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Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 3 June

  

In the Media is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion and listen to our podcasts on our website.

  

Secularism in the media

 

NSS CEO: Will Wales lead the way in reforming Religious Education?

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

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

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

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'

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'

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

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

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'

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

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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