Irish education minister Ruari Quinn asks primary schools to cut down on time allocated to religion and use it to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills.
Guilty of “insulting religion”, a blogger was arrested and convicted after the local police received complaints about his satirical page from a neonazi politician.
On January 14, a federal judge ruled that Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional as it denies gay and lesbian couples their fundamental right to equality.