Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Indian Rationalist Association, is a tireless campaigner for science and against superstition. He is widely known for his exposure of the tricks used by self-professed God-Men and gurus and has often been on Indian television explaining the everyday science behind supposed miracles. After one such exposure he pointed out that the blood oozing from a statue of Christ at the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Velan Kanni in Vile Parle, Mumbai was in fact water from a leaky pipe the Catholic Church of Mumbai made a formal complaint about him to the Mumbai police.

Our June newsletter is ready for you to download. [Just click here](http://www.suffolkhands.org.uk/files/1/SH&S News June 2012.pdf “SH&S news June 2012”) (pdf). For maps and directions to our meetings venue, click here (pdf).

The latest issue of The Pink Humanist, the only LGBT magazine for Atheists, Humanists, Sceptics and Freethinkers, is out now. This issue has a strongly international flavour, with articles on Christianity and Fascism in the Ukraine, The Exemption of Gays in Turkey from Military Service, and Religious Law, Democracy and Human Rights in Africa the last by the courageous Nigerian Humanist Leo Igwe. It also includes two special features on gay marriage, and the transcript of an important speech, Humanists and People of Faith, by Angela Eagle MP, who is in Labours Shadow Cabinet as the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Ever wondered what happens to your money when you put it in a vending machine? Find out!

Well, have you? Come and tell us about them. Click here for maps and directions (pdf).

As so many people are away in August, there won’t be a meeting at the university as usual. We will be having a pub lunch at the end of the month though – see calendar.

Prof. A C Grayling is the Vice-President of the British Humanist Association.

This week’s ‘In Our Time’ with Melvyn Bragg is about campaigning 19th century secularist Annie Besant, who had a close relationship with Charles Bradlaugh, founder of the National Secular Society. Well worth listening to for the history of secularism in the UK. Click here to listen on BBC iPlayer. Click here to read about the history of the National Secular Society.    Image from Wikimedia Commons.