Since 2006, the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) has presented an annual award for the best film screened at the Venice International Film Festival. The Brian Award, named after the famous Monty Python satirical film Brian of Nazareth, reaches its historic 20th edition this year. The award is given to the movie that best promotes a secular worldview and which, through the lens of the UAAR’s social aims, highlights the values associated with secularism: rationality and scientific thought,… Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2025
8×1000, Another Billion for the Church
Another billion for the Church. But more and more taxpayers are choosing the State and fewer and fewer are choosing the Catholic Church. The intervention category promoted by the Meloni government for drug and other addiction recoveries has failed. This year, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has also published data on the 8×1000 amounts paid in 2025, referring to the 2021 tax year, and provisional data on taxpayer choices made in 2024, which will be used in the 2027… Read more »