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Church of England?s first bid to run The Big Society ? with a Ł5 million handout from the taxpayer.

Posted on November 04, 2010
The Church of England has said it wants ?5 million of public money to sort out the problems of 'social cohesion'. It claims that it is better qualified than the Government to combat radicalism among Muslims and to bring warring religious communities together.

How much evidence does the Government need to convince it that ?faith schools? are skewing admissions?

Posted on November 04, 2010
Yet another expert report has found that 'faith schools' are carefully selecting higher achieving and better-supported children while blocking entry to poorer and less advantaged children.

Judge turns court into a battleground between Christianity and Islam

Posted on November 04, 2010
When Roshana Choudry was sentenced to life imprisonment this week for attempting to murder MP Stephen Timms, there were extraordinary scenes in the court of fanatical Muslims cursing the judge and shouting ‘Alluha Akbar' (god is great) and 'British go to hell'.

Budget cuts bring to an end another religious privilege

Posted on November 04, 2010
Muslims are furious that the Government has cut a ?110,000 grant that sends doctors to Mecca during the Hajj to treat British pilgrims who become ill.

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The Vatican will not be changed by persuasion, it has to be forced

Posted on November 04, 2010
Terry Sanderson on the futility of trying to reason with the Vatican

Lord Carey and the other usual suspects overstate their case once again

Posted on November 04, 2010
The NSS last week accused Christian campaigners of grossly exaggerating their claims that they are suffering disadvantage in this country.

Radio 4 plans a whole day of Bible readings

Posted on November 04, 2010
BBC Radio 4 plans to broadcast a day of readings from the Bible early next year to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible.

European Christians least likely to accept creationist explanations

Posted on November 04, 2010
A worldwide survey of 4,300 Christians shows that Europeans are the least likely of all to accept creationist beliefs, with 70% accepting the evidence for evolution.

Iran and Saudi Arabia try for seats on UN committee on women?s rights

Posted on November 04, 2010
Iran is close to gaining a seat on a new United Nations agency, called UN Women, which aims to promote equality for women. But the nomination of Iran has caused outrage, particularly in light of the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old mother of two sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery.

Sakineh to be executed on Wednesday ? act now to save her

Posted on November 01, 2010
SUPPORTERS of the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery warned that her execution may be imminent – as soon as Wednesday. Please act now to save her.

Conflict over ?faith school? proposals in Islington

Posted on October 28, 2010
The parents of Muslim pupils at a community school in Islington are outraged by the news that it is to close down and their children transferred to a Church of England school.

Local mosques stitched up admissions to state-funded Muslim school

Posted on October 28, 2010
A Local Government Ombudsman has branded an admissions appeals' panel at Blackburn's top performing school as 'probably the worst instance of multiple maladministration in a school admissions appeal' she has ever seen.

Catholic Church loses appeal in largest British child abuse case

Posted on October 28, 2010
A court ruling has left a Catholic diocese facing full responsibility for a multi-million pound compensation claim over child abuse at a boys' school.

Advertising watchdog invents a new blasphemy restriction

Posted on October 28, 2010
In banning a mildly satirical advertisement for ice cream, the Advertising Standards Authority is reintroducing blasphemy restrictions back into Britain, says the NSS.

Religion digs itself deeper into the EU policy-making bodies

Posted on October 28, 2010
The churches (COMECE for the Catholics, CEC for the Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox) have published their new demands for a greater say in EU decision-making under 'Article 17".

Study shows blasphemy laws pose extreme threat to human rights.

Posted on October 28, 2010
Freedom House has published a new report, Policing Belief: The Impact of Blasphemy Laws on Human Rights which examines the human rights implications of domestic blasphemy and religious insult laws using the case studies of seven countries — Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Poland — where such laws exist both on paper and in practice.

Ofcom rejects complaints about Channel 4?s investigation into Islamist group

Posted on October 28, 2010
The television watchdog Ofcom has rejected complaints against an investigation into an Islamic group broadcast by Channel Four's Dispatches earlier this year.

Muslims in France are undermining secularism in schools

Posted on October 28, 2010
The secular nature of the French education system is being increasingly undermined by religious demands from Muslim pupils, says a report from the High Council for Integration which will be presented to the Government next month.

?The ?A? Word? campaign aims to counter ignorance of abortion choices

Posted on October 28, 2010
The NSS are supporting a new campaign by Education For Choice (EFC) – the UK's only educational charity dedicated to enabling young people to make and act on informed choices about pregnancy and abortion.

More councils cutting faith school transport subsidies

Posted on October 21, 2010
As the Government's spending axe cuts even deeper, local authorities around the country are cutting the provision of subsidised transport to pupils attending ‘faith schools'.

NSS at meeting with EU Presidents

Posted on October 21, 2010
The NSS was represented last Friday at a working lunch for 'non-confessional' (i.e. non-religious) organisations with the Presidents of the European Commission (the EU's Civil Service), the EU Parliament and the EU Council (of Member States' Ministers).

BA cross woman applies for hearing in European Human Rights Court

Posted on October 21, 2010
Nadia Eweida, the Christian activist who took British Airways to court over its supposed 'ban' on her wearing a cross at work — and lost — is planning to take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.

?We?re all in this together? ? except for the churches

Posted on October 21, 2010
As the Government sowed fear and trepidation throughout the land last week in announcing its swingeing cuts to public services, the churches were celebrating that they'd been spared the pain.

The Catholic Church will never let you go ? but Lutherans are jumping ship in their thousands

Posted on October 21, 2010
The Vatican has revised its own canon laws to keep people from formally defecting from the Church, panicked by the huge numbers leaving over the child abuse crisis.

Polish bishops threaten to excommunicate politicians who don?t do as they say

Posted on October 21, 2010
Catholic bishops in Poland have threatened to excommunicate MPs who support proposed legislation that would provide state funding for IVF treatment.

Desert Island Discs enforces religious correctness

Posted on October 21, 2010
Michael Mansfield QC was the castaway of the venerable Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs last week. When it came to the famous question about which book 'besides the Bible and Shakespeare' you would take to the island, Mr Mansfield declined the Bible, and said 'I would like to take another bible: the Bible of Vegetarian Cooking'.

E. Sussex & W. Lancashire latest councils to cut school transport subsidies

Posted on October 14, 2010
East Sussex County Council is proposing to cut transport subsidies for children attending faith schools from January next year – saving it ?500,000 annually. And West Lancashire County Council has given notice that it intends to severely curtail its denominational school transport subsidies in order to save ?2m a year.

?Faith schools? selection criteria under the microscope again

Posted on October 14, 2010
The controversy over 'faith schools' erupted again this week when the Mail on Sunday tried to generate a 'scandal' because Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is reported to be considering sending his son to the Catholic Oratory school in London.

Creationist threat to Scottish schools

Posted on October 14, 2010
An organisation called the Centre for Intelligent Design (ID) has been set up in Glasgow with the stated aim of promoting the idea of 'Intelligent Design' as an alternative to scientific explanations.

Creationist Vardy steps down from school sponsorship

Posted on October 14, 2010
Sir Peter Vardy — the Christian fundamentalist used car salesman who controversially sponsored academy schools that taught creationism — is stepping down from the role and handing the foundation of his schools to the United Learning Trust (another religious organisation).

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