The news that a Catholic high school in Prestwich is refusing to allow its girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer is all over the mainstream media, so it is unlikely to be news to Freethinker readers. But the extraordinary thing about this case is not the fact that members of the governing board of [...]
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AS someone who has frequently complained to hotel managers about Gideons Bibles in the rooms I have occupied – “remove it now, or I will clog up the bog with the thing” usually did the trick – I was delighted to learn today that the American Civil Liberties Union has warned a school district in [...]
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A BLIND seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police reported last Friday. The incident serves to highlight once again the widespread abuse of children in madrassas (religious schools) in Pakistan and other parts of the world. The police said that [...]
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TEN members of the Russian Academy of Sciences have written an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V Putin stating their ‘deepening concern over the increasing clericalisation of Russian society’, and the Russian Orthodox Church’s infiltration of all areas of public life.The signatories include two Nobel Prize winners Zhores Alferov and [...]
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Full of Christmas spirit and Christian love, a headmaster in Scotland told a wee laddie he couldn’t go to his school’s Christmas party and enjoy jelly and blancmange and presents from Santa Claus with his friends, because the boy’s parents had pulled him from RE lessons. Fortunately, his local council has told the headmaster he’s a [...]
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LABOUR’s chief whip in the Scottish Parliament seems afraid about something – something that might just stir up a religious hornets’ nest (are there religious hornets?). Michael McMahon doesn’t want an inquiry into Catholic Schools and possible discrimination therein. But, then, he’s a Catholic, as can be seen from his profile on the Parliament’s website. [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
