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Read More Atheist Republic A Polish conservative party proposed a three-year jail sentence for anyone who insults the church or religious sentiments. The proposed law will strengthen Poland’s current blasphemy laws, increasing its scope to anyone who “publicly insults the church or interrupts mass.” Marcin Warchoł, the deputy justice minister from the ultra-conservative Solidarna Polska

Read More Atheist Republic On Monday, April 18, Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court in Lahore sentenced six men to death, while nine people were handed life imprisonment sentences. The court also gave a 5-year imprisonment sentence to one individual, while 72 individuals were given a 2-year jail sentence. The ruling was for the brutal mob lynching that

Read More Atheist Republic Hindu Priest Calls For Sexual Violence Against Muslim Women in India https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/hindu-priest-calls-sexual-violence-against-muslim-women-india Location: India On April 2nd, a local Hindu priest in Uttar Pradesh, India, announced via loudspeaker in front of a mosque that if Muslim men harassed Hindu girls, he would kidnap Muslim women and rape them openly. This atrocious

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation   A prominent scholar and historian has endorsed the construction of a statue of Thomas Paine in the nation’s capital — providing the project a huge spur.  Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., introduced legislation in February (HR 6720) to authorize the building

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Click here to watch the teaser.  A Pulitzer Prize-winning exponent of science and freethought is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show Sunday. Natalie Angier, who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, is the author of

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation A prominent scholar and historian has endorsed the construction of a statue of Thomas Paine in the nation’s capital — providing the project a huge spur.  Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., introduced legislation in February (HR 6720) to authorize the building of

Read More Black Nonbelievers, Inc. Greetings, April has been quite the busy month. In addition to proudly accepting the 2022 Irving and Anabel Wolfson Award (presented by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester), I just returned from the 2022 American Atheists convention held here in Atlanta over Easter weekend. I must tell you that it

Read More Atheist Republic More than 40 people were injured in Sweden over the violent riots over the weekend. The clashes were sparked by rallies organized by a far-right, anti-immigrant organization called Stram Kurs (Hard Line). The group’s leader, Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician, said they have burned a copy of the Quran and plan

Read More Atheist Republic On April 6, a Christian Youtuber in Indonesia was sentenced to ten years in prison for allegedly posting offensive videos. According to the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News), prosecutors insisted on the 10-year jail sentence. The 56-year-old Muhammad Kace, a former Muslim cleric who converted to Christianity, has uploaded