The former Chief Prosecutor for Northwest England, Nazir Afzal , above, has accused mainly Muslim protesters targeting a Birmingham school of spreading lies about the teaching of gay sex. Afzal was brought in by Birmingham City Council six weeks ago to mediate between parents and staff who are locked in a battle over relationship lessons at Anderton Park Primary school – and this week he broke his silence to warn that unless something was done by the Government to quells… Read more
May 31, 2019
Lies about gay sex lessons are increasing tensions in Birmingham
May 31, 2019 By Barry Duke
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May 30, 2019
Jesus Army brought down by sexual and financial abuse allegations
May 30, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A UK-based cult known as the Jesus Fellowship Church – formerly the Jesus Army headquartered in a former art deco cinema in Northampton – announced this week that it was shutting down for good. It was the best news I heard all week as I had lost a good friend to this despicable outfit shortly after it was founded in 1969. He was brainwashed into believing that his homosexuality could only be ‘”cured” if he handed over large amounts of… Read more
May 30, 2019
Woman who married a ghost now warns of dallying with the dead
May 30, 2019 By Barry Duke
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IN 2014, a Northern Irish woman who gained minor celebrity status as a Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator fell in love with the ghost of an 18th-century Haitian pirate who snuck into her bed one night. Four years on, in an interview with The Cut, Amanda Teague, above, painted a glowing picture of her life with “Jack”, who’d been dead for centuries. The pair went on drives, argued, and had sex. Teague soon developed “strong loving feelings” for the spook who… Read more
May 29, 2019
Georgia church hires woman to make contact with the dead
May 29, 2019 By Barry Duke
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God told Lakara Foster, above, that in order to prove that there’s life after death, he needed a medium to put folk in touch with their dearly departed. And he could not have chosen a more qualified psychic than Foster for the Pentecostal Vision Church of Atlanta. For she holds a Doctorate of Ministry from The Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia for her impressively titled thesis Every Good and Perfect Gift Is From Above (James 1:17): Making The Case for the… Read more
May 29, 2019
Pilgrim’s progress foiled: elderly man ends up in Rom, not Rome
May 29, 2019 By Barry Duke
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The Lord and sat-nav works in mysterious ways. An 81-year-old UK man intent on seeing the Pope in Rome wound up in in the tiny German hamlet of Rom – then got knocked over by his own car. The Catholic pilgrim, identified in this report as Luigi Rimonti from Newcastle, got out of his car when his sat-nav informed him that he’d arrived in Rome. He was checking his surroundings, puzzled by the absence of familiar Roman buildings, when his… Read more
May 28, 2019
Alarm bells sound over church’s ‘gay porn’ outing in Chicago
May 28, 2019 By Barry Duke
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A group from the Holy Name Cathedral are off to see the highly-acclaimed Elton John biopic, Rocketman, on June 2 – and the right-wing religious website LifeSiteNews is having conniptions. In giving the movie a five-star rating, Mark Kermode, reviewing it for the Observer, wrote: From an early snog with a 1960s soul-revue musician to a cherry-popping sex-scene played out to the strains of Take Me to the Pilot, there’s none of the coyness that won Bohemian Rhapsody a family-friendly… Read more
May 28, 2019
Catholic Church is in a tight spot, but Poles still cling faithfully to it
May 28, 2019 By Barry Duke
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THERE are two things that the Catholic Church is pretty good at: blaming victims for the abuse they suffered at the hands of priests, and treating the abusers as if they are somehow the ones being persecuted. Poland is a particularly egregious example. Polish-American journalist Filip Mazurczak, above, a doctoral student in history at Kraków’s Jagiellonian University, said after the recent release of a documentary film entitled Tell No One, which has had over almost 22 million views and more… Read more
May 27, 2019
Angry Orthodox Jewish women challenge transgender pond policy
May 27, 2019 By Barry Duke
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BECAUSE Jewish law (halacha) does not recognise transgenderism, a decision by the City of London Corporation to open a women-only swimming pond at Hampstead Heath to trans swimmers effectively puts it out of bounds to strictly observant women. That’s the claim being made by a group who are determined to have the ruling reversed, but so far the Corporation is refusing to budge. In a video Corporation representative Edward Lord said: It shouldn’t be controversial, it shouldn’t be a debate…. Read more
May 27, 2019
UK radio presenter started running after God ordered him to
May 27, 2019 By Barry Duke
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UK radio and TV personality Chris Evans, who was photographed drinking brandy and pissing topless at the side of a motorway in 2016, claims he is now a dedicated runner, having received orders from God. The 53-year-old Evans, above, who took part in the London Marathon in April, wrote in The Sunday Times Magazine that he started running: Because God told me to. I swear this is precisely what happened. Approximately five years ago, I was driving back from London… Read more
May 27, 2019
Op-ed: There’s only one guest of honour
May 27, 2019 By Ophelia Benson
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Trump was very excited about his approaching trip to Japan last Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe goes to a lot of trouble to flatter his ego, as the Washington Post reported: Perhaps no world leader has been as assiduous in flattering President Trump’s ego as Shinzo Abe. But Japan’s prime minister may have just outdone himself, pressing the country’s time-honored traditions into service for the American president’s upcoming trip … Abe’s latest attempts to play to Trump’s ego appeared to be working…. Read more
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