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July 2021

July 05, 2021

GETTR free speech platform that actually works, Mr Miller

THE half-man, half-melon pictured above is a former Trump aide Jason Miller who used the...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Leading Irish atheist wades into the Dawkins disinvitation row

THE CHAIR of Atheist Ireland Michael Nugent has written to the Historical Society at Trinity...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

French President: Blasphemy is no crime & religion can be mocked

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has added his voice to the thousands who have spoken out...

January 2020

January 12, 2020

Free speech victory: Brazil’s Supreme Court lifts Jesus parody ban

THE brouhaha in Brazil over Netflix's The First Temptation of Christ took a new turn...

January 06, 2020

Prof tells student that scripture’s inappropriate in academic papers

A CHRISTIAN student supportive of LGBT rights was told by a professor at New Jersey's...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

Trump declares Judaism a ‘nationality’. Liberal Jews are appalled.

OUTRAGE has erupted among liberal American Jews in the wake of a New York Times...

July 2019

July 04, 2019

‘Persecuted’ Christians jubilant over rare UK court victory

ANDREA Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre – an...

March 2019

March 27, 2019

Female team running Vatican publication resigns en masse

Eleven women working for a supplement published monthly by the daily L'Osservatore Romano newspaper have...

March 23, 2019

Ex-Muslim’s scheduled talk cancelled by Canadian university

On March 1 we reported that Oxford University's student newspaper, Cherwell, published an interview with...

March 06, 2019

A brief history of New Zealand’s now dead blasphemy law

NEW Zealand no longer has a blasphemy law, having decided yesterday to scrap the archaic...

November 2018

November 10, 2018

Excluding non-believers: veteran UK atheist takes on the BBC – again!

If there's a battle to be fought for non-religious voices to be heard in social...

September 2018

September 20, 2018

Ireland to vote next month on abolishing blasphemy law

Following a call last month by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) for the...

September 03, 2018

Blasphemy: NSS blasts Imran Khan for siding with fanatics

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan wasn't happy that a prophet Mohammed cartoon competition – now...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

Harvard man sacked for 'anti-Semitic' circumcision show

Beneath a recently uploaded YouTube video of his one-man show Sex & Circumcision: An American...

June 2018

June 16, 2018

'Hollywood's hatred of Trump is unreal' says Franklin Graham

US evangelist Franklin Graham hit out at Robert De Niro this week after the Hollywood...

April 2018

April 24, 2018

'Nazi dog' man Mark Meechan vows to appeal £800.00 fine

The fine was imposed on Meechan, above right, at Airdrie Sheriff Court a month after...

April 19, 2018

Indian cartoonist who 'hurt Hindu feelings' faces charges

The Hyderabad police have registered a case against Swathi Vadlamudi, a journalist working for an...

March 2018

March 21, 2018

'Nazi pug' case: Scottish court finds man guilty of hate crime

Mark Meechan, 30, pictured above with a pug called Buddha, will be sentenced next month...

November 2017

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...

September 2017

September 30, 2017

Gagged priest gets his voice back and attacks xenophobia

A few years back priest and journalist Fr Adam Boniecki, above, angered the Catholic Church...

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 19, 2017

Meat ad moaners told to get lost by advertising watchdog

Australia's Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has dismissed complaints filed by Hindu groups against a controversial...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

German courts refuse to take pasta-based religion seriously

A legal battle over whether or not the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

Californians will get to hear Dawkins promote his new book

Just days after Berkeley public radio station KPFA abruptly cancelled a talk by Professor Richard...

July 22, 2017

Fire Brigades Union called out over heated Pride blog post

The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) is awaiting a response from the Fire Brigades...

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...

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Hopes that New Zealand would bin its blasphemy laws dashed

Last week we reported that New Zealand was on the brink of scrapping its blasphemy...

May 23, 2017

Muslim Council of Britain chief condemns Manchester atrocity

In the wake of last night's terrorist attack which killed 22, including children, and injured...

May 20, 2017

Dagbladet's anti-circumcision cartoon attacked by rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, President of the Conference of European Rabbis, has called on Norwegian authorities...

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...