On Thursday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a regulation to remove some of the stars on the U.S. flag in favor of religious crosses. The legislation was initially introduced in Alabama and was quickly mimicked by other southern states. Evangelical Christians, Senator Roy Enbrieder from Mississippi and Florida Governor Rick

Cardinal Keith O’Brien said countries which legalise gay marriage are “shaming themselves” by going against the “natural law,” and should not consider their actions “progress”. He claimed same sex unions were the “thin end of the wedge” and would lead to the “further degeneration of society into immorality.” In a series of controversial comments, he

London, March 3 (IANS) Britain may no longer be a Christian country by 2030 as the number of non-believers is set to overtake the number of Christians, a media report said. Christianity is losing more than half a million believers every year, while the count of atheists and agnostics is going up by almost 750,000

  Digitial Spy Reports A faith healing television channel has today been fined £25,000 by media regulator Ofcom over a series of breaches, including a televangelist who claimed that he could help individuals with serious illnesses using “miracle olive oil soap”. Believe TV, operated by The Light Academy Ltd, broadcasts a schedule of ‘faith’ programmes

Got this story from the Richard Dawkins Foundation, but I see the original story is from Stonegate Institute.   A Dutch Muslim politician has called for a ban on dogs in The Hague, the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Islamic legal tradition holds that dogs are “unclean” animals, and some say the call to ban them

  An amazing story out of South Africa. It appears there are progressives even in Islam. It is times like this that I have a little bit of hope for the future of Islam and where it is heading. Two South African lesbians from Delft, outside of Cape Town, will be married by an Imam

  While this might not be new, I thought it was worth a share. While preaching is not allowed in Australian public schools, it is apparently fine to replace school counsellors with ‘Christian Volunteers’ such as Darryl. A few years ago, the government realised that they could hand over school counselling roles to a willing

Gareth Cliff writes on his blog: They’re doing it again. The moral police are making decisions for you and I that they’re in no way entitled to make. I quote here from the Star Tonight of January 28 2012: Religious organisations and civil society welcomed the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) ruling on Friday

  This is a pretty interesting article. For those of you who live in South Africa, you will know that the Middle East a long time ago bought out any morality the South African government has, and South Africa is well known for being a terrorist haven (basically if you are a terrorist, and want

Satanic versus free speech   Salman Rushdie has launched a scathing attack on the Indian government for failing to protect free speech after organisers of Asia’s biggest literary festival were forced to cancel a video-link appearance by the British author when the owners of the venue in the northwest Indian city of Jaipur decided it

ABC News Reports: A Palestinian atheist who was jailed and beaten last year for expressing anti-Muslim views on Facebook and in blogs says Palestinian security forces are harassing him again, despite government pledges to respect human rights. The blogger’s renewed ordeal is part of a persistent climate of intolerance of dissent in the territories controlled