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An apology has been issued to residents in Hampton after a church newsletter accused them of spreading "lies" and "anti-Catholic feeling" over a new primary school.
There is a "very credible case" that the Chinese government is carrying out the crime of genocide against the Uighur people, according to a formal legal opinion newly published in the UK.
Team GB and ministers must boycott the Beijing winter Olympics in 2022 unless the Chinese government "ends the genocide" of the Uighur Muslims, the Liberal Democrats have said.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday issued a presidential memorandum aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potentially through the use of financial sanctions.
'I worry that this administration's idea of interfaith outreach may tend to exclude nonbelievers,' said Sarah Levin, program director for Secular Democrats of America.
Indonesia has banned public schools from making religious attire compulsory, after the story of a Christian student being pressured to wear a headscarf in class went viral.
Rosliza Ibrahim has never professed the religion of Islam nor led a life as one, as she was raised a Buddhist by her Buddhist mother, the Federal Court ruled.
Over the last two years, the government of Pakistan has forced Google and Apple to take down apps in the country created by developers based in other nations who are part of a repressed religious minority.
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The latest from the NSS and the No More Faith Schools campaign
The misery which women and children faced for decades highlights the damage that can be done when states leave religious authority unchecked, says NSS president Keith Porteous Wood.
Almost all the places at the school my daughter wants to attend are reserved on a religious basis. Jumping through the necessary hoops to get her in would teach her that dishonesty pays, says Roxana from Bristol.
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