Schools in Denmark are being petitioned by an atheist organisation encouraging students into dropping religious confirmation ceremonies. Read the full story

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church lost a total of 52,203 members last year, Helsingin Sanomat reports. The remaining members of the church now number 4,294,199, which equates to 80.6 of the population of Finland.

Before these latest figures, the church had reported its losses at only 48,268 people for the year; but that figure did not reflect Finns who had tendered their resignations at the last minute. Read the full story