THE Pope’s controversial visit to Britain next month is being threatened by low giving from Catholic parishes and rows over ethics and public money. According to this report, the cost of the planned state visit events has risen from £12 million to £20 million over the past two months, and there is a £3 million [...]
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THE National Secular Society has described as “beyond absurd” a Bibles-for-Beaks campaign headed by former Conservative Cabinet member Lord Mackay of Clashfern. Mackay, 83, acts as Honorary President of the Scottish Bible Society (SBS), and has invited sheriffs and judges to refamiliarise themselves with biblical principles, and act accordingly when presiding over court cases. Critics [...]
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THE UK gay humanist charity, the Pink Triangle Trust, has expressed its shock and outrage over a recent attack on the home of the Nigerian humanist and human rights activist Leo Igwe. Igwe’s father was brutally beaten in the attack, and subsequently had to have his right eye removed. This shocking incident is the most [...]
FRESH from their defeat in the Duke Amachree case, the Christian Legal Centre is preparing legal action in defence of a pair of Blackburn bigots who were told by Lancashire Council that their homophobia precluded them from fostering kids. John and Collette Yallop had their application to be foster parents terminated by the Council after [...]
A LONDON council worker who subjected a female client with an incurable illness to a “barrage” of biblical bullshit has lost an unfair dismissal claim. A tribunal heard that when the woman, referred to as Ms X, told Duke Amachree that she was suffering from an incurable disease as they discussed her housing case in [...]
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THE Military Religious Freedom Foundation has written a letter to the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates about a troubling new fact of life in some parts of the military – the use of chaplains to treat mental health problems frequently encountered by soldiers during war, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The letter, sent last [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
