Michael Oluronbi, 60, was convicted of 15 counts of rape, 7 counts of indecent assault and 2 counts of sexual assault as his sentencing hearing heard there were at least 88 separate occasions on which he raped his victims. His wife, Juliana, was convicted of 3 counts of aiding and abetting rape after helping arrange some of the terminations. A ‘feared’ evangelical pastor who used his trusted... 

It’s not exactly breaking news that immigrants, particularly third world immigrants, are vastly overrepresented in Western Europe crime statistics. What hasn’t been seen, up until lately is that prisons that are filled primarily with Muslim inmates. The Danish Prison Federation has now raised the alarm about such conditions plaguing Danish prisons. In the last survey on the populations of Danish... 

An Indian minister known for fiery and inflammatory rhetoric has declared that India’s Muslims should have been shipped to Pakistan at the time of partition in 1947, arguing the move would have saved the country a lot of trouble. The controversial comment came from Giriraj Singh, minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries, during a recent address in Purnia. He suggested that widespread unrest... 

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic signed a bitterly contentious legislation on religion and faith into law that will allow Montenegro state to confiscate Orthodox churches. Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro for most of the nearly three decades has long sought to curb the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Full transcript below. Transcript: The troubled times has come to Montenegro. This... 

US president Trump on Friday became the first sitting president to appear in person to address the annual March for Life in its 47-year history. “We know that every human soul is divine, and every human life, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of Almighty God,” Trump told the thousands gathered on the National Mall. “Together we will defend this truth across our magnificent... 

“The Roman Empire did not fall in the fifth century. The Roman Empire fell in the fifteenth century AD. Everyone knew this at the time, but the rewriting of history for political purposes has obscured it for the eyes of the contemporary world.” Livy, the Roman historian that lived around the time of Christ, wrote, ‘I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer... 

Many people ask us why the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7th. These same people may also have wondered why the Soviet Union celebrated the “October Revolution” on November 7th, and the answers to both questions are related. At the time the communists seized power in Russia, Russia still used the Julian calendar, so named for Julius Caesar, who established it as the official... 

Just a few days ago, the world celebrated the beginning of a New Year, and already there are serious doubts about whether the world will still be here to see the end of it. As I’ve argued in several previous Pravda.Report articles, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become convinced that most struggles and conflicts in the world are not based on “good vs. evil,” but instead between... 

A crowd of 88,000 Jews gathered at MetLife Stadium on Saturday to celebrate the reading of the entire Talmud, a historic event that drew heavy police presence after the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the metropolitan area: The Siyum HaShas event marks the end of the 7 1/2 years it takes to read the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud, the source of ethics and laws for Orthodox Jews. The East Rutherford,... 

On Tuesday at the opening of an international conference on persecuted Christians, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asserted that Europe can only be saved if it “returns to the source of its real values: its Christian identity”: “Europe is quiet,” Orban said. “A mysterious force shuts the mouths of European politicians and cripples their arms.” He said the issue of Christian persecution... 

“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” So Karl Marx wrote in 1843. For three generations over the course of the 20th century his atheist disciples violently sought to break their subjects of this “opium” addiction. They failed. In many though not all parts of the former communist... 

Rival factions within the Methodist church are contemplating a divorce, weighing plans to split in half due to an intractable dispute over its current ban on gay marriage and LGBT clergy. The plan will be considered at the church’s major yearly conference in Minneapolis, set for May, which if approved would rupture the denomination into traditionalist and ‘progressive’ camps. The former branch... 

The head of the Italian League party, Matteo Salvini, has playfully mocked the Pope’s viral New Year’s handshake faux pas with a tongue-in-cheek recreation, spreading mirth online to wrap up the festive season. Pope Francis would clearly have rathered a different end to 2019 but was instead embroiled in a controversy, albeit minor, on December 31, when he appeared to slap away a rather overly... 

Pope Francis, in a Saturday message delivered from the Vatican, took aim at conservative Catholics, warning that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith was turning people away, and that the church must adapt to a post-Christian west. Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See. Catholicism’s... 

British ‘ethical vegan’ Jordi Casamitjana hopes to have his whole movement recognized by an employment tribunal as a protected belief, similar to a religious faith – which could give vegan zealots free rein in the workplace. Casamitjana says he was fired from his job because of his beliefs – he disclosed to other employees at the League Against Cruel Sports that it invested its pension funds...