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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 18 May
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 <[link removed]> and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts <[link removed]> on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Child sex abuse victims 'married off' to abusers with help of religious leaders, inquiry hears <[link removed]>
Religious leaders in South Asian communities are failing child sexual abuse victims as their cultures are 'shrouded in secrecy, shame and denial', the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has heard.
Mail Online
* Catholic churches 'should be allowed to reopen before others', says head <[link removed]>
Catholic churches should be allowed to reopen before Pentecostal churches, or mosques owing to their different styles of worship, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales has said.
The Guardian
* Deceased Jewish man’s body released after Jewish leaders' intervention with coroner <[link removed]>
The body of an Orthodox Jewish man who died on Monday has been released for burial after community leaders and lawyers appeared to renew hostilities with Inner North London Coroner Mary Hassell.
Jewish News
* Church of England puts pressure on unions threatening to block government plans to reopen schools <[link removed]>
The Church of England has waded into the row over whether schools should re-open on June 1st.
Mail Online
* Just 20% of Conwy ceremonies were religious <[link removed]>
A record low proportion of couples in Conwy are choosing to get married in a religious venue, new figures reveal.
North Wales Pioneer
* Police investigate paint attack on church in Ahoghill <[link removed]>
Police in Ballymena are investigating an attack on a Catholic church in Ahogill, County Antrim.
ITV
* 'Church in Wales: Separated, but not cut off from old privileges' <[link removed]>
Norman Doe assesses a century's 'non-established' Anglican life in Wales.
Church Times
* 'Arrest non-Muslims who criticise Islam': Zakir Naik to Islamic countries <[link removed]>
A video of the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik is doing the rounds on social media that shows him urging all the Islamic nations to gather the data of non-Muslims living in India who have criticised Islam, so that they can be arrested if and when they land in their country. The Charity Commission have recently opened an inquiry into a charity of which Naik is a trustee, following complaints from the NSS.
Yahoo News
* Polish clerical child abuse documentary casts shadow on John Paul II centenary <[link removed]>
After the film Hide and Seek was seen by almost 80,000 people on YouTube, Polish archbishop Wojciech Polak called on the Vatican to "launch proceedings" into the cases in question.
The Guardian
* 'Distorting religious freedom will put people in danger' <[link removed]>
"Religious freedom is not a license to spread the coronavirus, and this is not the first time it has been exploited to pursue a conservative agenda."
CNN
** Latest from the NSS
* NSS supports plans to regulate unregistered schools <[link removed]>
The NSS has expressed support for plans to regulate settings providing full-time education and define what a school is in England.
** The origins of secularism & the NSS: latest lectures
* Episode 9: GW Foote <[link removed]>
Bob turns his attention to G.W. Foote, who succeeded Charles Bradlaugh as the NSS's president and edited The Freethinker.
* Episode 10: Chapman Cohen <[link removed]>
Bob takes a look at the life of Chapman Cohen - successor to G.W. Foote as president of the NSS and editor of The Freethinker.
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