Christopher Hitchens met with Anderson Cooper on August 5th in his Washington D.C. apartment to discuss Cancer and God.
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A few days ago during an interview with ABC Melborne's Jon Faine, Australia's first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out as an atheist. When asked if she believed in God, Gillard replied: "No, I don't Jon, I'm not a religious person." She then went on to explain that that although she had been raised as a Baptist, during her adult life she "[...] found a different path,". ...

Yesterday the New Zealand Atheist Campaign banners started to pop up around Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The billboard slogans are based off of three winning phrases that were chosen from over 900 submissions.
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Richard Dawkins has began planning a legal ambush to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested during his visit to Britain. The charge? "crimes against humanity".

Both Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have been working with human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging the Pope after he has allegedly covered up a history of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
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Last week officials from the Justice and Health and Human services department held a meeting with the Secular Coalition for America (click here for original story). It was the first time in American history that an administration had held a policy briefing with a 'nontheist' group. Despite the fact that President Obama was not at the meeting, and no policy changes are scheduled to be announced, the religious right wing has labeled the meeting as being part of an anti-religious agenda held by the current administration.
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