UK Armed Forces Humanist Association

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The UK Armed Forces Humanist Association (UKAFHA) is a British organisation that represents the rights of humanists and the non-religious servicemen and women, their families, veterans, and civilian members of the Ministry of Defence. Religion has enjoyed a privileged position in the UK military with attendance of certain religious services being mandatory. The UKAFHA aims to prove that there are indeed 'atheists in foxholes' and distributes material to help the non-religious register as such in official military records. Membership of the organisation doubled during 2011.[1] In 2012 it was reported that over 26,000 serving members of the British armed forces described themselves as 'having no religion' making it the largest category after Christianity and significantly larger than the total number of all other major religious affiliations which is in the region of 3,000.[2]

Currently the UKAFHA, along with the BHA, are lobbying for representatives of the non-religious to be included in the national, annual Remembrance Day ceremony.

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  1. BHA News, p5, Issue 1, 2012.
  2. BHA News, p1, Issue 5, 2012.
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