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September 2021

September 27, 2021

Court rules that an adoption agency cannot reject gay couples

BACK in 2019, Cornerstone (North East) Adoption and Fostering Service, which works exclusively with evangelical...

August 2021

August 10, 2021

Nigerian atheist charged with ‘blasphemy’ 17 months after his arrest

DEAF to international outrage over the arrest of Bala, 37 – President of the Humanist...

July 2021

July 22, 2021

‘Kill homosexuals’ book found in school run by large UK mosque

SCHOOL inspectors in England discovered a book that calls for the killing of homosexuals in...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

De facto blasphemy code has been imposed on school, says UK’s National Secular Society

STANDING outside Batley Grammar School in Yorkshire earlier this year, a spokesman for the local...

April 2021

April 21, 2021

Northern Ireland assembly votes to ban conversion therapy

IN a vote held in the Northern Ireland Assembly yesterday (Tuesday) politicians voted for motion...

April 02, 2021

‘Pray-way-the-gay’ outfit gets to keep its charitable status

IF Britain had a Bible Belt, Northern Ireland would be its buckle. So it's no...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

‘Blasphemy’ row erupts at UK school over Mohammed cartoon

A YORKSHIRE school this week came under siege by angry Muslims demanding the sacking of...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Op-ed: Paris trial sent an appalling message to clerical abusers

LAST month, the Pope’s former Ambassador to France, ex-Papal Nuncio Luigi Ventura, above, was tried...

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Clerical abuse: RCC again shows that it can’t handle the problem

DESPITE being castigated in a damning report on clerical abuse, the head of the Catholic...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Scottish atheist group under fire for supporting a hate crime bill

A LAW proposed by Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf, above, has been widely condemned by...

June 2020

June 12, 2020

Praying away the gay: Government responds positively to petition

A PETITION calling on the UK government to make LGBT conversion therapy in the UK...

May 2020

May 18, 2020

Harmful ‘gay cure’ outfit furious at being labeled … harmful

A NORTHERN-Ireland based Christian organisation that seeks to engender or amplify feelings of self-loathing among...

April 2020

April 08, 2020

Veteran UK atheist Barbara Smoker dies aged 96

I LEARNED with sadness today that Barbara Smoker, former President of the National Secular Society, ...

March 2020

March 14, 2020

Jewish school ‘inadequate’ over science and geography lessons

BNOIS Jerusalem Girls School in Hackney in north London has been slammed this week by...

March 10, 2020

‘Outrageous’ – UK taxpayers are to fund a new Catholic school

HUMANISTS UK has expressed outrage over the fact that the first new Roman Catholic state...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

French Cardinal convicted of clerical abuse cover-up wins appeal

OUTRAGE is being expressed in France and beyond following news today (Thursday) that Cardinal Philippe...

January 06, 2020

Evangelical doctor: fresh inquiry launched by UK medical watchdog

LAST month Christian Concern gleefully declared that 'Christian doctor secures freedom to pray'. The CC's...

August 2019

August 04, 2019

C of E Education Officer scorned for views on school worship

Rev Nigel Genders, above, the Church of England's Chief Education Officer, thinks collective worship offers...

July 2019

July 26, 2019

Charities allowed to promote infant mutilation if it ‘advances religion’

I HAD never heard of the The Initiation Society and the charity status it enjoys...

July 19, 2019

Man, sacked for Facebook anti-religious post, is reinstated

BRIAN Leach, above, the UK man sacked by supermarket chain Asda for sharing a video...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

Christian doc is being probed for foisting religion on patients

THE UK's General Medical Council (GMC) is reportedly investigating a GP who allegedly brought his...

June 12, 2019

NSS castigates vicar over ‘alarming’ relationship teaching article

The National Secular Society's Education and Schools Officer, Alastair Lichten, above, has weighed into a...

May 2019

May 21, 2019

Pakistan lawyer is named Secularist of the Year by NSS

SAIF ul Malook, the lawyer who defended Asia Bibi who spent eight years on death...

May 18, 2019

‘Islamophobia’ definition poses a threat to free speech in the UK

THERE are 'surprising levels' of agreement among many Christians and secularists that the proposed adoption...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

Biblical savagery used to deny asylum to a convert to Christianity

Stephen Evans, Chief Executive of the National Secular Society, above, has blasted the UK's Home...

March 18, 2019

‘Kill the Gays’ ministry in the UK still enjoys charitable status. Why?

WHEN I read today that the National Secular Society (NSS) wants organisations that exist solely...

November 2018

November 23, 2018

Secular group questions Muslim hate preacher’s role in a UK charity

Dr Zakir Naik, above, is banned from entering Britain, but the Islamic preacher who has...

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 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...