tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43776717876520515922012-02-01T10:46:15.086-08:00Religion and Child Abuse NewsAn archive of news items related to child abuse or neglect, or infringement of children's rights, in a religious context.
Copyrighted materials appearing on this blog are provided under Fair Use provisions to facilitate education and further research into the issues documented in these news reports.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger32361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62772356043416894142011-07-03T15:41:00.000-07:002011-08-27T14:11:21.176-07:00A Snapshot of Religion Related Child Abuse From June 2007 to June 2011
A Snapshot of Religion Related Child Abuse From June 2007 to June 2011
Somewhere right now children are suffering because of religious superstition, tradition and dogma
by Perry Bulwer
The first news article in this archive is dated June 6, 2007, the last one June 10, 2011. Those coincidental dates encompassing four years almost to the day were not planned by me. I had no end date or Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-86134076882395811322011-06-20T14:13:00.000-07:002011-06-20T14:13:19.412-07:00Why Do Children Suffer?
If God is good, omnipotent, compassionate and loving, then why do children suffer?
by Perry Bulwer
This archive of news articles related to child abuse in religious environments demonstrates just how dangerous religion can be to children. The abuses, atrocities and crimes documented in these pages, committed against children in the name of God or gods, ought to give thinking people of Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-74683005585894590992011-06-13T11:07:00.000-07:002011-06-13T11:08:33.360-07:00Religious groups say proposed circumcision ban is attack on religious freedom, but ignore a child's right to be free from religion
Globe and Mail - Canada June 10, 2011
Russell Crowe launches Twitter tirade: Circumcision is ‘barbaric’
DAVE MCGINN
Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe is not a fan of circumcision.
“Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature?” Crowe tweeted on Thursday. “Is it real that God requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect.”
Crowe went on the tirade after Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4544172391894414202011-06-12T14:19:00.000-07:002011-06-12T14:20:11.880-07:00Nigerian police rescue 32 pregnant teens locked up and forced to produce babies for witchcraft rituals
BBC News - June 1, 2011
Nigeria 'baby farm' girls rescued by Abia state police
Nigerian police have raided a hospital in the south-eastern city of Aba, rescuing 32 pregnant girls allegedly held by a human-trafficking ring.
Aged between 15 and 17 years, the girls were locked up and used to produce babies, said Abia state's police chief.
These were then allegedly sold for ritual Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76838489726944061752011-06-12T13:48:00.000-07:002011-06-12T13:49:51.682-07:00US 1st Amendment was not intended to protect crimes but religious institutions say it gives them the right to protect child abusers
Huffington Post - June 11, 2011
Churches Use 'Free Exercise' Defense To Block Abuse Cases
By Cecile S. Holmes | Religion News Service
(RNS) Jeremiah Scott was 11 when the abuse and molestation began in 1990 at the hands of an elder in his Mormon church in Portland, Ore. After the man died in 1995, Scott's mother sued the church in 1998 for putting her son at risk.
His mother said Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-8953498206126014652011-06-12T11:37:00.000-07:002011-06-12T11:37:41.086-07:00Review of sex abuse guidelines at US bishops conference will not close loopholes that continue to endanger children
USA Today - June 10, 2011
Catholic bishops to take second look at abuse reforms
By Daniel Burke, Religion News Service
(RNS) A review of church sex abuse guidelines will top the agenda when the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meet in Seattle next week (June 15-17). But no major changes have been proposed, according to church leaders, even after several recent reports have raised Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-29960808021257762932011-06-12T11:08:00.000-07:002011-06-12T11:08:57.032-07:00Catholic clergy abuse review boards made ineffective by bishops who hide cases from them
National Catholic Reporter - June 11, 2011
What's a review board to do?
By Joshua J. McElwee
Catholics in Kansas City, Mo., learned in May something that Nicholas Cafardi has known for some time: “A review board” -- the confidential consultative body each bishop is supposed to have for advice on cases of sexual abuse by clergy -- “is only as good as the cases a bishop puts before them.”
Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-59038987972599308672011-06-10T15:08:00.000-07:002011-06-12T10:47:22.404-07:00Catholic reform groups hold conference in Detroit, Archbishop warns priests who attend could be defrocked
Detroit Free Press - June 8, 2011
Liberal Catholics pushing changes in the church to gather in Detroit
BY NIRAJ WARIKOO | DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Calling for more democracy within the Catholic Church, liberal Catholics from around the world are coming to Detroit this weekend for a conference to help revitalize what they say is an archaic institution in need of reform.
Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47702963432986104602011-06-10T14:41:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:42:44.309-07:00Black Hebrews cult leader and six others charged with murder after bodies of missing woman and boy found
News & Observer - North Carolina June 10, 2011
Cult leader Pete Moses Jr. charged in boy's death
BY THOMASI MCDONALD AND MANDY LOCKE - N&O Staff Writers
DURHAM -- Investigators found the remains of a child Thursday at the same East Durham house where a missing woman's body was discovered Wednesday.
Pete Lucas Moses Jr., 27, is charged with first degree murder in the death of 5-Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-16578999267165163172011-06-10T14:14:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:15:36.289-07:00Measles killed 164,000 children last year and maimed many more so failing to vaccinate children is criminal
Globe and Mail - Canada June 8, 2011
The return of measles: Where did we go wrong?
by André Picard
Welcome to the 1960s. Not in a cool, retro way but in the “how have we failed so miserably to make progress?” way.
Measles is back.
In recent weeks, there have been more than 250 cases of the dreadful childhood disease in Quebec. The outbreak was sparked by vacationers returning from Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-10905287566899560402011-06-10T12:46:00.000-07:002011-06-10T12:53:32.862-07:00Forced marriage of children is widespread but some child brides are fighting back against powerful religions and traditions
National Geographic - June 2011
Too Young to Wed
The secret world of child brides
By Cynthia Gorney
Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India began to prepare themselves for Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-46456270573926323972011-06-09T13:10:00.000-07:002011-06-09T13:10:48.527-07:00Oregon parents guilty of criminal mistreatment of baby daughter for relying on faith healing instead of real medical care
The Oregonian - June 7, 2011
Timothy, Rebecca Wyland guilty of criminal mistreatment in faith-healing trial
By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian
OREGON CITY – A Clackamas County jury spent one hour deliberating Tuesday before unanimously finding an Oregon City couple guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for treating their infant daughter with faith-healing rather than taking her to a doctor.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62668966573444777292011-06-09T11:43:00.000-07:002011-06-09T11:44:05.855-07:00Ontario Catholic priest who sexually assaulted his students for three decades sentenced to just two years
Toronto Star - Canada June 9, 2011
Priest who taught at St. Michael’s College sentenced to 2 years for sex abuse
by Mary Ormsby | Feature Writer
The Roman Catholic priest who routinely pulled boys out of class to sexually assault them at schools where he taught was sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday.
