Vienna/ Athens (pte037/03.03.2003/13:44) Police in Greece are busy clearing a controversial comic book by Austrian caricaturist Gerhard Haderer from the shelves in bookstores. The book portrays Jesus ...

A COMIC strip book of the life of Jesus that shows him surfing rather than walking on water and getting high on incense fumes has sparked a storm of protest in Catholic Austria. Widespread outrage ...

He meant it as a piece of religious satire, a playful look at the life of Jesus. But Gerhard Haderer's depiction of Christ as a binge-drinking friend of Jimi Hendrix and naked surfer high on cannabis ...

(IPA/WiPC/IFEX) – The following is a 20 April 2005 joint IPA – WiPC press release: Publishers, writers welcome acquittal on appeal of author in Greek blasphemy case On 13 April 2005, in a famous ...

A BOOK designed to take a light-hearted look at the life of Jesus by portraying him as a hippy who accomplished miracles after breathing in incense has caused a wave of protest in Austria and Germany.

A Greek court has lifted a ban on selling a cartoon book from Austria depicting Jesus Christ as a drinking buddy of Jimi Hendrix and a marijuana-smoking, naked surfer. Austrian cartoonist Gerhard ...

Athens - A Greek court has allowed a controversial Austrian book of cartoons portraying Jesus as a marijuana-smoking hippy to go on sale after it was previously banned for blasphemy. Austrian ...

GERMANY: The German animal rights organisation Peta "crucified" a man wearing a pig's head outside Berlin's most famous church yesterday under the banner "Meat is murder". The Lutheran pastor of the ...

Gerhard Haderer has been given a six-month sentence for blasphemy by a Greek court. The move comes after his comic book The Life of Jesus was banned by the country. The comic depicts Jesus as a hippie ...