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Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 18 February

  

In the Media 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 and listen to our podcasts on our website.

  

Secularism in the media

 

Burkina Faso church attack leaves 24 dead

Gunmen have killed 24 people and wounded 18 in an attack on a Protestant church in a village in northern Burkina Faso, the regional governor has said.

The Guardian

 

China’s Uighur Muslims detained for growing beards and having too many babies, leaked document reveals

Chinese authorities are monitoring the Uighur Muslim population's everyday movements and behaviour and sending people to internment camps over facial hair and having too many babies, leaked documents have revealed.

The Independent

 

Christians urged to push doctors’ body to keep opposing assisted dying

Care Not Killing, an alliance of organisations opposed to assisted suicide, is asking Christians to contact their doctors to encourage them to support continued opposition.

Christian Today

 

Attack on Catholic church in NI a sectarian hate crime, say police

Criminal damage caused to a Catholic Church in Co Antrim is being investigated as a sectarian hate crime, police have confirmed.

4NI

 

Germany's Muslims call for protection after 'far-right terror plot' arrests

Muslim groups in Germany have called for more police protection after the arrest of members of a rightwing extremist group that is believed to have been plotting large-scale attacks on mosques around the country.

The Guardian

  

Latest from the NSS

 

NSS: council wrong over baptism certificates in school admissions

Renfrewshire Council plans to extend the priority given to children who are baptised Catholic for admission to Catholic schools.

  

Academics' blog

 

‘A challenge to the separation of schools in NI’

Matt Milliken and Stephen Roulston say religious interests cannot be allowed to continue to block movement towards a truly shared future in Northern Ireland's schools.

Slugger O'Toole

  

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