24th Jan 2008 :

19th Jan 2008 : ALTHOUGH a third of England's state schools are already under religious control, the Government has decided to create even more of them.

24th Dec 2007 :
A family of Illinois atheists is fighting to overturn a law requiring time for students' quiet reflection. The father and daughter say it mandates prayer.

23rd Dec 2007 : Our society is fast plummeting downhill. Our cities are plagued by a gang culture perpetrated by kids with guns. Youngsters binge drink in our streets and parks. There is too much sex and violence on television.

18th Dec 2007 : The number of states refusing federal money for "abstinence-only" sex education programs jumped sharply in the past year as evidence mounted that the approach is ineffective.

7th Dec 2007 : New York's Roman Catholic Church is trying a novel approach to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest, with an abuse-themed coloring book, officials said yesterday.

3rd Dec 2007 : Demented and powerless, the aged being could only weep and mumble in fear and pain and misery and he shrank away from what seemed like another threat . . . He was as light as paper and would have followed them anywhere, having no will of his own."

8th Nov 2007 : Even private schools in La belle province must adopt one-size-fits-all religious classes

18th Oct 2007 : The Swedish government is making it illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as if it were true. Britain should follow suit.

24th Sep 2007 : A range of action figure toys based on the Bible are being sold by the US retail giant Wal-Mart, aimed at Christian families.

24th Sep 2007 : Bibles open to Genesis, teacher Betty-Anne Rozema is telling her Grade 4 class at Knox Christian School what God promised Noah.

18th Sep 2007 : Halton's Catholic school board could become the first in Ontario to ban public health nurses from administering the HPV vaccine to young girls at local schools.

18th Sep 2007 : There's not much for secularists to sing about, says Philip Beadle

25th Jul 2007 : The first hour at the Chinmaya Mission day camp unfolds as at any other camp. Children shriek through tag, while a few others play Uno.

6th Jul 2007 : Like a holy ghost, parental religion returns to haunt. As age wearies, the solemn vow to resist everything your parents ever stood for crumbles.

26th Apr 2007 : There is some question as to whether Islam is a separate religion at all. It initially fulfilled a need among Arabs for a distinctive or special creed, and is forever identified with their language and their impressive later conquests, which, while not as striking as those of the young Alexander of Macedonia, certainly conveyed an idea of being backed by a divine will until they petered out at the fringes of the Balkans and the Mediterranean.

26th Mar 2007 : Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day's topic was the Gospel of Matthew. "You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts," Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. "The 'Blessed are the whatevers,' like 'the meek,' and then the reward they will get.

9th Mar 2007 : A teacher applying for a senior job at a Teesside school claims he was confronted by "religious intolerance" at his interview.

8th Jan 2007 :

21st Nov 2006 : Self-described conservative Baptist David Paszkiewicz used his history class to proselytize biblical fundamentalism over the course of several days at the beginning of this school year.

9th Nov 2006 : TO THE unsuspecting visitor, Patrick Henry College looks like a typical American liberal-arts college tucked away amidst the rolling green farmlands of Virginia.

8th Nov 2006 : The documentary about summer camp where children would tearfully beg God to end abortion and bless President Bush prompted to close the camp.

23rd Oct 2006 : Patrick Henry College (PHC) is evangelical, fundamentalist, literalist, Christianity at its stomach-churning worst. But is this cause for concern?

20th Oct 2006 : The front-page picture in Thursday's Sun sums up the root cause of much of the conflict and trouble in our world right now.

13th Oct 2006 : Cambridge University in the UK are starting a two year study regarding teaching in
primary schools and all related topics.

15th May 2006 : In the wake of the current scandal over child abuse by priests , I have had a letter from an American woman in her mid forties who was brought up Roman Catholic.