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December 2017

December 21, 2017

Mystery surrounds deaths of atheist billionaire and his wife

Almost 10,000 people – including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – today attended the funeral...

December 21, 2017

The BBC's top radio man, James Purnell, is an atheist

And for some this is a huge problem because religious programming forms part of his...

December 03, 2017

Why are bears appearing on a school's Facebook page?

Because Stanton Elementary School in Powell County, Kentucky, is apparently teaching kids that atheists will...

December 01, 2017

Pastor: 'atheist billboard is slap in the face to people of faith'

Richard Mansfield, a senior pastor at the New Beginnings Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is...

November 2017

November 25, 2017

Atheism in Malaysia must be crushed, says deputy PM

Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, above, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister, has proposed that any ideology deemed...

November 16, 2017

Egypt 'unfortunately' has 866 atheists says TV presenter

It's anyone guess as to how Rania Mahmoud Yassin, above arrived at this figure, but...

November 14, 2017

US bus company's rejection of an atheist ad sparks a lawsuit

Residents of Scranton, Pennsylvania, are a godly bunch. So devout, in fact, that a local...

November 03, 2017

Satanic Temple sign ruffles feathers in a small Texas town

In July this year, the town of Three Rivers (population 1,900) voted to reinstate corporal...

October 2017

October 28, 2017

Warning: godlessness and ruin faces NZ under its new PM

No mention was made of God, and there wasn't a Bible in sight when Jacinda...

September 2017

September 28, 2017

Florida pastor vows to destroy planned Satanic holiday display

Pastor Mark Boykin, above, senior pastor at the Church of All Nations in Boca Raton,...

September 16, 2017

Help feed orphans and promote secular humanism in Uganda

The Brighter Brains Institute, a California-based non-profit secular humanist organisation, has launched a funding campaign to...

September 15, 2017

Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments

Gaurav Tyagi, a new contributor to the Freethinker, reflects on the recent row over an...

August 2017

August 12, 2017

Nigerian Humanist Leo Igwe gets top award from IHEU

Nigerian human rights campaigner Leo Igwe, above, has received the 2017 Distinguished Services to Humanism...

August 09, 2017

Atheists' gathering incurs the anger of authorities in Malaysia

Just days after the picture above was posted on the Atheist Republic Facebook page, Malaysia’s...

July 2017

July 30, 2017

British actor's God blunder highlights Star Trek's atheism

In the new Star Trek: Discovery TV series Captain Gabriel Lorca, played by Jason Isaacs, ...

July 22, 2017

US radio station slammed for cancelling Dawkins event

A radio station in Berkeley, California, has pulled the plug on a talk scheduled to...

July 03, 2017

Poles apart: religion and the real world

When I was growing up in a religious Polish family I found myself really close...

July 03, 2017

Oz's godlessness blamed on aggressive atheists & 'queers'

It was widely reported last week that the number of atheists in Australia had increased...

May 2017

May 27, 2017

N Ireland couple challenge law over humanist weddings

Model Laura Lacole, 27, and footballer Eunan O’Kane, 26, above – both humanists – have...

May 24, 2017

The Trump Effect: religious fervour engulfs armed forces

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), headed by Michael 'Mikey' Weinstein, above, is alleging that...

May 17, 2017

Atheist uses truck to highlight the sheer nastiness of the Bible

America probably has more vehicles than any other country in the world plastered with words...

May 12, 2017

Why is Facebook silencing atheist and ex-Muslim voices?

The answer, according to Muhammad Syed, above, President of the Ex-Muslims of North America, is that...

May 07, 2017

Ireland made to look stupid over blasphemy complaint

News that actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry is being investigated for possibly breaching Ireland's...

May 04, 2017

Lay preacher: 'NZ schools must stop favouring Christianity'

New Zealand's Secular Education Network has filed a case with the Human Rights Review Tribunal...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Texas Mayor Ivy R Taylor needs to learn more about atheism

Earlier this month, the Mayor of San Antonio sparked outrage when she linked systemic poverty...

April 16, 2017

Apostates need support. Help rescue them from religion.

HumanistGlobal.org – the new website of the Brighter Brains Institute that launched the world’s first...

April 16, 2017

Minnesota atheist finds 'leave town' warning on his vehicle

On his Facebook page Jeff, Carter, inset above, describes himself as a 'Faithless Vagabond ......

April 08, 2017

Ireland's latest census shows a steady decline in godliness

Reacting to Irish census figures that show a drop of just 3.4 percent of people...

April 04, 2017

International Atheist of the Year ceremony held in Poland

At the weekend, the International Atheist Award was jointly handed in Warsaw to Michael Nugent,...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

'If my son was killed for being an atheist, I'll become one too'

Those words were reportedly spoken by R Hameed, the Muslim father of H Farook, 31,...