Little do atheists realise when they say ‘Goodbye’ to their friends, that they are in reality saying “God be with ye!”—an old blessing and hope. Such can be seen in other languages, for example French, and Spanish, with adieu, adios—’to God’. Nigel Pocock A recent report stated […]
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The 2011 census and its impact on Latin Americans
“The challenge is clearly on: to accomplish the inclusion of Latinos in the official format of the ONS in the next census”. Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has published the results of the 2011 census for England and Wales. The population amounted to 56.1 million people: […]
Blasphemy laws
A thirteen year old girl called Rimsha has been accused in the courts of blasphemy in Pakistan. Rimsha is from a Christian family in Mehrabadi, a poor part of Islamabad.– – Steve Latham – She was accused of burning parts of the Quran. Controversially, not only was she a minor, […]
Neo-Fascists: xenophobes, racists and ultranationalists
The neo-Nazi and extreme right parties still exist. Some, have even acquired sufficient strength to hold the balance in deciding if a Law is approved in parliament or not. The rhetoric is still the same: supremacy for the citizens and hatred for the foreigner. Javier Duque With the passage of […]