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Darwin?s house and laboratory denied world heritage status ? for now

Posted on August 19, 2010
Charles Darwin's home, Down House in Kent, and the surrounding landscape where he carried out his great biological experiments, has been rejected, for the moment, as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

Pope tickets not popular

Posted on August 19, 2010
The Catholic Church is having difficulty filling all the places for its papal events in Edinburgh and London – although the Birmingham event seems to be doing well.

Taxpayer to pick up the tab for Cardinals? stay at luxury hotel during pope?s visit

Posted on August 12, 2010
The entourage accompanying the Pope on his September visit to the UK will be accommodated in a luxury hotel in central London – with eleven of them being funded by the taxpayer.

Christians lose another bid for privilege at work

Posted on August 12, 2010
An employment tribunal has ruled that a Christian housing advisor, who used his position at Wandsworth Council to evangelise, was not unfairly dismissed from his job.

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Question asked in Welsh Assembly about hospital chaplains

Posted on August 12, 2010
The proposal to create charitable trusts to fund hospital chaplains in Wales resulted in a question being asked in the Welsh Assembly

Pope must not escape criticism

Posted on August 12, 2010
Terry Sanderson responds to the growing clamour among some Catholics for criticism of the pope to be dampened down during his visit to Britain.

Powerful addition to the Protest the Pope film season

Posted on August 12, 2010
We have added a new title to the film season that we will be running in the week before the pope arrives in the UK.

Polish demonstrations over positioning of cross

Posted on August 12, 2010
Thousands of Poles have taken to the streets of Warsaw in a series of demonstrations over the future of an eight-foot wooden cross erected in memory of a plane crash that killed the Polish president and dozens of others. Polish

Church of England gets �5 million Government hand-out for ?Big Society? promotion

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Tablet magazine is reporting this morning that the Government is to give the Church of England ?5 million to fund its contribution to the so-called 'Big Society Project'. (Faith-based welfare by another name.)

Irish government begins push to reduce Catholic influence in education

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Department of Education and Skills in Ireland has confirmed that it has given the Catholic Church a list of areas nationwide where it wants to take over Catholic schools.

Turbulent priests should get out of politics and back to their churches

Posted on August 05, 2010
The tendency of the Catholic Church to interfere in the politics of sovereign nations was on show again this week – on both sides of the world.

The great face veils debate - where do you stand?

Posted on August 05, 2010
The issue of Muslim women covering their faces with veils is causing controversy throughout Europe. Where do you stand on the issue?

Charity chief says branding children as ?witches? should be outlawed

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Chief Executive of an African charity in Britain has called on the Government to prosecute the pastors who brand children as 'witches' and 'demons'.

Spaniards are losing their religion

Posted on August 05, 2010
The proportion of Spaniards who say they are Roman Catholic has fallen to 73 percent from around 80 percent eight years ago, according to a survey released on Thursday by the CIS research centre.

Scottish Catholics less than thrilled with pope visit

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Herald newspaper in Scotland is reporting that tickets for the papal mass in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow are being returned to the organisers, as far fewer people than expected want to attend.

American religious right group invited into the UN

Posted on August 05, 2010
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a right-wing US religious organisation that sponsors legal actions that seek to promote religious privilege, has been granted special consultative status at the United Nations.

Protest the Pope film season ? buy tickets now

Posted on August 05, 2010
As part of the Protest the Pope campaign, the National Secular Society is presenting a short season of films which explore issues that the Catholic Church and the Government would prefer were kept under wraps during the papal visit.

Welsh Assembly members urged to rethink hospital chaplains

Posted on July 29, 2010
NSS member Alan Rogers, who has been urging the setting up of charitable trusts to pay for hospital chaplains in Wales, has written to Assembly members urging them to support his campaign.

Michael Gove and the ?atheist schools?

Posted on July 29, 2010
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, faced a House of Commons Education select committee this week to answer questions about the Academies Act. It became law yesterday after having been rushed through Parliament with scandalously inadequate scrutiny, given the scale of the changes and the complexity of our education system.

Labour leadership candidates challenged over faith schools

Posted on July 29, 2010
As part of the Labour leadership hustings, the five prospective candidates (Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham) have all faced a series of questions over their party's unpopular policies surrounding faith schools.

How the churches intend to increase their influence in the EU

Posted on July 29, 2010
When the Treaty of Lisbon was signed, it brought into effect a clause that gives special consultation rights to religious organisations. It is something the Vatican has been trying to achieve for decades.

Film Festival to challenge the Vatican?s claims to the moral high ground

Posted on July 29, 2010
The National Secular Society is staging a film season in the days before the Pope arrives in Britain. The films will look at aspects of the Catholic Church which both the Government and the Church itself would prefer were not mentioned during the visit of the 'Holy Father'.

Government still refusing to address security costs of Pope?s visit

Posted on July 29, 2010
In the House of Lords last week, Lord Kilclooney asked the Government: 'What is the estimated cost to the Exchequer of the planned state visit to the United Kingdom this year by Pope Benedict XVI.'

Multiculturalism: some inconvenient truths

Posted on July 29, 2010
The left in this country has had the reputation of championing the cause of anti-racism, gay rights and civil liberties, but now it is seen to be blind to the obvious problems with the doctrine of multiculturalism, and even paralysed by the hypnotic term 'Islamophobia', which it has been persuaded equates with 'racism'.

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