News Releases Archive

September 3, 2020

FFRF, Black Skeptics award $20,000 in tuition scholarships

2020 Scholarship Recipients The Freedom From Religion Foundation is announcing $5,000 scholarships for four students, making this its second annual distribution of the Forward Freethought Tuition Relief Scholarships funded by …

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September 3, 2020

American Christianity has white supremacy problem, FFRF’s Andrew Seidel contends

Andrew L. Seidel, FFRF’s Director of Strategic Response, has written an op-ed for Religion Dispatches about the inextricable links between white supremacy and Christianity. In the article, “Fundraising for Kyle …

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September 3, 2020

Halt prayer at meetings, FFRF insists to N.C. school board

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is insisting that a North Carolina school board immediately cease injecting sectarian religion and prayer into its meetings. A concerned local resident has contacted FFRF …

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September 3, 2020

Eleanor Clift on ‘Freethought Matters’ TV fall season debut

The pandemic is not stopping the Freedom From Religion Foundation from producing a lively fall season of its TV show, “Freethought Matters,” which resumes airing in 12 cities this Sunday, …

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September 2, 2020

FFRF advises Sen. Cassidy: Cool it on all the religion

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is chiding a U.S. senator for being unconstitutionally stubborn. A concerned Louisiana constituent had contacted FFRF to report that every Sunday, bible verses are posted …

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August 27, 2020

FFRF scores two for the U.S. Constitution

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has notched up a few constitutional victories recently. A concerned resident contacted FFRF to report that the Morgan County School Board in Tennessee had been …

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August 27, 2020

BREAKING NEWS! FFRF lawsuit convinces Puerto Rico Education Department to stop coercive school prayer

A lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has persuaded Puerto Rico’s Education Secretary and a proselytizing school principal there to halt unconstitutional school prayer.  The state/church watchdog had filed …

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August 26, 2020

FFRF lambastes government persecution of Nigerian atheist

The Freedom From Religion Foundation demands that Nigeria release a freethinker, arrested in late April for blasphemy, who has vanished from view. Mubarak Bala, head of a humanist association in …

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August 26, 2020

FFRF condemns Kenosha police shooting and vigilante homicides

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s home state has been the site of a string of horrendous events over the past 24 hours. We at FFRF woke up first to learn …

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