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Iranian TV Airs Forced Confession by Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic On July 30, a 28-year-old writer, journalist, editor, and activist of forced hijab appeared on national TV, making her “confession” a few weeks after her disappearance. Sepideh Rashnu was arrested after a video circulated online of her being accosted on a Tehran bus by a veiled woman who rebuked Rashnu for […]

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Anti-LGBT Christian College Probed by State of WA Amid Student Protests P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Seattle Pacific University, a private Christian liberal arts university in the US state of Washington, is facing an investigation over an alleged prohibition of hiring members of the LGBT community. The school mandates that employees are not to engage in same-sex sexual activity, extramarital sex, and cohabitating before marriage. Washington state

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Pro-Female Genital Mutilation Islamic Leader Tours UK Despite Uproar P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the head priest of the Shia Dawoodi Bohra community and a vocal advocate of Female Genital Mutilation, was granted a visit to the United Kingdom. He is scheduled for a talk in front of tens of thousands in London between July 29 to August 7. Anti-FGM campaigners are

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Stop a preaching coach, FFRF urges N.C. school system lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Immediately halt the proselytizing activities of a local high school’s football coach, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is insisting to a North Carolina school district. A concerned Swain County Schools community member has informed the state/church watchdog that Sherman Holt,

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American Students Sing Religious Oath of Loyalty to Iran's Supreme Leader P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic Muslim children in Houston, Texas, sang an Islamic religious song with lyrics swearing allegiance to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader. Mohammad Hanif Jazayeri, a London-based journalist of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, tweeted a video of the children singing. According to Jazayeri, Iran is “recruiting child soldiers in the

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FFRF cheers the protection of abortion rights in Kansas lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Thank you, Kansans, for restoring the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “faith” in our nation’s commitment to individual liberties. Kansas voters yesterday resoundingly rejected the anti-abortion referendum on their ballot. Voters were put to the task to either preserve the 2019

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Music cartoon video to lift secular spirits, compliments of FFRF lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation In honor of one of secularism’s many talented voices, the poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) — whose birthday is today, Aug. 3 — the Freedom From Religion Foundation is sharing the animated music video we produced featuring his charmingly irreverent poem,

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Atheist Republic News Summary: How Muslims Praying in a Mall Became a Ma… P-admin Atheist Republic

Read More Atheist Republic How Muslims Praying in a Mall Became a Major Controversy in India https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/how-muslims-praying-mall-became-major-controversy-india Location: India On July 15th, several men were booked with a police complaint (FIR) after a video of them offering the Muslim prayer, or namaz, inside a recently opened shopping mall in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, went viral. The

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FFRF laments Christian flag flying at Boston City Hall, even once lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation While pronouncing as chilling the symbolism of a Christian flag flying with the flags of the United States and state of Massachusetts over Boston City Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 3, the Freedom From Religion Foundation hopes it will be only

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Nix upcoming religious staff meeting, FFRF urges Ala. school district czimmerman@ffrf.org (Casandra Zimmerman) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation   An Alabama school district must call off an annual staff meeting scheduled for later this week that in past years has been suffused with religion, insists the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A concerned Calhoun County School District employee has

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