Catholic
- Pope's butler leaked papers to shock 'corrupt' Church, prosecutor says
- Vatican win: Judge says priests aren't employees--"The Vatican won a major victory... in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests."
- Pussy Riot copycats could see church charges--"The Catholic Church has pressed charges against a trio of Pussy Riot copycats who disrupted a service in Cologne Cathedral on Sunday – if charged and convicted they could be jailed for longer than their heroines."
- Bishop's Extravagant Behavior Triggers Uproar--"He extols the virtues of poverty and humility, but the German bishop of Limburg enjoys first-class flights and a luxurious new living complex. As the truth comes out about their secretive shepherd, local Catholics are threatening to abandon the fold en masse."
- Earthly concerns--"The Catholic church is as big as any company in America. Bankruptcy cases have shed some light on its finances and their mismanagement."
- Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America Salon
- Bishops: God votes Republican--"Cardinal Dolan's benediction at the GOP Convention makes clear the Catholic bishops have taken sides." Salon
- Religious Laws Long Recognized By U.S. Courts
- Amanpour: God's Warriors--"Christiane Amanpour travels to six countries on four continents to examine the intersection between religion and politics."
- Genuine Christian Scholars Smack Down an Unruly Colleague--Revisionist historian David Barton gets his book pulled by the publisher after they "received a number of complaints that the book is inaccurate."
- Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcision
- Germany seeks to clarify euthanasia laws
- Islamist Mind Games: How Young German Men Are Lured into Jihad
- Christian boy tortured and killed in Pakistan--"The tortured body of an 11 year old Christian boy has been found in a town in Punjab, Pakistan, days after a young Christian girl was arrested on blasphemy charges."
- Egypt arrests man after nail bomb attack on German embassy--"The man acted out of anger after reading an Egyptian newspaper report on Friday which described a protest by German right-wing activists who had paraded caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in front of a German mosque, they said."
- Offensive Cartoon Has German Christians Fuming
- Mexico cult eyes 'evil' secular schools--"Authorities are negotiating with a religious cult in southwestern Mexico, trying to persuade leaders to allow public schools to operate in the isolated community...."
- Jesus Wept--"A skeptic faces possible charges for debunking Mumbai’s miracle statue."
- Google vs. God--"What's causing all these Hasidic Jews to flee their community? Smartphones."
- From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader--"The new heroes within the secular movement are coming from unlikely places — like the pulpit." NYT
- Republic of Ireland abandoning religion faster than almost every other country
- Survey finds 19% without religious affiliation
- FFRF awards 12-year-old freethinker for student activism
- High School Teacher Brags About How His School Stopped an Atheist Group from Forming, but He's in for a Surprise
- People Who Have Actually Read the Entire Bible
- The Bible's book of Revelation explained
- Hebrew Bible: Plagiarized Mythology and Defaced Monotheism
- God won't rescue world from 'stupidity,' says top Anglican
- Balloon priest wins Darwin Award for stupidity
- Striking proof that lightning conductors work--In 1769, "church authorities had turned down the chance of fitting the newly invented lightning conductor on the ground that it was heretical to interfere with divine will." Then God decided to smite 230 people in one day.
