Pope Benedict rejects Irish bishop’s resignation In a move that has stunned critics Pope Benedict XVI has rejected the resignations of two Dublin auxiliary bishops. Bishop Raymond Field and Bishop Eamonn Walsh had both tendered their resignations in 2009 in the wake of the Murphy report into clerical child abuse. Both men had come under [...]

Sick woman who went to Lourdes to cure cerebral palsy returns with two broken legs A disabled woman went on a healing pilgrimage to Lourdes – and returned with broken legs. The family of cerebral palsy sufferer Patricia Mitchell have launched legal action against the organisers of the trip after she fell 4ft from a [...]

Family Asks Doctors To Wait For Prayers To Work FORT WORTH — A North Texas family is racing to stop a hospital from amputating a patient’s foot, saying the procedure violates their religious rights. The situation is now so tense that Angela Wright’s husband has been barred from the hospital where she is being treated. [...]

Horray for pointlessly dangerous rituals! Baby Drowns During Baptism A priest in eastern Europe has been accused of drowning a baby boy as he baptised him. Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby’s mouth during the ritual, The Sun newspaper reports. Father [...]

Faith healing in Oregon: A picture worth a thousand words We’ve talked long enough about faith healing in Oregon. We’ve shared countless earnest conversations about religious liberty and parental rights. The time for words is over. Now it’s time for pictures. Another couple from the Followers of Christ church in Oregon City stand accused of [...]

British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays – leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice Like any 12-year-old, Jamelia was excited at the prospect of a plane journey and [...]

Muslim bus drivers refuse to let guide dogs on board Blind passengers are being ordered off buses or refused taxi rides because Muslim drivers or passengers object to their ‘unclean’ guide dogs. One pensioner, a cancer sufferer, told how had twice been confronted by drivers and asked to get off the bus because of his [...]

Religion of peace, my fucking ass. Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki puts ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed’ cartoonist Molly Norris on execution hitlist A CHARISMATIC terror leader linked to the botched Times Square car bomb has placed the Seattle cartoonist who launched “Everybody Draw Muhammed Day” on an execution hit list. Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical who [...]

Comments about ‘atheists’ put off nonreligious voters Newly elected Austrailian prime minister Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female prime minister, is not a religious person. President Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to acknowledge nonreligious Americans in his Inaugural Address. However, Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is being considered by some as a candidate for president [...]

Muslims need to be protected from reality; we can’t have them learning about things that might make them turn away from their bullshit religion. Pakistan to monitor Google, others for blasphemy ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani authorities on Friday put seven major websites, including Google and YouTube, under watch for containing material deemed offensive to Muslims, [...]