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Schoolgirls and religious clothing an issue in Durban, too.

Fellow bishops not pleased with ‘rogue bishop.’

Publishers eager to replicate success of Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian.

‘Let’s stop describing these tax-funded establishments as faith schools. They are superstition schools.’

Ben Goldacre notes a well documented piece of flawed reasoning known as ‘prosecutor’s fallacy.’

‘It’s very important to these people that they still have their oppositionalist credentials. I think it’s narcissistic.’

Women’s rights groups in Nicaragua plan to file an injunction to stop a new law banning all abortions.

Nicaragua votes in new abortion ban, even in cases where the mother’s life is at risk.

At least, according to Islamophobiawatch, which cites an article by Maryam Namazie.

Ekin Deligoez received threats after she urged women to unveil; is under police protection.

‘[L]et them smoke hashish. It’s a free country, it’s none of our business. But it is our right to tell our women.’

He doesn’t quite get it though.

‘We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.’ But waterboarding is fine.

‘The mufti meant exactly what he said, and those views are widely held,’ says Tanveer Ahmed.

Every six hours, a young married woman is burned, beaten to death or driven to commit suicide, officials say.

Father took advice of traditional healers to veto op but law intervened: child will get surgery.

New regulations permit homeopathic products to make evidence-free medical claims.

The new regulations on homeopathic products compromise standards of evidence.

‘If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it?’

Founder of the Green Belt Movement, which has planted over thirty million trees across Kenya.