A LEADING Baptist minister has been charged with molesting young boys during trips to America. According to this report, Robert Dando, 46, was arrested this week during a visit to Fairfax County, Virginia. He is said to have sexually abused two boys, starting when they were aged seven and eight, over a period of up [...]
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POLICE in Moldova have opened an investigation into the death of a six-week-old baby who died after being baptised. According to this report, witnesses at the ceremony said the priest, Father Valentin, did not cover the baby’s mouth during the ritual. The baby died on the way to hospital and an autopsy found he had [...]
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THE lunatic Christian parents of Alayna May Wyland are fighting to get custody of their daughter back, even though they face criminal charges for neglecting her medical needs. According to this report, Timothy and Rebecca Wyland are members of the Followers of Christ Church in Clackamas, Oregon, which believes exclusively in faith healing, and does [...]
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THE bishop of Hamburg – the world’s first female Lutheran bishop – has resigned amid criticism of her handling of a sex abuse case. Maria Jepsen denies having known before May this year about a priest in the town of Ahrensburg who reportedly sexually abused boys and girls in the 1980s. Said Jepsen: My credibility [...]
GIVEN the ridicule it was exposed to this week over its decision to black out the windows of an award-winning swimming pool complex, you would have thought that Walsall Council in the Midlands would have immediately sent in the contractors to rip off the ridiculous dark film. But no. The council is now going a [...]
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ROMAN CATHOLIC documents, according to a report this weekend in the New York Times, reveal that Cardinal Ratzinger – when he was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – never asserted the authority given to the office as far back as 1922 to investigate sexual abuse cases . For the two [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
