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Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 7 April

  

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

 

George Pell: Court quashes cardinal's sexual abuse convictions

Catholic cardinal George Pell has been freed from jail after Australia's highest court overturned his convictions for child sexual abuse.

BBC

 

Inquiry into how religious organisations safeguard children to resume via video

A postponed inquiry into how religious organisations protect children from abuse is aiming to restart its hearings through video technology on 11 May.

Premier Christian Radio

 

Vicars told to ignore guidelines banning them from their own churches ahead of Easter service

Vicars have been told they can ignore guidelines urging them to not to carry out live streaming of Easter services from their own churches.

The Telegraph

 

Don't 'celebrate' gay people, just accept us, says teacher at centre of schools row

A year on from the protests outside schools in Birmingham, Andrew Moffat is still promoting his No Outsiders programme - with a twist.

The Guardian

 

Keir Starmer to hold talks with Jewish community leaders in first week as Labour leader

Keir Starmer is due to stage a video conference with Jewish leaders on Tuesday.

The Jewish Chronicle

 

Women sue Dutch Catholic order over forced labour claims

Nineteen women are suing a Dutch monastery and its Catholic order over claims they were subjected to forced labour and abuse by nuns between 1951 and 1979 during periods of virtual imprisonment as children or young adults.

The Guardian

 

‘“Muslims are foreigners”: inside India’s campaign to decide who is a citizen’

Tribunal members in the state of Assam say they felt pressured to declare Muslims noncitizens as the government seeks to expel illegal migrants. Some politicians have vowed to take the process nationwide.

The New York Times

 

‘President Trump must resist his base’s push to prioritise faith over science’

Pentecostals in the US have long challenged science and medicine — something that could prove deadly during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Washington Post

 

Atheist fails in bid to remove God from US oath of allegiance

A lawsuit to have the phrase "so help me God" removed from the US oath of allegiance has been rejected by an appeals court.

The Freethinker (Patheos)

 

US Supreme Court turns away religious clash over Washington transit ads

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a religious rights dispute over the Washington area transit authority's policy barring advertisements in its stations and on buses and trains on divisive issues including religion.

Reuters

 

Hasidic Jews hold another funeral in New York despite coronavirus pandemic

Hundreds of Hasidic Jews once again defied social distancing orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, taking over a Brooklyn street to hold a funeral for a local rabbi.

New York Post

 

Travel controls tighten over fears of Holy Week exodus

Police in Spain, Italy and Greece are tightening controls to limit the coronavirus outbreak fearing an exodus for Holy Week.

The Times (£)

  

In case you missed it: from the NSS

 

Charity regulator to look into sale of coronavirus ‘protection kits’

The charity regulator is to scrutinise a church over its bishop's sale of "plague protection kits" during the coronavirus outbreak.

  

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