Indonesia’s religious affairs minister resigned on May 26 after being accused of misusing funds that were intended to help Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca.
Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to Iowa officials asking the state government not to fund a Christian-themed park in Sioux City.
Six of the seven people, who were arrested in Iran for dancing to Pharrell Williams’ hit song Happy in a YouTube video that subsequently went viral, were freed on May 21.
U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III nullified Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriages on May 20 after quashing the teaching of intelligent design in public schools earlier.
Social networking and microblogging website Twitter sent a notice to Atheist Republic asking it to block certain URLs that it had posted in commemoration of Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.
After school in Idaho banned a controversial book from its reading list, a student at the school organized a free distribution of the book at a nearby park. This led to Christian parents demanding the book be banned across America.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man and been ordered by the court to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith to revert to Islam.