Rev. William Hodgson Marshall, 88, was led out of a Windsor courtroom Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76765473001951986452011-06-08T15:56:00.000-07:002011-06-08T15:57:15.419-07:00Baptist school teacher charged with sexually assaulting her teen students and members of her father's church
Chicago Sun Times June 8, 2011
Bail set for former Christian school teacher accused of sexually assaulting students
By Lauren FitzPatrick Sun-Times Media
A decade ago, when a teacher at a private Christian school was in her young 20s, she began molesting students from the Northwest Side school next to a church where her father is pastor, Cook County prosecutors said.
Elisa Martinelli, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-50074289912935483842011-06-08T15:33:00.000-07:002011-06-08T22:22:23.016-07:00Irish priest who was known pedophile but transferred to California extradited to Ireland to face criminal charges
Press Democrat - California June 6, 2011
Former Irish priest accused of molesting boys extradicted to Ireland
By GUY KOVNER | THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A former Irish priest accused of molesting four men in Humboldt County in the 1980s has been extradited to Ireland, where he faces criminal charges for sexual misconduct, authorities said.
Patrick Joseph McCabe, 75, was turned over to Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15506990096681762302011-06-08T15:05:00.000-07:002011-06-08T15:05:52.954-07:00Woman raped when 5 by stranger allowed to sue Seattle diocese because priest who enabled it was known pedophile
Seattle P-I June 6, 2011
Appeals court says woman can sue archdiocese over alleged sexual abuse
BY SCOTT SUNDE, SEATTLEPI.COM
A woman who was allegedly sexually abused as a 5-year-old on her way to a picnic arranged by the family priest can sue the Seattle archdiocese, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
The question before the appeals court was whether the lawsuit should go forward Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-90881339526395361462011-06-08T14:42:00.000-07:002011-06-08T14:45:42.032-07:00Only one US bishop has resigned for neglect during decade of clergy crimes, Kansas City bishop unlikely to join him
Kansas City Star - Missouri June 6, 2011
Despite uproar in diocese, KC bishop is unlikely to resign
By JUDY L. THOMAS and GLENN E. RICE | The Kansas City Star
As more details emerge about a priest charged with possessing child pornography, calls are escalating for the leader of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to step down.
But if history is any indication, it’s unlikely BishopPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76691621211764564622011-06-08T14:24:00.000-07:002011-12-21T12:14:58.170-08:00Northern Ireland survivors of clergy crimes say Vatican investigation inadequate, call for government inquiry
UTV - UK June 6, 2011
Victims hit out at church abuse inquiry
Members of an NI survivors group have expressed their disappointment after a party of senior Catholic churchmen from the Vatican completed a series of meetings across Ireland, in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.
The trip to Ireland, known as an "apostolic visitation, was announced by Pope Benedict last year, following the Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-39645087533696940762011-06-07T14:48:00.000-07:002011-06-07T14:49:01.938-07:00Government report says UK universities have become breeding grounds for recruiting extremists and terrorists
Daily Mail - UK June 6, 2011
40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus
By JAMES SLACK, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
England's universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report.
Officials have identified 40 English universities where ‘there may be particular Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62001568102871725072011-06-07T14:27:00.000-07:002011-06-07T14:29:11.211-07:00Campaign to ban circumcision in San Francisco spreads to San Diego with comic book considered anti-Semitic
Los Angeles Times - June 6, 2011
Campaign against circumcision evokes images of anti-Semitism
Anti-Defamation League criticizes "Foreskin Man" comic book, in which a superhero battles villains dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews. Author Matthew Hess says he is merely in favor of human rights.
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
The image of a bearded, black-hatted Jew with an evil grin Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51406276572656114822011-06-06T16:04:00.000-07:002011-06-06T16:04:30.712-07:00Nuns among worst perpetrators of horrific violence and sex abuse in Jesuit-run schools and missions on Indian reservations
The Missoulian - Montana June 5, 2011
Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission
By GWEN FLORIO of the Missoulian
Part One
ST. IGNATIUS - The small brick mission is a jewel, stunning in its setting at the foot of the Mission Mountains.
"I want to be here," says Garry "Bob" Salois, "the day an earthquake brings this place down."
Its 58 Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47758233523400595352011-06-06T14:59:00.000-07:002011-06-06T14:59:33.826-07:00Archbishop of Dublin earns respect from clergy crimes survivors but is shunned by Irish Bishops and the Pope
New York Times - June 4, 2011
An Archbishop Burns While Rome Fiddles
By MAUREEN DOWD
THE archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle.
He could not get through a story about “a really nasty man” — an Irish priest who sexually abused, physically tortured and emotionally threatened vulnerable boys — without pulling out his handkerchief and wiping his nose.
“He built a swimming pool in Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-68194282262370490162011-06-05T16:39:00.000-07:002011-06-05T22:11:39.638-07:00Catholic bishops to hold conference in Bangkok to address serious problem of pedophilia in Asia
Ecumenical News International - June 3, 2011
Pedophilia a serious problem in Asia, say Catholic bishops
Tokyo (ENInews)--The clergy office of the Federation of Roman Catholic Asian Bishops' Conferences has announced that it will hold a seminar on "The Impact of Pedophilia-Crisis on the Church in Asia." "[I]t is an urgent task before us, especially the leaders of the Church, to come Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17959960744298618412011-06-05T16:11:00.000-07:002011-06-05T16:11:34.567-07:00Two men ordered beaten by Tony Alamo enforcer awarded millions by jury, 5 women raped by Alamo received far less
Forbes - Associated Press June 3, 2011
2 ex-ministry members get $33 million each in suit
By JEANNIE NUSS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A jury awarded two former members of imprisoned evangelist Tony Alamo's ministry $33 million each on Thursday in response to charges that Alamo ordered them to be beaten.
But Seth Calagna, 21, and Spencer Ondirsek, 20, likely will not see payouts fromPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-21174977530115644912011-06-05T15:26:00.000-07:002011-06-06T14:10:59.977-07:00Religious fanatic Phillip Garrido and wife sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and torturing Jaycee Dugard
Los Angeles Times - June 3, 2011
Kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido are sentenced in sex-slave case
Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the Bay Area abductors of Jaycee Lee Dugard, whom they held in captivity for 18 years, get 431 years and 36 years to life in prison, respectively.
