Tag: Ireland
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US comedian Rosie O’Donnell, who warned that ‘radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam,’ ignites a fresh row with Trump
Subscribe to The Angry Atheist and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. O’DONNELL, who enraged both evangelicals and Catholics when she warned of the dangers of “radical Christianity” and said that “I hope the Catholic Church gets…
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London-based rabbi charged this week with carrying out an illegal circumcision in Ireland. He has been refused bail
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. Jonathan Abraham (47) was arrested on Tuesday and appeared before judge Michael Connellan at Dublin District Court on Thursday charged with carrying out a surgical procedure— circumcision of an infant— at an address in Dublin without being a registered medical…
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Year of prayer planned to deal with Ireland’s chronic shortage of Catholic priests
“Take the Risk for Christ” is the name of an initiative that’s scheduled to begin on April 30. In a pastoral letter released for Lent, Bishop Paul Dempsey, above, of the Diocese of Achonry, warned that the diocese had not had any new priests for a decade—and has no seminarians currently in formation. Dempsey wrote:…
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Irish Pastafarian, rejected as a Defence Forces chaplain, wins religious discrimination case
Images via YouTube & Etsy AN ordained minister for the Congergational Church of the Flying Monster, “pasta” John Hamill, above, suffered discrimination at the hands of the Irish Defence Forces, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled this week. Hammill, who said in an Atheist Ireland lecture delivered at Manooth University in Co Kildare that his…
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