Après les dernières révélations quant à la découverte de restes humains dans une institution religieuse accueillant des mères irlandaises et leurs bébés, Keith Porteous Wood, Directeur Exécutif de la National Secular Society, s’interroge sur comment de telles atrocités ont-elles pu se produire à une telle échelle et sur ce qu’il Read more…
The Curse of Having an Argentine Pope Fernando Lozada (English Translation: David Rand) When on March 13th members of the Vatican College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, we Argentines who work for a secular state knew that we could expect a Read more…
The International Association of Freethought demands that responsibles and accomplices to sexual crimes perpetrated by Catholic Church answer for their acts A French judge is investigating the “failure to report a crime” after the alleged victims of priest Bernard Preynat said top officials in the Catholic diocese of Lyon, including Read more…
Joint statement from “Friends of Hypathia” (member of IAFT) and the European Coordination Bureau of Freethought The wealth of the Greek Christian Orthodox Church belongs to the Greeks and not to their creditors. Similar to the French revolutionaries of 1789 who nationalised the Church property, the people of Greece is Read more…
Major Victory for Secularism in Canada! The Supreme Court of Canada Ends Prayer at Municipal Meetings The associations signatory to this declaration enthusiastically welcome the unanimous and categorical decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, rendered 15 April 2015, prohibiting prayers at Saguenay city council meetings, thus ruling completely in favour Read more…
STATEMENT The International Association of Free Thought (IAFT–AILP) takes action everywhere against the intrusion of religions and their symbols in the public sphere. The IAFT–AILP was founded in Oslo August 10, 2011. In its founding Manifesto for freedom of conscience, the issue of the coming of the Separation of churches Read more…
STATEMENT The International Association of Free Thought (IAFT–AILP) takes action everywhere against the intrusion of religions and their symbols in the public sphere. The IAFT–AILP was founded in Oslo August 10, 2011. In its founding Manifesto for freedom of conscience, the issue of the coming of the Separation of churches Read more…
Press Release, ECBF European Coordination Bureau of Freethought The ECBF Informs Secular and Freethought Organisations The facts: According to the website Laicismo.org, catholic groups intend to install 1300 crosses in the Sierra de GUADARRAMA (near Madrid, in Spain). “Up to this day, they installed four religious symbols, but their intention Read more…
French National Federation of Free Thought libre.pensee@wanadoo.fr – http://www.fnlp.fr Justice for Victims of Sexual Abuse by Churches! A rather interesting article was published by “Le Point” on May 23rd 2014. Let’s read it thoroughly: “Embarrassing, just when the Vatican is getting ready to wage war against pedophile priests. According to Read more…