News Releases Archive

February 19, 2025

Iowa school district pulls prayerful sports video after FFRF intervention

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully persuaded the Newton (Iowa) Community School District to correct an unconstitutional foul. On Nov. 26 of last year, a video of the Newton …

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February 14, 2025

Watch out: Fanatical RFK Jr. is national health disaster waiting to happen

At a time when bird flu is alarmingly spreading and measles is breaking out among unvaccinated schoolchildren, our nation yesterday sadly witnessed Senate approval of anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy as …

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February 13, 2025

‘Freethought Matters’ pays tribute to Cecile Richards

Watch the preview here. The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s television show this week is a homage to feminist extraordinaire Cecile Richards. In honor of Richards, who recently died at the …

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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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