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Trump ‘dreamed’ of building a megachurch for his ‘personal pastor’

IT’S just been revealed that Donald Trump was so smitten with Paula White-Cain, the latest addition to his White House Squad, that he once offered a to build her a magnificent glass megachurch, similar...

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Christian psychologist calls evangelical Trump supporters ‘fools’

BACK in September 2019, Dr Chris Thurman wrote two op-eds for the The Globe Post. The first was entitled ‘There’s a Sociopath in the White House‘ and the second was headed ‘Evangelicals Who Supported...

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‘Tens-of-millions’ of evangelicals are offended by Christianity Today

IT’S being widely reported that, in castigating evangelicals who give unqualified support to Donald Trump, the Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today, Mark Galli, above, last week alienated...

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Evangelical Christian Post defends Trump. Editor resigns in disgust.

THE row over Christianity Today’s recent scathing anti-Trump editorial took a fresh turn this week when Napp Nazworth, above, a political analyst and editor working for the Trump-lovin’ Christian Post,...

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Victims of sadistic evangelical priest want police to investigate

BACK in June we reported on the kinky behaviour of the Rev Jonathan Fletcher, above, a leading London evangelical who, among other things, would beat men on their bare butts with tennis shoes, and...

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UK media are shutting out evangelicals and climate-change deniers

NEWS outlets in Britain, including the BBC, are treating devout Christians and climate change deniers as ‘a bunch of very strange people.’ The result, says Graham Nicholls, above, Director of Affinity...

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Trump promises evangelicals he’ll put prayer back in schools

IN what has been described as a ‘desperate’ attempt to woo back faith voters, Trump told a Florida rally yesterday (Friday) that he’ll soon be taking action to allow prayer back  in public schools....

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Third UK city pulls plug on ‘persecuted’ Franklin Graham’s mission

UPDATE: January 30, 2020.  Glasgow has become the fourth UK city to axe Graham’s booking. SHEFFIELD and London have followed Liverpool’s lead in saying an emphatic NO to his planned appearance in the...

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Lies told as US Christian university honours Brexit’s Nigel Farage

LIBERTY University’s President Jerry Falwell Jr, reportedly reeled off a number of lies about assassination attempts on the life of Nigel Farage when he presented the dangerous xenophobe who engineered...

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Scots Calvinist blasts new Swiss LGBT protection law

EARLIER this month there were jubilant scenes in Switzerland when voters approved a new law that will make it illegal to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. The country...

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Deranged White House evangelical blames ‘faithless’ for COVID-19

ONE of a posse of evangelical preachers invited by Trump to stalk the halls of the White House –  Ralph Drollinger, above, founder of Capitol Ministries – has a theory about COVID-19: its God’s wrath...

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French evangelical church set off a COVID-19 ‘atomic bomb’

AUTHORITIES say they have traced COVID-19 infections in France to the country’s second largest evangelical church, run by Samuel Peterschmitt, above, who is recovering from the virus. A sorrowful and...

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Faith-based UK adoption agency challenges its downgrading

LAST year Cornerstone (North East) Adoption and Fostering Service, which works exclusively with evangelical Christian carers, was downgraded from ‘Good’ to ‘Requires Improvement’ by ‘anti-religious’...

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Bishop blasts female learning: ‘They be smarter than their husbands’

IN his 1970 three-act play, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Kurt Vonnegut Jr has one of his characters – a despicable sexist moron named Harold Ryan – utter these words after discovering that his wife had...

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UK broadcasting watchdog fails to grasp Christian ‘news’ content

IN MAY this year the regulatory body Ofcom sanctioned LoveWorld UK, headed by Nigerian pastor Chris Oyakhilome, above, for peddling conspiracy theories, notably that COVID-19 was being spread by 5G...

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Evangelical church ‘shocked’ after ex-pastor admits abusing kids

RESPONDING to news that its former pastor, Ben Thomas, above, had pleaded guilty to 40 sex offences involving children, the Criccieth Family Church in Wales expressed shock, and said that the BBC...

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Before Trump became President he mocked evangelicals

DONALD TRUMP’S former lawyer and ‘fixer’ has a book to sell – and in it he claims that before making it to the White House Trump took the piss out of a bunch of Bible hucksters he’d just met. According...

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UK venues that pulled the plug on Franklin Graham are being sued

THE Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) is suing venues in Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Wales for breach of contract after they cancelled events due to be led by Franklin Graham,...

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Liberty U joined ‘anti-evangelical forces’ to ruin Falwell’s reputation

IN a lawsuit launched on Thursday, Jerry Falwell Jr, above, is claiming that Liberty University– which forced his resignation after details of his he and his wife’s queer goings-on with a ‘pool boy’...

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Biden is not President-elect: ‘Americans aren’t that dumb’

IF YOU missed coverage of a recent event called the ‘Barnstorming of Georgia‘ by a bunch of Christian zealots protesting Joe Biden’s presidential win, you’ll probably be unaware that one of the...

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