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Placerville, Calif. -- Twenty years after Jaycee Lee Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-81757752118147356602011-06-05T15:05:00.000-07:002011-06-05T15:06:24.778-07:00Lawsuit against Kansas City diocese alleges Bishop neglected to protect children from priest who made child pornography
Kansas City Star - Missouri June 2, 2011
Lawsuit: Diocese was warned about priest now facing child porn charges
By JUDY L. THOMAS and GLENN E. RICE | The Kansas City Star
Local Roman Catholic officials were warned in 2006 about a priest now accused of possessing child pornography yet took no action, a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday alleges.
The lawsuit, filed by the Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15607079778785312082011-06-05T11:25:00.000-07:002011-06-05T11:26:15.091-07:00Debut novel based on author's childhood in infamous apocalyptic cult Worldwide Church of God
Whitehorse Leader - Australia June 2, 2011
Former Box Hill student tells of life in a doomsday cult
BY ANNA PRYTZ
AUTHOR Benjamin Grant Mitchell is no longer ashamed to tell people he was born into a doomsday cult.
The writer and former Neighbours actor has self-published his debut novel, The Last Great Day - a fictionalised story about his family’s life in the infamous Worldwide Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-92149261723836066812011-06-04T14:27:00.000-07:002011-11-07T13:13:47.605-08:00Brother of home church pastor pleads guilty to physical and psychological child abuse for using corporal punishment
Wisconsin State Journal - June 1, 2011
Pastor’s brother pleads guilty to child abuse for corporal punishment of kids
by ED TRELEVEN
The brother of a Black Earth church pastor who advocated corporal punishment for children of church members pleaded guilty Wednesday to child abuse and causing mental harm to a child.
A plea agreement would have asked Dane County Circuit Judge Sarah O’BrienPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-25544625067120730972011-06-04T14:10:00.000-07:002011-06-04T14:11:03.867-07:00Belgian Bishops finally agree to compensate some clergy abuse survivors but advocates deride words without action
The Olympian - Olympia, Washington May 30, 2011
Belgian church to pay victims for abuse
By RAF CASERT and DON MELVIN | Associated Press
BRUSSELS – The Belgian church says it is willing to pay compensation to victims of sexual abuse by clergy to help those abused restore their dignity.
Belgium's bishops and religious leaders said in a statement Monday they are "deeply touched and Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-2086224449617827222011-06-04T13:28:00.000-07:002011-06-09T13:06:13.086-07:00Oregon Senate votes to give equal rights to children of religious parents and end faith healing as a legal defense to murder
The Register-Guard - Oregon May 24, 2011
Oregon Senate votes to end faith healing murder defense
Parents could be charged with first-degree manslaughter or murder if the law takes effect
BY TAMI ABDOLLAH | The Associated Press
SALEM — The Oregon Senate voted Monday to eliminate faith healing as a legal defense to murder after repeated deaths of children in a local church community.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-11967874423889913452011-06-04T12:32:00.000-07:002011-06-04T12:33:10.108-07:00Louisiana student fighting legislation allowing creationism in science classes challenges deluded congresswoman to debate
AlterNet - May 28, 2011
17-Year-Old Challenges Michele Bachmann on Law Allowing Creationism To Be Taught In Public School Science Classes
By Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet
Most high school students are concerned about their grades or getting into a good college, but 17-year-old Zack Kopplin is focusing on conducting a national campaign to challenge a congresswoman on her basic understanding Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-58758473958300292822011-06-04T10:48:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:21:51.045-07:00Mormon fundamentalist leader must testify in tax case and reveal details of polygamy and child brides in Bountiful
Vancouver Sun - Canada June 8, 2011
Polygamous leader's tax trial set for January
By Daphne Bramham | Vancouver Sun
Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore will testify under oath for the first time about his ‘lifestyle’ during his 12-day trial in federal Tax Court begins Jan. 23, 2012.
Blackmore had asked for an unprecedented ban on the publication and use of any witness testimony orPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-60572353090834544222011-06-03T14:13:00.000-07:002011-06-03T14:21:19.929-07:00Mormon fundamentalist asks court to prevent evidence in tax trial from being used in criminal cases related to polygamy
Vancouver Sun - June 3, 2011
Judge denies polygamist leader's unprecedented request for evidence shield
By Daphne Bramham | Vancouver Sun
Canada's highest profile polygamist has not only lost in an attempt to win a sweeping ban on the use of evidence and witness testimony in federal Tax Court, Winston Blackmore was ordered to pay $50,000 in costs.
Winston Blackmore is appealing the Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-78179533171272879752011-06-03T13:22:00.000-07:002011-06-03T13:22:55.638-07:00Islamic leaders in Azerbaijan provide religious ceremonies for illegal child bride marriages
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty May 30, 2011
In Azerbaijan, Brides Too Young To Marry Are Marrying Anyway
By Gulnor Novruzova, Daisy Sindelar
GANJA, Azerbaijan -- The hours before Aytan's wedding in this northern Azerbaijani town were a flurry of preparations.
She had already held a henna party with her friends the night before, sitting patiently as her hands were decorated with Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-22230039057039981972011-06-02T15:18:00.000-07:002011-06-02T15:18:53.512-07:00American Muslim Imams join clergy movement to accept evolution and ban creationist teaching in science classes
New Scientist - May 27, 2011
American Muslim clerics sign up for evolution
by Andy Coghlan
Almost 13,000 Christian clergy have done it. Nearly 500 Jewish rabbis have too. Now, Islamic teachers, or imams, have begun signing an open letter declaring that there is no clash between their religious faith and evolution.
The Imam Letter, launched this week in the US, is the latest challenge Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-36153630753753908352011-06-02T14:47:00.000-07:002011-06-02T14:47:35.350-07:00Australian Scientology leader arrested for coercing 11 year old girl to lie to police about sex assault, told it was her fault
The Australian - May 31, 2011
Scientologist charged for 'intimidating' alleged sex abuse victim
by Leo Shanahan
A SENIOR member of the Church of Scientology has been charged by police for intimidating a young girl who wanted to report sexual abuse allegations within the church.
Jan Eastgate, the head of the church's "International Commission on Human Rights" which attacks psychology, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-36973484848982094252011-06-02T14:17:00.000-07:002011-06-02T14:18:05.252-07:00Two years after Ryan report on systemic institutional abuse still no prosecutions Irish gov tells UN torture committee
Irish Times - May 30, 2011
No charges two years after Ryan report into child abuse
by JAMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs Correspondent
NO ONE has been prosecuted over the discoveries made by the Ryan report into child abuse in residential institutions, which was published two years ago, the Government has revealed.
In a written submission to the United Nations Committee on Torture, the Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-67558266246049264432011-06-01T16:03:00.000-07:002011-06-01T16:03:48.299-07:00Study on Bedouin polygamy finds it condemns women and children to lives of poverty, loneliness and depression
Shatil - Israel May 24, 2011
Polygamy causes suffering among women, study finds
Arab women in Israel who are in polygamous marriages live in a state of poverty, neglect and anxiety.
