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

EU religion statement stymied because of ?an excess of secularism?

Posted on February 03, 2011
The European Union has failed to agree on a statement against the persecution of religious minorities after Italy objected to the omission of any reference to the protection of Christians.

Pakistani Christians discover the appeal of secularism

Posted on February 03, 2011
The Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference has suddenly discovered the benefits of secularism.

Dare To Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh

Posted on February 03, 2011
Charles Bradlaugh, the man who founded the National Secular Society in 1866, had a short but dramatic life, which is vividly portrayed in this new biography.

Pope?s visit drains even more money from the taxpayer ? and from Third World countries

Posted on February 02, 2011
The Pope's few hours in Edinburgh during his visit to the UK in September last year cost the taxpayer ?543,226 according to newly-released figures. And now the Government has revealed that it took almost ?2 million from the overseas aid budget to finance the Pope's jamboree.

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Letters prove that the Vatican tried to cover up child abuse

Posted on January 27, 2011
Two recently uncovered letters from the Vatican provide strong evidence that, despite their claims to the contrary, the present Pope and his predecessor were well aware of the scale of the priestly child sex abuse crisis and took active steps to cover it up.

Prayers at council meetings cause conflict in Portsmouth and Hawaii

Posted on January 27, 2011
As the NSS awaits a date for its judicial review of council prayers, a Christian Councillor at Portsmouth City Council has stalked out of the meeting because a Muslim cleric had been invited to say a prayer.

Religious leaders demand the inclusion of RE in new Baccalaureate

Posted on January 27, 2011
Religious Leaders have stepped up their lobbying efforts for the inclusion of Religious Education in the English Baccalaureate after the Secretary for Education, Michael Gove, suggested he would 'take on board' concerns about its exclusion.

Religious funerals fast declining in popularity

Posted on January 27, 2011
The Co-operative Funeral Service is reporting what it calls 'a major cultural shift' in funeral arrangements as religion declines and more personal, affirmative send-offs increase in popularity.

North Yorkshire is next council to cut ?faith school? transport

Posted on January 27, 2011
North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) is the latest to consider cutting transport subsidies to pupils at ‘faith schools'.

No council tax money for evangelical church?s ?bible-based? kids group

Posted on January 27, 2011
An evangelical church in Bridgwater, Somerset, has been refused a grant by the local council for 'children's activities' on the grounds that taxpayers' money should not be used for proselytising.

Muslims charged with inciting hatred against gay people

Posted on January 27, 2011
Two Muslim men have been charged with stirring up hatred against gay people for handing out leaflets outside a mosque calling for homosexuals to be executed. It is the first such prosecution in this country.

Spanish Children saying ?no? to religion classes

Posted on January 27, 2011
Demand by primary and secondary school pupils for religion classes dropped by 0.5 million in Spain over the last decade, Ministry of Education statistics revealed.

Vatican letters give lie to its claims that it didn?t cover up child abuse

Posted on January 24, 2011
The present Pope and his predecessor were well aware of the scale of the priestly child sex abuse crisis. Despite claims to the contrary, there is strong evidence in two recently uncovered letters from the Vatican.

Christian ?therapist? makes accusations against reporter who caught her out

Posted on January 20, 2011
An investigative journalist who caught out a Christian psychotherapist offering 'cures' for homosexuality has denied that he tried to intimidate witnesses to a disciplinary hearing.

Faith schools continue to proliferate despite majority not wanting them

Posted on January 20, 2011
A new, publicly-funded Islamic 'free school' for boys is to open in Blackburn in Lancashire.

Religious Education off limits for Curriculum Review

Posted on January 20, 2011
The Government has announced that Religious Education will be included in the forthcoming curriculum review.

Christian hotel owners caught out being economical with the truth about who can sleep in their double beds

Posted on January 20, 2011
The Christian couple who were found guilty this week of discriminating against homosexuals at their bed and breakfast in Cornwall have been challenged by the National Secular Society over their supposed policy of refusing double beds to unmarried heterosexual couples.

Why is the Vatican allowed to operate a parallel legal system that allows criminals to escape justice?

Posted on January 20, 2011
The Irish TV station RTE this week broadcast a documentary which revealed a newly-uncovered letter from 1997 that showed that the Vatican had told Irish bishops not to report abusive priests to the police.

The Church of England is all but dead, but doesn?t seem to know it

Posted on January 20, 2011
The Church of England is to debate a report at its next synod in February that will seek to challenge the 'increasing secularisation of society'. We are told it will strongly oppose the concept of 'the new atheism'.

Suggestion that Germany should be secular brings angry response

Posted on January 20, 2011
A proposal that Germany should embrace the secularism that is enshrined in its constitution has brought a furious reaction from Christians in the country.

Christian hotel owners claimed in court they denied double beds to unmarried heterosexuals, but do they always?

Posted on January 18, 2011
The Christian couple who were found guilty this week of discriminating against homosexuals at their bed and breakfast in Cornwall have been challenged by the National Secular Society over their supposed policy of refusing double beds to unmarried heterosexual couples.

Catholic Education establishment spooked by NSS criticism

Posted on January 13, 2011
The National Secular Society's continued criticism of 'faith schools' seems to have spooked the Catholic Education hierarchy, which this week hit back saying that we were 'quite small but very noisy' and 'have friends in Parliament.'

Higher Education survey questions on religion are biased, says NSS

Posted on January 13, 2011
The Equality Challenge Unit have been challenged over a campus religion and belief survey which could "instil a sense of victimhood where none exists"

NSS calls for reinstatement of referee who joked about the pope

Posted on January 13, 2011
The National Secular Society has called on the Scottish Football Association to reinstate Hugh Dallas, a referee who was sacked for distributing an email containing a joke about the pope.

Suffolk Council proposes removal of ?faith school? transport subsidy

Posted on January 13, 2011
Suffolk County Council is the latest authority to propose the abolition of subsidised transport services to 'faith schools'.

Government not minded to change Act of Settlement

Posted on January 13, 2011
The Act of Succession, which bans Catholics from succeeding to the British throne, was discussed in the House of Lords this week.

Belgian report shows that hundreds of abusive priests went unpunished

Posted on January 13, 2011
Only 16% of priests involved in 134 cases of child abuse in the Belgian Catholic Church have been prosecuted, a new report shows.

Debaptism accelerates as revulsion at Church abuse heightens

Posted on January 13, 2011
A record number of Austrians turned their back on the Catholic Church in 2010 according to the Church's own news agency Kathpress. It said the abuse scandals were the main motivation for the rise in people jumping from the Catholic ship.

Self-proclaimed ?Catholic activist? gets leading role in human rights organisation to promote the pope?s agenda

Posted on January 13, 2011
The new president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has appointed an Italian, Massimo Introvigne, as OSCE representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination.

Too much religion in teachers? training college ? report

Posted on January 13, 2011
The Irish Teaching Council has issued a report saying that students in one of Ireland's largest teacher training colleges spend too much time studying religion.

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