A 31-year-old Minneapolis evangelist is facing felony charges for plundering the savings of a former pastor suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and paranoid schizophrenia. According to this report, Gregory Oats, of the Word of Faith Ministries, was entrusted with the “spiritual care” of the ailing 78-year-old, Vern Rollins. Rollins’ daughter, Rachel, said her father [...]
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IT’S a year ago today the UKÂ – at a cost to taxpayers of millions – welcomed Pope Ratzinger to Britain’s shores. Today I learned that, to mark the first anniversary of that ludicrously overpriced junket, the Catholic Church in England and Wales has decided to revive an old rule relating to the eating of [...]
AN Adelaide priest, exposed yesterday in Pariament as an alleged rapist, has described his outing as “inappropriate and unfair”. Independent senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege to identify Monsignor Ian Dempsey after the Church declined to stand the priest down in connection with the alleged abuse of Archbishop John Hepworth. According to this report, Hepworth, [...]
AN Israeli rabbi, Asher Dahan, 42 – accused of killing fellow rabbi Rabbi Elazar Abuhatzeira earlier this year – has been ordered to stand trial for murder despite a psychiatric opinion that he is mentally unfit to be tried. The alleged killer had apparently stabbed elderly Abuhatzeira, a mystic and Kaballist, because Abuhatzeira’s supernatural powers [...]
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THIS month sees the publication of a book by ex-Church of Scotland Minister Helen Percy, in which she tells of having been raped in 1995 by a church elder in a Perthshire parish. Scandalous, Immoral And Improper: The Trial of Helen Percy has been receiving a good deal of positive pre-publication publicity in Scotland – [...]
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VICTIMS of Robert Charles Best – a paedophile Christian Brother – today hurled abuse at the 70-year-old as he was led away to begin a 14-year, nine-month sentence for sex crimes committed against young boys over a period of almost 20 years. The beast’s sex crimes against 11 boys in Ballarat, Box Hill and Geelong [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