Polygamy disrupts women’s and children’s lives and condemns them to a life of poverty, loneliness and depression.
These are the conclusions of a qualitative study conducted recently among Bedouin women in Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-38216265762820633212011-06-01T15:04:00.000-07:002011-06-01T15:05:37.882-07:00New Zealand research suggests Maori child abuse only arose after missionaries introduced them to corporal punishment
Sunday Star Times - New Zealand May 29, 2011
Research debunks Maori abuse
by MARIKA HILL
A new parenting programme targeted at Maori tells them they are inherently loving and nurturing caregivers and family violence has arisen only because of European missionaries.
The Office of the Children's Commissioner is releasing its "Maori Parenting" report on Thursday in a bid to curb Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-90338357186377486062011-06-01T14:32:00.000-07:002011-06-01T14:33:32.916-07:00Teen made to apologize by Baptist pastor after sex assault led to pregnancy finally sees justice as rapist found guilty
Concord Monitor - New Hampshire May 28, 2011
Willis guilty of rape
Former church member convicted
By Maddie Hanna / Monitor staff
Nearly 14 years after he impregnated a teenage member of his Concord church, Ernest Willis was found guilty yesterday of forcibly raping her, despite his argument that the sex was consensual.
Willis, 52, of Gilford, was found guilty of three counts of Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-44379116138342392192011-06-01T12:56:00.000-07:002011-06-01T12:57:05.061-07:00Religious parents challenge Quebec law prohibiting teaching a specific faith in government funded childcares
Globe and Mail - Canada Ma 31, 2011
Quebec parents challenge no-religion rule for daycares
by INGRID PERITZ
MONTREAL—Quebec’s effort to oust God from daycare is facing a court challenge from a group of parents, who say the plan is forcing educators to do everything from rewrite nursery tunes to ban angels from Christmas trees.
A coalition of mostly Catholic and Jewish parents has Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-55739951711268362752011-06-01T12:32:00.000-07:002011-06-01T12:32:54.939-07:00Children of Christian immigrants to Canada think they face more religious discrimination than Muslim immigrant children
Postmedia News - May 27, 2011
Study shows split between children of Christian, Muslim immigrants
BY SHANNON PROUDFOOT, POSTMEDIA NEWS
Evangelical Christian children of immigrants feel they can't openly practise their religion and worry that Christianity is no longer a guiding force in Canadian society, while Muslims say they're free to follow their faith in this country — but face otherPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-74266847635621108592011-05-31T12:25:00.000-07:002011-05-31T12:26:25.758-07:00Baptist pastor who preaches gays deserve death makes secret settlement with 4 men suing him for sexual coercion
CNN - May 26, 2011
Bishop Eddie Long settles with accusers
By John Blake, CNN
Atlanta (CNN) – Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta-based megachurch leader, has reached an out-of-court settlement with four young men who accused him of sexual coercion, representatives for both sides said Thursday.
B.J. Bernstein, the attorney representing the men, said in a statement that the lawsuits against Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-14533744041683338152011-05-30T14:17:00.000-07:002011-05-30T14:18:19.590-07:00Italian priest in diocese of Cardinal assisting Pope on child protection reforms arrested on pedophilia and drug charges
TIME - May 19, 2011
Priest Sex-Abuse Case Hits Church of Pope's Adviser
By Alessandra Pieracci and Giacomo Galeazzi / La Stampa / Worldcrunch
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in the leading Italian daily La Stampa.
(GENOA) — The latest Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76234348379500207202011-05-30T12:44:00.000-07:002011-06-07T12:56:49.855-07:00A selection of critical responses to the John Jay report on the causes of Catholic clergy sex crimes
The Guardian - UK May 27, 2011
Child abuse tests how the church relates to the secular world
The Catholic church doesn't help itself by encouraging the idea that the laity and the priestly caste are separate and different
by Catherine Pepinster | Opinion
The question: Is the Catholic abuse crisis over?
The John Jay report into sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clerics, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-69493652913943674962011-05-28T12:47:00.000-07:002011-05-28T12:47:27.397-07:00Atheist student shunned by entire community including his parents for opposing prayer at graduation ceremony
AlterNet - May 25, 2011
High School Student Stands Up Against Prayer at Public School and Is Ostracized, Demeaned and Threatened
By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Whatever you think about atheists -- good, bad, mixed, indifferent -- this story should seriously trouble you.
Damon Fowler, an atheist student at Bastrop High School in Louisiana, was about to graduate. His public school was Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-31625993490924484822011-05-28T12:10:00.000-07:002011-05-28T12:10:23.584-07:00UK Muslim fundamentalists who severely beat religious education teacher given indeterminate sentences for public safety
Daily Mail - UK May 27, 2011
Battered and slashed by a Muslim gang just because he taught RE: Four jailed over their 'dangerous extreme religious beliefs'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
He was an ‘able, enthusiastic and popular’ religious education teacher who loved his job at an inner-city girls’ school.
But when a gang of Islamic extremists decided his lessons for Muslim girls were ‘Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-37748156979396780052011-05-28T11:45:00.000-07:002011-05-28T12:06:22.490-07:00Opponents of Quebec's religious education coarse fear that when religions are held up to rational scrutiny all are irrational
National Post - Canada May 26, 2011
Who picks which religions are sacred?
by John Moore | Commentary
This newspaper roundly condemned the province of Quebec’s religious studies curriculum in an editorial published May 24, “Moral relativism in the classroom.” [see below] The program, known as Ethics and Religious Culture, dares teach children that all religions are worthy of respect. Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-63552156418461501912011-05-28T11:15:00.000-07:002011-05-28T11:16:47.530-07:00Criminal mistreatment trial begins for faith healing parents of baby who may go blind from massive growth on eye
ABC News - May 26, 2011
Oregon Baby May Go Blind Because of Faith-Healing Parents
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
Oregon doctors have said that Alayna Wyland, an 18-month-old with a massive growth covering her left eye, may go blind because her parents refused to get her medical treatment on religious grounds.
Today jury selection continues in the trial of Timothy and Rebecca Wyland, who have Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17364667538170041762011-05-27T14:12:00.000-07:002011-05-27T14:13:47.892-07:00The Bible is not historical it is hysterical
Chain The Dogma May 26, 2011
The Bible is not historical it is hysterical
It causes hysteria in those who believe it is a literal account of history
by Perry Bulwer
Hysteria:
1. Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic2. A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability, etc., without an organic cause.
