9th Feb 2010 : "How many times does the pope get to 'condemn' clergy sexual abuse while doing virtually nothing to stop it?" asked Barbara Dorris, the group's outreach director.

9th Feb 2010 : The Catholic Church in Germany has been shaken in recent days by revelations of a series of sexual abuse cases. Close to 100 priests and members of the laity have been suspected of abuse in recent years. After years of suppression, the wall of silence appears to be crumbling.

8th Feb 2010 : Sikhs should be allowed to wear their ceremonial daggers - known as Kirpans - to school and other public places, Britain's first Asian judge has said.

5th Feb 2010 : Reminder note that this event is Feb 12-14 at Stanford University.

5th Feb 2010 : On July 1, 2008 Barack Obama promised to abide by "a few basic principles" that would protect the constitutional separation of church and state in his plan for an expanded faith based initiative program.

4th Feb 2010 : A senior judge could be called on to investigate a complaint that Cherie Blair handed down a more lenient sentence to a man who had been convicted of fracturing a person’s jaw because he was religious.

4th Feb 2010 : They had no place to stay, and no supplies — their idea was to use the ton of money they had to buy food to distribute when they got there. But there was no food and no water. That was the point.

4th Feb 2010 : Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office

4th Feb 2010 : A group of activists, academics and leaders of the Freethought Movement have come together to propose the foundation of a well-organized, non-profit, freethought organization in India.

2nd Feb 2010 : I want you to remember two names - Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour. They were two young men who were executed by the Islamic regime of Iran at dawn this past Thursday, January 28 for the ‘crime’ of ‘enmity against god’.

1st Feb 2010 : A charity suggests Churches will attract men by using swords rather than flowers as decoration

31st Jan 2010 : Tickets for The Rise of Atheism, 2010 Global Atheist Convention are now sold out! The Convention, to be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 12 - 14 March 2010...

29th Jan 2010 : New book by Pat Condell - For too long religion has enjoyed the benefit of the doubt, taking all the benefit and allowing none of the doubt.

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29th Jan 2010 : At 10:23am on January 30th, more than three hundred homeopathy sceptics nationwide will be taking part in a mass homeopathic 'overdose'...

29th Jan 2010 : An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations...

29th Jan 2010 : The Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) is the only Italian association dedicated to the rights of the non-religious and the promotion of a secular worldview.

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26th Jan 2010 : The biggest expansion of faith schools since the 19th century would be encouraged by a Tory government, David Cameron signalled yesterday.

26th Jan 2010 : It also recommends refusing residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of a "radical religious practice."

26th Jan 2010 : These words are part of prominent, 14' x 48' billboards that have just gone up on both sides of Tampa Bay.

26th Jan 2010 : Richard was interviewed on the South African talk and news station, Talk Radio 702.

25th Jan 2010 : Watching Channel Four’s “Bible: A History”, I expected the usual cliched “look at these strange religious people” spiel...

25th Jan 2010 : Haiti's evangelical and voodoo priests are providing spiritual and material aid to the homeless and injured

24th Jan 2010 : Leading British novelist Howard Jacobson tries to find a path between religious and atheistic fundamentalists.

24th Jan 2010 : As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti’s earthquake victims, a U.S. faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need.

24th Jan 2010 : A Calgary church has lost its charitable status in part because it spends too much of its time advocating on social issues such as abortion and marriage.

23rd Jan 2010 : TONIGHT ON BBC 4 - 21:45

23rd Jan 2010 : How do you create a surgery center in a disaster zone in the shortest amount of time possible? The aid group Doctors Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) has developed what they call a "plug and play hospital,"...

23rd Jan 2010 : Famed New Atheist Richard Dawkins has opened up a "religion-free" way of helping the victims of the deadly earthquake in Haiti.

23rd Jan 2010 : The Vatican is facing some awkward questions after an investigation was launched into its alleged involvement in a money-laundering scheme.

23rd Jan 2010 : The Church of England has been hit by a new slump in its congregations, with the latest figures showing its fifth year-on-year decline.

22nd Jan 2010 : Professor Richard Dawkins appears to see the disaster in Haiti as an opportunity to further his atheist cause.

21st Jan 2010 : On 15th of January, 2010, the objectionable T.V. show “Raz Pichhle Janam Ka” on NDTV Imagine has ended prematurely.

21st Jan 2010 : Right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders said Wednesday that freedom of speech in his country was threatened, as he went on trial in Amsterdam charged with inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims.

20th Jan 2010 : 'The Daily Politics' starts at 11:30 on BBC 2 - Richard will be appearing live at 12:45.

18th Jan 2010 : The James Randi Educational Foundation has teamed up with the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science and a dozen other secular groups to set up a way to donate money to help out the people of Haiti after the huge earthquake last week.

18th Jan 2010 : For those inclined to help the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, here's another option for you: Non-Believers Giving Aid, organized by Richard Dawkins.

18th Jan 2010 : Haiti relief fund translated and announced in the German humanistisher pressedienst.
Angespornt durch das entsetzliche Leid auf Haiti, hat die Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS) ein dem Zweck gewidmetes Bankkonto und ein PayPal-Konto eingerichtet, um Spenden an nicht-religiöse Hilfsorganisationen zu sammeln.

18th Jan 2010 : The Non-Believers Giving Aid project has been a phenomenal success; it raised over $150,000 in contributions for Haiti within 24 hours, and at the last tally I heard was somewhere over $180,000, with an average donation of roughly $35 per godless donor.

18th Jan 2010 : Tonight, scientist and bestselling author Simon Singh takes part in a special debate, Science and the Battle for Free Speech, at the Cambridge Union.

17th Jan 2010 : The twin goals at the site are are first, to help Haiti, and second to "counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans."

