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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

US: You probably knew this, but…

Yes, the Boston bombers were radical Muslims.

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.

Nigeria: 185 killed in gun battle with Islamic activists

Fighting between Nigeria’s military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation’s far north-east, officials say, as insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers sprayed machine-gun fire into neighbourhoods filled with civilians.

SMH

El Salvador: Want an abortion?

Then die, witch, die!

Iraq: Bomb kills 27, including children

The latest bombing struck at 10pm on Thursday in the west Baghdad suburb of Amriyah, leaving 27 dead and more than 50 others wounded, security and medical officials said.

Australia: A ‘mature child of high intelligence’…

…prefers to die rather than get a blood transfusion.

Australia: Salvos paid $15m to child sex abuse victims

THE Salvation Army has told a Victorian sex abuse inquiry it is ashamed of the treatment of children that occurred in its homes, as it revealed it has paid out more than $15 million to victims and that 50 Salvation Army officers had been named as abusers.

The Australian

Now everybody wants to get into the act!

Australia: Rabbi admits sex abuse at Melbourne Jewish school

VICTIMS say the admission of guilt by a former teacher at a Jewish Orthodox school accused of sexually abusing students is a watershed for Australia’s Jewish community.

Australia: Protecting a cultural right to abuse

Yes, there are reasons why people from tribal cultures move out, go to cities and emigrate to the West. They’re not just being silly.

US: Jewish welfare group shelters paedophile

A self-confessed paedophile who sexually abused several boys in Sydney is being harboured by a leading Los Angeles Jewish welfare group.

Afghanistan: NATO strike kills 10 children

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 children, officials said Sunday, the latest case of civilian casualties which provoke great anger in the war-torn country.

Israel: Victims of the Nazis? No, only women!

The Sisterhood has covered Haredi exclusion of women from the Israeli public sphere for some time now. When it comes to the removal of women’s images from public view, we’ve seen the disappearance of women from advertisements; the photoshopping of female leaders like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out of news photos; the blurring of women’s and girls’ faces on memorial notices and even the erasing of a pair of women’s shoes from an innocuous photo of a family’s shoe drawer.

Australia: Misogyny and bullying alleged at Uniting Church college

Sydney University’s Wesley College is investigating reports of inappropriate behaviour and sexual harassment during Orientation Week, after two undercover magazine reporters snuck in to a number of on-campus parties posing as students.

Nigeria: Who are you going to believe, some strange woman at church or your daughter?

Oh…

A 42-year-old father, Mr. Edet Etok-Akpan, is currently being quizzed at the headquarters of the Cross River State Police Command in Calabar for torturing his six-year-old daughter, Edidiong, as a result of a church prophetess’ pronouncement that the girl was a witch.

US: Can you get fired for having sex?

Only if you’re a woman.

Global: If it helps people, we’re against it!

Efforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced the number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in 2012.

Australia: Scientologists spread fear and panic to gain their ends

Thereby infringing on a government monopoly…

Afghanistan: Two children allegedly killed by Australian troops

Australian soldiers have been accused of accidentally shooting dead two children during an operation against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

Australia: More Catholic cover-ups

The letter written by Stinson provides an insider’s view of the desperate efforts of a handful of priests to have action taken against Harris. When the archbishop stonewalled, the paedophile priest was moved to the next parish then left free to roam for almost 50 years…