U.S. television network, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-64364075083011445292011-05-27T14:05:00.000-07:002011-05-27T14:05:53.728-07:00Australian church affiliated with US fundamentalists opens school to teach how to raise the dead and cure cancer
The Queensland Times - Australia May 21, 2011
Westlife 'Cancer cure' course
by Chris Garry
A SCHOOL of the Supernatural has opened in Springfield, claiming to teach Ipswich residents how to cure cancer through prayer.
Westlife Church, which counts Hillsong Church [see related article links below] amongst its evangelical family, is running the six-month course for the first time thisPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-38089197049221730412011-05-27T12:51:00.000-07:002011-05-27T12:52:16.532-07:00Missouri diocese ignored school principal's warning about predator priest who was arrested a year later for child pornography
National Catholic Reporter - May 26, 2011
Diocese warned of priest's aberrant behavior one year before arrest
School principal pleaded with diocesan officials to protect children
By Joshua J. McElwee
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The principal of a Catholic elementary school warned the Kansas City-St. Joseph chancery office that a local priest “fit the profile of a child predator” six months Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62600786617026467362011-05-26T12:48:00.000-07:002011-05-26T12:48:31.182-07:00Jesuit priest being considered for sainthood among order's leaders who protected "the Hannibal Lecter of the clerical world"
San Francisco Weekly - May 25, 2011
Let Him Prey: High-Ranking Jesuits Helped Keep Pedophile Priest Hidden
By Peter Jamison
The conservative Catholic family lived on a quiet cul-de-sac in Walnut Creek and took pains to observe the traditions of a church racked by social change. Their lives appeared driven by the famous motivational phrase of Saint Ignatius, "Ad majorem Dei gloriam" — Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-55069471597388879842011-05-26T11:24:00.000-07:002011-05-26T11:25:32.066-07:00NY Senator says powerful institutions fighting legislation that would offer justice to time-barred survivors of sex abuse
Times Union - Albany, NY May 25, 2011
N.Y.'s obligation to sex abuse victims
By Thomas K. Duane | Opinion
The beatification of Pope John Paul II in Vatican City has caused much fanfare around the globe, yet for many people it stirred painful memories of the clergy sex abuse scandal that occurred under his leadership.
Child sex abuse is not limited to the Catholic Church or to any Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47928204479434499462011-05-26T10:54:00.000-07:002011-05-26T10:55:40.954-07:00Hundreds of fundamentalist religious schools in US use public funds to indoctrinate students with anti-science and bigotry
AlterNet - May 23, 2011
The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars
By Rachel Tabachnick, AlterNet
Are your state’s tax dollars funding the teaching of religious supremacism and bigotry? What about creationism? The answer is undoubtedly yes, if you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding “school choice."
Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-89123403961514842222011-05-25T11:11:00.000-07:002011-05-28T12:17:06.323-07:00After religious conversion New Jersey mother beat and neglected children but authorities did not intervene until one died
The Star-Ledger New Jersey May 24, 2011
Reports of neglect made against mother of Irvington girl who died, but charges were not filed
By Star-Ledger Staff
Irvington -- In the DYFS case file, the first sign of trouble was on March 23, 2006.
That was the day Venette Ovilde was accused of neglecting her 3-year-old daughter, Christiana Glenn, the day the state Division of Youth Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52108583290766777812011-05-25T10:33:00.000-07:002011-05-25T10:33:40.890-07:00Two leaders of Chile cult infamous for torture and child sex arrested, another convicted of child sex abuse wanted by Interpol
BBC News - May 24, 2011
Colonia Dignidad cult suspects arrested in Chile
Police in Chile have arrested two suspected members of the secretive sect, Colonia Dignidad.
Rebeca Schaefer and Peter Schmidt are accused of kidnapping, manslaughter and membership of an illicit organisation.
They handed themselves in after a judge ordered their arrest on Monday along with five others.
The Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-72855800381167853172011-05-24T15:23:00.000-07:002011-10-02T09:37:56.804-07:00Israeli government task force recommends legislation to protect citizens from cults
Jerusalem Post - May 24, 2011
Welfare Ministry calls for legislation to fight cults
Authors of special report dealt with recent fallout from Goel Ratzon, who had 17 wives and 39 children.
By RUTH EGLASH
The government must create comprehensive legislation to combat the phenomenon of cults in Israel and provide a clearer definition of what constitutes cult activity, a report published Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-90109715966446937652011-05-24T14:52:00.000-07:002011-05-24T14:58:02.745-07:00Calgary Bishop rejects criticism of Vatican reforms, says child protection protocols will work in his diocese
Calgary Herald - Canada May 19, 2011
Editorial: Bypass the bishops
The only acceptable reform the Vatican could have offered regarding cases of child abuse by pedophile priests was a mandate to call the police. Instead, the disappointing new “reforms” simply leave the matter of reporting abuse in the hands of bishops — where it doesn’t belong.
Doctors, social workers, teachers and Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-20775283998878868342011-05-24T10:56:00.000-07:002011-05-24T10:57:40.384-07:00Mother pleads guilty to child cruelty and neglect for religious ritual abuse she believed would protect her daughter
The Record - New Jersey May 23, 2011
Mother pleads guilty over Paterson bloody religious ritual
BY JOHN PETRICK | THE RECORD STAFF WRITER
A mother who exposed her 7-year-old daughter to bloody religious initiation rituals in Paterson that included making her watch a chicken being sacrificed and feeding the girl its heart pleaded guilty in state court Monday to cruelty and Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15402464263246441412011-05-23T14:59:00.000-07:002011-05-23T14:59:24.015-07:00California mother slit throats of daughters to protect them from suffering after apocalypse on May 21, 2011
ABC Action News - May 22, 2011
California mother, Lyn Benedetto, tries to kill kids before the tribulation, deputies say
By: Kristal Roberts
PALMDALE, Calif. - A California woman who says she wanted to protect her children from the May 21 “tribulation” is in jail after slitting the throats of her daughters’ before cutting her own back in March, KTLA reports.
Lyn Benedetto, 47, told Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-76645472007087860362011-05-23T14:26:00.000-07:002011-05-23T14:26:50.820-07:00Death of two children from medical neglect highlights Idaho law that grants religious freedom to parents but not to children
KBOI TV - Idaho May 19, 2011
Dying for religion: 'They use fear - that's their main weapon'
By Mike Murad
CALDWELL, Idaho - Back in March, two very sick children from two different families in Canyon County died, likely from untreated pneumonia. We'll never know for sure, because they were never taken to the doctor.
