Read More Atheist Republic On May 22, 2022, came another attack on women’s rights in Afghanistan. The Taliban reissued an old law requiring women to cover their faces, this time specifying news anchors. Proof of this new law was seen on-air as female news anchors are seen on TV with masks just showing their eyes […]
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Read More Atheist Republic On May 19, police in Neemuch, western Madhya Pradesh, were notified about an unidentified dead body allegedly stored in a freezer. The police went to the location and retrieved the body, which was identified as 65-year-old Bhanwarlal Jain. According to The Wire, Jain is a Sarsi (Sirsi) village resident who wandered
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Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sickened by the massacre at an elementary school in Texas in which 21 people, including 19 children, have been senselessly murdered by a young man armed with assault rifles. Our heartfelt condolences go out to
Read More Atheist Republic Pope Francis declared Devasahayam, also known as Lazarus, a saint on May 16, thus making him the first Indian layman to be canonized. Devasahayam was born into an upper-caste Hindu family in 1712 in the south Indian town of Kanyakumari. He was baptized in 1745 in Travancore (modern-day Kerela), fought against
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Read More Atheist Republic In Kerala, India, a statewide Youth Caravan by Solidarity Youth Movement Kerala, a Muslim organization affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, seeks legislation to prevent Islamophobia by demanding legal protection for Muslims from hate crimes. “Islamophobic campaigns are barring Muslims from economic rights, political rights, and democratic rights,” according to Jamaat-e-Islami national secretary
Read More Black Nonbelievers, Inc. Greetings, Sadly, we have witnessed some very tragic events in May. The horrific attack in Buffalo, NY that left 10 people dead and 3 injured (mostly targeting African Americans) at the hands of alleged shooter Payton Grendon, was yet another in a long line of domestic terrorists who harbor White
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Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is insisting that an Alabama school district immediately halt a teacher’s blatant proselytizing. A concerned Shelby County Schools parent has informed the national state/church watchdog that their child’s teacher has been proselytizing to students and has
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s communications director has written a widely read column excorating the Russian Orthodox Church’s enthusiastic backing of the Ukraine invasion. In a piece for The Progressive magazine’s op-ed service, Amitabh Pal dissects the various specious justifications that
Read More Atheist Republic Muslim Outrage Forces Canadian University to Pull Poster of Lesbian Hijabis https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/muslim-outrage-forces-canadian-university-pull-poster-lesbian-hijabis Location: Canada On May 17th, also known as International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), Western University posted a graphic featuring two women in hijab who appeared as if they were about to kiss. The university immediately faced
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation A recent bombshell report has revealed that officials of the Southern Baptist Church engaged in a troubling pattern of abuse and cover-up. For the past 20 years, church members have been reporting abuses by clergymen “only to be met, time and