17th Jan 2010 : Support on Michael Shermer's sites

15th Jan 2010 : January 24th, #31 on The New York Times Best Seller List

10th Jan 2010 : The new atheism is bigger, more organised, and much more assertive than ever before. It's based on the belief that science explains everything we need to know about the world so there's no need for religion.

9th Jan 2010 : Millions of women around the world are subjected to genital mutilation. But, in Ethiopia, the practice is slowly disappearing

9th Jan 2010 : The 20 imams associated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada said this marked the first fatwa by the Muslim clergy declaring attacks on Canada and the U.S. to be attacks on Muslims.

8th Jan 2010 : Christians have become too selfish and pagan to defend spiritual heritage of the continent, says Miloslav Vlk

8th Jan 2010 : Pity about the name but 'God mode' is a handy trick for Windows 7 and Vista. In fact you don't need 'God' at all.

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7th Jan 2010 : On February 2, The Knife, in collaboration with Planningtorock and former L.A. resident Mt. Sims, will be releasing a studio recording of the opera "Tomorrow, in a Year"...Richard Dawkins’s gene trees have formed the basis of some of the musical composition,...

6th Jan 2010 : The God Delusion climbed up to #24 on the Times extended paperback list!

6th Jan 2010 : "Is there going to be a transgender quota now in the Obama administration?"

5th Jan 2010 : The God Delusion ppbk is back on the January 10th NYTimes list at #31.

5th Jan 2010 : Fifty-two unmarried couples could face charges of sexual misconduct and jail terms after being caught in hotel rooms by Malaysia's Islamic morality police.

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3rd Jan 2010 : (save us all from) God Delusion by Markella Hatziano

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2nd Jan 2010 : As the RDF and BHA are supporters of the camp we thought we'd give the members of this forum an EXCLUSIVE five day head start before we open bookings on our website.

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28th Dec 2009 : SUDDENLY, religion is making inroads again into Australian politics and our secular society. Not only have we now got a devout believer as Prime Minister but the Opposition Leader is even more devout.

27th Dec 2009 : Richard Dawkins will be on BBC 4 - 9:00am GMT Monday 28,December.

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24th Dec 2009 : I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Newton’s Day, Winter Solstice or whatever you like to call it, and a very Happy New Year.

All donations until December 31 will be matched by Richard AND Todd Stiefel—tripling your donation!

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22nd Dec 2009 : Norris writes:
Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare?...

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21st Dec 2009 : The statement seeks to establish and safeguard the name, image and any symbols of the Pope as being expressly for official use of the Holy See unless otherwise authorized.

20th Dec 2009 : “If there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy,” the conservative Catholic journal Crisis concluded a few years ago, “its leaders probably meet in George’s kitchen.”

18th Dec 2009 : The Family Research Council Action PAC held an extraordinary "prayercast" event last night, praying for the intercession of God to change Senators' minds and stop the health care bil

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18th Dec 2009 : A bishop accused of covering up the serial sex abuse of children by priests resigned yesterday...

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17th Dec 2009 : A risque church billboard showing the Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed apparently after having disappointing sex has caused outrage among Christians in New Zealand.

17th Dec 2009 : Press Release: NZ Atheist Bus Campaign reaches fund raising target in under a week

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15th Dec 2009 : Rachel Maddow show discussion on atheist councilman in NC. Discussed on RD.net post on Saturday 12-Dec http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4758

14th Dec 2009 : The new bishop to the armed forces has apologised over comments he made about how the Taliban could be admired for their "conviction to their faith".

14th Dec 2009 : The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the government of treating religious faith as an "eccentricity" practised by "oddities".

14th Dec 2009 : Houston, Texas, has become the largest US city to elect an openly homosexual mayor after voters backed a lesbian candidate despite claims she would undermine "family values".

12th Dec 2009 : Asheville City Councilman Cecil Bothwell believes in ending the death penalty, conserving water and reforming government — but he doesn't believe in God. His political opponents say that's a sin that makes him unworthy of serving in office, and they've got the North Carolina Constitution on their side.

12th Dec 2009 : America’s 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the world’s future is foretold in Biblical prophecy - from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. Movie release January 8, 2010.
[UPDATE] YouTube movie trailer added

12th Dec 2009 : "It has been 18 months since I was sued for libel after publishing my article on chiropractic. I am continuing to fight my case and am prepared to defend my article for another 18 months or more if necessary.

11th Dec 2009 : The polar ice caps are melting before our very eyes, low-lying land is already being reclaimed by the rising seas, more and more species are teetering on the brink of extinction

9th Dec 2009 : ...debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe, moderated by BSG Vice President, Nathan Herbert, on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at The College at Brockport on the question: "Why Does God Matter?". The debate filled the venue to capacity with nearly seven hundred attendants

6th Dec 2009 : Rachel Maddow Show - follow up to "Uganda Be Kidding Me"

6th Dec 2009 : A diocese in Los Angeles has elected only the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican Church

5th Dec 2009 : The world was rocked by terrorism, climate change became an emergency, celebrity culture moved from our TVs to our bookshelves, and a boy wizard held millions spellbound. Love them or hate them, these are the 50 books that defined the decade

2006: Christopher Hitchens on The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins(Black Swan)

3rd Dec 2009 : "Are you good without God?" the electronic billboard asked. "Millions are."

3rd Dec 2009 : Unreported World travels to Israel to reveal how the rapid growth of Jewish "fundamentalists" is creating tension within Israeli society

2nd Dec 2009 : Richard Dawkins to appear alongside top scientists, comedians and musicians at atheist festive celebration in London 19 & 20 December 2009

2nd Dec 2009 : 18. Richard Dawkins
for his unceasing advocacy on behalf of science.

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