For more than 99-percent of Idahoans, not getting medical care for Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27862731885295240272011-05-21T12:29:00.000-07:002011-05-21T12:30:07.386-07:00Initiative to ban male circumcision in San Francisco gets enough signatures for November ballot
San Francisco Chronicle - May 18, 2011
Circumcision ban to appear on San Francisco ballot
By ROBIN HINDERY, The Associated Press
San Francisco (AP) -- A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nation's first public vote on what has long been considered a private family matter.
But Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-24299750296577545752011-05-21T12:07:00.000-07:002011-05-21T12:13:07.317-07:00Boy indoctrinated and terrorized by abusive neo-Nazi dad shot him while he was sleeping to stop the violence
Los Angeles Times - May 19, 2011
Chilling portrait of neo-Nazi's home life emerges
The 10-year-old son of neo-Nazi leader Jeffrey R. Hall tells Riverside investigators of shooting his father and says Hall beat him and other family members regularly.
By Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times
A chilling family portrait emerged Wednesday in the case of a 10-year-old Riverside boy charged with Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-50880578408483001132011-05-21T11:48:00.000-07:002011-05-21T11:48:33.334-07:00Australian Anglican bishop denies evangelical group is using school chaplain program to convert children to Christianity
The Age - Australia May 13, 2011
We are not trying to convert kids: Bishop
by Jewel Topsfield, Mex Cooper
The Christian group responsible for religious education in Victorian government schools has denied it is trying to convert children to its faith.
Access Ministries chair Bishop Stephen Hale defended the role played by its religious educators and chaplains in schools, who Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-41652566747747847392011-05-20T14:40:00.000-07:002011-05-20T14:41:31.176-07:00Canadian Supreme Court hears case pitting religious freedom of parents against religious freedom of their children
Global News - Canada May 17, 2011
Supreme Court to hear case of Quebec. couple opposing school course
Brenda Branswell, Postmedia News
MONTREAL — The Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday will hear a case involving a Quebec couple who oppose the province's mandatory ethics and religious culture school course.
The couple maintains the province's refusal to exempt their two children Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-41763926659105300752011-05-20T12:54:00.000-07:002011-05-20T12:55:13.244-07:00US bishop's report on clergy abuse puts focus on sociological factors instead of church leaders who covered up crimes
Catholic News Service - May 18, 2011
Causes and context report released on clergy sexual abuse of minors
By David Gibson
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Because potential sexual abusers of minors cannot be pinpointed through "identifiable psychological characteristics," it is "very important" to prevent abuse by limiting the "situational factors" associated with it, according to a long-awaited Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-10880057467560870842011-05-19T13:19:00.000-07:002011-05-19T13:19:27.492-07:00Dublin Archbishop says Irish church not indoctrinating enough children, secular society advancing
IrishCentral - May 18, 2011
Dublin Archbishop - Catholics are not passing religion on to the next generation
Failure to pass on religion will have serious consequences
By ANTOINETTE KELLY, IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
The abuse crisis in the Irish church is not the only grave challenge facing it, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told the Catholic News Service this week. [see article Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-7340766795520847382011-05-19T11:09:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:09:15.044-07:00Mormon polygamist who pleaded no contest to child bride sex assault appeals conviction based on search warrant
Houston Chronicle - May 17, 2011
FLDS member 1st to appeal Texas conviction
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — A member of a polygamist church was set to challenge his sexual assault conviction Wednesday in the first appeal stemming from the 2008 raid on a Texas ranch that put more than 400 children in temporary state custody and led to criminal charges against sect Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51241001779060686852011-05-18T11:53:00.000-07:002011-05-18T11:58:03.725-07:00New email subscription feature added to Religion and Child Abuse News
For those who find it more convenient than RSS feeds, I have now added the ability to follow this blog by email. See the side-bar. One email will be sent each day that a post is published here. It will include the title that links back to this blog and the first paragraph or so of the post or posts.Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-3058071357441220672011-05-18T10:47:00.000-07:002011-05-18T10:47:16.579-07:00Philadelphia cardinal and bishops hid problem priests from clergy abuse review board, put church law before civil law
Fox News - May 13, 2011
Philly diocese's sex-abuse chair blasts cardinal
by Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA – The head of the Philadelphia Archdiocese's panel on priest sex-abuse is assailing the cardinal's response to the pedophilia crisis and pulling back the curtain on the panel's long-secret operations.
Cardinal Justin Rigali and his bishops "failed miserably at being open and Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-21592526811607596362011-05-17T15:28:00.000-07:002011-08-13T09:19:33.501-07:00Folie a deux: the insane prophets of the Seventh-day Adventists and The Family International
Chain the Dogma - May 14, 2011
Folie a deux: the insane prophets of the Seventh-day Adventists and The Family International
With their bizarre beliefs and deluded doctrines can The Family International ever become a mainstream success like the Seventh-day Adventist church?
by Perry Bulwer
The following excerpt comes from a blog article detailing some of the bizarre beliefs and behaviours Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-57245326734257251362011-05-17T15:13:00.000-07:002011-05-18T10:19:42.081-07:00New Vatican rules rely on Bishops to deal with clergy crimes before reporting to police, still don't protect children
The Independent - Ireland May 17, 2011
Victims furious over new Vatican abuse guidelines
By John Cooney Religion Correspondent
VICTIMS of paedophile priests reacted with fury yesterday after new guidelines from the Vatican insisted bishops, rather than gardai, should deal with child abuse cases in the first instance.
A document drawn up by Cardinal William Levada, the head of Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-57805435889983062732011-05-17T14:26:00.000-07:002011-05-17T14:26:33.078-07:00Catholic diocese bankruptcy settlement plan seeks to reinstate pensions for two priests who abused children
Associated Press - May 16, 2011
Judge holds hearing in Delaware diocese bankruptcy
Written by RANDALL CHASE, Associated Press
WILMINGTON — A federal bankruptcy judge indicated Monday that he is willing to approve documents outlining the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington’s proposed reorganization plan, including a $77 million settlement with nearly 150 alleged victims of priest sex abuse, Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27880763655310647122011-05-17T12:46:00.000-07:002011-05-17T13:57:44.015-07:00Oregon expected to approve law ending faith healing as a defense for parents who let children die without medical care
The Oregonian - May 15, 2011
Faith healing: Finally, Oregon looks and sees the emergency
By Susan Nielsen, The Oregonian
Finally, Oregon sees the headstones. The death reports. The photos of children disfigured or killed from lack of medical care.
This child suffered a disfigured face and compromised vision when her parents rejected medical care in the name of religion. [see article Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-61583718868142772992011-05-16T12:54:00.000-07:002011-05-16T12:54:57.402-07:00Ritual abuse of children accused of witchcraft in UK mostly unreported, authorities only alerted in extreme cases
The Daily Mail - UK May 14, 2011
Hundreds of children being accused of witchcraft 'as belief in demonic possession spreads across the UK'
By ROB COOPER
Hundreds of witchcraft abuse cases are going unreported across the country each year, it has been revealed.
