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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 5 July
In the Media <[link removed]>, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.
** Secularism in the media
* Ecclesiastical lawyer & abuse survivor asks parliament to render seal of confession obsolete at IICSA inquiry <[link removed]>
Parliament "must intervene" in the debate on the future of the seal of confession in the Church of England by changing civil law to introduce mandatory reporting, a former diocesan chancellor has said.
Church Times
* C of E’s general synod branded ‘lazy and incurious’ about safeguarding scandals <[link removed]>
The Church of England's General Synod has been "lazy and incurious" despite a wave of safeguarding scandals, a lay member said this week.
Church Times
* China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families <[link removed]>
China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to new research.
BBC
* Faith schools among schools splitting £22m to boost nursery places <[link removed]>
Some faith schools have been awarded money from the school nurseries capital fund, which creates school-based nursery places for disadvantaged children.
Schools Week
* Assisted dying: Paralysed man trying to change law as MPs debate issue <[link removed]>
A paralysed man who wants the right to an assisted death has applied to the High Court to try to change UK law. The application comes in the week Parliament debated assisted dying for the first time in four years.
Sky News
* ‘MPs must find a way out of the moral maze of assisted dying’ <[link removed]>
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Vince Cable MP, says it is time to update the law on assisted dying, with great care to ensure that there are safeguards to prevent abuse.
Evening Standard
* Dying man campaigns to make assisted dying legal in Scotland
A dying man from Perth has said he will spend his remaining weeks campaigning to make assisted dying legal in Scotland. Local politicians have not backed his campaign.
The Courier
* C of E will allow husbands and wives to stay married after one changes gender <[link removed]>
The Church of England is to tell husbands and wives they are free to change gender and stay married. But the established church still does not allow same-sex marriage.
Daily Mail
* Equalities chief says anti-abortion and Christian societies mustn’t be blocked on campus due to 'hypersensitivity' <[link removed]>
Universities must not allow students to block anti-abortion or Christian societies due to "hypersensitivity", equalities chief David Isaac has said.
The Telegraph
* Australians told to fight 'religious freedom' laws <[link removed]>
LGBT rights advocates are urging people to resist the Australian government's plan to change laws in the name of 'religious freedom'.
Gay Star News
* ‘Trump's pick for US representative to the UN is a dangerous anti-abortion fanatic’ <[link removed]>
Bergen Cooper and Beirne Roose-Snyder say Andrew Bremberg is proud of his work expanding the US 'gag rule' that hurts women across the world.
The Guardian
** Latest from the NSS
* Doctors who favour legalisation of assisted dying deserve a hearing <[link removed]>
As more doctors' groups consult their members on assisted dying and parliament debates the issue, Dr Antony Lempert says the challenge to the status quo, which is propped up by religious interests, is welcome.
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