Tag: abuse
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Florida megachurch pastor faces a lawsuit over the alleged historic abuse of a child aged 7
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. M. Wayne Blackburn, above, senior pastor at Victory Church in Lakeland, Florida, has been accused in a lawsuit of being complicit in the cover up of the sexual abuse of a 7-year-old boy by an Assemblies of God church volunteer…
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Author of ‘Bleeding for Jesus’ says serial abuser John Smyth was ‘the C of E’s Jimmy Savile’
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. ANDREW Graystone, above, in his book Bleeding for Jesus: John Smyth and the Cult of Iwerne Camps, has reacted to an independent review of the abuse carried out by Smyth — who used military-style Christian camps to recruit boys who…
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Children subjected to barbaric physical and sexual assaults at a Christian Brothers school in Liverpool
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. ONE of more than 50 former pupils of St Mary’s College and the Mount Prep School in Crosby in Merseyside who have alleged that the they suffered serious physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers claimed that…
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Shocking report reveals that one in six children who fell prey to the Jesus Army Cult were abused
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. THE report from The Jesus Fellowship Community Trust (JFCT), published this week, has uncovered high leveks abuse within the now-defunct Jesus Fellowship Church, a religious cult formerly based across Northamptonshire and better known as the Jesus Army. According to Premier…
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US televangelist resigns after admitting sexually abusing a ‘young lady.’ Robert Morris’ victim was aged just 12.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. GATEWAY Church founder Robert Morris, above—once a “spiritual advisor” to Donald Trump—has been forced to the resign from the church he founded after claiming inapropriate behaviour with a girl in the 1980s. A CBN News report a week ago revealed…
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Clerical abuse probe is an ‘open wound that hurts and shames us’ says Portuguese bishop.
Jose Ornelas, above, head of the Bishops’ Conference, is himself under investigation. A teacher has accused him of covering up sex abuse at an orphanage in Mozambique in 2011, something he denies. A REPORT, commissioned by the Conferência Episcopal Portuguesa and released on Monday. shows that at least 4,815 children were sexually abused by members…
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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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Kinky Jesuit priest and renowned artist alleged to have had ‘threesomes’ with nuns
A mosaic designed by Fr Marko Rupnik, inset, depicts Christ’s descent into hell and resurrection. Credit: Giovanna60/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3.0 THERE’S a great deal to dislike about the far-right LifeSite News: its homophobia, transphobia and its shameless peddling of conspiracy theories, to name just a few. But, despite its constant railing against pornography, it…
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