Public Affairs of the Peruvian Association of Atheists (APERAT)
"On Wednesday 17 February at the Club in the city of Huanuco, Lima, Peru's capital, began the public activities of the APERAT with the presentation of the Campaign for mass excommunication by the secretary-treasurer of the institution, the counter and talk Rafael Ocaña "Believers and unbelievers in Peru" made by the president, the philosopher Manuel A. Paz y Miño. The application of excommunication with 52 signatures was submitted and subsequently accepted by the Peruvian Episcopal Council of the Catholic Church but was rejected by the Archbishop of Lima, which called for the signatories have a representative. Recall that the democratically APERAT was founded in August 2009 with members of secular humanists and atheists.
March-April-held video-forums at the Cultural Center "Red Owl" Pueblo Libre district with a number of documentaries ("Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species," "The god who was not there" ) and movies ("Creation", "Life of Brian", "Our Fathers").
-From April 2010 the Channel APERAT: http://www.youtube.com/ateosperuanos and contains the following videos: Introduction to the APERAT, and interviews with philosophers Jesus Mosterín and MA Paz y Miño, biologist Luis Arbaugh, psychiatrist Mariano Querol, and the director Armando Robles Godoy, all Peruvians except for the first is from Spain, of course. The APERAT Channel is responsible for the commission of videos made by Adrian Nunez, Augusto Rebagliati, Patty Maue and the same MA Paz y Miño.
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Robles -On Thursdays in July APERAT presented at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Humanities of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (San Marcos), a series of 4 documentaries with Richard Dawkins ("Why are we here?", "The Root of all evil (I): The God Delusion," "The Root of all evil (II): The Virus of Faith "," God in the Brain ").
"There were discussions at the Faculty of Physics, San Marcos, as" The man: divine creation or natural evolution? "(August 25) with Luis Arbaugh, biologist, geneticist, and Alfonso Núñez, evangelical theologian and "Is the Bible the word of God" (2 September) only with the physical Luis Del Castillo atheist because the believer opponent apologized a day before the scheduled date. Not conducted the debate "Does God exist?" (Sept. 8) with the atheist philosopher Manuel A. Paz y Miño and Jorge Chavez Feijoo Catholic lawyer because the authorities of the Faculty of Physics post another activity scheduled for the same date.
-Manuel Abraham Paz y Miño, head of the APERAT gave 2 lectures inside the country: "The great idea of \u200b\u200bman-God" ( November 20) in the School of Speech and Leadership in the province of Huacho, Lima, and "Does God exist?" (December 11) in the Auditorium of the Humanities, National University of Trujillo in the town of that name on the north coast of Peru. Joseph also Maúrtua, philosopher and author of Essays atheists spoke on "The Peru-Vatican Concordat" (December 18) in the Auditorium of the "Red Owl."
-October 22 published the APERAT a statement in protest of the law enacted days before declaring the Lord of Miracles as Patron of the Catholic Religious Spirituality of Peru, and the resolution of August 19 the Ministry of Education to sung in all the institutions of basic education and regular education sixth stanza of the anthem, which ends, "renew the great oath that he rendered to the God of Jacob."
-On December 6 the APERAT issued its second statement objecting to the law of religious freedom and equality adopted by the Congress of Peru, which opened the door for other faiths could receive state subsidies and tax exemptions similar to those enjoyed by the Catholic Church, besides being able to be implemented non-Catholic religion classes in public schools as well as non-Catholic chaplains in the armed forces and police. The position of the APERAT is in favor of a truly secular state and secular, that is separate from the Church, that does not privilege or subsidize any religion. Also raised in the statement that the State did not also exempt arts and cultural institutions.
"Poltergeists" home district of Rimac in Lima
In July, the Peruvian media gave the news of a supposedly haunted house where the family lives Barnechea Ortiz and where things inside -bulbs were thrown, glasses, watches, knives, televisions, etc.. and even there were five threats of fire. The house is on Liberty Street no. 430-1 in the district of Rimac. All of this began, the family said, after some renovation work started in your home. So there were a Catholic priest to bless the house, calling themselves as the famous Hayimi sighted and self-styled paranormal investigators, and Felix Rivera parapsychologist who prayed for them to leave the alleged ghosts that would have been even three! The skeptical public commented that perhaps the news was a psycho-social well fitted to distract the public from corruption in government.
