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US Catholic bishops are now coming after your online porn.

Catholic bishops are calling for the US federal government to crack down on porn, claiming it causes “pain” and “ongoing harm”. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter US attorney general William Barr on April 30, calling on…

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Franklin Graham now says most New Yorkers share his anti-LGBT views.

As Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse organization dismantled its field hospital for COVID-19 patients in New York City, Graham defended his anti-LGBTQ views by contending — wrongly — that most New Yorkers share them. Those views have led to much criticism of…

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That time some Christians showed up at Pride to apologize.

When Jamilah Salvador went to the local pride parade in Marikina City, Philippines, she saw something completely unexpected. She tweeted photos of a group of Pentecostal Christians marching behind a banner that simply said: “I’m sorry.”…

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Cardinal knew for years about sexual abuse and did nothing.

Nearly three years after the release of a damning national report into child sexual abuse, the Australian government has published dozens of previously redacted pages of text relating to Cardinal George Pell.Three unredacted reports published Thursday reveal for the first…

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Trans people are being forced into torturous exorcisms.

Trans people in Indonesia are being forced into torturous exorcisms to “cure” them of their “gender disease”. Although the south east Asian country is a Muslim-majority nation, Indonesians are reportedly employing traditional tribal animist and shamanist beliefs to drive LGBT+…