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Last Entry: March 24, 2011 at 21:00:00

New study of chaplains shows little benefit to clinical outcomes

Posted on March 03, 2011
A study of NHS trusts in England has shown that ?29m of healthcare money was used to pay for hospital chaplains in 2009/10.

Church-state confrontation over gay marriage could be solved with disestablishment

Posted on March 03, 2011
A major confrontation between the Church of England and the Government is brewing over gay marriage and civil partnerships.

Lord Patten to be new chairman of the BBC Trust

Posted on March 03, 2011
Lord (Chris) Patten — the man who rescued the Pope's visit from the Catholic Church's incompetence — is mooted to be the new chairman of the BBC Trust.

Secular anger as Pope is invited to address European Parliament

Posted on March 03, 2011
News that the President of the European Parliament, Jercy Buzek (Christian Democrat) has invited the Pope to address the parliament has been greeted with dismay and anger by secularists in Britain and Europe.

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High Court judge makes clear that the law is secular, it is not anti-Christian

Posted on February 28, 2011
The National Secular Society has welcomed the judgment in the High Court yesterday on the case of a Christian couple who were refused foster caring placements because of their anti-homosexual views based on Christianity.

Study shows that spending on hospital chaplains provides no clinical benefit

Posted on February 26, 2011
A study of NHS trusts in England has shown that ?29m of healthcare money was used to pay for hospital chaplains in 2009/10. The study revealed that many of the country's best hospitals spent the lowest proportion of their expenditure on chaplaincy services.

Will tribunal case have an impact on religious equality legislation?

Posted on February 24, 2011
A case currently being considered by an employment tribunal could have far-reaching effects on religious discrimination legislation. The case concerns a man who claims he was dismissed from his job at a garden centre on the grounds of his moral beliefs and activities connected to animal rights.

Pope visit figures just don?t add up

Posted on February 24, 2011
The Government has released what it says is the total amount paid out by the taxpayer on the visit of the pope last September. But do the figures add up?

No change to Act of Settlement says bishop

Posted on February 24, 2011
The Bishop of Manchester, Nigel McCulloch, says he opposes any changes to the Act of Settlement — which bars Catholics from ascending the throne — because of Catholic attitudes to Anglicans.

Ed Miliband on ?faith schools?

Posted on February 24, 2011
Labour leader Ed Miliband was asked by Totally Jewish magazine his opinion of faith schools. His response was reassuringly unenthusiastic.

Religion in politics? Yesterday?s man makes yesterday?s argument

Posted on February 24, 2011
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave a speech at Lambeth Palace on 16 February entitled 'Faith in Politics.'

Can we really make any impact on the outcome of the census?

Posted on February 24, 2011
This year's census day will be on 27 March, and this week the Government launched its massive ?4.5 million awareness campaign.

Humanist weddings outpace Catholic ones in Scotland

Posted on February 24, 2011
Humanist weddings are now more popular in Scotland than those conducted by the Catholic Church, according to new figures.

Bush era medical ?conscience clause? revoked

Posted on February 24, 2011
As President George W. Bush was about to leave office in the USA, his administration adopted a 'conscience rule' that gave health care workers wide latitude to refuse to offer services and treatment that conflicted with their moral or religious beliefs.

NSS says Government is breaking the law by increasing religious discrimination in academy schools

Posted on February 17, 2011
The National Secular Society has complained to the Government following legal advice it has received that the transfer of both community and faith schools to academy status is likely to be in breach of the EU Employment Directive.

Channel 4?s Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence

Posted on February 17, 2011
Channel 4's Dispatches: Lessons in Hate and Violence on Islamic schools in Britain confirms the urgency of addressing the question of faith schools.

Paranoia on show at General Synod

Posted on February 17, 2011
As Church influence in Britain wanes, those who have been accustomed to privilege because of their religion are suddenly becoming very agitated at its erosion.

More councils look to scrap ?faith school? transport privileges

Posted on February 17, 2011
Coventry City Council has closed its consultation on the ending of discretionary transport to 'faith schools'.

Fury as firm of solicitors offers sharia advice

Posted on February 17, 2011
A Lancashire firm of solicitors, which has launched a new Family Law service offering clients UK civil legal representation alongside advice on Sharia law, has been attacked by campaigners who say Sharia law abuses the human rights of women.

Church of England orders schools to serve an alternative to halal

Posted on February 17, 2011
The Church of England is risking accusations of Islamophobia after it told its schools that they should not serve halal food without an alternative being available.

Education Bill threatens to intensify discrimination in faith schools

Posted on February 10, 2011
The National Secular Society has warned that thousands of teaching posts in schools in England that are currently open to those of all faiths and none are in risk of being reserved for teachers ‘of the faith'.

Gove?s ?free schools? are opening the doors to extremists

Posted on February 10, 2011
In the latest indication that the Government's 'free school' programme is opening the education system to religious extremists, an evangelical church is planning to bring creationism into the classroom by opening its own school.

Gove stands firm on religious education in baccalaureate

Posted on February 10, 2011
The Education Minister Michael Gove shrugged off criticism in the House of Commons this week that religious education was not to be one of the subjects to be studied as part of the new English Baccalaureate.

Multiculturalism: Is Mr Cameron going to be like his predecessors ? all mouth and no action?

Posted on February 10, 2011
Terry Sanderson asks, What are we to make of Mr Cameron's speech on the failure of 'state multiculturalism'?

Church urged to challenge ?new atheists? and ?secularisation process?

Posted on February 10, 2011
The Church of England's General Synod this week debated a report from the Archbishops' Council entitled Challenges for the New Quinquennium.

Teaching unions furious as Church of England plans to hog resources in Lancashire as they convert high schools to academies

Posted on February 10, 2011
Six teaching unions have banded together to oppose plans by the Church of England in Lancashire to convert all its high schools in the county to academies.

Scrap parliamentary prayers, says MP

Posted on February 10, 2011
A Tory MP has said that prayers in parliament should be scrapped.

Radio 4 overdoes religion, but the BBC Trust can?t quite bring itself to say so

Posted on February 10, 2011
The BBC Trust's five yearly performance report for radio has shown that Radio 4 broadcasts 225 hours of religious programmes each year (although many other programmes outside this count also have religious content). It is significantly more than is required by the service licence.

Warwickshire, Kent and Hampshire Councils to cut faith school transport

Posted on February 03, 2011
Warwickshire County Council will charge for transport to 'faith schools' from September next year. The Conservative-run council is also expected to force through hikes in bus fares for post-16 college students from ?540 to ?660 a year.

Far from being essential, religion in schools creates dangerous separatism

Posted on February 03, 2011
Is religious ignorance harmful to children? NSS President, Terry Sanderson, argues that a bit more indifference towards religion would do us all a power of good.

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