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June 29, 2020

Global persecution of humanists continues to worsen, says new report

The report identifies the growing use of blasphemy laws to crack down on the non-religious, as well as vigilante violence.
June 22, 2020

Proportion of non-religious in Northern Ireland hits record high

Figures provide yet more evidence that the population is becoming less religious and more diverse over time.
May 24, 2019

Government announces review into religious persecution and LGBT asylum claims

The Government has commissioned a review into how the Home Office assesses asylum claims on the basis of religious, non-religious, or LGBT asylum.
December 12, 2018

Call for Home Office to protect rights of non-religious asylum seekers

Blasphemy or apostasy is punishable by death in 13 countries.
June 19, 2018

New report finds non-religious discriminated against by state faith schools

A new report gives detailed analysis of the admissions policies of every state faith secondary school in England.
January 19, 2018

Home Office rejects claim of humanist asylum seeker unable to identify Plato or Aristotle

The Home Office has rejected a claim for asylum on the grounds that the claimant, a Pakistani humanist, when asked to name ancient Greek philosophers who were humanists, did not name Plato and Aristotle.
December 1, 2014

IS/ISIS and the dark side of modernity

Karen Armstrong, whose new book Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence invites far more subtle understanding of the relationship between faith and fratricide globally, has written a characteristically thoughtful piece on IS/ISIS for The New Statesman magazine: 'Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism'.
August 26, 2013

The challenge of inter-faith engagement

Just Festival and its predecessor, the Festival of Spirituality and Peace, has been concerned over the years to strike up a genuine personal, artistic, spiritual and cultural conversation among the different religions and beliefs that make up our country.
August 5, 2013

Faith and beliefs today: how do we go forward?

Twenty years ago, many public commentators believed that religion was dead, or at least 'on the way out'. How wrong that proved. Simon Barrow looks at how the conversation about faith is deepening and broadening in the face of growing religious and non-religious diversity.
December 12, 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.