Religion
MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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by Peter Wozniak The Pope’s state visit to the UK ought to be cancelled, the reverend and former MP Ian Paisley has said. The staunchly protestant preacher for the Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland railed against the welcome being laid out for the head of the Catholic church for his state visit on September… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Foreign secretary William Hague has followed Tony Blair in joining the international chorus of condemnation against a small church in the US which intends to burn copies of the Koran. Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, plans to hold the mass book burning on September 11th. The… Read more »
