Advocacy News / 10 February 2023 At European Parliament, Italian humanists condemn rise of religious nationalism In January, Adele Orioli, Director of Advocacy at the UAAR, spoke at an event on the topic of “liberal democracy”,… Read More
Members and partners / 2 March 2022 Italy: UAAR condemns unfair treatment of non-religious and clerical child abuse The Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics has drawn attention to the unfair and unequal treatment of non-religious people… Read More
Members and partners / 22 June 2021 Unprecedented interference of the Vatican to modify an anti-hate crime law in Italy The Holy See has invoked its Concordat with the Italian government to seek modifications of a law currently discussed by… Read More
Members and partners / 25 May 2021 “The Catholic Church must erase our names from their baptism registers”, says a coalition of European atheist groups A coalition of atheist organizations in France, Italy, and Hungary calls upon the Catholic Church to delete the names of… Read More
Members and partners / 12 April 2021 Italian young humanists publish an illustrated guide to humanism for teenagers The youth section of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics (UAAR) has just published "Good without a God.… Read More
Membership blog / 24 April 2020 / Mahalet Tadesse Giorgio Maone from Italy: “We closed our venues before the lockdown, churches are still open today” Thirteenth mini-interview in the #GlobalHumanismNow series: Giorgio Maone from Italy. Read More
Membership blog / 5 December 2019 / Giovanni Gaetani 20 humanist books to be auctioned off: make your offer today! Italian and Belgian humanists donated 20 books to fund raise money for our Protect Humanists At Risk campaign Read More
General news / 24 October 2019 Italian photographer convicted of blasphemy after comparing the Church to a masochist club Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani has been convicted to pay €4000 for blasphemy for having compared the Catholic Church to a… Read More
Humanists International News / 12 April 2019 Italy censors campaign to improve access to abortion and healthcare because it’s “offensive” The Italian Council of State has overturned a previous ruling, in effect censoring UAAR's campaign to improve access Read More
General news / 27 March 2019 Italian government supports world congress of homophobic, sexist and anti-abortion fundamentalists What is the World Congress of Families, and how involved is the Italian Government? Read More
General news / 22 February 2018 “Children have the right to opt-out from religious instruction”, say atheists in Peru, Colombia and Italy Even in countries where children or families have the right to opt-out from religious instruction or teaching, many are… Read More