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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 24 June
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** Secularism in the media
* Catholic schools call for changes to RE in Wales to be scrapped <[link removed]>
The headteachers of all 84 Catholic schools in Wales have written to the First Minister asking him to rethink his Government's proposed changes to religious education saying they "strike at the very identity of Catholic schools".
Wales Online
* Christian TV channel escapes further sanction by Ofcom after falsely linking 5G to coronavirus <[link removed]>
A Christian television network has escaped further Ofcom sanction after it was forced to correct a report that linked coronavirus and 5G.
The Independent
* Vicar calls for London congestion charge exemptions for 'those travelling to worship' <[link removed]>
A vicar at St Martins-in-the-Field in Trafalgar Square has requested a meeting with the mayor of London and asked that those travelling to worship are given an exemption from the congestion charge.
BBC
* Civil and humanist ceremonies were the most popular marriages in Scotland in 2019, data shows <[link removed]>
Marriages in Scotland fell to the lowest number on record, with 26,007 in 2019 according to the National Records of Scotland. Just under half of all marriages were civil ceremonies, at 12,635.
The National
* Druid who refuses to pay for Stonehenge parking sues police after missing solstice <[link removed]>
Arthur Pendragon, who claims to be the mythical King Arthur reincarnated, says the £15 daily charge is an "affront to paganism".
The Sun
* London more religious than rest of Britain, report finds <[link removed]>
Almost two-thirds of people in capital identify as religious compared with 53% in the rest of UK, according to new research by Christian thinktank Theos.
The Guardian
* West Sussex man admits Islamist-related terror offences <[link removed]>
A 20-year-old man from West Sussex has admitted Islamist-related terror offences.
BBC
* UK saw highest number of far-right terror attacks and plots in Europe in 2019, Europol says <[link removed]>
The UK reported the highest number of far-right terror attacks and plots in Europe in 2019, an official report has found.
The Independent
* 'Maureen Duffy on becoming Britain's first out gay woman in public life' - NSS mentioned <[link removed]>
The National Secular Society's campaigning against blasphemy laws in the 1970s is referred to in this essay by gay rights activist and novelist Maureen Duffy.
Advocate
* 'We don’t have to live with this way of dying' <[link removed]>
"Denying the terminally ill help to end their lives will one day be considered as barbaric as refusing pain relief in childbirth."
The Times (£)
** In case you missed it...
* Parent’s perspective: my daughter was turned away from our local school on religious grounds <[link removed]>
My family has been discriminated against on religious grounds – and our four-year-old hasn't been admitted to any of the schools we chose. Our experience shows why schools should be secular, says Abhi from west London.
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