It’s not just in America…
The United States has a reputation in the global media as being particularly more religious, and particularly more problematic vis-a-vis entanglement of church and state, than our European counterparts. While America has plenty to answer for in this regard (otherwise I’d feel no need for this publication to exist), it’s also true that many, if not most, of our Western allies do not have official separation of church and state. Many European democracies actual fund major religious institutions from the public coffers, and some - most notable the United Kingdom - have official state religions.
One of the foreign newsfeeds I regularly track is the Newsline from the National Secular Society. The UK-based NSS describes itself as follows:
National Secular Society is the leading pressure group defending the rights of non-believers from the demands of religious power-seekers. We campaign on a wide range of issues, including religious influence in the Government, the disestablishment of the Church of England, the removal of the (unelected) Bench of Bishops from the House of Lords and for the conversion of religious schools (paid for by the taxpayer) to community schools, open to all.
The Newsline e-Bulletin offers regular “Quotes of the Week”, “Essays of the Week”, and an impressive summary of church-and-state news, not only in Great Britain, but from the EU and UN. (e.g. the blasphemy legislation controversy pops up frequently in the UK; and America secularists should also be concerned about ongoing efforts to get the UN to make “religious defamation” an offense against human rights).
Check out the UK’s National Secular Society at Secularism.org.uk - subscribe to the Newsline by following the link on the left-side navbar.