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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 7 February

In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.

** Secularism in the media

* Plan to close Surrey school and relaunch it as Church of England faith school criticised – NSS quoted <[link removed]>

The NSS's No More Faith Schools campaign has criticised a plan to close a non-faith school and open a new Church of England school on the site in Surrey.

iNews

* ‘Why does the government like faith schools, and why do religious groups like the free schools programme?’ <[link removed]>

Will Hazell says organised religion has been one of the major beneficiaries of the government's flagship free schools policy.

iNews

* MP questions established status of Church of England in Commons

Ben Bradshaw MP has said the C of E's position on sex could raise questions over the legitimacy of its established status during church commissioners' questions.

Premier Christian News

* Jehovah's Witness ministers 'delayed reporting child abuse claims to police' <[link removed]>

A High Court judge has heard that ministers in a congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses waited more than two and a half years before telling police that a girl had made sex abuse allegations against her father.

Blackpool Gazette

* Lawyers told Islamist inmates to shun deradicalisation <[link removed]>

Solicitors discouraged Islamist extremist prisoners from taking part in a deradicalisation programme, according to a Ministry of Justice report.

The Times (£)

* Council to consider doubling Catholic school’s capacity <[link removed]>

Solihull council's planning committee is considering plans to double the capacity of a Catholic primary school.

Solihull Observer

* Ofsted visit to Muslim girls school stopped after ‘inspector wore shoes in prayer room’ <[link removed]>

An Ofsted inspection of a Muslim girls school was cut short after an inspector walked into a prayer room wearing shoes, according to the school.

Express & Star

* Gavin Williamson gives universities 'final warning' on free speech <[link removed]>

The education secretary has given universities a final warning to guard free speech or face legislation.

The Times (£)

* Brazil encouraging teens to abstain from sex, with Evangelical support <[link removed]>

Brazil's government is running a campaign called 'Adolescence first, pregnancy after', with Evangelical Christian support.

BBC

* 'Muslims did no favour to India by staying here', says chief minister of state <[link removed]>

Muslims who chose to stay in India when it was partitioned following independence from Britain did the country "no favours", Hindu nationalist politician Yogi Adityanath has said.

BBC

** Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

* Nineteen new faith schools proposed in latest round of academies <[link removed]>

Nineteen new faith schools, including 14 Christian schools, have been included in the latest wave of free school applications in England.

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