The weekly report on the SPI Coalition by Julie Esris Last week, Las Vegas became the center of the secular movement as 7 national secular groups gathered to protest discrimination against atheists! Last year Wells Fargo Bank refused services to [...]
The Weekly SPI Fellows Update by Julie Esris Recently a group of teachers in Atlanta, Georgia was sentenced to prison for falsely reporting their students' test scores. Why would a group of teachers do something so dishonest? SPI Fellow and President [...]
The weekly report on research and demographics of the secular movement by Julie Esris Last week, lawmakers in California introduced a bill that would require Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) to inform pregnant women about abortion services as an option. The [...]
Last week, Johnny Monsarrat of the Secular Policy Institute spent a week in Las Vegas, which became the center of the secular movement for a protest against Wells Fargo. Leaders of seven national secular groups gathered to support John Whiteside, [...]
TORONTO (RNS) CanadaÔÇÖs Supreme Court has ruled that a small town in Quebec may not open its council meetings with prayer. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday (April 15), CanadaÔÇÖs highest court ruled that the town of Saguenay can no longer [...]
LANSING ÔÇô On 4-1 party-line votes, the Senate Families Seniors and Human Services passed three bills that will allow Faith-based adoption agencies to refuse to serve prospective parents based on their religious beliefs. The bills, which would allow the agencies [...]
The weekly SPI Fellows Update, by Julie Esris Yemeni-Swiss political scientist, writer, human rights activist, and SPI Fellow Dr. Elham Manea recently wrote an article in which she discusses human rights as a universal imperative. The article also references two of her Arabic [...]
The weekly report on the SPI Coalition by Julie Esris Did you know that the government of Ontario funds Catholic Schools? This is not only unfair to people from other religions and to atheists, but also cost-prohibitive, says SPI Coalition Member Canadian [...]
The weekly column on research and trends in secular demographicsby Julie Esris Last week an article published by Singapore newspaper Today revealed that in the Asia-Pacific region religiosity is increasing while non-religious affiliation is decreasing. In Singapore specifically, Islam and [...]
The weekly report on US and World government by Edwina Rogers Muslims Do Not Believe In or Support ISIS Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted Dr. Munqith Dagher of IIACSS, an Iraqi public opinion organization, for [...]
