Read More Atheist Republic Muslim livelihood and businesses in India are in distress as they struggle to hold off the effects of the increasing anti-Muslim sentiments caused by contentious political rhetoric. In April, a right-wing Hindu group urged the public to boycott Muslim mango traders. The group alleged that Muslims are monopolizing the mango trade […]
Read More Atheist Republic After announcing their ” Fasting From Whiteness ” for the Lenten season, a Christian church in Oak Park, Illinois, is in hot water. According to Religion News (RNS), the issue sparked so much controversy causing the church’s website to crash. The First United Church in Oak Park put up a banner
Read More Atheist Republic An atheist conference scheduled for April 10 was postponed to a later date. Nitin Hande, one of the event organizers, said the police told them to reschedule their conference because certain Hindutva groups expressed opposition to their event. The conference, called the “7th Nastik Melava 2022,” was organized by the Shaheed
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Click here to watch the teaser. A Florida high school student who is in the forefront of protests against Florida’s anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Say Gay” law is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Florida’s
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The scuttling by House Republicans of a plan to name a courthouse for a pioneering Black judge because he’d ruled correctly against student-led school prayer is cause for serious alarm. It is also cause to expose the role that Christian theopolitics
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Immediately halt the imposition of prayer on your students, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking a Louisiana school parish. A concerned parent has informed the state/church watchdog that Riverbend Elementary School in West Monroe, La., requires its students to recite
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Everything is not OK when it comes to the state of abortion abortion rights in the United States. Oklahoma is the most recent state to inflict injury on Roe v. Wade’s fundamental protection of the right “to be free from unwarranted
Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation salutes Black Maternal Health Week which is taking place April 11-17. The week was first recognized by the White House last year. Secular values align with Reproductive Justice, because when religiously rooted legislation denies and
Read More Atheist Republic Eight men, including a journalist and a prominent theater artist in Madhya Pradesh, were arrested, stripped, and photographed by local police. One of the victims also said they were beaten and abused before being stripped. According to NDTV, the incident happened on Saturday, April 2, when Kanishka Tiwari, a local journalist
Read More Atheist Republic An Indian city announces a plan to use blockchain technology to deliver government services through electronic caste certificates. Gadchiroli, a state in Maharashtra, one of India’s most industrialized states, plans to use the Polygon blockchain to issue caste certificates to 1.1 million residents. The villages that are targeted for the implementation
