President Barack Obama signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination against LGBT federal employees and adds them to a list against whom federal employers cannot discriminate.
Thousands of young Muslims gathered in Surrey earlier this month to organize a mass peace convention to condemn religious extremism in the United Kingdom and across the world.
A humanist organization has threatened lawsuits against two public schools for promoting Christianity by participating in Operation Christmas Child, which aims to distribute Christmas toys to underprivileged children but also invites them to become Christians.
Iranian activists and European MPs plan to march on Paris on June 27, to protest against the lack of freedoms in Iran under the country’s religious extremist regime.
A man of Indian origin who found the spotlight after exposing miraculous feats of holy men as mere tricks has exiled himself in Finland after being accused of blasphemy.
Despite the U.S. army recently allowing “humanist” as a religious preference, the navy rejected the application of Jason Heap for a commission last week.
At the start of the summer break, a group of freethinkers showed up outside the Boone County Schools to distribute copies of The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide to students.
Tensions that stemmed from La Vista Mayor Doug Kindig’s alleged comments to an atheist in the midst of a Memorial Day service led to a political storm on June 2nd.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has produced a television ad for atheism featuring Ron Reagan, which was aired on May 22 on live editions of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
