A meeting at the University of London had to be cancelled yesterday after threats of religious  violence. The talk on ‘Sharia Law and Human Rights’ was organized by the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queens College.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the British government’s decision to not fund schools that teach creationism or are run by creationist groups. The Department of Education issued a new revision of the model funding agreement for Free Schools in order to preclude "the teaching, as an evidence-based view or theory, of any view or theory that is contrary to established scientific and/or historical evidence and explanations"  The change follows the BHA coordinating the ‘Teach evolution, not creationism!’ campaign, which called for this precise change.

Secular people are just as likely to participate in society as religious people, suggests new research by the British government. The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the findings as further evidence against the idea – increasingly advanced by religious and government leaders – that religion increases people’s contribution to society. The survey also revealed that Christians were much less likely than any other belief group to mix with people of different beliefs or ethnicities.

To mark World Humanist Day on June 21, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has launched a new online resource called The Really Simple Guide to Humanism. The website features quizzes, games and videos, as well as answers to some of the most common questions about Humanism.

A landmark UK court judgment, which has found that Christian hotel owners had unlawfully discriminated on grounds of sexual orientation, has been welcomed by the British Humanist Association as a victory for equality and liberty.

For the first time, Humanist representatives will lay wreaths at the official Remembrance Sunday commemorations for Scotland and Northern Ireland. However a request for Humanists to be included in the UK national ceremony in London has been refused. Remembrance Sunday commemorates the contribution of British and Commonwealth servicemen and women in the World Wars and later conflicts.

British Humanists have launched a nationwide campaign to overcome the massive undercounting of the non-religious population in the national census. "The Census Campaign" has been launched today by the British Humanist Association (BHA), calling on people who are not religious, including atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and "cultural Christians", to be counted and included in the 2011 UK census by ticking the "No religion" response box.

Pope Benedict XVI has begun his state visit to the UK with attacks on atheism and secularism. In his opening address to the Queen at Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on 16 September, the Pope referred to "a Nazi tyranny that wished to eradicate God from society" and then went on to urge the UK to guard against "aggressive forms of secularism". In response, IHEU member organizations in Britain denounced the Pope’s attempt to equate atheism with Nazism and argued that secularism is the best guarantee for human rights for all.

Organizers of the "Protest the Pope" march and rally on Saturday 18^th September have announced the speakers for the rally opposite Downing Street. The event is part of a wave of protest against the first ever official state visit to Britain by a Pope. Organizers include Humanist groups, human rights organizations, and survivors of sex abuse by priests.

A new documentary by world-renowned atheist Richard Dawkins calls time on the growth of state-funded religious schools in Britain. Andrew Copson, vice president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) and chief executive officer of the British Humanist Association (BHA), is among a number of experts interviewed for ‘Faith School Menace?’. The show will premiere this Wednesday, 18 August, at 9pm on the UK channel More4.