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Pakistani secularists condemn attacks on Christian community

Pakistani secularists condemn attacks on Christian community

Posted: Mon, 11 Mar 2013

Secularists in Pakistan have strongly condemned attacks on Christians in the country after mobs ransacked a Christian neighbourhood and torched dozens of homes over a blasphemy row in the city of Lahore. Read More »

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    • Blasphemy to intimidation, we've always robustly challenged religious threats to free expression.

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    • Public services that are intended for the whole community, especially those funded by public money, should be provided in a secular context.

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Tags: Education, Faith Schools, Admissions

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Teachers from the ATL union have voted to demand a clampdown on parents selectively withdrawing their children from RE. But Stephen Evans says the right to withdraw should only be scrapped once the subject is reformed.

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Tags: Education, Religious education

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Abridged version of the winding-up speech by lawyer Richard Scorer of Slater and Gordon, also an NSS vice president, at the IICSA inquiry's hearings into the handling of child sexual abuse in the diocese of Chichester.

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Tags: Child Abuse, Church of England

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Nick Cohen has skewered the hypocrisy of leftists who apologise for Islamic intolerance, says Chris Sloggett. To defeat it we must assert the value of free speech as the most precious right which citizens share.

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Tags: Freedom of Expression, Islam, Reviews

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Our education and schools officer examines the education proposals in the Government's new integration strategy and argues that they should lead to a wider discussion of children's rights and facing up to the religious segregation rife in education.

We can’t build a shared society around segregated schools

Tags: Education, Faith Schools, Community Cohesion, unregistered schools, Home schooling

Thu, 15 Mar 2018

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