Gillard won’t play religion card Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she has no intention of pretending to believe in God to attract religiously-inclined voters. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd was a regular at Canberra church services and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is known as a devout Catholic. In contrast, Ms Gillard says that while she [...]

The rise of Miliband brings at last the prospect of an atheist prime minister When Labour cabinet members were asked about their religious allegiances last December, following Tony Blair’s official conversion to Roman Catholicism, it turned out that more than half of them are not believers. The least equivocal about their atheism were the health [...]

Israeli MP blames quakes on gays An Israeli MP has blamed parliament’s tolerance of gays for earthquakes that have rocked the Holy Land recently. Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave “legitimacy to sodomy”. Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several [...]