Posted: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 by Keith Porteous Wood
Norway's supposed separation of Church and State, effective from 1 January 2017, is a very positive step, but it's still a work in progress, writes Keith Porteous Wood.
Both Norway and the United Kingdom have populations that are very secular in outlook, with... Read More »
Posted: Sat, 16 Jan 2021
The government has taken action against an independent school which taught creationism as science and refused to enter pupils for GCSEs.
Posted: Fri, 15 Jan 2021
A report has highlighted the Irish state's decades-long failure to protect vulnerable women and children at church-run institutions.
Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
The NSS has said it's justifiable to restrict communal religious activities during Covid-19 in a submission to a parliamentary committee....
Posted: Fri, 08 Jan 2021
The NSS has warned that Law Commission proposals on hate crime and communications offences in England and Wales could chill free speech.
Posted: Wed, 06 Jan 2021
The NSS has backed a campaign in defence of Zara Kay, who has been arrested in Tanzania and prevented from leaving the country.
Former headteacher John Mapperley says the school he ran was given a vastly reduced range of options when considering academy status – and he believes the church puts its own interests above those...
Posted: Wed, 20 Jan 2021
Some registered charities exist primarily to convert members of one religion to another. Megan Manson says such activity is harmful to community cohesion – and shouldn't be treated as a valid charitable...
Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
NSS chief executive Stephen Evans was interviewed in a recent edition of Charlie Hebdo which marked six years since the attack on its staff. The interview is reproduced here in English.
Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
With the country again plunged into a strict lockdown, Stephen Evans questions the rationale behind and wisdom of an exemption for religious worship in England.
Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 2021
Opponents often erect a straw man of secularism to justify demands for religious privilege. But freedom of religion must come with freedom from religion, says Stephen Evans.
Posted: Fri, 18 Dec 2020