Day: July 23, 2014

Atheism gets its own TV channel in the US

Telegraph: It is a fact of American life that even though far fewer than half the adult population attend church on a weekly basis, atheism remains an outright taboo in many corners of the country. As we discovered on a reporting trip to Virginia earlier, non-belief is something that many Americans […]

Should Germany ban the burqa?

Photo: DPA Opponents of such a ban here say it would heavily infringe on personal, cultural and religious freedoms and only serve to inflame tensions. Advocates insist the burqa has no place in progressive, pluralistic German society. In Frankfurt am Main, a city of 700,000 residents, including a large Muslim […]