Category: Crime
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US church that lost almost $800,000 to a scammer started a fundraiser to recoup its losses. Response is dismal.
IN a heartfelt plea for $793,848, pastor Johnny Blevins, above, of North Carolina’s Elkin Valley Baptist Church, relates in a GoFundMe video how the church had “prayerfully saved toward a new worship center for over ten years”, then lost more than half of its savings. But the appeal, launched after the church fell victim to…
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‘Don’t link death cult with religion,’ says Kenya’s evangelical President
LATEST reports from Kenya, where police are combing a forest occupied by a Christian cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, above, indicate that 73 bodies have now been recovered, with more expected. The death toll, which has continued to rise as exhumations of shallow graves are carried out, could rise further. The Kenyan Red…
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Alabama Methodist church went belly up after its secretary stole all of its cash
OF the $89,440.32 stolen by Carmen Ramer Davis, 59, from the Brooklyn Congregational Methodist Church in Coffee County, a portion was spent in casinos in Mississippi and Alabama. Davis, according this report, was sentenced on Good Friday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay back the cash. Last year she pleaded guilty to…
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Faith-based health care company scammed millions from Christians, says FBI
MISSOURI-based Medical Cost Sharing Ministry, headed by CE0 Craig Reynolds, inset, targeted Christians wanting an alternative to ObamaCare. Medical Cost Sharing Inc, according to the FBI, attempted to lower payouts, failed to negotiate prices down with healthcare providers and, in some cases, entirely avoided covering members’ medical costs by using “specious” excuses. Among those who…
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Probe into child sexual abuse by Jehovah’s Witnesses leads to indictments against five
The suspects ‘used their faith communities or their own families to gain access to victims,’ Pennsylvania’s acting Attorney General, Michelle Henry, above, announced. FOR several years the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has been investigating whether the Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly failed to report child sexual abuse allegations to authorities. On Monday Henry announced at a press…
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Death threats against ‘pro-life’ Kansas lawmaker Jake LaTurner ‘came directly from God’
Jake LaTurner and Chase Neill (inset). Images via YouTube and Shawnee County Kansas jail. THERE’S a lot to dislike about LaTurner. The Republican regularly trumpets his Catholic faith and rejoiced when Roe v Wade was overturned. That, of course, does not justify him getting death threats—something that happened last June when he received threatening voicemails…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 