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October 27, 2025

FFRF awards $16,250 to 2025 older college student essay winners

FFRF is proud to announce the awarding of $16,250 to the nine top winners and four honorable mentions in the 2025 Cornelius Vander Broek Graduate/Older Student Essay Competition.Students were asked …

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October 24, 2025

FFRF’s 48th Annual Convention: A joyful, urgent call for reason and democracy

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s 48th Annual Convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C., held Oct. 16-19 was a vibrant reminder that reason and constitutional principles have the power to move hearts …

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October 23, 2025

FFRF demands Colorado district stop funding explicitly Christian ‘public’ school

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking a Colorado school district to immediately halt its unconstitutional funding of an explicitly Christian school that claims to be a public institution. In …

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October 23, 2025

FFRF removes religious influence from Fla. school district’s sports programs

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has made certain that a local church will not be able to continue imposing itself on student-athletes in the Sanford, Fla., Seminole County Public Schools system.FFRF …

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October 23, 2025

‘We Dissent’ teaches lesson about why Ten Commandments have not entered schools

The latest episode of the “We Dissent” podcast takes a look at the long history of how Ten Commandments displays have been kept out of public schools. On Episode 47, FFRF Deputy …

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October 22, 2025

FFRF and SSA announce recipients of secular student activism awards

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, with the financial backing of individual donors, has collaborated with the Secular Student Alliance (SSA) to select, announce and distribute major secular student activism awards …

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October 21, 2025

FFRF ensures Ky. school district will not distribute religious literature

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pleased that Clark County Public Schools staff members in Winchester, Ky., will cease violating the right of their students to be free from religious coercion.A concerned …

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October 14, 2025

Massachusetts court blocks religious statues at Quincy government building

A Norfolk Superior Court today granted a preliminary injunction blocking the planned installation of two large statues of Catholic saints outside the entrance of the new public safety headquarters in Quincy. …

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October 14, 2025

FFRF op-ed opposing religious coercion in school sports reaches millions across the U.S.

FFRF Regional Government Affairs Manager Mickey Dollens’ recent op-ed opposing religious entanglement in college sports programs has reached millions of readers across the country. “As a former Division I football player and …

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