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The effect of Liverpool's schools admissions processes on Muslim children and those from ethnic minority backgrounds is set to be examined by councillors. It comes after a meeting earlier this year, when a group of Muslim parents said admissions criteria for faith schools and academies nearby meant their children often ended up being placed in schools on the other side of the city.
The Chief Rabbi has published new guidelines for entry into Jewish schools under his authority in September 2021 because of the pandemic. If schools are oversubscribed, priority goes to children who have attained a certain number of points on a religious practice certificate.
Mid Ulster District Council have temporarily suspended their directory function after a listed organisation was linked to controversial 'conversion therapy' tactics some organisations claim can 'cure' homosexuality.
An alleged supporter of so-called Islamic State researched modifying a drone to be used in a terrorist attack, possibly targeting the British Army or police, a court has heard.
Lewis Marshall, 27, died after he hanged himself at St James Park in Bristol. His mother said he was "disowned" by his Jehovah Witness fellowship due to his smoking and drinking and erratic behaviour.
The case revolved around an injunction granted in the eastern state of Veracruz, which would have effectively decriminalised termination in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The spiritual group was banned in mainland China in 1999 but its members have been allowed to practice in Hong Kong freely, even though the group urges people to renounce the ruling Chinese Communist Party.
The latent danger posed by thousands of defeated and captured fighters who joined the Islamic State group is festering and growing in the squalid, overcrowded prison camps of north-east Syria, where riots and attempted breakouts are becoming commonplace.
With secularist principles under siege across much of the world, it's worth reconsidering the vision of the man who coined the term 'secularism' in the 19th century, says his biographer Ray Argyle.
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