Officials believe child protection officers are only tipped off in the most extreme cases when a child's life has been put in Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-28644316985248124912011-05-15T12:58:00.000-07:002011-05-15T12:59:06.027-07:00Australian evangelical group aims to convert children through government funded school religious programs
The Age - Australia May 13, 2011
School religion classes probed
by Jewel Topsfield
THE Christian group that provides religious education and chaplains in Victorian government schools will be investigated after its chief executive told a conference: ''We need to go and make disciples.''
The remarks appear to breach guidelines governing school religious programs, which ban trying to Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-3729892054704423752011-05-15T12:14:00.000-07:002011-05-15T12:17:39.161-07:00Celebrity asks Illinois legislators to allow Scientology's religious propaganda into public schools
Washington Post - May 11, 2011
Ill. education committee says resolution’s Scientology link inappropriate for public schools
By Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Not even the voice of Bart Simpson could convince Illinois lawmakers to approve a resolution aimed at teaching character in public schools because of its link to the Church of Scientology.
The resolution endorsed a program Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-15654183520814099542011-05-15T10:55:00.000-07:002011-05-15T10:56:15.106-07:00One of the most common human rights abuses is the grotesque sexual torture of girls for religion and tradition
New York Times - May 11, 2011
A Rite of Torture for Girls
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | OP-ED COLUMNIST
HARGEISA, Somaliland
People usually torture those whom they fear or despise. But one of the most common forms of torture in the modern world, incomparably more widespread than waterboarding or electric shocks, is inflicted by mothers on daughters they love.
It’s female genital Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-71329450902105332852011-05-14T15:48:00.000-07:002011-05-14T15:49:24.982-07:00Twelve Tribes continue to reject cult label while physically, intellectually and spiritually abusing their children
Boulder Weekly - Colorado May 12, 2011
Father, son & holy toast
By Jefferson Dodge
Rumors have been circulating that The Yellow Deli, which opened about a month ago near the corner of Ninth and Pearl streets in Boulder, is operated by a religious “cult.”
The establishment that took the place of Heidi’s Deli is part of a chain of restaurants that has been both lauded for its Reuben Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-81002454925625317522011-05-14T14:46:00.000-07:002011-05-17T14:31:55.903-07:00Irish bishops withhold over 200 abuse cases from its own child protection board and impede national audit of clergy crimes
The Independent - Ireland May 12, 2011
Fury as church withholds abuse complaints from own watchdog
By John Cooney, Indpendent Religion Correspondent
THE Government is under intense pressure from outraged victims of clerical child abuse to order an immediate national probe of all 26 Catholic Church dioceses as well as religious and missionary orders.
The renewed calls for the State Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-49883384118973027352011-05-14T10:06:00.000-07:002011-05-14T10:06:59.521-07:00Boy indoctrinated with violent racist ideology charged with murdering his father who led neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement
The Guardian - UK May 11, 2011
Neo-Nazi's 10-year-old son charged with his murder
Jeff Hall, who led National Socialist Movement in south-west US, may have involved son in supremacist activities
by Ed Pilkington in New York
A 10-year-old boy charged with murdering his father at their home in California was being exposed to his father's extreme neo-Nazi ideology of racism and violence Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-91826094667461017772011-05-12T10:53:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:21:55.096-07:00American evangelists export biblical literalism to Africa triggering murderous homophobia and child sacrifice
AlterNet - May 10, 2011
How American Evangelism Triggered the Murder of Gays Overseas
By Valerie Tarico, Away Point
Christian extremists in Uganda’s parliament are hoping that hunger and high gas prices will provide the cover they need to finally subject gay men to punishment of biblical proportions. They have introduced a bill, up for vote on May 11, that seeks life imprisonment for gayPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-25379297626732195972011-05-12T10:23:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:21:53.908-07:00Children indoctrinated in Orthodox community to fear anything not kosher require special therapy to overcome anxieties
The Independent - UK May 11, 2011
An unorthodox way to talk it over
How do you persuade an ultra-insular community to speak out? Jessica Elgot, this year's winner of the Wyn Harness prize, reports
In the world beyond the kosher bakeries and Yiddish supermarkets of Stamford Hill in Hackney, London, a blue hat isn't a great cause for concern. But in this strictly Orthodox Jewish Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-8441049212741189142011-05-11T16:30:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:21:54.961-07:00Apostolic churches in Zimbabwe lift ban on vaccinations but too late for hundreds of children who died unprotected
New Zimbabwe - May 10, 2011
Apostolic sects agree to immunisation
by New Zimbabwe Staff Reporter
THE various Apostolic Faith sects and Zionist churches have lifted a ban on their members from having their children immunised against Zimbabwe’s six main killer diseases, officials confirmed.
The Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ), an ecumenical board of Apostolic and Zionist Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-80342836181067215152011-05-09T17:06:00.000-07:002011-05-09T17:06:31.705-07:00Malta priest condemns media for exposing clergy abuse but says nothing about perpetrators of child sex crimes
The Malta Independent - May 9, 2011
Yes to divorce, no to child abuse
by Stephen Calleja
It was one of those school activities I hate attending, but feel duty-bound to go to. I was about to doze off but I perked up when I heard the priest delivering the talk mention the media. What others think about my profession always interests me. Soon enough, however, my blood was boiling.
This Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-23693681329731389442011-05-08T11:25:00.000-07:002011-05-08T11:26:00.177-07:00Catholic theologian says secrecy, misogyny and resistance to reform in wake of clergy sex scandals will doom the church
The Christian Century - May 7, 2011
Theologian Kung says only radical reforms can save the Catholic church
by Anli Serfontein
Munich, May 6 (ENInews)--The Catholic Church is seriously, possibly terminally ill and only an honest diagnosis and radical therapy will cure it, one of the sharpest critics of Pope Benedict XVI, the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Kung, has written.
Speaking at aPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-19215050376407212192011-05-07T11:01:00.000-07:002011-05-07T11:01:26.287-07:00New Canadian TV series Sex Scandals in Religion examines the crimes committed by god experts of various faiths
Montreal Gazette - Canada May 7, 2011
Series finds sex abuse hiding in many faiths
By BILL BROWNSTEIN, The Gazette
Last year, I was extolling the comic merits of the British TV series Doc Martin to an equally jaded crony. When said cynic asked where he could catch this show, I, somewhat meekly, told him it was on Vision TV.
