Whether you are commemorating the birth of Jesus or marking all that's positive about humanity, this is a time to rejoice.

I managed to make an exact replica of the original deleted video. I wish I could give credits to the original uploader but I don't remember his username.

It's the latest cruel tactic in the Pakistani Taliban's battle to stop girls and women from getting an education: acid thrown in their faces to scar them for life and deter others from following in their footsteps.

In Kentucky, a homeland security law requires the state’s citizens to acknowledge the security provided by the Almighty God--or risk 12 months in prison.

Man was suspec­ted of burnin­g copies of Holy Quran at mosque in Dadu.

Pope Benedict on Friday signaled the Vatican was ready to forge alliances with other religions against gay marriage.

Take from this what you want..

About Adam and Eve messing up everything for everyone.

In a book coming out next week called The Bonobo and the Atheist, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that morality is built into our species. Rather than coming to us top-down from God, or any other external source, morality for de Waal springs bottom-up from our emotions and our day-to-day social interactions, which themselves evolved from foundations in animal societies.

Surely, other travesties belong on this list; but these make up some of the most atrocious horrors that religion has helped spawn throughout human history.

We non-believers are often requested to explain where we get our morality from, if not from a god. As a result, the phrase, “good without god,” has become quite ubiquitous in the atheist community and emerges when we atheists are put in the nonsensical position of explaining how it’s possible to be a decent person despite the absence of a belief in a god.

Just do good, and we'll find a meeting point, says Francis in marked departure from Benedict's line on non-Catholics.

Frans de Waal talks about religion. Do we need it?

National Secular Society takes Woking council to court over 'worshipper-only' free parking, which it claims is discriminatory

The number of disbelievers is growing, but they remain America's least trusted minority. Why?

Ireland will compensate a number of women who suffered horrific abuses while institutionalized in the now infamous Magdalene Asylums, also known as the "Magdalene Laundries", where young girls were sent by the state as a form of punishment. The Catholic Church profited immensely from the forced unpaid labor which young girls (many of whom were guilty of no crime yet had the misfortune of being orphans or who suffered from developmental and/or learning disabilities...

Here are 11 things that are technically banned by the Bible. (All quotes are translations from the New American Standard Bible, but, because I'm actually trying to maintain serious journalistic integrity here, I cross-referenced several other translations to make sure I wasn't missing the point.)

Atheism in the UK has reached record levels, so why are people losing faith?

Like any religious conflict, this debate can only be settled with a point system.

The lavish lifestyle of a bishop who is spending 31 million on building a new headquarters in west Germany was exposed on Friday, when it emerged he has spent 783,000 on a garden, 25,000 on a table and 15,000 on a bath tub.