Category: Crime
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Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces 191 murder charges
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the closure last year of Good News International Ministries by authorites in the wake of more than 400 deaths from starvation by followers, church leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, above, a former taxi driver-turned-televangelist, now faces trial for the murder…
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Paula Vennells, the disgraced Post Office CEO, came within a whisker of becoming Bishop of London
THE Anglican priest, who apparently found Mammon more attractive than Jesus and destroyed hundreds of lives while amassing a fortune, is to surrender the CBE she was awarded for services to the Post Office and charity Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. PAULA Vennells was practically unknown…
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US ‘extremist’ group that quoted Hitler employs a registered sex offender, pastor Phillip Fisher Jr.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. MOMS for Liberty, a designated “extremist” group, found itself in deep doo-doo earlier this year when its Indiana chapter published a newsletter quoting Hitler as saying “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.” The outfit is now back…
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Pakistani pastor shot himself then claimed he was the victim of an Islamic terrorist attack
LAST month it widely reported in Pakistan that Protestant pastor Eleazar Sidhu, 35, had been hospitalised with a gunshot wound after being attacked by a “bearded person” after Sunday prayers, and police were called in to investigate. According to this report, Sidhu, pastor of a Presbyterian church in Kukranwala village in the Khanuwana area of…
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Former New Orleans Catholic priest, 91, faces charges of historic sex abuse
CHARGES brought against Lawrence Hecker, above, by a Louisiana grand jury include one that alleges that, in 1975, he choked a teen unconscious under the guise of performing a wrestling move and then sexually assaulted him. Hecker, acccording to Religion News Service, faces felony counts of rape, kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft. It…
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Abuse survivor speaks out after former Catholic cardinal is found not competent to stand trial for abuse
JAMES Grein, 64, abused for years from the age of 11 by Theodore McCarrick, inset above, has accused McCarrick’s legal team of “coaching” the former prelate for psychiatric assessments that culminated in abuse charges being dropped against him. Yesterday (Wedneday) a state district judge ruled that McCarrick, 93, was not competent to stand trial on…
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Paedophile priest, once supported by the late Cardinal Pell, has another year added to his 39-year sentence
BACK in 2014, it was reported that Australian Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale, inset—originally jailed in 1994 for 18 years after being convicted of 46 charges of abusing 20 boys and one girl between 1961 and 1982—had received support from the late Cardinal Pell, above. In April, 2014, the sentence of Australia’s most notorious paedophile, was…
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‘This is a courthouse, not a church’ warns judge at the trial of anti-abortionists who targeted a clinic
AMONG nine defendents who are currently on trial for blocking access to a Northwest Washington clinic is Lauren Handy, above, Director of Activism and Mutual Aid with an outfit called Progressive Anti-Abortion action. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is overseeing the trial in Washington D.C. was compelled to warn supporters of Handy and her cronies that…
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Former Florida pastor arrested for allegedly stealing goods worth $1.4-million from Home Depot outlets
ROBERT Dell, inset above was arrested earlier this month along with several cronies who stand accused of stealing merchandise from Home Depot stores and selling them on eBay. The Florida Attorney General’s Office identified Dell as “a pastor of The Rock Church and the founder of a halfway house serving those recovering from drug addiction…
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Restaurant company that employed a bogus priest to hear workers’ confessions labeled ‘shameless’
WAGE and hour investigators in California have dealt with numerous cases of a “corrupt” employees stiffing staff, but were taken aback when they learned that one company—Che Garibaldi—had used a fake priest to take “confessions” from workers. The U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement that Che Garibaldi’s attempt to use the “priest” to…
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