Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: confession

confession stories: 21 news summaries

1 - 20 of 21 Stories | 1 2 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

(AP) - Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry in last week's attacks, one of the suspected masterminds said in a confession broadcast today. Seeking to fend off widespread criticism over security lapses, the Iraqi military released what it said was... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iraq • Baghdad • suicide bombing • truck bomb • terrorist attack • confession

(Newser) - As his adversaries faced a mass court hearing condemned as a show trial, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was formally endorsed today for a second term as president of Iran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei conducted the ceremony, which Mir Hossein Mousavi and other opposition figures boycotted. The endorsement came after state television screened courtroom... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • trial • cleric • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • confession • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Iranian protests

 Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee 
 Returned to Afghanistan 

But Mohammed Jawad may still face conventional prosecution

Jul 30, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Guantanamo Bay inmate may be released to Afghanistan next month after successfully challenging his detention under habeas corpus, the Washington Post reports. US District Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered Mohammed Jawad’s release based on the dodgy evidence against him—mainly, a confession allegedly obtained by threatening to kill Jawad... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Afghanistan • Congress • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • confession • Mohammed Jawad

 Jailed Newsweek 
 Journo Confessed 
 to Conspiracy: Iran 

State-run TV shows reporter confessing to filing biased reports to create unrest

Jul 2, 09 5:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Newsweek reporter who was arrested in Iran last month has confessed to filing "biased" news reports to stir unrest as part of a conspiracy to undermine the country's government, according to Iranian state-run media. Maziar Bahari made the alleged confession at a press conference Tuesday, Bloomberg reports. "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iran • Newsweek • protests • journalist • confession • Iranian election • Maziar Bahari

Confession Isn't Therapy, Church Warns

Priests told to get tough on sinners instead of providing counseling sessions

Jun 4, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican plans a campaign to remind priests that the confessional isn't a psychiatrist's couch, the Guardian reports. A handbook will be issued to emphasize that sinners are in confession to be given penance, not counseling sessions. The number of Catholics going to confession has slumped in recent years and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • confession

Iranian Female Artist Hanged Amid Uproar

Execution follows retracted confession
for alleged murder

May 3, 09 8:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - International supporters yesterday criticized the execution of an Iranian woman for a murder allegedly committed when she was a juvenile, despite a 2-month stay of execution ordered less than 3 weeks ago, the Telegraph reports. Her lawyer wasn’t notified 48 hours before the hanging, as is required. Delara Darabi’... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iran • execution • capital punishment • painting • hanging • artist • confession • murder charges • Delara Darabi

 Confession, in 140 
 Characters or Less 

Have a secret? Tweet it, and feel absolved

Apr 20, 09 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - What to do if a secret is eating you up inside? If you can phrase it concisely, digital absolution is close at hand via SecretTweet.com, writes the Guardian. Anonymous users twitter their hidden sadness and shame, for example: "My wife asks why I am moody. My secret mistress... More »

MORE ABOUT:
social networking • confession • Twitter • secrets

Parenting
for Dummies:
What Not to Do

Bad parents proudly cop to their worst-of moments in books

Apr 13, 09 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Move over, arguments about organic baby food. A new set of books celebrates a less perfect kind of parenting—stories from moms and dads who mess up, and don't mind copping to it, the Wall Street Journal reports. Parents who let their toddlers watch too much TV or have read... More »

MORE ABOUT:
motherhood • fatherhood • parenting • book • confession

Supreme Court: Suspects Must Go Before Judge Within 6 Hours

Or confessions will be thrown out of fed court

Apr 6, 09 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court today threw out the confession of Johnnie Corley, a Pennsylvania robbery suspect, saying that the 29½ hours federal authorities waited before bringing him to court was too long, the AP reports. In a 5-4 decision, the court said any confessions federal authorities elicited before a prisoner’s... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Federal Court • US Supreme Court • confession • David Souter • federal cases

Man Faces Murder Charge After 'Deathbed' Confession

Stroke victim recovered after admitting shooting

Mar 24, 09 5:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Oklahoma man's effort to leave the world with a clear conscience has left him facing a murder charge after his premature "deathbed" confession, the Independent reports. The man, believing he he was moments from death after suffering a stroke, called police from the hospital and confessed to killing... More »

MORE ABOUT:
murder • Tennessee • Oklahoma • stroke • deathbed • confession • oops

8-Year-Old Murder Suspect to Go Home for Turkey Day

Experts say video won't stand up in court

Nov 20, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - There’s good news for the 8-year-old boy police believe killed his father and another man. The third-grader, whose shocking video confession made national headlines, will be allowed to leave jail for 48 hours to spend Thanksgiving with his mother, a judge ruled yesterday. Another, perhaps bigger, break: Legal experts... More »

