Tag: Australia
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Fourteen members of a crazy Christian cult found guilty of causing a child’s death
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. RATHER than seek medical help for diabetic Elizabeth Struhs, inset above, members of an Australian Christian cult, led by Brendan Stevens, turned to prayer and song, maintaining a vigil around the 8-year-old’s bed even after she’d stopped breathing. And they…
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Former head of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Australia jailed for 15 years for abusing two female pupils
AFTER Malka Leifer was accused around 16 years ago of sexual abuse, she fled to Israel where she claimed she was too mentally unwell to face trial in Australia. But undercover footage showed that she was living what appeared to be a perfectly normal life in Israel and an Israeli court ordered her extradition to…
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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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Attendance at religious classes in Victoria slumps by a stupendous 99 percent
A WHILE back the state did a very smart thing. It scrapped religious education from schol classes. Now the non-mandatory classes, called Special Religious Instruction (SRI)— are held during lunchtime and before and after school. The move, according The Age, has seen attendances at these classes plummet by 99 percent in a decade. This is…
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