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Tue, 02 Nov 2010
Sakineh under threat of imminent execution - act now to save her

Supporters of the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for alleged adultery warned that her execution may be imminent. Please act now to save her.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010
Conflict over ‘faith school’ proposals in Islington

The parents of Muslim pupils at a community school in Islington are outraged by the news that it is to close down and their children transferred to a Church of England school.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

A Local Government Ombudsman has branded an admissions appeals’ panel at Blackburn’s top performing school as “probably the worst instance of multiple maladministration in a school admissions appeal” she has ever seen.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

A court ruling has left a Catholic diocese facing full responsibility for a multi-million pound compensation claim over child abuse at a boys’ school.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

In banning a mildly satirical advertisement for ice cream, the Advertising Standards Authority is reintroducing blasphemy restrictions back into Britain, says the NSS.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

The churches (COMECE for the Catholics, CEC for the Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox) have published their new demands for a greater say in EU decision-making under “Article 17".

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

Freedom House has published a new report, Policing Belief: The Impact of Blasphemy Laws on Human Rights which examines the human rights implications of domestic blasphemy and religious insult laws using the case studies of seven countries — Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Poland — where such laws exist both on paper and in practice.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

The television watchdog Ofcom has rejected complaints against an investigation into an Islamic group broadcast by Channel Four’s Dispatches earlier this year.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

The secular nature of the French education system is being increasingly undermined by religious demands from Muslim pupils, says a report from the High Council for Integration which will be presented to the Government next month.

Fri, 29 Oct 2010

The NSS are supporting a new campaign by Education For Choice (EFC) – the UK’s only educational charity dedicated to enabling young people to make and act on informed choices about pregnancy and abortion.


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