Pastor William Curtin Busted In Prostitution Sting

Alabama: A pastor is one of the 22 people arrested during a five day prostitution sting in West Mobile.

Mobile police arrested 49 year old William Curtin Tuesday afternoon and charged him with patronizing a prostitute.

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Curtin is the pastor of two churches, St. John UMC in West Mobile and The Grace Place UMC in Semmes.

Christian Vs Muslim Violence Leaves 500 dead

Nigeria: Hundreds of people, including many women and children, were killed in ethnic violence near the city of Jos in Nigeria at the weekend, officials say.

They said villages had been attacked by men with machetes who came from nearby hills. Jos has been under a military curfew since January when at least 200 people died in clashes between Christians and Muslims. The latest attacks are said to have been reprisals for the January killings.

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An adviser to the Christian-dominated Plateau state government, Dan Manjang, told AFP: "We have been able to make 95 arrests but at the same time over 500 people have been killed in this heinous act."

Mark Lipdo, from the Christian charity Stefanos Foundation, said Zot village had been almost wiped out. He said: "We saw mainly those who are helpless, like small children and then the older men, who cannot run, these were the ones that were slaughtered."

Pastor Wintersteen Found Guilty

Pastor Steven Wintersteen was convicted earlier this week on charges that he traveled across state lines to engage in sex with an 8-year-old girl and possession of child pornography.

Wintersteen was accused of logging online with the screen name Old4YoungGirls. However, instead of chatting with the mother of an 8-year-old, Wintersteen was chatting with federal agents.

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The FBI said Wintersteen agreed to travel from his home in Mammoth Lakes, California to Oklahoma City to meet the mother and young girl. When Wintersteen's plane landed in Oklahoma, he was arrested. His baggage included a Santa Claus hat, a stuffed animal purchased from the Reno airport gift shop, three different types of erectile dysfunction pills, a camera, and a laptop computer containing child pornography.

Christian Hate Group Terrorizes Texas Town

An evangelical Christian hate group called Repent Amarillo is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, “spring break events,” and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a Warfare Map of its enemies in town.

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Calling Repent an “American Taliban,” blogger Charles Johnson notes that the group’s moniker “Army of God” is a rough translation of Hezbollah.

Some of the enemies listed on their website are: "The Peace Farm", "Wildcat Bluff Nature Center", "Wat Lao Buddharam", "Reiki New Age Center", "First Church of Practical Christianity", "First Church-Christ Science".

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Gay Prostitution Ring Linked To Vatican

Vatican City: One of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter’s Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican.

Ghinedu Ehiem was dismissed by the Vatican on Wednesday from the Giulia Choir after his name appeared in transcripts of police wiretaps, published by an Italian newspaper.

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Among four people arrested last month was Angelo Balducci, who was arrested on corruption charges, the allegatons of prostitution emerged only later.

A police document prepared for magistrates and published in part by La Repubblica said Balducci was in contact with Ehiem and an Italian who were part of what the police called “an organised network ... to abet male prostitution”.

Father Robert Fuller Masturbates

Australia: A Sydney priest who used a webcam to broadcast himself masturbating to a person he believed was a 13-year-old girl will be behind bars for at least six months.

Robert MacGregor Fuller, 54, has been sentenced to a maximum of 18 months in jail for grooming and procuring a child under the age of 16.

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During online chat sessions, the priest who served for some six years at All Saints church in the Sydney suburb of Liverpool, used a webcam to show himself masturbating to a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.

Fuller was arrested on August 13 in the car park at Parramatta where he allegedly planned to meet the teenage girl for sex.