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In an interview with a daily newspaper, the controversial Austrian pastor who also enjoys to watch football matches, declared that “Voodoo worship in Haiti is interesting.” Literally he said that “it’s interesting that there are 90 percent of Voodoo followers in Haiti.”
The pastor who was designated to be the next auxiliary bishop of Linz, had [...]

The religious football supporter and pastor of a small Upper Austrian town, who was the suffragan bishop of Linz for just a few days, made it into the medias again. His new declaration can be read in the playbill of the festival called “Alte Musik” which takes place in the Viennese Konzerthaus, reports Austrias Broadcasting [...]

It’s not a secret that Austrians are not so happy and satisfied anymore with the church. This also appears in the numbers of the secessions from the church. In 2009 even one third left the Roman Catholic church more than one year before.
There was a lot of trouble in 2009. Controversial statements of Feldkirchens bishop. [...]

“Zero tolerance for open shops on 8th December”, was the motto of 250 Catholic demonstrators in the city centre of Salzburg yesterday. The ultra religious group called “Catholic Action” can’t endure open shops and busy humans with loads of shopping bags on December the 8th.
“Our 8th December is called Maria Empfängnis and not Maria Shopping”, [...]

Religious Catholics in a small village in the federal state Burgenland can’t visit their church anymore. An angry man has occupied the building and locked the doors.
The man is known to the authorities and has a custodian. The police can’t do anything against the situation because there is no complaint from the church. A spokesman [...]

The social department of Carinthias second biggest town Villach decided to proclaim a Halloween prohibition in all municipal kindergartens. A spokesman explained the decision that children should receive some positive vibration instead of negative ones.
Villach has twelve municipal kindergartens and six after school care centres with more than 1.600 children. The social city council who [...]

According to an article in Austrias magazine called “Profil” a bishop from Austria demands an appropriate punishment for women who decide to have an abortion. But the bishop denies such sentence. Now he claims he just demands “help” for pregnant women.
The bishop explains that the magazine just gave a “distorting rendition” of his opinion. He [...]

The church of a Tirolean village was the victim of an immoral assault against public morals. Somebody sticked dreadful porn pictures into the prayer books.
Porn pictures in prayer books fulfil the criminal statement of facts of “vilification of religious theories”. The pastor is upset because the unwanted enrichment was fixed quite sophisticated, and because of [...]

Diocesan bishop Manfred Scheuer declared in relation to the coming “Foreigner sunday” his refusal to xenophobia in Austria. The bishop locates rejection in forms of fear, contemptuousness, sneer, antagonism and violence. He also claims that Austrians treat someone who is not a local as a suspective person.
The bishop demands an unconditional brotherly love for all [...]

A new survey revealed that Austrians have no trust in the church and the government anymore. The most trust for the average Austrian these days can be found in his own family.
In economical difficult times Austrians don’t expect help from the church or the government. Even one out of four Austrians confirm that he is [...]

Freedom party politican Werner Neubauer is upset about blasphemous city lights advertisments in Austrias capital. “There is no God!” is written on those advertisments. The advertising spaces are operated and hired out by a company called “GEWISTA”.
Neubauer claims that this company used the help of the Socialdemocrats to gain a monopoly position for the billboard [...]

A new study revealed that Austria takes the 8th rank in the European Union in questions about religiosity. The most religious country in the European Union is Poland. 93 percent of the Polish citizens label themselfes as religious.
79 percent are religious among the Austrian population. The last rank is taken by Sweden. Only 39 percent [...]

Yesterday 1.400 protesters were on the street to demonstrate against and for the building of a mosque in Vienna. The demonstration against the mosque counted 700 people. The other half of the protesters wanted to show their agreement to the controversial construction plans.
The spokeswoman of the public campaign against the mosque declared that the demonstration [...]

A pastor from the province of Upper Austria declared his violent aversion against the celibacy during a panel discussion last weekend. The pastor has a girlfriend himself, and no respect anymore for his accomplished promise.
He also thinks that the celibacy causes a lack of pastors in Austria, and this should be a good reason to [...]

The new auxiliary bishop of Linz is full of beans. According to the latest reports in Austrian newspapers he thinks that it’s possible to heal homosexuals from homosexuality.
The auxiliary bishop declared in an interview that he knows people who were homosexuals in their past. A rigorous therapy was able to change their sexual sensitivities. Detailed [...]