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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 9 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
* Boris Johnson 'planning to relax rules on outdoor weddings' to ease lockdown <[link removed]>
The Prime Minister is set to unveil a range of measures to ease the lockdown and restart the economy from June 15, including holding weddings outdoors, sources say. It is not currently legally possible to marry outside in England of Wales without a fixed shelter.
Mirror
* UK universities advertised as exam centres for online college set up by banned 'hate preacher' <[link removed]>
Four British universities have distanced themselves from a radical Islamic preacher - who was banned from the UK for his extremist views - after they were listed as 'approved exam centres' for an online college he runs.
Mail Online
* Priest says he was 'pressured' into holding church wedding during lockdown <[link removed]>
Archbishop of Cardiff George Stack confirmed that a wedding service involving a young couple took place at St Alban-on-the-Moors in Splott, Cardiff, on Tuesday May 12 after pictures appeared on Facebook.
ITV
* Religious leaders split over reopening places of worship in England <[link removed]>
Christian leaders have welcomed the government's announcement that places of worship in England will be allowed to reopen for individual prayer from 15 June, but Muslim and Jewish leaders said the move was not appropriate for the way they practise their faith.
The Guardian
* Church at centre of Gaelic gravestone inscription controversy regrets offence caused <[link removed]>
The Parish Church of St Giles, Exhall (Coventry) has issued a statement regarding their decision which saw Margaret Keane's family barred from inscribing their mother's gravestone with a phrase in Gaelic.
The Irish Post
* Bishop urges Catholics to reject changes to Guernsey abortion law <[link removed]>
A bishop has urged Catholics to resist efforts to liberalise abortion laws on Guernsey.
Catholic News Agency
* 'The quiet demise of the separation of church and state' <[link removed]>
The government is allowing federal pandemic aid to pay for clergy salaries, something that once would have been unthinkable.
The New York Times (£)
* Greek Orthodox Church rejects yoga recommendation for keeping healthy in quarantine <[link removed]>
Yoga has no place "in the life of Christians," the governing body of the Church has ruled. It said it intervened after Greek media recommended yoga as a way to combat stress during coronavirus quarantine.
BBC
* 'Mubarak Bala/Nigeria: Free Thyself' <[link removed]>
The arrest and incarceration of Mubarak Bala has compelled a review of the role of religion in Nigeria's nation building and development, says Leo Igwe
The Nigerian Voice
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* Places of worship shouldn’t reopen prematurely <[link removed]>
As a group of religious leaders threatens legal action over the closure of places of worship during the coronavirus crisis, Stephen Evans says public health must be the priority in deciding when to reopen them.
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