July 15, 2022

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which has sued the IRS over tax code inequities favoring churches over secular nonprofits, is condemning the growing trend of right-wing groups evading financial scrutiny by reorganizing as churches.  FFRF contends that not only is […]

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Do not misinterpret a recent Supreme Court decision, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is warning a California school board against whom it won a historic judgment. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District was released

Read More Atheist Republic On July 1,  Pakistan Police arrested 27 Samsung employees at a mobile store after a mob turned violent at the Star City mall in Karachi. Protests began after a WiFi device was installed at the mall, which allegedly made blasphemous remarks against the Prophet Muhammad and his companions. In retaliation, a

Read More Atheist Republic On July 11, Jafar Panahi, one of the most influential Iranian filmmakers, was taken into custody. He is the third director to be arrested in less than a week in Iran. He was arrested after he went to the prosecutor’s office with his colleagues and lawyers to investigate why his fellow

Read More Atheist Republic Arun Yadav, an IT cell in charge of the Haryana unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was removed from his post on July 7. The party has not provided any apparent reason. It is speculated that the party expelled Yadav because of a controversial tweet that he made against Islam in

Read More Atheist Republic Pakistan’s Blasphemy law has ruined many and sometimes taken lives since the country declared independence. In a recent hearing, a Christian believer named Ashfaq Masih, a mechanic was sentenced to death for blasphemy. The man was accused of insulting Prophet Muhammad by saying, “Jesus is supreme.” A Lahore court sentenced Masih

Read More Atheist Republic Tensions are rising in Iran as activists respond to the increasingly harsher implementation of hijab compliance. Brave and defiant women are posting videos of themselves not wearing hijab. One woman posted a video of herself burning a hijab. آتش زدن حجاب اجباری در روز عفاف و حجابیکی از دختران ایرانی با