The UAAR presented its report to the United Nations for what concerns equality and nondiscrimination, LGBTQIA+ rights, religious beliefs, right to health, access to reproductive healthcare services as well as correlated services, right to education, protection of minors, and family rights. On the 16th of July 2024, the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) sent — for the first time — to the United Nations (UN) its report, which will be an integral part of the periodic review for… Read more »
The Catholic Church Loses 200 Million From the 8×1000
For the first time, the total amount falls below one billion Euros, reaching 910 million euros The Catholic Church faces a new setback as it has lost 200 million euros from its 8×1000 in the past two years. The Assembly of Bishops has, in fact, reported that this year that the resources allocated by the Ministry of Finance have, once again, decreased to 910 million and 266 thousand euros, from the one billion and 111 million euros in 2022, and… Read more »
School administrators, choose the books of ‘Alternativa’!
The UAAR campaign favoring the official adoption of textbooks catering alternative activities to the teaching of catholic religion continues, as a letter has been sent to 5,403 principals. During the 2023/24 academic year, less than one primary school out of ten adopted the specific textbook for the alternative activities to the teaching of catholic religion program (AA). The aforementioned conclusion can be drawn based on an analysis conducted by UAAR reliant on data provided by the Ministry of Education and… Read more »
Uaar launches an Artistic Contest for a Secular Representation of Grief and Death
The association Uaar (Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics) promotes the first edition of the UAART Contest, which is open to all visual arts and aimed at the construction of a secular viewpoint for what concerns the representation of grief and death. The contest is open to all artists, regardless of nationality and devoid of age-related discriminations. The deadline to participate is July 5th 2024, and it is possible to enroll online, free of charge, at uaar.it/premio-uaart-iscrizione. The rule book… Read more »
In Public Offices the Crucifix Cannot be Imposed: the State Council’s Ruling on the Mandas Case
Following a fourteen year wait, the State Council finally ruled in favor of UAAR’s position concerning a matter dating back to 2010. In November 2009, in Mandas, a small municipality of 2000 inhabitants, the Union of the Centre affiliated mayor Umberto Oppus issued an ordinance whose intent was that of imposing the presence of a crucifix within all public buildings. The prescribed penalty for violating such an ordinance amounted to a fine of 500 Euros issued by the local police… Read more »
Even in death, non-believers can’t escape the crosses of Rome
Mrs. T. passed away at nearly 90 early this December. For many years she had been a mathematics teacher in a well-known high school in the capital: much loved by her students, she had left teaching to go on to manage, until just recently, one of the last truly authentic and cosmopolitan literary cafes in the historic downtown area. Mrs. T had arrived in Rome as a girl from the South, defying stereotypes and statistics, by being a life-time atheist,… Read more »
2020: Lombardy is the region with the highest clerical rate of the year
Lombardy is the region that in 2020 has shown the highest rate of institutional clericalism, according to the picture that emerges from the “Clericalata of the Week” section of the website of the Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (Uaar), which collects the most clerical statements and acts made by representatives of institutions or public functions. “The confessional initiatives in this region over the course of the past year have been countless“, comments Roberto Grendene, secretary of Uaar. “They range… Read more »
The not so subtle art of censorship double-standards in Genoa
In recent days, the manifestos of the no-choice fundamentalists against pharmacological abortion have aroused righteous scandal and indignation, after comparing the Ru486 pill to a poison and the woman taking it to a both suicidal and homicidal Snow White. Indignation that for once not only shocked civil society but also the very administrations of the cities in which the posters appeared. Milan, Rome, Trento in order of appearance have in fact promptly withdrawn and unsubscribed communication considered seriously damaging to… Read more »
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