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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 1 May
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** Secularism in the media
* Coronavirus: Camberwell church continuing to sell fake Covid-19 cure <[link removed]>
A church in south London has continued selling a fake Covid-19 cure, despite being under investigation by the charity watchdog.
BBC
* ‘An eternity in heaven – that would be hell’: remembering former NSS president Barbara Smoker <[link removed]>
An obituary to Barbara Smoker, the NSS's president from 1972 to 1996.
London News Online
* ‘Why the Home Office should publish its grooming gang research’ <[link removed]>
The victims and the public deserve to know the truth, says Hardeep Singh.
The Spectator
* Sudan makes female genital cutting a crime in 'new era' for women's rights <[link removed]>
Sudan has criminalised female genital mutilation, making it punishable by three years in jail, a move campaigners said ushered in a "new era" for women's rights in the African nation.
Reuters
* Wartime Vatican archive shows how much Pius knew about the Holocaust, says researcher <[link removed]>
The long-awaited opening of Pope Pius XII's wartime records only lasted a week before the coronavirus shut the Vatican archives down again, but that was long enough for documents to emerge that reflect badly on the pontiff accused of silence during the Holocaust, according to published reports.
Religion News Service
* Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, to lead BBC Ramadan series <[link removed]>
The 1970s singer-songwriter formerly known as Cat Stevens, who converted to Islam and renounced his life as a musician, is to lead a series of spiritual reflections for the BBC during Ramadan.
The Guardian
* Giving homework passes to Catholic children ruled as discrimination in Ireland <[link removed]>
Catholic schools that reward pupils who attend religious ceremonies are discriminating against non-Catholic pupils, an Irish commission has found.
The Irish Times
* Police in New York crack down on another large Orthodox Jewish funeral <[link removed]>
Tensions between police and members of New York City's Hasidic Jewish community flared again on Thursday as officers interrupted a crowded funeral procession to crack down on social distancing violators.
NBC New York
* 'A phantom plague': America's Bible Belt played down the pandemic and even cashed in. Now dozens of pastors are dead <[link removed]>
Dozens of pastors across the Bible Belt have succumbed to coronavirus after churches and televangelists played down the pandemic and actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.
The Independent
* Mosques get noise exemption for call to prayer during Ramadan in Ottawa <[link removed]>
The Canadian city of Ottawa is exempting mosques from local noise bylaws during Ramadan to allow them to play a five-minute call to prayer at sundown, as the pandemic prevents people from gathering and hearing it inside.
CBC News
* Where circumcision is most popular around the world <[link removed]>
A map shows global rates of circumcision.
Indy100
** Latest from the NSS
* 'Religious literacy' drive mustn't erode press freedom, says NSS <[link removed]>
Initiatives to improve religious literacy in the media shouldn't be used to shield religions from criticism, the NSS has said.
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