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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 3 June

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

* NSS CEO: Will Wales lead the way in reforming Religious Education? <[link removed]>

The Welsh government's plans to reform RE risk being a missed opportunity for more radical reform of the way we approach religion in schools, argues NSS chief executive Stephen Evans.

Medium

* NI assembly rejects recent changes to abortion laws <[link removed]>

The NI Assembly has voted to pass a motion to reject recent changes to abortion laws in Northern Ireland.

BBC

* Bishop asks MPs to lobby for reopening of church buildings <[link removed]>

Bishop of Chichester Martin Warner has written to all Members of Parliament whose constituencies are in his Diocese about the continued closure of churches.

Chichester Observer

* Church minister wins religious discrimination claim after remarks about homosexuality <[link removed]>

A church minister has won a religious discrimination claim after stating that people who said homosexuals were born that way were making the same argument as paedophiles.

The Telegraph

* 'Hypocritical Church leaders should stay out of politics and Twitter' <[link removed]>

The Church of England is moribund and it is the greatest arrogance on the behalf of Church leaders to believe anything other, says NSS honorary associate GP Taylor.

The Yorkshire Post

* Billy Connolly: 'Why I'll never apologise over religion routine that caused uproar' <[link removed]>

Half a century on from being denounced in the pulpits and pilloried for being a "blasphemous buffoon", Billy Connolly remains unrepentant over his routines lampooning religion.

The Herald

* Trump's photo-op church visit slammed by religious leaders amid George Floyd protests <[link removed]>

Religious leaders have accused Donald Trump of using the church as "prop" after he posed for photos with a bible, moments after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters from near the White House.

The Evening Standard

* Buddhist monks oppose new Burmese sex education curriculum <[link removed]>

An updated curriculum featuring gay sex and prostitutes has put monks and nationalists up in arms, but women's groups and young people support it

The Times (£)

* 'The Somali atheist activists who get death threats' <[link removed]>

Somali atheists in the diaspora are running a Facebook group to challenge their community's Islamic beliefs, but they often receive death threats, writes journalist Layla Mahmood.

BBC

** In case you missed it...

* 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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