Joint Declaration on Free Thought (France) and the National Secular Society (United Kingdom)
Church Crimes and paedophilia: The Church must be accountable to the Justice of men!
A new week, A new Cardinal condemned. On 7th March, the highest official of the Catholic Church in France, the Archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin, was condemned for not reporting the repeated sexual abuses committed by priests on 70 minors. Philippe Barbarin was sentenced to six months in prison with a suspended sentence. He will appeal, but nevertheless indicated his resignation to the pope. ...

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A law passed on December 13, 2018 by the Belgian Parliament, with the support of the Flemish nationalists, Christian Democrats, liberals and some of the ecologists, satisfies the clerical party to a very high degree.
On December 27th 2018, Cayenne’s Administrative Court gave a judgement that confirms that Guiana’s territorial collectivity was still, through an 1828 royal decree taken by King Charles X, obliged to pay the archbishop’s and catholic priests’ salaries on public funds. ...


On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the permanent delegation of the International Association of Free Thought (AILP-IAFT) to the UN Human Rights Council wishes to remind the following facts: