AN ITALIAN sculptor has agreed to make some changes to a statue of Pope Paul John Paul II which some say looks more like the fascist dictator Mussolini than the late Pope. The 16ft, four-ton statue – the work of Oliviero Rainaldi, 55 – appeared last spring outside Rome’s main train station, much to the [...]
PAKISTAN – a world leader in religious lunacy – is back in the headlines, this time over the treatment of a 10-year-old Christian schoolgirl who misspelled a word pertaining to a poem in praise of the “prophet” Mohammed. The Urdu word, according to this report, was “naat” (hymn), but Faryal Bhatti, an eighth grade student [...]
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A DEVOUT Christian’s horror of bare boobies has set the blogosphere alight this week – but a much more disturbing story, concerning the Catholic Church’s cover-up of a the abuse of children with learning difficulties, has just emerged from Australia. The first tale concerns Northern Ireland farmer Alan Graham. He apparently got all of a [...]
POLICE in Hampshire have been asked to investigate the Jehovah’s Witnesses, following complaints that the cult’s grisly little rag, The Watchtower, could be in breach of Britain’s religious hatred laws for describing those who ditch the organisation as “mentally diseased”. According to this report, an article published in July’s edition of The Watchtower warns followers [...]
IT all began back in April when the Central United Methodist Church, in Toledo, Ohio, erected a roadside billboard that declared: Being Gay Is a Gift from God. This was too much for Toledo’s Church on Strayer, which retaliated last week by putting up NINE billboards bearing the message: Being Gay is NOT a Gift [...]
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DESPITE the fact that German reaction to Ratzinger’s four-day state visit was one of overall apathy, Germany’s top archbishop, Robert Zollitsch, said the Church was extremely pleased with the visit. He told reporters: All our expectations have been surpassed. But according to this report, the posturing old bigot’s first state visit to his native Germany: [...]
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