BACK in June we reported on the kinky behaviour of the Rev Jonathan Fletcher, above, a leading London evangelical who, among other things, would beat men on their bare butts with tennis shoes, and force them to give him naked massages. When the goings-on at Fletcher’s Emmanuel Church in Wimbledon came to light in the summer, there were flurries of lurid headlines concerning allegations that he “spiritually abused” vulnerable adults. But then all went quiet until this week when it… Read more
December 28, 2019
Victims of sadistic evangelical priest want police to investigate
December 28, 2019 By Barry Duke
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December 27, 2019
Evangelical Christian Post defends Trump. Editor resigns in disgust.
December 27, 2019 By Barry Duke
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THE row over Christianity Today’s recent scathing anti-Trump editorial took a fresh turn this week when Napp Nazworth, above, a political analyst and editor working for the Trump-lovin’ Christian Post, walked off the job. It happened after the Post attacked CT in an editorial, saying: You may think Trump is a narcissistic, morally challenged, belligerent cad who has no business being president — except for the pesky constitutional fact that over 60 million American voters elected him to it. You may… Read more
December 26, 2019
Franciscans defend card linking Christianity with paganism
December 26, 2019 By Barry Duke
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MANY Christian HATE being reminded that Christmas was stolen from the pagans, and has bugger all to do with the birth of Jesus. So when Franciscans International, a human rights group formed by various Franciscan orders, distributed a festive greetings card that depicted the naked Andean earth-goddess “Pachamama” alongside the “Blessed Virgin Mary”, rumblings of discontent were bound to follow – and at least one “concerned Catholic” blasted off an email to FI Executive Director Fr Markus Heinze OFM, complaining of “sacrilege.”… Read more
December 25, 2019
H/Q of Brazilian comedy team attacked with Molotov cocktails
December 25, 2019 By Barry Duke
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OUTRAGE over Netflix’s ‘blasphemous’ gay Jesus festive season special spilled over into violence last night when a Christmas eve Molotov cocktail attack took place at The Backdoor, headquarters of the Porta dos Fundos comedy group. According to this report, video security images delivered to the Rio Security Secretariat show that at least three people participated in the crime. Two men got out of a pickup truck and one off a motorcycle. The attack came less than three weeks after Netflix… Read more
December 24, 2019
‘Tens-of-millions’ of evangelicals are offended by Christianity Today
December 24, 2019 By Barry Duke
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IT’S being widely reported that, in castigating evangelicals who give unqualified support to Donald Trump, the Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, above, last week alienated ‘tens-of-millions of Bible-believing Christians.’ The Washington Post was one of many news outlets that carried reports that scores of evangelical leaders railed against CT for calling for Trump’s removal, accusing the magazine founded by the Rev Billy Graham of spiritual presumption against other Christians and cultural elitism. A letter, sent in an email to CT… Read more
December 23, 2019
Catholic school apologises over Chicago’s Nutcracker walk-out
December 23, 2019 By Barry Duke
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NO secret was made of the fact that a version of The Nutcracker, staged in Chicago in November, featured a gay couple. Indeed, it was well publicised that the main parents of the main character, Clara, were in a same-sex relationship. But a woman chaperoning a group of Catholic school pupils from the Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, Ohio, only learned of the fact when she read in the programme of Clara’s gay married parents. Jessica Beaverson immediately took fright… Read more
December 22, 2019
Prize awarded to bigot who equated being gay with cannabalism
December 22, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FOR using words like ‘paedophilia’, ‘cannibalism’ and ‘vampirism’ in a discussion about LGBT issues in education, Canadian Michael Del Grande, above left, has earned himself an award from ‘family values’ group, the Campaign Life Coalition. Who is this imbecile? Del Grande is a Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee who made the comments toward the end of a six-hour meeting on November 7 where trustees eventually voted to amend the board’s code of conduct to include broader protections for… Read more
December 22, 2019
‘Blasphemy’ in Brazil: Netflix faces lawsuits and an official probe
December 22, 2019 By Barry Duke
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FOLLOWING our piece earlier this month about the outrage sparked by Netfix’s Christmas comedy depicting Jesus as gay it’s now being reported the company is being summoned by Brazilian authorities to explain its decision to screen a parody that’s upset Catholics all over the planet. The First Temptation of Christ has, according to LifeSiteNews, been described as a “vilification of religious worship” and an “assault on Christian values” by the Science, Technology, Communication, and Technology Committee of Brazil’s Chamber of… Read more
December 21, 2019
Concerns grows as NY’s Islamic patrols increase their presence
December 21, 2019 By Barry Duke
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MEMBERS of New York’s Muslim Community Patrol (MCP) gained international attention earlier this year after its first patrol cars – almost identical to NYPD vehicles – were spotted in Brooklyn and Staten Island. According to this video report, there are currently three Muslim Patrol cars, but there are plans to increase the fleet to 30. An undercover informant who applied to become a patrol member was told by the Director of Operations of the MCP, Mahwish Fathma, above, that the… Read more
December 20, 2019
Horror expressed after ‘blasphemous’ poster reappears in Rome
December 20, 2019 By Barry Duke
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BACK in 2017 an anonymous Italian artist who signs his work ‘Hogre’ responded to the Cardinal George Pell sexual abuse case in Australia by creating a poster showing Jesus with an erection. Copies of the poster were displayed on bus stops – and the artist got himself arrested. We now learn that the poster has reappeared. Writing for LifeSiteNews, Doug Mainwaring expressed his horror: A vile poster depicting Jesus as a sodomite and pedophile has appeared outside Rome’s Museum of… Read more
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