He howled. And howled. Like many others - like myself Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-48040837776196396782011-05-07T10:21:00.000-07:002011-05-07T10:21:48.671-07:00Ottawa priest who served time for sex abuse of girls still saying mass, parish priest and congregation unaware of his past
CTV News - Canada May 5, 2011
Ottawa priest served jail time for abusing young girls
There's shock among parishioners at a Catholic Church in Ottawa Thursday after learning an elderly priest has a prior conviction of sexually abusing young girls.
Father Jack McCann spent 10 months in jail for offences he committed in B.C. in the 1970s. He now lives in Ottawa where he's presided over Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-37047772956009558932011-05-06T11:26:00.000-07:002011-05-06T11:27:06.300-07:00Judge who convicted man for child sex blames his childhood in The Family International for skewed view on sexuality
Herald Sun - Australia May 6, 2011
Man's child sex addiction blamed on religious cult upbringing
Tony Keim | From:The Courier-Mail
A FORMER member of religious sect that condoned pubescent child sex counted eight schoolgirls among his more than 100 sexual conquests who he met via an adult internet chat room, a court has been told.
The Brisbane District Court was told Nathaniel Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27239047998994003722011-05-06T11:06:00.000-07:002011-05-06T11:07:06.334-07:00More charges filed against rapping Baptist youth pastor in jail for raping girl in his flock
SNAP Press Release - May 6, 2011
Charges filed against "pastor" - clergy sex abuse victims respond
For immediate release, Friday, May 6
Statement by Barbara Dorris, SNAP Outreach Director 314-862-7688 SNAPdorris@gmail.com
We are grateful that prosecutors have filed charges against Aaron Witcher (aka Pastor Soulja) who is already in prison for sex with an underage girl. [see article Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0Vancouver, BC, Canada49.261226 -123.113926849.2016675 -123.2147628 49.3207845 -123.0130908tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-78167106257967530122011-05-05T15:02:00.000-07:002011-05-05T15:02:34.586-07:00Canadian Bishop who oversaw historic abuse settlement pleads guilty to importing child porn, asks judge to jail him
Canada.com - May 4, 2011
Former Catholic bishop requests jail in child porn case
BY ANDREW SEYMOUR, POSTMEDIA NEWS
OTTAWA — In an extraordinary move, a former Catholic bishop who admitted to importing graphic images and videos of child sexual abuse asked a judge to jail him Wednesday, voluntarily beginning a sentence that will last at least a year.
Raymond Lahey's detention followed Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-29725893004025176672011-05-05T14:22:00.000-07:002011-05-05T14:22:58.220-07:008 years after Malta priests charged for child sex crimes survivors still waiting for justice from state court and Church tribunal
Times of Malta - May 4, 2011
Priests' child abuse case nears end
A member of the Church tribunal hearing the case against three priests accused of sexually abusing boys in their care will meet the victims to formalise evidence they gave to the Vatican’s chief sex abuse prosecutor last summer, The Times has learnt.
Fr Brendan Gatt will be meeting the victims in the coming days to Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-62538980480100254372011-05-04T12:39:00.000-07:002011-05-04T12:39:45.345-07:00Houston teacher suspended for making racial insult connecting American born Muslim student to Osama bin Laden
KTRK-TV/DT ABC13 - Houston, Texas May 3, 2011
Teacher disciplined over comment to Muslim student
by Cynthia Cisneros
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The death of Osama bin Laden is related to an investigation of a teacher at Clear Brook High School. The teacher is accused of making a racially insensitive comment to a student in front of the entire class.
A Friendswood mom says she was offended by Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-85253999461104461782011-05-03T14:22:00.000-07:002011-05-03T14:23:50.425-07:00Pope Benedict fires Australian bishop who suggested ordaining women and married men, bishops who protect pedophiles can stay
MSNBC - May 2, 2011
Pope fires bishop who backed ordaining women
Australian parish leader defends his actions, accuses pope of becoming more authoritarian
Associated Press
SYDNEY — An Australian bishop who was fired by Pope Benedict XVI after suggesting the church consider ordaining women and married men defended his actions on Tuesday and accused the Vatican of becoming increasingly Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-73531688744880256682011-05-03T12:57:00.000-07:002011-05-03T12:57:57.223-07:00Arkansas teacher told to stop praying with students and posting or passing out Bible verses
Times Record - Arkansas & Oklahoma April 29, 2011
School Ends Teacher’s Prayer Practice
By Mary L. Crider | TIMES RECORD
A Van Buren teacher prayed over her class, handed out individualized pocket Bible verses and posted Bible verses on her classroom wall, according to some parents.
On April 21, a parent said, her son told her that before the students' annual Benchmark exams the Perry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-26241215817046235482011-05-03T12:35:00.000-07:002011-05-03T12:36:27.975-07:00Creationists continue attempts to undermine teaching of evolution in Texas and Louisiana with anti-science dogma
Americans United for Separation of Church and State - April 29, 2011
Biological Warfare: Battles Under Way In Texas And Louisiana Over Science Education
BY ROB BOSTON
It looks like Texas is due for another round of fussing and fighting over creationism in public schools.
The state Board of Education continues to be dominated by Religious Right zealots who refuse to accept modern sciencePerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-19533664506320962952011-05-03T12:02:00.000-07:002011-05-03T12:02:57.759-07:00Research shows most patients in Dutch epidemics belong to Protestant fundamentalist groups who refuse to vaccinate children
Epiphenom - April 29, 2011
Religious groups reduce vaccination rates
By Tom Rees
The Netherlands has a healthcare problem. Despite a high overall vaccination coverage, in the last two decades there have been epidemics of poliomyelitis (1992-1993), measles (1999-2000), rubella (2004-2005) and mumps (2007-2008).
These epidemics were all largely confined to an area stretching from thePerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-49252504403912136522011-05-03T10:54:00.000-07:002011-05-03T10:54:04.144-07:00Faith healing parents convicted of homicide for daughter's death from untreated diabetes lose appeal for new trials
Wausau Daily Herald - Wisconsin April 28, 2011
Judge Vincent Howard denies appeals of Dale and Leilani Neumann in prayer death convictions
The Weston parents convicted of second degree reckless homicide in the death of their daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann have lost their appeal for new trials. Marathon County Judge Vincent Howard ruled this afternoon to deny the post-convictionPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27973828637447000382011-05-02T12:35:00.000-07:002011-05-02T12:36:04.493-07:00California children's minister with history of sex crimes to stand trial for molesting his foster children and neighbor's girls
KFSN-TV Fresno, California April 29, 2011
Madera County minister accused of molestation in court
by Sara Sandrik
MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Madera County children's minister who has been a foster parent for more than 15 years will go to trial on child molestation charges.
Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom for Friday's hearing. But behind these doors, twoPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com2