VALUE City Furniture has a chain of stores in the US. In a video on its website it boasts of supporting charities such as the American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and  Feeding America: Our focus is on improving the quality of lives wherever we are. Well, VCF – part of the [...]
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FOLLOWING allegations that a Catholic charity in the US had sold free flu jabs to the poor comes a report from South Africa about the arrest of a Roman Catholic priest, who allegedly sold baby formula meant to be given free to underprivileged children. The 67-year-old unnamed cleric was arrested on Thursday at his Queenstown [...]
POPE Ratzinger clearly did not have his eye on the ball over Easter – a period he chose to berate Westerners over their widespread abandonment of faith. The pontiff said it sometimes seemed as if people in Western countries had grown bored of their own history and culture and the heartlands of Christianity were rejecting [...]
A KINKY TV ad, featuring a reluctant Jesus about to receive the attentions of a big ol’ dominatrix, has upset some Catholics in Italy. The advert, for mobile phone earpieces, depicts the saviour sweating and looking anxious. He winces when a woman in tights and high heels enters the room, thwacks whip on the bed [...]
MEET Paseka Motsoeneng. He is the leader of the Incredible Happening Church in Katlehong, South Africa … and the self-styled prophet is in the news for the incredible manner in which he “rid” two women of the demons who allegedly possessed them. Motsoeneng was exposed a complete charlatan in an two reports published by the [...]
A PIECE written for Religiousintelligence.com – based on the results from a recent poll published by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life -Â says the finding reveal what social scientists have known for a long time: Authors Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady wrote: Jesus unambiguously preached mercy and forgiveness. These are supposed to [...]


The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 