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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 29 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
* Coronavirus: Blackburn Eid street prayers a 'serious lockdown breach' <[link removed]>
A gathering of worshippers on a street to observe prayers during Eid was a "serious breach" of lockdown measures, a council has said.
BBC News
* Reported cull of bishops, cathedrals, and dioceses is misleading, says senior bishop <[link removed]>
The Archbishop-designate of York, the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, has dismissed a Sunday-newspaper report that he was to lead a review involving "massive shrinkage" in the number of cathedrals, dioceses, and parish churches.
Church Times
* 'A very narrow escape from "conversion therapy"' - NSS quoted <[link removed]>
Barry Duke nearly underwent 'gay conversion therapy'. He now calls for the practice to end; we're quoted.
Euro Weekly News
* MPs bring bill to ban late abortions for minor physical abnormalities <[link removed]>
The abortion (cleft lip, cleft palate and clubfoot) bill, which is led by the Conservative MP Fiona Bruce and supported by 13 MPs, will be presented in parliament on 3 June.
The Guardian
* 'Muslims are frightened of calling out Jew-hate within their own community' <[link removed]>
Antisemitism within some small sections of Muslims and which remains stubbornly entrenched needs to be taken on and called out repeatedly, says Fiyaz Mughal.
The JC
* Archbishop issues statement after public Mass in Dublin <[link removed]>
A senior Catholic bishop in Ireland has urged churches to continuing applying lockdown restrictions after it emerged that a church reopened for public Mass in Co Dublin.
Irish News
* US: House passes Uighur human rights bill <[link removed]>
The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to pass a measure that would punish top Chinese officials for detaining more than one million Muslims in internment camps, sending President Trump a bill intended to force him to take a more aggressive stand on human rights abuses in China.
The New York Times
* Malaysia’s religious ban on gay sex is to be challenged <[link removed]>
A man in Malaysia has won the right to challenge a religious state law banning gay sex.
Pink News
* Christian fundamentalists petition Disney to drop film about gay couple <[link removed]>
To One Million Moms, a wing of the Christian fundamentalist group American Family Association, Out is "promoting sin to children" and are petitioning Disney leaders to drop the film entirely.
Pink News
* "Now even secularism is ‘Islamophobic'" <[link removed]>
Quebec's ban on public-sector employees in positions of authority wearing religious symbols is neither exceptional nor unreasonable, says David Rand.
Spiked
** Latest from the NSS
* The state must act to protect children in unregistered faith schools <[link removed]>
Eye-opening evidence at a public inquiry has shown the dangers presented by unregistered schools. Richard Scorer, a lawyer at the inquiry, says the authorities mustn't leave children to languish in unsafe environments.
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