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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 9 April
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** Secularism in the media
* Child sexual abuse victims should not be put off by George Pell decision, experts say <[link removed]>
Victims of child sexual abuse should not be dissuaded from coming forward and reporting perpetrators as a result of the conviction of Cardinal George Pell being overturned, a barrister and professor of law in Melbourne says.
The Guardian
* Abortion pills ‘should be available to take at home’ in NI amid coronavirus lockdown <[link removed]>
Women in Northern Ireland should be able to take abortion pills at home during the coronavirus outbreak, campaigners have told the UK Government.
Metro
* ‘Religion and Covid-19’ <[link removed]>
It is highly irresponsible for some authorities to allow mass religious gatherings, says Khadija Khan.
Sister-hood
* Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News to close and staff laid off <[link removed]>
The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are to close and their staff made redundant, according to sources, after their parent company ran out of money as the coronavirus pandemic devastates the media industry.
The Guardian
* Police investigate UK far-right groups over anti-Muslim coronavirus claims <[link removed]>
Counter-terrorism police in the UK are investigating far-right groups accused of trying to use the coronavirus crisis to stoke anti-Muslim sentiment.
The Guardian
* US Supreme Court expected to weigh in on Texas emergency coronavirus abortion restriction <[link removed]>
The US Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on a major abortion case out of Texas that could resolve whether states may effectively ban the procedure with limited exceptions during the coronavirus pandemic.
CNBC
* ‘How George Pell won in Australia's High Court on a legal technicality’ <[link removed]>
Pell will continue to be assailed by multiple lawsuits. In contrast, the complainant has been believed by a jury, by a majority judgment and by a substantial body of public opinion.
The Conversation
* ‘Cardinal Pell’s acquittal was as opaque as his sexual abuse trial’ <[link removed]>
Critics say Australia's courts exhibited a penchant for secrecy and insular decision-making that resembled the Roman Catholic Church's flawed response to sexual abuse within its ranks.
The New York Times
* ‘It isn’t possible to divorce George Pell's acquittal from the Catholic church's history of child abuse’
The bishops should end their obsession with Pell and take up their moral responsibility to victims.
The Guardian
* ‘Let’s keep God out of this, shall we?’ <[link removed]>
Governors of US states that have granted social distancing exceptions for churches have thus forfeited any moral claim to serve the public.
The Financial Times (£)
* Israel health minister under fire over ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 crisis <[link removed]>
To some, Israeli health minister Yaakov Litzman is guilty of a "catastrophic failure" of leadership for not urgently conveying the coronavirus threat to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that elected him.
Mail Online
* More than half of American women say they weren’t given good education on birth control, survey reveals <[link removed]>
More than half of the women polled in a research study say they were not given a solid education on birth control.
The Sun
** Latest from the NSS
* Cardinal Pell’s conviction has been overturned – but there are uncomfortable moments to come <[link removed]>
Australia's top court has overturned the conviction of the Vatican's former treasurer for sexually assaulting two boys. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's plain sailing from here for him, says Keith Porteous Wood.
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