A WHILE back – in 2006 – the Vatican was forced to “discipline” the Rev Marcial Maciel Degollado following allegations by nine men who claimed they were abused by cleric while studying under him in Spain and Rome in the 1940s and 1950s.
According to his obituary, Maciel was apparently partial to an occasional “groin massage” [...]
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A 22-year-old Maryland woman yesterday agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of members of a cult accused of causing the death of her two-year-old son – on condition that charges against her be dropped if the child rises from the dead.
Ria Ramkissoon’s plea bargain was described by her attorney as unprecedented in American jurisprudence.
According to [...]
CHRISTIAN leaders in the UK just don’t get it ….
Despite the fact that every recent survey has indicated that listeners want LESS, not more religion from the BBC, the message simply will not sink in.
The week began with reports that the Archbishop of Canterbury had “warned” Mark Thompson, Director General of the not ignore its [...]
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THE Church of England’s Religious Intelligence website is running a poll regarding debaptism.
The question posed is:
As 1,500 people pay to get ‘debaptism certificates’ from the National Secular Society in the UK, is it time the Anglican Church followed Rome and offered a service for those who wish to annul their baptism?
As of this morning, there [...]
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CHRISTIAN fundies in Texas are fuming over a defeat they suffered on Friday following their attempt to promote creationism in schools.
The State Board of Education stripped two provisions from proposed science standards that would have raised questions about key principles of the theory of evolution.
The sections, according to this report, were written by board [...]
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MEET the Rev Henry J Lyons. He’s a Baptist minister in Florida, and he wants his old job back as President of the National Baptist Convention of the USA.
But when Lyons was head of this national organisation of black churches, he robbed it of millions, according to this report.
Lyons’ downfall came in the late 1990s [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
