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Faith schools: where do the political parties stand?

  • byStephen Evans
  • 13 October 2023
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Stephen Evans of the National Secular Society argues that the state should not fund religiously segregated faith schools, and examines the main political parties' positions on this and related issues.
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Protecting atheists in Nigeria: the role of ‘safe houses’

  • byHank Pellissier
  • 28 July 2023
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The founder of the Humanist Mutual Aid Network reports on its establishment of 'safe houses' for non-believers in Nigeria, and their residents' achievements so far.
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Charles Bradlaugh and George Jacob Holyoake: their contrasting reputations as Secularists and Radicals

  • byEdward Royle
  • 23 November 2022
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Professor Edward Royle, an expert on British secularism, compares the lives and legacies of two leading figures in the 19th-century secularist movement.
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Secularisation and Protestantism in the 2021 Northern Ireland Census

  • byCharlie Lynch
  • 8 November 2022
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Northern Ireland's progress towards an increasingly secular, less religious society, as revealed in its most recent census.
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Hong Kong Exodus, 2021-22

  • byJames Lin Shan Hon
  • 5 October 2022
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Let’s leave this town, for they are hare-brain’d slaves…
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Bad Religious Education

  • bySiniša Prijić
  • 24 August 2022
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Why RE in England and Wales is failing to teach the study of religions in an objective way, or one that is beneficial in a liberal democracy.
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