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July 9, 2020

President of Nigerian Humanist Association held incommunicado

Mubarak Bala, president of the Nigerian Humanist Association, has been detained incommunicado since 28 April, 2020.
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.
August 12, 2017

Liberty intervenes in legal case for humanist weddings in Northern Ireland

The civil liberties and human rights organisation Liberty has intervened in the case of a couple fighting for humanist weddings to be legally recognised in Northern Ireland.
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.
August 5, 2013

Imagine no religion...?

The lines in the John Lennon song are famous by now: "Imagine there's no religion... it's easy if you try..." But is it, and what would it mean?
December 13, 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.
August 13, 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?
December 2, 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.
June 20, 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.
November 9, 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.