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"Victims of some of the worst sexual abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church are being denied access to a vast archive of clergy crime, as the church continues to ensure the offending is kept secret, despite the files being handed over to the royal commission."
"The nearly 2000 files – which include evidence about at least 63 offenders – have been amassed by the church's insurers, but the church appears intent on paying millions of dollars in victims compensation settlements to ensure the documents are not made public."
http://www.smh.com.au/national/secret-archive-of-paedophile-crime-kept-b...
Mississippi heresiarch Phil Bryant passes bill that allows religious organizations to discriminate against LGBT's on the grounds of 'God Hates Fags'.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/05/mississipp...
"Atheist Law Student Hacked To Death In Bangladesh"
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/07/473347159/atheist-law-...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35983979
If they have to kill people for not believing in their god, doesn't that just show how they actually think their god is too weak and frail to endure the slightest bit of scrutiny?
"Texas Youth Pastor Beaten By Witnesses Catching Him Molesting A Kindergartner"
http://injustice.in/crimes-against-children/2016/04/07/texas-youth-pasto...
"Women Suffer Under ISIS"
"The longer they are held by ISIS, the more horrific life becomes for Yezidi women, bought and sold, brutally raped, their children torn from them. Meanwhile, ISIS’s restrictions on Sunni women cut them off from normal life and services almost entirely."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/05/iraq-women-suffer-under-isis
"Morocco: Victims of Attack Jailed for “Homosexual Acts”"
"two men cowering naked, one of them covered in blood, being beaten, kicked, and dragged outside, while anti-gay slurs and “Call the authorities!” – apparently uttered by the assailants – can be heard on the soundtrack."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/08/morocco-victims-attack-jailed-homose...
"Child Abusers Find Refuge in Israel"
"Israel’s sex offender registry is accessible only to security officials, rather than to the general public. In religious communities like Bnei Brak, many residents lack trust in secular authorities and also believe that calling out sex offenders is a form of lashon hara, or slander, which is forbidden by Jewish law because it can hurt the offenders’ family and prospects for arranging a successful marriage in the future."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/08/child-abusers-find-refu...
"JAILED: Monk who abused boys with ELECTRIC SHOCKS during 'a regime of fear'
A CATHOLIC monk who carried out a catalogue of brutality and degrading abuse against pupils at a residential school during "a regime of fear" has been jailed for seven years."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/659370/Monk-Michael-Murphy-jailed-abuse...
Via google translate...
"Since the revelation of the case of a former scout leader accused of pedophilia and continue in his priestly functions, other business plunge a little over the diocese of Lyon, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and in turmoil. Decryption."
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F...
"Pedophilia in Lyon: the confused explanations of Cardinal Barbarin"
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=t...
"Father Virgilio Elizondo, 80, shot himself in the head after he was accused of molesting a young boy"
"The final insult - 'child molester' Catholic priest who committed suicide to evade justice said it was a 'gift' to his victims – after a life 'serving others'"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3530285/The-final-insult-child-m...
"Rome, April 8 - Prosecutors on Friday requested a 14-year prison sentence against a priest they say repeatedly abused a little boy who had been entrusted to him by his parents.
Vito Beatrice, 71, is a priest at Sant'Alessio Church in Rome's tony Aventino neighborhood."
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2016/04/08/prosecutors-ask-...
"Fugitive Israeli rabbi arrested in Johannesburg
Eliezer Berland is wanted for sex crimes & has been on the run from Israeli authorities for 4 years."
http://ewn.co.za/2016/04/08/Fugitive-Isreali-rabbi-arrested-in-Johannesburg
UK - "Illegal Jewish schools: Government knew about council faith school cover-up as thousands of pupils 'disappeared'"
"An investigation by The Independent also found that more than 1,000 children are missing from schools in London and are at risk of abuse in illegal faith schools. The schools are ultra-Orthodox Jewish faith schools at which boys are placed from the age of 13, and where they receive no education beyond studying religious texts."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/illegal-jewish-schools-de...
