A couple whose 11-year-old daughter died of diabetes because they chose of treat her with prayer instead of securing proper medical help has lost a final appeal of their separate convictions.
At a January hearing a judge will decide wether the couple will have to serve jail time as stipulated in their unusual sentence.
You won’t believe what most nativity scenes in the Spanish district of Catalonia include — and this year around there’s a controversy to boot.
Some children have been confronted with ads for Scientology displayed on a games website.
And the controversial televangelist who, together with his wife, was the face of the world’s largest ‘Christian’ television network, has died.
The TLC series ‘Breaking the Faith’ purports to show life inside and outside the destructive, polygamous FLDS cult. But are the stories real?
In December TCL features a second series that focuses on the FLDS, featuring a woman who helps people escape the cult.
Also: Former FLDS plural wife Rebecca Musser wore red when she testified against cult leader Warren Jeffs. Here’s why.
A french bishop has acknowledged the issue of spiritual abuse in religious communities. Also: the Scientology cult has removed an illegal sign from a temporary building, but makes no promises.
Self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Brown, who notoriously claimed Amanda Berry was dead, has died.
Plus: Saudi Arabia’s religious police demonstrate the effects of religious insanity.
Why would a Zimbabwean prophet claim he can raise the dead? We provide some context to the story.
13-year-old Hana Williams was beaten and starved to death by deeply religious parents. It could happens to others as well.
Also: fake Christian weddings are popular in Japan. If you pollute the environment, forget about communion.
Plus: Christians and tattoos
Why are rich pastors not speaking up for the Obamacare ‘coverage gap’ poor in America’s Bible Belt states?
Also: Billy Graham’s final message to America (and the world). Catholic bloggers won’t be able to use the .catholic domain. name. And Christian rocker Marc Martel sounds just like Freddie Mercury.
Plus: a pastor goes on trial for officiating his gay son’s wedding.
L. Ron Hubbard foresaw a day when followers of his fantasy religion would create a new world. The cult is almost ready to take on that challenge.
Propeties belonging to imprisoned cult leader Tony Alamo will be sold in order to pay two of his former victims. And like Alamo, cult leader Warren Jeffs still controls his followers from behind bars.
Also: The Child-Friendly Faith Project is holding a conference on child abuse occurring in faith communities and cultural groups.
Plus: Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her involvement in a cult.
The City of Clearwater, which at one point was target for a take-over plot by the Church of Scientology, has told the cult to remove a massive sign from a temporary building.
Has the NSA violated the former pope’s privacy? Also, from our ‘You Call That Religion Reporting?’ file: the story about an ultra-conservative rabbi’s comments regarding soy products was not true.
Plus: a prominent evangelical leader says evangelicals should change tactics when it comes to their involvement in politics and the culture wars.
In today’s religion news briefs: Russians have arrested a top breast feeding expert, excusing her of running a ‘cult.’
The Church of Sweden elects its first female bishop. And the head of the BBC’s religion department wonders whether you get the religious references in Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
Also: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine (and download a free book on the subject)
Religious freedom is good and well, but who wants to support artists who donate to the Scientology cult?
Speaking of which: Actress Leah Remini, who recently left Scientology, will give a deposition in a Scientology harassment lawsuit.
Plus: information about the International Cultic Studies Association, and… don’t shoot at Jehovah’s Witnesses