Pope Francis has welcomed the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby in Rome, the first time the two church leaders have met. The leade...
This is the 15-year-old boy who was publicly executed by Islamist rebel militia in Syria, apparently for the crime of blasphemy. Mohammad Qataa wa...
A new campaign launched in an attempt to end schools selecting pupils based on their faith has provoked strong, passionate debate from either side. ...
I understand that, for some, exposing their children to the non-Jewish community is unacceptable but outlawing them will help no one. Welcoming them as part of the rich variety of our society is a responsibility for those who believe in a tolerant, welcoming community.
Freethinkers in India will be getting touchy feely on Friday as the country celebrates ‘hug an atheist’ day. The event is a first for India an...
Atheist campaigners along with several prominent religious leaders have launched a controversial new campaign to ban schools from selecting children o...
The Catholic Church’s leading exorcist says he will ask Pope Francis to grant all priests the power to perform the ritual amid what he describes as ...
Like any country with a reputation for extremism, it's history will always be judged on the actions of extremists. The usual saying that history is judged by the victors does not yet apply to Northern Ireland, as it sometimes seems that the state of conflict has never really ended in the minds of much of its population.
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Pope Francis has delivered a homily in which he states atheists who do good are redeemed through Jesus. Speaking at the Wednesday morning Mass in ...
"You gotta thank the Lord," CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer said to an Oklahoma tornado survivor as she cradled her toddler, surrounded by ruins of her stre...
The government is refusing to back plans for couples to be able to hold "non-religious" wedding ceremonies, despite previously pledging support, accor...
The head of an autism association in Turkey has apologised for suggesting that autistic people were natural atheists, and that atheism could be a form...
This homeless man may well have the most ingenius ploy of collecting small change we've ever seen. Holding a sign which asks "Which religion cares...
In 2006 Richard Dawkins wrote what might yet prove to be one of the most important books of the 21st Century, The God Delusion. However, seven years on and Dawkins appears to have become unnecessarily divisive and detached.
Atheist professor Richard Dawkins has sparked a storm of controversy online for suggesting a Muslim journalist should not have had an opinion piece pu...
The Big Bang was strange -- and we still don't understand it, said Professor Stephen Hawking in his latest speech. But whatever happened in the fi...
The Sunday Assembly is the brainchild of comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans who decided it was time to start 'a friendly community gathering for like-minded people'. The monthly event is in it's fourth incarnation and seems to be gathering disciples at a monumental pace.
This week a friend of mine will walk away from his rapidly growing clothing line. He will switch off his iPhone, turn off his Mac, and drop out from Facebook, Twitter and every other social media. This week my friend will be ordained as a Buddhist monk.
Whatever else one might think of Grayling's views, his skills as a writer are incontestable. The sheer clarity of his jargon-free prose makes The God Argument a pleasure to read.
Atheists have accused the Church of England of "spinning" the results of research that claimed ‘four out of five believe in the power of prayer’ a...
They say the Devil has the best tunes, and whoever "they" are, they are correct. What these people don't mention is that the Devil also has the best Easter eggs.
I've been meaning to write about the Richard Dawkins brand of atheism for a while, but today is definitely the day, after watching the great man's Twitter feed pronounce on the superior worth of an adult pig over a human foetus. I'm not sure I follow his argument, but actually that's not my point. I'm interested in his motivation.
University College London has responded to a row over attempts to segregate the audience at a debate about Islam and atheism by their gender - saying ...
An academic says he threatened to walk out of a debate hosted by the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA) because organisers tried to segrega...
