 2019

Christian tax-dodgers ordered to pay $2-m by Tasmanian judge

CHRISTIAN missionaries Fanny Alida Beerepoot and her brother Rembertus Cornelis Beerepoot told the Supreme Court...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

Christian missionaries posed as ‘frum Yids’ to bring Jews to Jesus

THE discovery that a pair of Christian missionaries had infiltrated a Jewish community to sneakily...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

Jesus junk will be carried free on world’s first Christian airline

Christian missionaries don't travel light. When they board planes to take proselytising materials such as...

December 23, 2018

Who’s that baby in the crib? Almost half of young Brits are clueless.

Jonathon Van Maren, writing for LifeSiteNews, expressed his dismay on Friday that a recent survey...

December 01, 2018

Yelling and throwing fish at people is no way to bring them to Jesus

Missionaries, according to numerous sources, are re-evaluating the methods used in attempts to Christianise 'heathens'...

November 2018

November 21, 2018

Missionary killed in a bid to bring Jesus to a protected Indian tribe

When American missionary John Allen Chau, above, broke a law preventing all contact with protected...