TOP story in this week’s Church of England newspaper concerns a sudden surge of Brits choosing to debaptise themselves. In one week alone, the paper reported via its Religious Intelligence site, that 1,500 Brits paid for debaptism certificates provided by the National Secular Society. The NSS has offered the certificate on its website for five years [...]
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MARY Honeyball is a member of the European Parliament. She has been a London MEP since 2000, and this week she came out swinging against the pernicious influence of religion in politics. I for one object to this. I do not believe Christianity should have the kind of privileged place in our public life which [...]
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A REPORT on the £288,000 deficit suffered after the 2008 Lambeth Conference – a gathering in the UK of Anglicans from around the world – says that income was lower than expected due to the boycott by over 200 bishops over the issue of homosexuality. This, coupled with poor planning, inexperienced management, and weak financial [...]
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THAT godless “tool of the politically correct secularist establishment” – the Advertising Standards Authority – has shafted another evangelical outfit – claiming this week that it was misleading to suggest that prayer could “shrink tumours and overcome infertility”. The claim was made in a leaflet distributed by Kings Church Salisbury (which has just reinvented itself [...]
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AFTER French authorities gave them the equipment to build shelters at Calais, illegal migrants promptly erected a mosque. According to this report, the mosque was erected on a stretch of wasteland nicknamed ‘The Jungle’ by the main port in the French town. Hundreds of migrants live rough in the area, as they try to board [...]
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TWO disgraced Roman Catholic priests have been sentenced to prison in a case involving the misappropriation of more than $8 million from their church. John Skehan and Francis Guinan were accused in 2006 of skimming money from collection plates and bequests at their church in Delray Beach, Florida, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
