In the light of reported cuts in health service chaplaincy services, the chief executive of the NHS has sent out a bulletin to all Trusts reminding them to be “rigorous in their assessment of local need” when planning chaplaincy provision.

Swindon Council in Wiltshire is the latest to consider axing free transport to 'faith schools' as part of its cost-cutting measures. It has to make £45 million in savings over the next few years.

The 2011 census will be the first one that it has been possible to complete online – and the second time in ten years that the public will be asked about their religion.

The Jewish Chronicle says Ed Miliband is the first person from a Jewish heritage to lead the Labour Party, although he professes no religion and is an unmarried father with a non-Jewish partner, Justine (who is pregnant).

In 1997 a little girl announced in a German kindergarten that she was going to be a big sister. This was enough to get her father, Bernhard Schüth, fired without warning from his job as organist and choirmaster at a Catholic parish church.

When the NSS questioned the use of public money to fund the pope’s visit to the UK, we were told by the Foreign Office that the Holy See is a valuable partner of the British Government in its ambition to fight global poverty through achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The National Secular Society — acting on behalf the International Humanist and Ethical Union — has submitted a report to a recent Council of Europe conference on the topic of protecting freedom of expression from religious demands.

The European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP) hosted a debate at the Parliament in Brussels on Conscientious Objection in Healthcare on 15th September 2010.

Police are investigating dozens of fresh claims of child abuse at St William’s Community Home, in Market Weighton in Yorkshire. Two members of the De La Salle Order of Christian Brothers, which ran the home, have already been jailed for abusing a number of boys at the home.

Up to 20,000 secularists rallied in the streets of London last Saturday to make their opposition to the teachings and behaviour of Joseph Ratzinger perfectly clear