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• "I’ve been told I’m going to hell. People don’t realise I don’t believe in it."

  Q&A with Boyd Sleator, development officer for Northern Ireland Humanists .

• ‘‘Saying something is a miracle is a failure of imagination’’

  Q&A with philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett.

• The tragedy of Pakistan’s blasphemy law

  Mashal Khan, a student describing himself as a humanist, was murdered at his university in Mardan.

• Pharmacists must put patients' needs first

  In a victory for humanists, pharmacists can no longer refuse treatment based on their religious beliefs.

• Empire: the summer 2017 New Humanist

  Out now - how a history of conquest shapes the present

• "Secularism isn’t about the absence of religion, it’s about the structure of the state"

  Q&A with Yasmin Rehman, veteran campaigner recently named Secularist of the Year.

• Will progress kill humanism?

  Yuval Noah Harari’s new book explores the idea that scientific knowledge might one day undermine democratic values.

• A politics of humanism can help build a just, free and more equal world

  Intolerance and bigotry are in the ascendant. Owen Jones surveys the challenges ahead.

• Malta's humanists and the battle against the Catholic establishment

  Remembering Ramon Casha, chair of the Malta Humanist Society, who died in January 2017.

• What does it mean to be nonreligious in the modern era?

  A Q&A with academic Lois Lee, a sociologist whose work focuses on atheism.