A BUNCH of American Baptists are in custody in Haiti after trying to smuggle 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission”, meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti’s earthquake. Their plan was to [...]
“REAL” blokes don’t like going to church because they don’t want to “sing love songs to a man”, because the “vicar wears a dress”, because they feel like “mongrels on parade at Crufts” and because they want to be waited on by women rather than queue for coffee after the service. These are a few [...]
A CHRISTIAN police group which believes that the power of prayer can help catch criminals has been given a £10,000 Home Office grant to fight crime. The Christian Police Association (CPA), reports The Telegraph, was handed the one-off cash payment to help publicise its message, which includes encouraging members of the public to pray that [...]
AMERICA’S Freedom from Religion Foundation has blasted the US Postal Service for its plan to honour soon-to-be-sainted Mother Teresa – aka The Albanian Prune – with a commemorative stamp. The FFRF insists that the plan violates postal regulations against honouring: Individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings. The atheist organisation is urging its [...]
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FOLLOWING an attempt on the life of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard on January 2, the Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, reprinted six of the 12 Motoons that Jyllands-Posten published in 2005. The JP drawings ignited Muslim fury around the world. Now the Daily Mail – the Pakistani Daily Mail, that is – has reported that Norway’s Ambassador [...]
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FINDING a priest to be at the bedside of the dying is becoming harder and harder across the America, so Catholics are now being urged to try and grab one BEFORE they are admitted to hospital for an “anointing of the sick” sacrament. Once called the Last Rites or Extreme Unction, the death bed ritual [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
