Tag: Children

A watchdog group has identified about a dozen clergy who have been accused, arrested or sued for abuse and returned to ministry. The process for investigating priests is secret, and often the diocese says nothing about the charges against a priest when it returns him to ministry.

It is not quite plastered on the bus but the outworking of last year’s Atheist Bus campaign has made its way onto a wall in Belfast.

The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently in Nigeria, partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria’s 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire

What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination? Danny Postel investigates.

The Catholic orders responsible for abusing Ireland’s poorest children say they’re struggling to produce money to help their victims. Yet investigations into their net worth paint a very different picture — that of nuns and brothers with billions’ worth of carefully sheltered assets worldwide.

Malaysia bans the religious conversion of children without both parents’ consent, in a major step to ease ethnic tensions. /// religious conversion

The Quiverfull movement: creating children to be soldiers of Christ