News Releases Archive

February 13, 2025

FFRF warns that Ala. lawmakers want to bring back school-sponsored prayer

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling out a blatantly unconstitutional bill just introduced in the Alabama Legislature to force public school students to pray at the start of every …

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February 13, 2025

FFRF: Trump’s faith office, ‘anti-Christian bias’ task force will privilege religion

While President Trump’s executive orders to establish the White House Faith Office may seem like “deja vu all over again,” his tandem order to create a task force to “eradicate …

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February 12, 2025

FFRF slams extremist Idaho bill forcing bible reading in public schools

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is outraged by the introduction of Idaho’s shockingly unconstitutional “School-Sponsored Bible Reading Act,” an unabashed attack on religious freedom and public education. This egregious bill …

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February 11, 2025

Rushed Tennessee universal voucher scheme will hurt students and public schools

  The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling attention to the recently passed universal voucher law in Tennessee — and the concerning lack of public input in its rushed passage. …

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February 11, 2025

First-ever atheist billboard in Africa unveiled in Ghana with FFRF support

A groundbreaking moment for the secular community in Africa has arrived with the unveiling of the continent’s first-ever atheist billboard in Accra, Ghana. Sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation …

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February 11, 2025

FFRF blasts North Dakota’s radical Christian nationalist resolution

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm on an outrageous new resolution introduced in the North Dakota Legislature that calls upon the state and its citizens to “acknowledge …

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February 10, 2025

Reagan FFRF ad airing on Colbert and Rachel Maddow and ‘The Daily Show’

Ron Reagan’s iconic advertisement for the Freedom From Religion Foundation as an “unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell” will continue to run periodically over the next several weeks …

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February 10, 2025

Humanists International global report spotlights pernicious blasphemy laws

For more than a dozen years, Humanists International has issued invaluable reports on the state of freethinkers around the world — and this year’s edition continues that laudable tradition. The …

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February 10, 2025

FFRF ends preaching to student athletes in Minn. school district

Photo by Dave Adamson on Unsplash The Freedom From Religion Foundation has ensured that the Pequot Lakes (Minn.) Public Schools system will be free of outside pastor participation at a …

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