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Collective worship in schools

Schools could be found in breach of failing to fulfil requirements for daily ‘collective worship’.

The Education Act (1944) requires all maintained schools to provide a daily act of collective worship. Many schools have allowed this requirement to gradually lapse as the UK becomes more secular. However this recent article in the Times Educational Supplement has raised the potential threat that schools could be investigated for not complying with the requirements cited in the Education Act (1944) to provide collective worship. (more…)

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Andy Phillips (AtheismUK) podcast: Bill Flavell (AAI) & Aroup Chatterjee (Mother Teresa)

Andy Phillips (AtheismUK) podcast: Bill Flavell (AAI) & Aroup Chatterjee (Mother Teresa)

The Atheist Alliance International Podcast With Andy Phillips. AtheismUK is affiliated to AAI and Andy Phillips is on the Council of AtheismUK. Andy speaks with Atheist Alliance International (AAI) Vice…

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Freedom of Thought Report 2020

Freedom of Thought Report 2020

JOIN Humanists International on 10th December 2020 at 3 pm for the launch of the ninth edition of the Freedom of Thought Report.

Since 2012 Humanists International has published the report to monitor the rights and treatment of humanists, atheists and non-religious people in every country in the world.

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Are we close to discovering the Origin Of Life? James Tour (Christian) vs Lee Cronin (Atheist)

In this talk, atheist Prof. Lee Cronin discusses with Christian Prof. James Tour about the various hypothesis for the origins of life. James, a synthetic organic chemist, thinks we are…

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