Newsline - The Weekly Newsletter from the NSS

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/nss-newsline-podcast-31st-august-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Cromer Council agrees to take prayers off the agenda Free speech protest calls on Cameron to reform insults law Religious beliefs should be respected – when rights are not impeded Faith based welfare looms as local authorities ask ‘Big Society’ to deliver crisis aid to the vulnerable Catholic schools to be challenged in High Court Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/nss-newsline-podcast-10th-august-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Muslim woman sacked for wearing a headscarf loses religious discrimination claim on a technicality Number of atheists around the world is rising Catholic Church doesn’t want to share its free schools with non-Catholics Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/nss-newsline-podcast-27th-july-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Victory for community school fighting merger with Church school Gay marriage promised in Scotland – but Church wangles concessions in schools Christian group targets schools with frightening and dubious anti-abortion message Swiss and Austrian hospitals suspend infant circumcision procedures Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/nss-newsline-podcast-13th-july-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Parents, teachers and governors ignored as council hands community school to church – and first “religionisation” teachers’ strike Bishops come under fire but Lords Reform now looks a distant prospect Vatican’s use of the law to try to hide its secrets will backfire The myth of the Nadia Eweida case gets another dishonest outing Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/nss-newsline-podcast-6th-july-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline National Trust puts creationism on show at new visitor centre Dagenham teachers to strike over “faith school” proposals Public supports getting rid of the bishops’ bench Why won’t the Government get rid of this pesky threat to free speech that nobody wants? Religious circumcision ruled unlawful in German court Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nss-newsline-podcast-22nd-june-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Christian GP says he will pay no heed to the GMC Religious threats to free speech in Britain and Poland Catholic Education Service rebuked for blurring distinction between faith and politics in schools Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nss-newsline-podcast-15th-june-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Evangelising GP disciplined by medical watchdog Church-state confrontation raises the issue of disestablishment Why the Church must not win in this confrontation with the state Miracle healing group can continue to make dangerous claims on website, says ASA Compromise over cross at crematorium Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nss-newsline-podcast-18th-may-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Home Secretary under pressure to reform Public Order Act Cardinal who covered up child abuse and got away with it says secularists are immoral Gove goes ahead with school Bible distribution Monarch’s role as head of Church of England “unsustainable” Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nss-newsline-podcast-11th-may-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline NSS call for Northern Ireland child abuse investigation Murdoch no match for Benedict in the ‘unfit to govern’ stakes Welsh Minister says Catholic schools may be breaking the law by opposing gay marriage Transport subsidies to faith schools axed Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/nss-newsline-podcast-20th-april-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline NSS challenges Bear Grylls over Scouts inclusivity claims Government to work with Church of England to promote more religious schools Boris Johnson attacks “secularist agenda” Poll shows Catholic Church completely out of touch with modern Irish society Survey shows belief in God declining worldwide Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/nss-newsline-podcast-6th-april-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Cameron’s dissembling, hypocritical and dishonest speech delivers big promises to religious leaders Council prayers decision continues to provoke controversy Another Today presenter says Thought for the Day needs to open up to secularist thinkers Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/nss-newsline-podcast-30th-march-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Gove backs voluntary cap on faith-based admissions in new Catholic school Persecuted Christian story follows a familiar pattern of newspaper distortion Bishops in the Lords are a patronising anachronism, say secularists Church wants another tax privilege It can be done! Local campaign thwarts CofE takeover of new school Christian MPs defend adverts claiming prayer can heal Parliamentary Questions Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nss-newsline-podcast-23rd-march-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Church of England proposes large-scale expansion of its influence in education Irish Government powerless to stop funding school chaplains Dutch Catholic Church under fire for castrating teenagers Peter Tatchell is Secularist of the Year 2012 You can trust us to run welfare services, say religious groups – but for how long? More Catholics rebel against hierarchy’s homophobia The Church of England – myth and reality Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nss-newsline-podcast-16th-march-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Bideford Council drops council prayers appeal NSS speaks out at United Nations Challenge to council prayers in Scotland Parking privileges for Christians in York Without a pack of lies to back them up, Christian claims of persecution fall flat on their face College removes defamatory remarks about atheists from its module Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nss-newsline-podcast-9th-march-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Christians told: you don’t own the local crematorium Christian GP who tried to convert a patient will face a new GMC hearing Countless millions of taxpayers’ money spent on discrimination in schools Worries that new CofE school won’t serve the whole community State-sponsored religions are undesirable, says UN Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nss-newsline-podcast-2nd-march-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Eric Pickles is allowing his evangelical Christianity to cloud his judgement NSS accuses advertising watchdog of inconsistency with religious ads Christian discrimination report is just another call for special privileges Protest at teacher training college’s comparison of atheism to Nazism The Tories will be watching how Republican’s religion-in-politics tactic plays Pope renews attack on IVF Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nss-newsline-podcast-24th-february-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Bideford – no news yet Councillor heckled for walking out of prayers during council meeting Mr Pickles’ “community cohesion” policy is a recipe for conflict Poll shows majority think councils shouldn’t pray Italy orders Vatican to pay tax on its commercial property Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nss-newsline-podcast-17th-february-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Bideford Council will appeal – contributions welcome The great debate begins Hardline evangelicals seek funding for free school Christian hotel owners fined for refusing to let a gay couple stay NSS supports Freedom of Expression Rally Muslims more successful at enforcing their religion from generation to generation Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nss-newsline-podcast-10th-february-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline High Court rules council prayers unlawful Council prayer case will bring much abuse on to the head of the NSS Bishops lie about NSS chaplains campaign at the General Synod Why is the Government consulting the Vatican on national policy? NSS addresses EU secularist group on Church and Education in Europe Religious proselytisers move into academy school Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE

Newsline is the weekly newsletter from the National Secular Society.  Every week we collate the stories and issues or most importance to our members and offer reportage and insight.  Our audio edition takes the main stories and offers them in an easy-to-listen podcast, available online and via iTunes subscription (for free). Join Britain’s only organisation working exclusively towards a secular society www.secularism.org.uk Listen to the AUDIO VERSION by clicking the play button below https://nssnewsline.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/nss-newsline-podcast-3rd-february-2012.mp3 You can also subscribe to the audio version for FREE using iTunes:  In this week’s Newsline Majority of Britons want bishops out of the House of Lords Religious education GCSE will lose its appeal when the exam is toughened up Adverts claiming cures through prayer are banned London School of Economics brings back blasphemy Vested interests delay scrapping of “faith school” transport subsidies Cheddar Parish Council vote to continue praying Sarkozy’s smoke and mirrors promises to religious leaders Read the full newsletter BY CLICKING HERE