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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 6 April
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
* Titus Trust settles with ‘bash camp’ abuse victims <[link removed]>
A Christian organisation whose forerunner ran holiday camps that led to boys being beaten sadistically has reached a settlement with three men and acknowledged that "lives have been blighted".
The Observer
* France launches terror probe after knife attack kills two <[link removed]>
French police have launched a terrorism investigation after two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack in the south-east of the country.
BBC
* Regulator probes church accused of promoting false coronavirus cleansing products – NSS quoted <[link removed]>
The Charity Commission is looking into a south London-based church after it was accused of promoting false coronavirus cleansing products made of oil and string.
Third Sector (£/register)
* Charity Commission response to accusations against Christian charity questioned <[link removed]>
A complainant alleges that the Charity Commission has declined to receive evidence for its ongoing case involving the British Pakistani Christian Association.
Third Sector (£/register)
* MP accused of 'endangering lives' over funeral gathering <[link removed]>
The police commissioner in the West Midlands has reacted furiously after Birmingham MP Tahir Ali joined a huge funeral prayer gathering - in defiance of lockdown restrictions. The MP has said he attended in order to 'observe' as part of his inquiries into the way different councils were enforcing restrictions.
Birmingham Live
* Birmingham Sikh TV station is probed by charity watchdog <[link removed]>
The Charity Commission has seized control of a Birmingham community TV station amid investigations into its financial affairs.
Birmingham Live
* Calls to seal off ultra-Orthodox areas add to Israel's virus tensions <[link removed]>
Officials fear there has been an explosion of cases of coronavirus in neighbourhoods populated with ultra-Orthodox Jews.
The Guardian
* ‘The rightwing Christian preachers in deep denial over Covid-19's danger’ <[link removed]>
A number of American religious leaders have endangered their flock by holding services – and by claiming the virus can be defeated by faith in God.
The Guardian
* Hasidic funerals in New York flout social distancing rules amid coronavirus <[link removed]>
Hasidic Jews flouted social distancing rules and held at least two packed funerals on the streets of Brooklyn in New York on Sunday.
New York Post
* Muslims clash with police outside a mosque as they try to enforce Pakistan's new coronavirus lockdown <[link removed]>
Pakistani Muslims clashed with police trying to enforce new curbs on gatherings to prevent Friday prayers and contain coronavirus infections, officials have said.
Mail Online
* Arguments emerge over US government giving virus aid to houses of worship <[link removed]>
Prominent US religious groups have clashed over an administrative rule that allows funds from the coronavirus stimulus bill passed last week to go to houses of worship.
The Times of Israel
* Catholic bishops forum finds 16 cases of child sexual abuse in Japan <[link removed]>
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan has found 16 cases of sexual abuse against minors spanning from the 1950s to the 2010s in its internal probe of churches in the country, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The Japan Times
** Latest from the NSS
* Secular attitudes and laws are assets against coronavirus <[link removed]>
Religious fanaticism is hindering the fight against coronavirus across much of the world. But in Britain, claims to religious exceptionalism are thankfully relatively isolated, says Chris Sloggett.
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