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  • 13 Dec 2012
    Report illustrates global discrimination against the non-religious

    A new report highlights the sometimes extreme limitations on freedom of thought for the non-religious in over 60 countries across the world.

  • 13 Aug 2012
    Experiencing a spirituality festival as a secular Humanist

    Festival of Spirituality and Peace in Edinburgh (3-27 August 2012) is an Interfaith and intercultural event; there are Jewish, Islamic, Christian and Daoist events, for example, as well as artists from every contintent but Antarctica, reports Katie MacFadyen. But what is the relationship between 'interfaith' and 'no faith'? Where do Secular Humanists fall in this atmosphere of inclusivity?

  • 2 Dec 2011
    Religious and humanist commitment to peace

    A recent press comment from Mennonite World Conference acts as a helpful reminder of an important declaration inviting belief communities - faith-based and otherwise - to commit to peace in the midst of a world still riven with conflict and religiously- or ideologically-sanctioned violence.

  • 20 Jun 2011
    Equality chief under fire for pushing aside the non-religious

    The chair of Equality and Human Rights Commission has been asked to apologise to non-religious people for comments he made in a recent interview.

  • 9 Nov 2010
    American humanists take on religious fundamentalism in ad campaign

    Humanists in the USA are launching a national multimedia ad campaign directly challenging fundamentalist Christianity and its misuse of the Bible.

  • 12 Sep 2008
    First Hindu school stokes debate on faith and education

    Accord, a new coalition promoting inclusive education and seeking the reform of faith schools policy, has expressed reservations over the opening of the Krishna-Avanti School in Edgware, the first publicly-funded Hindu school in Britain.

  • 26 Jun 2008
    Moral practice and non-belief

    Atheists are often criticising the ethics of religious belief, says Giles Fraser. But do they base their own moral practice too much on what they are against?

  • 23 Jan 2008
    Does religion have to be the enemy?

    A discussion meeting of the Oxford Secular Society, open to people of all persuasions, with Simon Barrow, co-director of the think-tank Ekklesia.

  • 3 Dec 2007
    Against the gods, religious and otherwise

    The non-religious as well as the religious fight amongst themselves, Mark Vernon observes. But in questioning, they are all the better for it, provided that plural thoughtfulness can overcome intolerant rationalism.

  • 23 Nov 2007
    Newspaper calls for non-religious voices on radio faith slot

    The Guardian newspaper has joined a growing list of people calling on the BBC to open its Radio 4 Thought for the Day slot to non-religious as well as religious voices. TFTD is broadcast on the flagship Today programme at 07.50 each day.