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        <title>House of Lords reject call to scrap coronation oath</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The House of Lords has rejected a call to disestablish the Church of England, remove God from the coronation oath and to declare Britain a secular state. 
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        <pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>BBC rebuffs humanists’ grab for Thought for the Day</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An attempt to include secular humanists and atheists on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day has been rejected.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>NZ Parliament drops ‘Jesus’ from prayer</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An official prayer said by parliamentarians in New Zealand has been stripped of its reference to Jesus Christ.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2017 08:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>TV historian: &#039;I was wrong about Christianity&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tom Holland, the TV and radio historian and author of the prize-winning Rubicon, says he had the completely wrong idea about Christianity.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Christians must not keep their faith from public life&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A &#8220;faith which is purely private is of no public use&#8221;, a Professor at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast has said.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 15:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Secular campaigns against church schools must stop&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced plans to prevent &#8220;vexatious&#8221; secularist campaigns against church schools.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>&#039;Christianity is being squeezed out of Whitehall&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Christianity is being &#8220;silenced&#8221; in the public sector and quietly &#8216;squeezed out&#8217; of national life, according to a former civil service chief.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Minister: &#039;Easier for MPs to admit to porn than prayer&#039;</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is easier for a politician to admit to smoking weed or watching porn than it is to admit that they might take prayer seriously in their daily life&#8221;, a cabinet minister has said.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Cross removed after secular complaint</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A statue of a soldier kneeling before a cross has been removed from a war memorial in North Carolina following a legal threat by a secular organisation.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Make army chaplains secular, British officer says</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The British Army would be better served by secular chaplains, a former battalion commander has claimed.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Secularists: Forget the Church on Remembrance Day</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Secularists are again calling for the Church to be sidelined from Remembrance Day ceremonies.
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Christian groups told they must consider secular leaders</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Christian groups at California State University have been stripped of recognition because they refused to sign a policy which would require them to open their membership and leadership to all students, including non-Christians.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Christians likened to terrorist groups in secularist manifesto</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pro-marriage and pro-life Christians have been likened to violent terrorists by a group of secularists and atheists. 
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>New faith minister worries secularists</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has been handed the responsibilities of Faith Minister in a move criticised by a secularist campaigner.
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Christians warned over &#039;dangerous&#039; new secularism</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Christians need to recognise that the &#8216;new secularism&#8217; is trying to undermine and destroy their faith, a Free Church minister in Scotland has said. 
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        <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Scots Govt rejects bid to curb church role in education</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Churches will continue to have a voice on local authority education committees, after the Scottish Government rejected a secularist bid to end the practice. 
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        <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Scots secularists bid to curb Churches&#039; role in education</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Scottish secularist pressure group has called on the Government to remove religious representatives from education committees, during a session in Holyrood today. 
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        <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Secularists want Christian coronation oath scrapped</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Secularists have launched a campaign to end the Christian coronation oath, in a bid criticised as &#8220;deeply misjudged&#8221;.
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Secularists: Dump Church from Remembrance Day</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The National Secular Society has been accused of trying &#8220;to politicise Remembrance Sunday for their own ends&#8221;.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Sex education should be forced on kids, secularists say</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Children should be forced to sit through sex education classes even if it goes against their parents&#8217; wishes, a secularist pressure group in Scotland has said. 
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        <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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