NZ: What happens in Antioch…

…doesn’t happen in New Zealand!

Australia: Anglican Bishop resigns over child abuse cover-ups

Bishop Keith Slater today apologised for his past failings in managing the allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the North Coast Childrens Home in Lismore between 1940 and the 1980s.

Germany: Government releases new black list

This time round, it’s climate change sceptics:

Swaziland: High-flying witches brought down to earth

HIGH-FLYING witches face arrest and a heavy fine if they break new laws, authorities in Swaziland have said.

US: Roanoke County — be scared!

Be very scared.

US: To all atheists who insist on your legal rights…

…tell your little sisters to expect intimidation.

Australia: ‘My headmaster made me a pedophile’

If I get him the wool, will he make me one too?

UK: All the way up: former Archbishop of York admits complicity in child abuse

A CHILD sex scandal involving children in Australia and Britain has hit the top echelon of the Anglican Church, with allegations that some of its most senior clergymen failed to respond properly to complaints of horrific abuse.

Pakistan: We don’t need no stinking democracy!

ISLAMABAD: The Taliban has vowed a nationwide campaign of terrorism targeting candidates and voters in Saturday’s general election in Pakistan.

Turkey: ‘I felt freedom when I took off my headscarf’

Shame about the death threats, though.

US: Second child of faith-healing couple dies

A Philadelphia couple — serving 10 years’ probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor — has violated their probation now that another of their children has died.

Ireland: Foetuses – 1: Women – 0

The Irish Catholic Church nails its blood-soaked colours to the mast.

Global: The huge scale of the Islam problem

Jerry Coyne passes on a report about just how many Muslims worldwide are opposed to justice, tolerance and an open society.

Chile: Baby burned alive for being ‘Antichrist’

Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning a baby alive in a ritual because the leader of the sect believed that the end of the world was near and that the child was the antichrist.

Australia: The Child, the Priest, the Cop and the Other Cops

‘Catholic Mafia’ accused of interfering with police investigations into child abuse.

Global: It’s not ‘Islamophobic’…

…to mistrust people who want to kill you.

Bangladesh: Islamists demand the right to intolerance

AT least 22 people were killed as Bangladeshi police fought pitch battles with tens of thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka.

US: In South Carolina, 4th Graders get a ‘Science Quiz’…

…true or false?

Afghanistan: Woman killed for ‘dishonouring’ family

The public killing of a woman in Afghanistan is further proof that the authorities are still failing to tackle the shocking levels of gender-based violence in the country, Amnesty International said today.

Australia: Catholic sect admits supporting and covering up pedophilia

THE Christian Brothers admit they were aware of abuse complaints against two brothers at Ballarat in Victoria but failed to tell police.

Morocco: See, you don’t HAVE to be a Muslim…

…you can be dead, instead.

Scotland: Jewish event cancelled after threats made by Muslims

Why bother to be rational, when intimidation works just as well?

Malta: Maltesers not so sweet on blasphemy

A report on human rights around the world from the US Department of State has revealed that 99 individuals were convicted in Malta last year for “public blasphemy”, down from 119 in 2011….

Turkey: Atheism is a form of autism, says idiot

Autism associations around Turkey have reacted angrily after the head of Adana’s Health and Education Associations for Autistic Children reportedly said autistic children were “atheists due to a lack of a section for faith in their brains.”

Australia: Catholic priest charged with sex abuse

VICTORIAN Police have charged a Catholic priest with child sex offences after he returned to Melbourne from Rome.

US: Irony alert: when a young woman warns her church that it’s driving young people away…

…the church drives her away.

El Salvador: Want an abortion?

Then die, witch, die!

NZ: How DARE he!

New Zealand MP hits back at gay marriage bill attackers with reason!! And logic!!

Australia: A ‘mature child of high intelligence’…

…prefers to die rather than get a blood transfusion.

UK: Are Islamists really THAT stupid?

No, it’s not the toilets

Apparently.