FOLLOWING a major setback earlier this year, a planned festival for non-believing service personnel at one of America’s biggest military bases has been given official clearance, and will take place next spring. Organisers planned to stage the Rock Beyond Belief event this year at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but cancelled after saying Bragg leadership was [...]
THE UK gay humanist charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT) has warmly welcomed unveiling on Friday by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh of a memorial at Bletchley Park to honour those who played a pivotal role in decryption operations during World War II, including the celebrated gay codebreaker and founder of the modern [...]
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AND this one speaks volumes about the rapid growth of the recently launched Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS). At the end of April this year, we carried an exclusive interview with Levi Chui Monton, corporate secretary of PATAS, and have since kept in close touch. Founded to promote atheism, agnosticism, humanism, atheism, rational thinking, [...]
POPE Ratzinger clearly did not have his eye on the ball over Easter – a period he chose to berate Westerners over their widespread abandonment of faith. The pontiff said it sometimes seemed as if people in Western countries had grown bored of their own history and culture and the heartlands of Christianity were rejecting [...]
DUTCH MEP Sophie in ‘t Veld was yesterday named the 2011 winner of prestigious Irwin Prize of Secularist of the Year. The National Secular Society (NSS), which organises the annual presentation, awarded her the prize at a ceremony in London for her work as chair of the European Parliamentary Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP). [...]
FOLLOWING an evangelical Rock the Fort event at Fort Bragg last year – an event the military sponsored to the tune of over $50,000 – an atheist soldier, Sgt Justin Griffith, responded by organising  a Rock Beyond Belief event, scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 2. It was to feature speakers such as Richard [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
