On September 18th 2019, National Secular Society President Keith Porteous Wood, IAFT spokeperson, urged the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to exert pressure on the Vatican to submit long-overdue reports outlining its response to child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. (more…)
The Vatican can no longer do anything about it: the scandal can no longer be suppressed, the witnesses are talking, the wall of silence is definitely broken. The Catholic Church is responsible for thousands of crimes, rapes, harassment, physical and mental torture of thousands of children, not only by not denouncing those who commit them, but by protecting them and most often leaving them in a position to commit them again. That is why Libre Pensée requires that all archives concerning these cases be made public and that human justice be respected. (more…)
In Europe and in the whole world a situation is developing today which shows the dangers linked to the place of religions in the political debate. Atheistic, humanistic, secular and of Free Thought organizations have a duty to give their opinion on this subject. Political mobilizations that exploit the public visibility of religions for their own purposes are an example. (more…)
Church Crimes and paedophilia: The Church must be accountable to the Justice of men!
A new week, A new Cardinal condemned. On 7th March, the highest official of the Catholic Church in France, the Archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin, was condemned for not reporting the repeated sexual abuses committed by priests on 70 minors. Philippe Barbarin was sentenced to six months in prison with a suspended sentence. He will appeal, but nevertheless indicated his resignation to the pope. (more…)
On December 27th 2018, Cayenne’s Administrative Court gave a judgement that confirms that Guiana’s territorial collectivity was still, through an 1828 royal decree taken by King Charles X, obliged to pay the archbishop’s and catholic priests’ salaries on public funds. (more…)
IAFT (International Association of Free Thought) is pleased and proud to support its spokesperson Leo Igwe in his fight to develop humanism and free thinking in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. (more…)
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the permanent delegation of the International Association of Free Thought (AILP-IAFT) to the UN Human Rights Council wishes to remind the following facts: (more…)
Spokesman for the International Association of Free thought (IAFT) – (Argentina – Latin America) About the voluntary termination of pregnancy in Argentina IAFT: Can you introduce yourself? Fernando Lozada: I am an atheist, a human rights activist. For about 15 years, I have been actively working for the advent of Read more…
European Coordination Bureau of Freethought 10/12 rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques 75005 Paris (France International Commission of Inquiry: To bring justice to victims of crimes committed by the Roman Catholic Church! In the Republic of Ireland, like everywhere else, it is time to “separate Religions and the State”! At a hastily-convened Read more…
