Representatives of the National Secular Society delivered a 28,000-name petition to Downing Street on Thursday, requesting that the cost of the Popes trip to Britain be borne by the Church rather than the taxpayer. […]
The National Secular Society said this week that blasphemy law had been reintroduced by the back door after a Manchester man was convicted at Liverpool Crown Court on Wednesday of causing religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress. […]
Brazil's Catholic Church is suing Columbia Pictures in Hollywood for using what it claims are unauthorized images of Rio's famous giant Christ statue being destroyed in its disaster movie "2012," which was in cinemas last November. […]
An alarming edition of Channel 4s Dispatches programme this week revealed the extent to which a radical Islamist group has successfully infiltrated the Labour Party in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. […]
Joining the push to force religion into the election, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, said this week that politicians are trying to bully Christianity out of public life. […]
When the District of Columbia in the USA announced that it intended to legalise gay marriage, the Catholic Church immediately said that it would withdraw all its welfare services in protest. The Church obviously expected the legislature of DC to capitulate to this blatant blackmail. But it didnt work, and gay marriage was legalised on Wednesday this week. […]
Five Richard Dawkins books, signed by the author and dedicated to the "Platitude of the Year 2009 winner" are now being auctioned on eBay in aid of the NSS. […]
More information is emerging about the Popes trip the UK in September. Apparently Vatican officials travelled to Britain last week to stake out the territory. […]