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April 2017

April 01, 2017

Inappropriate praying: nurse loses her appeal over sacking

Last year, Sarah Kuteh, above, complained that she was being persecuted for her Christian beliefs...

March 2017

March 19, 2017

NSS awards Secularist of the Year prize to Yasmin Rehman

The Irwin Prize of £5000 for Secularist of the Year 2017 was awarded in London...

March 18, 2017

Pastor charged in connection with his granddaughter's death

In what is thought to be the first prosecution of its kind, Pennsylvania pastor Rowland...

March 04, 2017

US pastor attacks insensitive hospital 'prayer warriors'

Jared Laskey, above, who heads a 'supernatural' ministry school in Virginia, has attacked a bunch...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

Australian churches persist in efforts to 'cure' homosexuality

Last year Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy, above, promised parliament that legislation would be introduced...

January 22, 2017

Prayer boosted pupils' grades, lying school principal claimed

Mississippi school principal Lowanda Tyler-Jones, above, had an explanation for the dramatic improvement in the...

January 13, 2017

Druid mounts challenge over Stonehenge's 'pay to pray' rule

King Arthur Pendragon, above, has been told that he can take English Heritage (EH) to...

December 2016

December 14, 2016

What a surprise: study found that prayer won't cure AIDS

The Chicago Tribune today carries a shocking report detailing the amount of taxpayers' money used...

October 2016

October 10, 2016

UK gymnast learns mumbo jumbo is not to be mocked

A short parody of an Islamic prayer session, complete with 'magic carpet', landed Louis Smith...

October 09, 2016

There's an awful lot of oil in Oklahoma, so let's thank God

Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin, above, has officially designated October 13th as a day of...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Small car, big heart?

People still talk sentimental drivel about what a nice man the Pope is. It may...

September 19, 2016

'Don't doubt Trump's faith' says VP nominee Mike Pence

Religious voters in the US should have no reservations about Donald Trump's commitment to Christianity,...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

Bigot made homeless by flood of 'near biblical proportions'

Whenever natural disasters occur, Christians such as Tony Perkins, above, who heads a hate group...

August 06, 2016

Devout California Mayor played strip poker with a boy aged 16

Mayor Anthony Silva, above, is a very godly man – so much so that last...

June 2016

June 19, 2016

Atrocities and the churches

On the Sunday morning after the brutal murder of a young, idealistic UK politician, I...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Charlatan appointed Trump's Christian policy advisor

Frank Amedia, of Touch Heaven Ministries in Ohio, above, is a self-proclaimed faith-healing prophet who...

May 23, 2016

Faced with a lawsuit, Ohio school bans 'The Lord's Prayer'

Thanks to an intervention by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), the East Liverpool High...

May 19, 2016

Wizard in frock slams America over gays and transsexuals

Cardinal Robert Sarah, who has the exalted title of Prefect for the Congregation of Divine...

May 16, 2016

'Illegal' schools are unsafe and provide sub-standard education

Following a report earlier this month that New York rabbis are strongly resisting official attempts...

May 14, 2016

Homophobic priest exposed after using gay dating app

Father Rory Coyle, 35, of Armagh, about 40 miles from Belfast, has taken a leave...

April 2016

April 20, 2016

Tennessee votes to scrap law that protects faith healers

When Jacqueline Crank, above, was convicted in 2012 for child neglect after choosing faith healing...

April 16, 2016

Victim of faith-healing parents wants them prosecuted

A disabled 20-year-old Idaho woman who was born with a hole in her heart that...

March 2016

March 12, 2016

Nigerian president lashed out a staggering £8-million on prayer

When former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, above, faced a 'convert-to-Islam-or-resign' demand from the country's bloodthirsty...

February 2016

February 14, 2016

Renowned British secularist Lord Avebury dies aged 87

Lord Avebury, pictured above, left, with the National Secular Society's Keith Porteous Wood, was an...

February 12, 2016

The futility of prayer … and certain radio interviews

I had hoped that, having been asked by BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester to comment...

February 06, 2016

Phoenix City Council ends prayer to silence Satanists

Rather than allow two Satanic Temple members to deliver invocations later this month, Phoenix City...

January 2016

January 19, 2016

Unlike his predecessor, aged 200, this monk is truly dead

Last year snorts of derision echoed across the globe when high level Buddhists claimed that...