IN A week in which the Catholic Church put the crime of sex abuse on par with the “crime” of ordinating women, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez described local Catholic leaders as “troglodytes” and “cavemen” and ordered a review of his country’s ties with the Vatican. The Marxist President also challenged the Pope’s authority, saying he [...]
ROCHDALE’s Metropolitan Borough Council – clowncil may be a better word for it – has, for some time, been less than happy with the town’s reputation for being a total shithole. Google “Rochdale is a shithole” and you’ll get 14,100 results – including a link to a Facebook page entitled “Rochdale might be a shithole [...]
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ARGENTINA today became the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage after the Senate voted in favour. The country’s Chamber of Deputies had already approved the legislation. According to breaking news, the vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate. [...]
A COURT-ordered study has found that electromagnetic waves beamed by Vatican Radio leave residents living near the station’s antennas at a higher risk of cancer. According to Italian daily La Stampa, (via Yahoo): There has been an important, coherent and meaningful correlation between exposure to Vatican Radio’s structures and the risk of leukaemia and lymphoma [...]
A YOUNG Muslim, who had been investigated by his employers at Male International Airport in the Maldives for apostasy, was found hanged from the airport’s control tower yesterday. The death of Ismail Mohamed Didi, a 25 year-old air traffic controller, prompted deep concern on the Islamic website Raajjeislam which  reported that Ismail “was a person [...]
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THE BBC has been forced to defend an EastEnders storyline after outraged viewers accused the corporation of anti-Christian bias. The complaints centre around a plotline on EastEnders which portrays Lucas Johnson, a Christian Pentecostal pastor, as a deranged killer whose deeds are motivated by his Christian faith. Viewers have watched the pastor, played by actor [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
