Denounce crimes of priests
Sexual Exploitation of Children by Religious Authorities in Australia
Babu Gogineni (IAFT spokesperson) interviews (2019) two Australians who were sexually abused by religious in their childhood
Denounce crimes of priests
Interview with Keith Porteous Wood on the abuses committed by Catholic religious around the world
Libre Pensée Française: Hello Keith. Could you introduce yourself? KPW : The National Secular Society was founded in 1866 and has always been internationally, as well as nationally, focussed. I became its CEO in 1996 and have been its President since retiring five years ago. We have six staff, led Read more…
International Conference in Paris 2023
Practical information for the international symposium on 7 and 8 April 2023
To all Please find attached the announcement and programme of the International Colloquium on 7 and 8 April 2023 in Paris (France) Ending the Concordats in Europe And the established and official religions And the earthly goods and benefits of the Churches! The Colloquium will take place Salle de spectacle Read more…
Separation between religions and States
Public Statement: International Day of Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
Today, December 9, is internationally known as the “Day of Secularism and Freedom of Conscience”. The law is thus celebrated which was promulgated in France in 1905, establishing secularism in the French country. Secularism is one of the backbones of democracy, along with freedom of conscience, freedom of thought and Read more…
Separation between religions and States
DECEMBER 9 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SECULARISM AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE – MANIFESTO 2022
This December 9 marks 117 years of the law that proclaimed in France the separation between Churches and State, and 91 since the approval of the Constitution of the Second Spanish Republic, the only unquestionably secular in the history of our country. Both events are the reason why on December Read more…
Separation between religions and States
For a secularity of freedom and emancipation
Paris, 8 December 2022 The LDH (League of Human Rights), the National Federation of Free Thought, the Secular Watch, Secular Solidarity and the Rationalist Union have not ceased to recall their attachment to the law of 9 December 1905, law of freedom and emancipation. Their opposition to any substantial change Read more…
Separation between religions and States
Secular organizations of Argentina in the National Chamber of Deputies.
On Friday June 24th a public hearing was held in the National Chamber of Deputies to promote a popular initiative to repeal the dictatorial regulations that economically and symbolically benefit the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church. The activity was organised by OLA (Organizaciones Laicistas de Argentina), a group of approximately 50 Read more…
Separation between religions and States
Federation nationale de la Libre Pensee – France
Fifty years after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court of the United States rules abortion out of constitutional rights In a case between an abortion clinic and the State of Mississippi1, of which a recent law prohibits the carrying out of abortions after the fifteenth week of amenorrhea, and following Read more…
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The Catholic Church and the Vichy Regime
In May 1942, 80 years ago, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in France sent a leaflet to the entire population about World War II. The leaflet which follows, unearthed by International Association of Freethinkers’ spokesperson Keith Porteous Wood, commanded allegiance to Marshall Pétain, a puppet of Hitler and the Nazis. Read more…
Denounce crimes of priests
The French Bishops: will the compensation be sufficient, and is it the price of silence?
By Keith Porteous WOOD* The French bishops have announced, belatedly, that the Church will bear compensation for victims of clerical sexual abuse<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-catholic-church-abuse-victims-b1954021.html>, and that it will be proportionate, as the French Commission CIASE recommended. It estimated that at least a third of a million minors were victims of abuse in Read more…