"A former pastor of a non-denominational Christian church in Buena Park is expected to receive a life sentence Friday for molesting an 8-year-old female friend of his daughter’s and possessing videos and images of child pornography on his computers."
http://mynewsla.com/crime/2016/04/07/buena-park-ex-pastor-faces-life-sen...
Australia - "John Joseph Farrell, 62, is awaiting sentencing for 62 offences involving 12 victims."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-08/catholic-priest-sexual-abuse-victi...
"A disabled girl repeatedly raped by a pedophile priest thought the abuse was "OK with God".
The girl was one of 12 children groomed and molested by former Catholic priest John Joseph Farrell, 62, in a decade-long period of abuse at Moree and Tamworth, in NSW's north, during the 1980s."
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/breaking-news/expriest-destroyed-abuse...
"Atlanta’s Catholic leader hasn’t posted names of pedophile priests"
"after a year of pressure from the nationwide Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, Archbishop Wilton Gregory has yet to act. Nor has he explained why he won’t post the names of any priests, deacons, brothers or nuns accused of molesting children"
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/crime-law/atlantas-catholic-leader-hasnt-...
UK - "Paul Kelly, aged 63, is one of five men accused of a series of assaults and indecent assaults between 1970 and 1983 at St Ninian's School in Falkland, Fife.
The Roman Catholic school was run by the Irish Christian Brothers organisation until it closed in the 1980s."
http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/Devon-school-teacher-trial-sexual-...
"There are 121 charges on the indictment involving abuse, and prosecutors say there were 35 victims."
"Many ex-pupils claim they were assaulted with implements, including shoes, a belt and a ruler."
"John Farrell, 73, Paul Kelly, 63, Edward Egan, 78, Michael Murphy, 76, and William Don, 61, deny all the charges they face."
"Most of the allegations are against Kelly and Farrell. Kelly is alleged to have left a boy of 13 rolled up in a rug overnight, and to have stripped another pupil and hung him upside-down from a bridge."
UK - "The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp. of St. John’s, no longer represented by its longtime local lawyer, is scheduled to head to court April 4 to fight four test cases — representing about 60 claimants of physical and sexual abuse by some members of the Roman Catholic lay order, the Christian Brothers, dating back to the late 1940s, ’50s and mid-1960s."
"By Blom’s estimation from the witness’s declarations as part of the trial process, he had suffered more than 4,000 beatings during his four years at the orphanage.
Sounds like a lot, said Blom.
“There was quite a bit,” replied the witness."
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-04-06/article-4489556/Brother...
Anyone thinking "this madness has to be shut down, right now" yet?
"Juan Cardenas began looking for a day care for his 1-year-old son, Carlos, he relied on word-of-mouth. A friend recommended Praise Fellowship Assembly of God in Indianapolis.
Cardenas never had planned to put his baby in day care, so he didn’t know the questions to ask. He just knew Praise Fellowship was a church. He is devoutly Catholic, so he trusted that.
“I thought they were going to do a good job because they served God,” he said."
"Cardenas sat at his desk at a medical lab, his cellphone rang. It was his girlfriend, Maricela Serna, with disturbing news: The church had called. Their son was missing."
"At most day cares across the country, workers are required to always be within sight and sound of the children. But Praise Fellowship wasn’t like most day cares. Because it’s attached to a church, it is absolved from most of the rules designed to keep kids safe."
"Near the day care, he spotted an ambulance heading the other way. He wanted to follow it, but didn’t. “Carlos is in the day care, not the ambulance,” he thought. He had to be. "
"Swarms of police officers surrounded the washed-out brick church as Cardenas pushed his way inside. One woman broke through the fray and approached him.
“Carlos died,” she said."
https://www.revealnews.org/article/religious-day-cares-operate-with-litt...
"Sixteen states have carved out exceptions for some faith-based day cares. Freedoms vary from state to state, ranging from the minor, such as waiving a registration fee, to the extreme, where religious day cares aren’t licensed and follow virtually no rules.
Six states are particularly hands off: Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia offer religious day cares the most leeway."
