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December 2018

December 08, 2018

Irish professor brutally slain in France by ‘very pious’ Muslim student

John Downing, 66, above, An Irish professor working in France, died of multiple stab wounds...

December 03, 2018

Santa ain’t real: school apologises for ‘crushing kids’ spirits’

New Jersey fashion publicist, mommy and 'enthusiast of all things pretty' Lisa Simek, above, compelled...

December 01, 2018

Religion muscles in on a school: parents told to put up or shut up

Warren Furman is a muscle-bound religiot who brings Christianity to schools in the UK, whether...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

Scottish politician vows to give his son a Jesus-centred education

A century ago Scotland snuggled up to the Catholic Church, and agreed – under the...

November 21, 2018

Prejudice, not pride: London school targeted for its inclusive agenda

Heavers Farm school in South Norwood holds a series of events that encourage pupils to...

November 20, 2018

Fundraiser for disowned gay teen fast approaches $100,000 mark

Don't you just love it when bigotry backfires? In the second case of its kind...

November 12, 2018

Christian group slams Scotland’s new LGBT-inclusive teaching policy

Simon Calvert, Deputy Director of the conservative UK advocacy group – the Christian Institute –...

November 11, 2018

Acclaimed British scientist appointed new President of Humanists UK

Leading British humanist organisation – Humanists UK – today announced the appointment Alice Roberts as its...

November 06, 2018

Orthodox rabbi criticised for his resistance to UK education standards

Alastair Lichten, above, Education and Schools Officer for the UK's National Secular Society, has blasted...

November 04, 2018

After thirteen years, Swedish humanist Christer Sturmark steps down

Christer Sturmark, above, is Sweden's most well-known secular humanist. Since 2005, he served as...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Prayer room battles hot up at Columbia University in New York

While Muslims are complaining that the four prayer rooms allotted to them at the university...

October 25, 2018

Illegal Muslim school prosecuted in a landmark trial in London

A so-called 'learning centre' which can't spell 'evaporate' correctly has been prosecuted in London for...

October 24, 2018

Plan for impose religion on Arizona schools goes down in flames

One of the happiest people in Arizona right now is Tory Roberg, Director of Government Affairs...

October 12, 2018

Bad marks: UK store blasted for selling hijabs for toddlers

Marks and Spencer stands accused of 'facilitating medievalism' for offering kiddie-sized hijabs in black and...

October 08, 2018

Op-ed: Compulsory nationalism

The BBC reports that a Texas school expelled a black student after she refused to...

October 05, 2018

‘Duck Dynasty’ star teams up with hate group to foist Bibles on schools

Dotty 'Christian values' actor Sadie Robertson teamed up with American anti-gay hate group Focus...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

UK’s Chief Rabbi accused of blasphemy over LGBT+ guide

Jerusalem-based Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, above, has reportedly gone ballistic over an LGBT+ guide issued earlier...

September 19, 2018

Pastors made to look fools during Banned Book Week

To mark America's national Banned Book Week – an anti-censorship initiative launched in the 1980s...

September 14, 2018

Lib Dems in Scotland get cold feet over religious education

A headline last week in The Scottish Catholic Observer read 'Lib Dems to consider adopting...

August 2018

August 20, 2018

NYC Inspectors denied access to 15 ultra-Orthodox schools

A three-year investigation into ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in New York culminated in a report published...

August 09, 2018

'Catholic Church is woefully incapable of policing itself'

That was the reaction of lawyer Richard Scorer to a report published today about the 'appalling'...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

UK faiths schools are under a sustained attack from the state

John Denning, Education Officer at The Christian Institute, has attacked Government draft guidance on how...

July 28, 2018

Cash bonanza for gay teen who refused to attend church

A $20,000 crowdfunding campaign for Seth Owen, a Florida teen who became homelessness after refusing...

July 22, 2018

Sacking of priest signals the end of Scottish Christianity

That's the view of a student at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) which sacked anti-gay Catholic...

July 03, 2018

Vicious UK imam jailed for 17 months for terrorising kids

Abdul Rauf, 51, described as "a nasty bully of a man" was jailed this week...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

Inadequacies of a Jewish faith school exposed in a new report

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School, a London state-aided Chasidic school headed by principal Rabbi Avraham Pinter,...

June 22, 2018

University professor in Hartford ran his office like a mosque

Biology professor Felix Coe, a Muslim professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Hartford,...

June 21, 2018

'British values' proving 'hostile' to Orthodox Jews in the UK

Orthodox Jews in north London gathered en masse on Tuesday of this week to protest...

June 18, 2018

Canadian law school ruling is a 'blow to religious freedom'

When the Supreme Court in Canada recently ruled that the law societies of Ontario and...

June 15, 2018

Out with the priests: US School Board vote upsets Christians

Fairfax County School Board in Virginia yesterday voted to remove 'clergy' from a list of...