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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 1 June
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** Secularism in the media
* Church leaders threaten legal action over coronavirus church closures - NSS quoted <[link removed]>
A coalition of Christian bishops and reverends has urged the government to prioritise churches in its exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown.
Mail Online
* Clergy criticise Church of England using faith school admissions to 'artificially boost church attendance' <[link removed]>
A group of senior Anglicans have written to the Church of England urging it "to abandon admission policies that discriminate against people by faith" in its schools.
iNews
* Fundraisers who made 'misogynistic comments' on Muslim TV channel apologise <[link removed]>
Two fundraisers who appeared on the channel British Muslim TV have apologised for sexist comments they made live on the channel.
Asian Image
* Singing in religious buildings a 'problem' for spread of coronavirus, warns communities secretary <[link removed]>
Singing in religious buildings should not yet be allowed, the communities secretary has said.
Huffington Post
* ‘Doctor’ jailed for performing botched circumcision on baby did 12 more say gardai <[link removed]>
A man jailed over the 'barbaric' circumcision, without any anaesthetic, of a baby boy is under investigation for 12 other illegal circumcisions.
Extra.ie
* US: Supreme court rejects church’s challenge to shutdown order <[link removed]>
The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California to block enforcement of state restrictions on attendance at religious services.
The New York Times
* Catholic diocese in Minnesota to pay sexual abuse victims $22.5m <[link removed]>
Some 70 people say they were abused by 41 priests in cases that date back to the 1950s.
The Guardian
* 'India’s anti-Muslim fake news factories are following the anti-Semitic playbook' <[link removed]>
"Take any crime, add a false Muslim angle to show Muslims as perpetrators. This is exactly what Christians did to Jews in Europe for centuries."
The Print
** Latest from the NSS
* Push government on caste discrimination, NSS tells UN rapporteur <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged the UN special rapporteur on minority issues to push the government to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of 'caste'.
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