André Borowski, a philosopher and economist who is an active member of the Free Thought movement in French-speaking Switzerland, shares with us in this article (in French) his thoughts on the recent introduction of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) service for everyone by the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland, under the (...)

The Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (Unione degli Atei e degli Agnostici Razionalisti, UAAR), is the main secular humanist association in Italy, defending the interests of atheist and agnostic citizens and separation of Church &State. It is completely independent of political parties and operates all over the Italian territory (...)

Commentary on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights, A.M. v. Poland – 8 June 2023 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rejects the application by eight Polish women against the ultra-restrictive abortion law, but does not rule on the merits. In this decision, adopted unanimously, the (...)

Increase of the number of non-believers The report of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office of June 13, 2023 on the evolution of religious beliefs and behaviours indicates once again, to the great regret of the dominant churches, a profound trend towards an increase in the number of people declaring themselves (...)

European secularists react                A “ecumenical prayer breakfast” was organised on the premises of the European Parliament on 6 June 2023 at the initiative of COMECE and CEC. The invitation featured the logo of the European Parliament, giving the impression that this initiative was supported by the institution. Following an (...)

The suppression of tax exemptions which have benefited the Catholic Church for decades is a “smokescreen that hides more important issues to be solved in Church-State relationships”, writes our member Europa Laica. It hides “other trade-offs in favour of the Spanish Church, such as overlooking the unconstitutional registration of real (...)

On February 22, the Swiss ambassador to Iran, Nadine Olivieri Lozano, wore the Islamic veil in a meeting with mullahs in the city of Qom, bastion of the most conservative Shiite clerics.                The Free Thought of French-speaking Switzerland reacted to this lack of solidarity with the women of Iran, (...)

On 14 March, Justyna Wydrzyńska was sentenced by a Polish court for providing an abortion drug to a pregnant woman in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Her sentence is 30 hours of community service per month for 8 months. After the sentence was handed down, she said: “We will (...)

The situation of women in the world is getting worse. According to the UN Secretary General, “Gender equality is growing more distant. On the current track, UN Women puts it 300 years away”! a gender apartheid In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime locks women and girls in their homes, denying them (...)

Review of the book “Ce que la laïcité doit aux femmes”, Véronique de Keyser, 2022, by Charles Conte The book’s subject is not what women owe to secularism, but what secularism owes to women. The subtitle is just as explicit: “The voices of emancipation”. We can recognize the direct style (...)

Stéphane Hessel was involved in all the great humanist causes. He was a faithful companion of the Ligue de l’enseignement and one of the founders of the Cercles Condorcet. Véronique de Keyser, president of the Centre d’Action laïque, professor emeritus at the University of Liège, and former MEP (2001-2014) shared (...)

               On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, eight years after the invasion of Crimea and Donbass. The Russian invasion has already caused tens of thousands of deaths and indescribable sufferings.                The European Secularist Network reiterates its strong condemnation of the Russian aggression, a (...)