HINDU nationalists have worked themselves into a lather over a plan to erect a 67-foot-high statue of Charlie Chaplin on a beach in India. Their objection to the statue – brainchild of filmmaker Hemanth Hegde – stems from their belief that the celebrated silent-movie comedian was a “Christian”, according to this report. Though baptised into [...]
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WHAT started out as an exercise in even-handedness at a nurses’ hall of residence at the Children’s Hospital in Lahore has ended up in acrimony, sackings and death threats. When a senior trainee doctor – Dr Naila – demanded that a prayer room be provided for around 400 Muslim student nurses, Christian warden Mrs Purses [...]
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CUNNING Catholics have connived to put a symbol of Jesus’ mum on the European Union emblem, according to a group of Protestants in the Netherlands. The National Foundation for the Preservation of the Political Reformed Principles – phew! – insists that that the emblem – a circle of 12 golden stars on a blue background [...]
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A GROCERY store owner in Gloucesershire has been forced to withdraw an application for a license to sell alcohol because his shop is too close to a mosque. The application was made by one Mohammed Islam – which, we would suggest, isn’t the most appropriate of names for someone planning to flog booze near Rug-Butter [...]
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A SENIOR Vatican official has criticised the excommunication of a Brazilian woman whose nine-year-old daughter had an abortion after being raped, as well as the medical team who performed it. Said Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life: Unfortunately the credibility of our teaching took a blow as it appeared, in the eyes [...]
CARDINAL George Pell, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, is not a happy bunny. Addressing an audience at Oxford University during a recent visit to the UK, the barmy cleric attacked a global campaign of “bullying and intimidation” by secular groups. Some secularists, he said in this report, wanted a one-way street, and sought to drive Christianity [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
