Fla. Church Denied Permit to Burn Qurans Gainesville city officials have denied a burn permit for a church that plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11. Interim Fire Chief Gene Prince said Wednesday that an open burning of books is not allowed under the city’s burning ordinance. The Dove World Outreach Center [...]

Police: Girl raped, then relocated After being raped and impregnated by a fellow churchgoer more than twice her age, a 15-year-old Concord girl was forced by Trinity Baptist Church leaders to stand before the congregation to apologize before they helped whisk her out of state, according to the police. While her pastor, Chuck Phelps, reported [...]

The unbelievers – What happens when a minister decides there’s no God? Walk into a church on a Sunday and you might find that a few of the people in the pews are atheists — there because they like the old hymns or the comforting murmur of the liturgy or because their spouses insist. Or [...]

Former Baptist pastor gets 10 years for molestation FRANKLIN, Ind. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist pastor in central Indiana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old church member in a relationship that began with him counseling the girl because she was not getting along with her mother. Daniel Moore, [...]

This is hardly shocking, but it’s still interesting. B.C. cabbie speaks out against his gay-hating preacher dad VANCOUVER — Soft-spoken taxi driver Nate Phelps of Cranbrook, B.C., is coming forward on Easter Sunday to speak out in a televised interview against one of America’s most outspoken anti-gay crusaders — his own father. Phelps, who has [...]

Wait..  why are you wishing me luck? (I’m actually not even sure what the implication is supposed to be..  are they insinuating there’s a chance I’m right?)

…and god told them to be ironic. Lawsuit threatened over atheist councilman in NC Bothwell’s detractors are threatening to take the city to court for swearing him in, even though the state’s antiquated requirement that officeholders believe in God is unenforceable because it violates the U.S. Consititution. “The question of whether or not God exists [...]