MORE ABOUT:
murder • confession • juvenile crime • Apache County Juvenile Detention Center • Vincent Romero

 What Edwards Was Trying to Tell Us—and Not Tell Us

Jack Flack reads between the lines of scandal-speak

Aug 9, 08 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Edwards employed classic damage control methods in finally confessing his affair yesterday—ie, announcing it late on a Friday so it would fade over the weekend, and giving an exclusive interview to ensure a sympathetic questioner and avoid a feeding frenzy. Jack Flack, writing in Portfolio, parses Edwards’ statement... More »

MORE ABOUT:
John Edwards • affair • adultery • confession • Rielle Hunter

Imposter Priest Confessor Nabbed at Vatican

'Strange behavior'
tipped off authorities

Jul 6, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A phony priest was stopped just as he was about to hear confessions in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, the BBC reports. The man had on the right clothes and produced valid-looking priestly documents and Vatican ID—"but the expert eye of our personnel didn't need much to... More »

MORE ABOUT:
crime • Vatican • imposter • priest • confession

Evangelicals Turn Back
to Ritual

Some adopt previously shunned  confession, communion, Lent

Mar 8, 08 12:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Evangelical Christians are increasingly turning to long-shunned traditions as a means of practicing their faith, reports the Washington Post. In a trend some call “worship renewal,” some are reviving Catholic customs such as fasting for Lent, going to confession, and weekly communion. “Evangelicalism is coming to point... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Christianity • Catholicism • Christians • monasteries • evangelicals • communion • Catholics • Lent • ancient customs • rituals • traditions • confession

Police Question Holloway Suspect Again

Van der Sloot says he was stoned during taped confession

Feb 9, 08 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Joran Van der Sloot, the elusive top suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, told Dutch police he was stoned when he confessed to a reporter that he was involved in her death, reports ABC News. Police picked him up for questioning after the apparent confession was caught on a hidden... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Natalee Holloway • Aruba • Joran Van der Sloot • hidden camera • confession

Aruba May
Bust Holloway Suspect Again

Dutch teen claims
he lied about dumping her body after sex

Feb 1, 08 11:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Aruban police may rearrest a Dutch teen after he admitted on camera to dumping the body of Natalee Holloway, CNN reports. Joran Van der Sloot claimed today that his confession was a lie, but Aruba's main public prosecutor has reopened his probe and awaits a judge's ruling on the arrest... More »

MORE ABOUT:
crime • murder • Natalee Holloway • prosecutor • judge • Aruba • Joran Van der Sloot • confession

Shunning Makes a Comeback
in US Churches

Pastors resurrect old practice to tame black sheep in their flocks

Jan 20, 08 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - In an effort to reclaim their churches' role as moral authority, many Protestant ministers have reinstated the all-but-lost practice of shunning unrepentant sinners from their congregations. And while nobody's yet had to pin a scarlet "A" to their Sunday best, the consequences of the puritanical revival have weighed heavy... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Protestants • churchgoers • megachurches • Baptists • shunning • sinners • moral authority • confession • pastor

Daughter & Lover Confess to Killing 6 in Family: Cops

She 'felt unloved,'
says relative

Dec 28, 07 3:53 AM CST
(Newser) - The daughter of a murdered couple and her boyfriend have confessed to killing the young woman's parents and four other relatives, according to police. Michele Anderson, 29, and her live-in lover gunned down Anderson's parents Christmas Eve at their home outside Seattle, police said. When Anderson's brother, his wife and... More »

MORE ABOUT:
murder • Washington • Seattle • Christmas • Joseph McEnroe • Carnation, Wash. • Michele Anderson • confession

Boat Slayings Suspect Blabs
in Prison

Inmate says man confessed to aiding
in four murders

Dec 20, 07 4:52 PM CST
(Newser) - A jailhouse confession could doom two suspects in the murder of four people in the Joe Cool fishing boat case, the AP reports. A fellow inmate says suspect Guillermo Zarabozo came clean about the September killings, claiming that accomplice Kirby Archer shot the victims and that Zarabozo dumped the bodies... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Cuba • murder • extradition • missing boater • pirates • confession

Lay Judges
to Join Bench
in Japan

Will citizens temper Japan's courts, where 99.9% are found guilty?

Aug 25, 07 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan will give citizens the gavel in an effort to counteract its judicial system’s prejudice for presuming guilt. Six citizens and three trained jurists will sit on criminal cases, and the majority will rule, Bloomberg reports. The new system follows a clamor of criticism about forced confessions, inhumane treatment... More »

MORE ABOUT:
United Nations • human rights • Japan • execution • conviction • judge • Council of Europe • death row • confession

1 - 20 of 21 Stories | 1 2 Next >>


from our news partners