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June 2018

June 09, 2018

Op-ed: stop teaching Christian crap to kids in Florida schools

Ever since he took office, Donald Trump has been feverishly working alongside evangelical Christians to...

June 02, 2018

Spain's new atheist PM wants religion kept out of schools

Pedro Sánchez, an atheist to the core, today became the first Spanish Prime Minister to...

May 2018

May 22, 2018

Police officer told bullied gay teen she was destined for hell

In America school resource officers are sworn law enforcement officers responsible for safety and crime...

May 16, 2018

Movie glorifying billionaire evangelist fails to fill cinemas

Nada a Perder (Nothing to Lose) is an authorised biopic of Edir Macedo, founder and...

May 11, 2018

Faith schools: Catholics and secularists criticise new plans

The Government has abandoned plans to lift the 50 per cap on faith admissions in...

May 08, 2018

No rabbi, you do not promote learning by pandering to idiots

Rabbi Dr Natan Slifkin, above, founder and director of The Biblical Museum of Natural History...

April 2018

April 23, 2018

Global protests against sex education take place today

Driven by mainly by the Christian conviction that sex-education is bad, and that schoolkids should...

April 22, 2018

Christian University makes millions selling dodgy courses

A newly-published investigation into degree courses being sold online by Liberty University, the Trump-supporting evangelical...

April 21, 2018

NSS campaign launched to end state-funded faith schools

Historian and broadcaster Dan Snow, left, and politician and former actor Lord Cashman are among...

April 17, 2018

School pupils take a stand against chaplain's homophobia

Rev Mike Goss, above, has expressed 'disappointment' that pupils from Carnoustie High School in Angus...

April 02, 2018

Education watchdog Ofsted accused of racism over hijabs

The UK's National Education Union has accused Amanda Spielman, above, head of Ofsted and the...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Catholic school receives lawyer's letter over gay event

Declan Meehan, above, Deputy director of Cara-Friend, an LGBT-support organisation based in Belfast, has hit...

March 14, 2018

Sweden pledges to impose a ban on religious schools

Outlining its education policy ahead of this year’s General Election, Sweden’s governing Social Democrats yesterday...

March 06, 2018

Will the Tories please throw the Catholic Church under a bus

Last September the Catholic Herald's Andrew Cusack argued that Catholic voters were of immense value...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Christian school in London taught creationism as science

The Kings Kids Christian School in southeast London fell foul of Ofsted, the education watchdog,...

February 18, 2018

Secularism is as great a threat to Christianity as terrorism

Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich – a Catholic Republican – claimed last night that...

February 15, 2018

Planned Parenthood supporter wins Catholic school battle

Last week Kate Murray, a student at Sacred Heart Greenwich Girls' school in Connecticut, was...

February 12, 2018

Catholic school feels parents' wrath for sacking gay teacher

Shortly after teacher Jocelyn Morffi married Natasha Hass at the beginning of February, Miami's Sts...

February 10, 2018

Christian teacher loses her religious discrimination case

The Christian Legal Centre has suffered yet another loss, this time in regard to the...

February 02, 2018

Academy accused of tolerating atheism but not Christianity

The T2 Apprenticeship Academy in Bristol allowed 'an outspoken left-wing atheist' to remain in his...

January 2018

January 27, 2018

More Catholic schools needed to project children into heaven

Growing secularism in the US has led to an increasing number of Catholic schools closing,...

January 22, 2018

Creationist reappointed to Scottish education committee

Humanists in Scotland are among a number who have expressed concern that an evangelical creationist,...

December 2017

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 09, 2017

Archbishop's 'shameful' attack on non-religious schools

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has been strongly rebuked by Humanists UK for saying...

December 06, 2017

Employment tribunal rules in favour sacked Jewish teacher

Zelda de Groen, 24, who lost her job in 2016 at a Jewish nursery school...

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...

November 2017

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 31, 2017

In Ireland fewer children are attending Catholic schools

Archbishop Eamon Martin , above, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has voiced concern...

October 23, 2017

Catholics refused public funds for faith-based sex education

It has just come to light that Catholic school superintendents in Alberta, Canada – headed...

October 18, 2017

Parents called 'extremists' for opposing Crossteach lessons

Crossteach is one of a number of Christians organisations that exist to brainwash schoolkids, but...