"Religious day cares get freedoms that are unthinkable at their secular counterparts. At some, workers don’t have to know CPR or have any child safety training. At others, they can whip and spank children. Still others, like Carlos’ day care, do not require workers to be able to see and hear the children they are paid to watch."
"No one knows why he made his way to the baptismal font..."
"In 2 feet of holy water, which promises eternal life, Carlos drowned."
"Whipped, hit and locked in closets: Life inside some religious day cares"
"You whip them to correct them, to help them." – The Rev. Donnie Oates
https://www.revealnews.org/article/whipped-hit-and-locked-in-closets-lif...
"Deborah Stokes, seen in a mug shot, has operated a string of church day cares across southern Alabama even though she has been arrested multiple times, for crimes ranging from theft to child endangerment."
"Deborah Stokes has operated at least a dozen Christian day cares across southern Alabama. Every time she is chased out of town by furious parents, workers or landlords, she reopens in the next town over. In the process, she has collected at least $86,000 in taxpayer funding"
https://www.revealnews.org/article/she-runs-disastrous-day-cares-but-her...
"Interpol seeks former pederast priest of San Luis Potosi
Eduardo Cordova Baptist is accused of abusing dozens of children during the 22 years he was in the Archdiocese"
(Via google translate)
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F...
Victims are urged to report it.
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"A former Roman Catholic seminary student from Ohio pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to adopt or "own" young children in Tijuana in order to sexually assault them, prosecutors said."
"Joel Alexander Wright, 23, admitted to traveling to San Diego in January, when he was arrested at San Diego International Airport with a duffel bag stocked with baby clothes, bottles, toys, candy and lubricant, according to his plea agreement... He thought he would be meeting up with three children, all under the age of 3, at a Tijuana hotel."
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-former-seminary-student--rap...
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Seminary-Student-Pleads-Guilty-to-...
Laclede/Moniteau County - "Former Lake area pastor accused of statutory rape heads to trial next week"
"He is facing multiple charges filed by the Missouri State Highway Patrol for alleged incidents that took place in Moniteau County in 1998,1999, 2000 and 2005. The case was transferred to Laclede on a change of venue."
"Charges include one county of forcible rape, five counts of second degree statutory rape, one count of sexual abuse, one count of forcible sodomy and one count of second degree statutory sodomy. The charges stem from allegations by two different women who were underage at the time in question."
"Three additional lawsuits were filed Wednesday accusing Catholic priests in the Diocese of Honolulu of sexual abuse."
"Over 40 lawsuits have been brought against the Diocese of Honolulu in recent years."
"The lawsuits are being filed before an April 24 deadline for victims to bring charges against abusers even if the statute of limitations expired. Hawaii created the window in 2012, and extended it for two more years in 2014 after dozens of child sex abuse lawsuits were filed in the state."
http://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/sex-abuse-lawsuits-filed-against-cat...
WTF??
"There has been a spike in Canberra churchgoers seeking child protection training following royal commission revelations of past Australian child sex abuse."
Step 1: AVOID giving control of the children to the church and religious organizations?!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-14/canberra-parishioners-seek-trainin...
Peru - "The superior general of the Sodality of Christian Life (SVC) , Alessandro Moroni, appeared before the prosecution to testify about allegations of sexual abuse in the organization, especially the accusations against its founder, Luis Fernando Figari."
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&...
I'm trying to sum up what I got from this clip. I there is anyone who can speak Arabic, feel free to correct me any part of this:
Allah honored wives by instating the punishment of beatings. There is a beating etiquette:
Even when he beats her, he must not curse her.
He must not beat her face and make her ugly.
He must not not break her bones, damage her teeth or poke her in the eye.
He beats her to discipline her, she need to be disciplined.
The honoring of the wife in Islam is also evident in the fact that the punishment of beating is permissible in one case only: When she refuses to sleep with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Tw7WhH_aQ
Edit:
Even if it is "only allowed" to beat her to force her to have sex. If he would beat her into submission, how is that not rape?
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