The National Secular Society’s “Certificate of De-baptism” has now been accessed 100,000 times since it was put up on the web 5 years ago.
Although the certificate has no legal significance, it has obviously taken the fancy of many people, particularly Catholics, who want to make a formal split from the religion they were baptised into [...]

MALAYSIA has shut down a newspaper for a month after it published a picture of Jesus holding a cigarette and what appears to be a can of beer.
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi himself stepped in this week to admonish the editors of Makkal Osai, a Tamil-language paper.
The country’s publishing laws allow politicians to close any publication [...]