Monthly Archives: September 2025

An increasing number of classes are adopting a textbook for in-school alternative activities to religion classes. Asti, Genoa, and Teramo are considered the most secular provinces. At the onset of the new academic year, with children returning back to school, the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnistics (UAAR) has once again checked the variety of textbooks available for use during the alternative activity program. In doing so, the UAAR has analysed the data available in the “Textbook Adoptions” section of… Read more »

The Brian Award’s jury has conferred the prize to Paolo Sorrenino’s film, La Grazia, screened at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. This present edition marks the 20th edition of the Brian Award, promoted by the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR). The film prized by the UAAR covers, from both an institutional and a political perspective, the ever-present and dramatically pressing issue of the legalization of euthanasia, which in the Italian context, is marked by an obstruction attributable… Read more »

Two Days to Discuss Secularism in Florence, September 20-21, 2025 UAAR Florence and UAAR Lucca, with the patronage of the Municipality of Florence, have organized Giubilaic, an initiative created in order to grant back voice and space to crucial, yet seldom discussed, issues from a secular standpoint, namely: freedom of choice, civil rights, self-determination, public education, and the secular nature of institutions. Giubilaic will take place in Florence on September 20-21, 2025. Here, the date is no coincidence. UAAR wishes… Read more »