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(November 7, 2009) - Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth.

(November 7, 2009) - From subway ads to “Blasphemy Day,” nonbelievers are proselytizing louder than ever. But as they draw more converts, are they in danger of losing their unique brand of faith?

(November 6, 2009) - There's an internal and external fight over the direction of atheism.

(November 5, 2009) - The debate over the health care bill has reached a new level - a spiritual level - with a provision in the health care legislation requiring the consideration of prayer treatments as medical expenses brought to light.

(November 5, 2009) - Italy said today that it would challenge a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in favour of an Italian woman who opposed the display of a Catholic crucifix at a state school attended by her two children.

(November 4, 2009) - The Dutch are marking the fifth anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands.

(November 3, 2009) - For years, the Church of Scientology chased down and brought back staff members who tried to leave.

(November 3, 2009) -- - Motorists along one of Lakeland's major thoroughfares are being greeted with a billboard asking a provocative question: "Don't believe in God?"

(November 3, 2009) - Margaret Downey, successful businesswoman, atheist and social activist, was recently on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles on American Airlines. As the plane was coming in for landing, she awoke to Christian music playing over the plane's sound system.

(November 2, 2009) - In an unusually overt step into politics by a religious leader, the Roman Catholic bishop of Brooklyn is urging voters, via robocalls, to support Vito J. Lopez, an assemblyman and the Brooklyn Democratic boss, whose hand-picked candidate is in a tough race for a City Council seat.

(November 2, 2009) - You have to look long and hard in the public-square discussion today to find bilateral calls for complementarity and partnership. Yet why should the relations between evolution and creation constitute a zero-sum game?

(November 1, 2009) - In this post, Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, critiques creationist Ray Comfort's new, antievolution version of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

November 1, 2009) - CAIRO — The Middle East's most powerful Islamic political movement is undergoing a leadership struggle as young, more moderate activists try to push the Muslim Brotherhood to soften its fundamentalist ideology and become a more democratic force.

(November 1, 2009) - Massimo Pigliucci argues that atheism is philosophical, not scientific. Jerry Coyne differs:

(October 31, 2009) - The turning point occurred on June 16, 2008 at 4:40 pm, when David Littman took the floor at a UN Human Rights Council meeting to speak on behalf of the Association for World Education (AWE) and the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).

(October 31, 2009) - When I blogged recently about a new, pro-creationism edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species—complete with a rebuttal to the theory of evolution—the responses poured in.

(October 31, 2009) - Evangelical-sponsored haunted houses known as “Hell Houses” were spooky attractions filled with the ghosts of the culture wars. Now, a softer, gentler version, the “Judgement House” claims to eschew politics, but does it?

(October 30, 2009) - Many of the beliefs held by religious moderates -- smart people who respect science and the separation of church and state -- are as untenable as the dogma of fundamentalists

(October 30, 2009) - ASHEVILLE — Writer, environmentalist, builder, war protestor, gadfly and of late, political candidate. For 28 years, Cecil Bothwell has played a plethora of roles in the Asheville area.

(October 29, 2009) - All across the country and in other parts of the world, atheist ad campaigns have been popping up on city buses and trains.