THE spokesman for Andre Leonard, Belgium’s ultra-conservative archbishop, quit this week, saying he could no longer speak for a “loose canon,” who has shocked Catholics by sympathising with priests accused of paedophilia and condemning homosexuals. The resignation of spokesman Juergen Mettepenningen reflected turmoil in Belgium’s Catholic Church that began with a June 24 police raid [...]
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SOUTH African Pastor Xola Skosana has created a furore with his statement from his pulpit that: Today I will start with a three-part sermon on: Jesus was HIV-positive. The words, according to the BBC, initially stunned his congregation in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township into silence, and then set tongues wagging in churches across the country. [...]
I KNOW very little about Clint McCance apart from the fact that he is an avowed Christian and, until this week, was the vice president of Midland School Board, a school district in Arkansas. WAS is the operative word. This stupid nobody no longer holds the post after he was called to account over homophobic [...]
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THE High Court, sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, is today being asked to decide whether a local authority – Derby Council – should a allow a Pentecostal Christian couple, who strongly disapprove of homosexuality, to be foster parents. According to the Christian Legal Centre, which is championing the case of Eunice and Owen Johns, this [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
