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AAI Applauds Jimmy Carter for Courage and Integrity in Challenging Religious Values |
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Atheist Alliance International, an atheists rights and pro-separation of church and state group, praised former United States president and devout Christian Jimmy Carter for having the courage and integrity to condemn his own church and religious community for their use of scripture to justify and promote the ongoing oppression of women. |
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Irish Atheists Prepare to Challenge New Blasphemy Law |
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Thursday, 23 July 2009 |
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July 22, 2009 - The advocacy group Atheist Ireland has announced its intent to campaign for the repeal of the new "blasphemy" law passed by the Irish parliament and signed into law last month. Atheist Ireland calls the law "dangerous" and "anachronistic", and calls for "a referendum to remove the blasphemy reference from the Irish Constitution, as part of our wider campaign for an ethical and secular Ireland." |
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AAI Affiliate Nigerian Human Movement Confronts Witch-Belief in Nigeria |
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Sunday, 19 July 2009 |
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In the past ten years, thousands of children alleged to be witches and wizards have been tortured, thrown out, abandoned or killed by their family members in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States (Nigeria). This month, AAI affiliate Nigerian Humanist Movement and a UK based non governmental organisation, the Stepping Stones Nigeria are organizing a symposium on witchcraft. The aim of the program is to highlight the abuses of child rights that take place in Nigeria due to this traditional belief. The event is part of wider efforts being made by both organisations to combat the persecution of children in the name of witchcraft. |
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Irish Gov Pursues Protection of Ideologies Over People |
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 |
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The Irish parliament has passed a law imposing a 25,000 Euro fine for the crime of blasphemy. There are conflicting accounts of the final vote centering on the absence of two lawmakers; but the government had been backing the measure, while the Atheists, Freethinkers and secularists there waged a vigorous campaign to defeat the intrusive measure. Ironically, there are blasphemy statues already on the books and ensconced in the Irish Constitution; the new legislation actually reduces the punishment for this "crime." |
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Christianity is Finished in Britain, says Church of England Bishop |
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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 |
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A long-serving Church of England bishop has predicted that the Church of England will cease to exist within a generation. In an article in the Sunday Telegraph, the Right Reverend Paul Richardson said declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism meant that "Christian Britain is dead". |
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