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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools are gluing together human biology pages and redacting the Childline number from educational materials, a government-ordered
inquiry has heard.
Child sexual abuse is going widely unreported among the UK's Charedi Jewish community because victims need the permission of a rabbi before they can go to
the police, an inquiry has heard.
Far-right activists are posing as journalists in a "deplorable" bid to spread fake news about Muslims breaking lockdown, a government advisor has warned.
A priest has taken to the streets to carry out mobile church services and sermons via loudspeaker, despite admitting he risks breaching social distancing
regulations.
The Sikh Federation has said legal action is inevitable after the Scottish government confirmed it had no plans to include a separate tick box for Sikhs in
the ethnicity section of its 2021 census.
A Ukrainian Jewish group accused the nation's police force of "open anti-Semitism" after a high-ranking police official requested a list of all Jews in the
western city of Kolomyya as part of an inquiry into organised crime.
The Trump administration reportedly rejected proposed guidelines on how to take public health precautions to safely reopen the economy partly on the grounds
that guidance in churches would restrict religious freedom.
The US's Supreme Court justices sounded split on Monday on whether to broadly deny civil rights protections to hundreds of thousands of teachers in religious
schools.
Even as the monasteries of the Orthodox Church are besieged by the coronavirus, apocalyptic-minded priests balk at state restrictions on public worship.
The New York Times (£)
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