THOUSANDS of ultra-Orthodox Jews were expected to clash with riot police in Jersalem again last night in the latest protest against the opening of the city’s municipal car parks on the Jewish Sabbath. The decision by the secular Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, to open the car parks has enraged the city’s ultra-Orthodox population and [...]
ATHEIST Bus Campaign posters were stripped off vehicles operated by the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority shortly after they were sponsored by Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers. The reason given for their removal was the use of the word “God”. Elizabeth Prusetti, chief development officer for the bus agency, said: We have never allowed that [...]
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FATHER Robert Fuller, a Sydney-based Catholic priest, thought he was chatting on the internet to a 13-year-old girl when he sent her sexually-explicit messages – and even masturbated on a webcam for her. But the “girl” turned out to be a member of the Sex Crime Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit – and Fuller, parish [...]
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A FRENCH woman who threw her lot in with the Magic Carpet People has been banned from swimming in a public pool in Emerainville, east of Paris, because she insisted on entering the water in a “modest” monstrosity called a burqini. The woman had begun swimming in the pool in July, but this month staff [...]
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FORGIVE me for chortling over this Daily Mail tale, but – come on! – a silent “bombshell”? The word was used by the Mail to describe a confession made last weekend by deaf priest Father Peter McDonough in Manchester: As his congregation of deaf Roman Catholics prepared to head home after Mass, the priest indicated [...]
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FOCUS on the Family, one of the US’s most virulent anti-gay outfits, is facing a cash crisis and is ceding its contentious “Love Won Out” conferences about homosexuality to another religious organisation. According to this report, a “serious budget shortfall” at Focus has prompted the barmy Christian group to issue a special fundraising plea. Founded [...]
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