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** Secularism in the media
* Christian Concern loses Court of Appeal bid over 'home abortions' <[link removed]>
The Christian advocacy group pursued action against the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) over its change to the regulations, allowing women to have medical abortions at home following a phone or video consultation.
Evening Standard
* SNP supporters hit out at controversial Hate Crime Bill <[link removed]>
Supporters of the SNP and independence have criticised the SNP for the controversial Hate Crime Bill, a freedom of information request by the Scottish Conservatives has shown.
The Scotsman
* 'Why the SNP must back further changes to the Hate Crime Bill' <[link removed]>
The SNP must limit the stirring up offences to "threatening" behaviour and ensure much more robust free speech provisions are included, says Jim Sillars.
The National
* 'Let’s not live in fear of expressing views' <[link removed]>
The Hate and Crime Public Order (Scotland) Bill threatens freedom of expression, writes Andrew Stevenson of the Scottish Law Agents Society.
The Scotsman
* Teach the "importance of freedom of speech", schools told <[link removed]>
In new teacher training materials designed to support the statutory relationships and sex education guidance, the Department for Education states that teachers must explain the "importance of freedom of speech" and "freedom of association to a tolerant and free society".
TES
* Church of England's compensation scheme will pay out victims of sex abuse by bishops and clergy <[link removed]>
The Church of England has set up a multi-million-pound compensation fund designed to funnel money to victims of historic sex abuse by bishops, clergy and lay church workers.
Mail Online
* New paper ties grooming to religious conversions <[link removed]>
Ideologically motivated sexual grooming of women and girls from religious-minority backgrounds should be recognised officially as sexually abusive behaviour, a new report from the All-party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief states.
Church Times
* Paris stabbings were act of Islamist terrorism, says minister <[link removed]>
A double stabbing outside the former Paris offices of a satirical newspaper where dozens were killed in 2015 is an "act of Islamist terrorism", France's interior minister has said.
This is Local London
* Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan condemns Charlie Hebdo cartoons <[link removed]>
Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan on Friday condemned the fresh publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed by a French satirical weekly, saying "willful provocations and incitement to hate and violence must be universally outlawed".
Eastern Eye
* US: Trump plans to nominate conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
Abortion rights groups have expressed concern that on the Supreme Court Barrett could help overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion nationwide.
Reuters
* Conversion therapy linked to internalised homophobia and depression, study finds <[link removed]>
Those who had past experience of conversion therapy were twice as likely to have psychosocial conditions later in life, researchers have found.
Pink News
* ‘I want to be the voice of the Orthodox’ <[link removed]>
Eve Sacks feels that too many Orthodox Jews have been abused, forced into loveless marriages or simply trapped in a community where they are desperately unhappy.
The JC
** The latest from the NSS and the No More Faith Schools campaign
* Report: religious control of NI’s schools reinforces social division <[link removed]>
Granting churches power over school governance in Northern Ireland exacerbates the challenges facing the education system, reinforces social division and squanders public resources, according to a new academic report.
* NSS urges Senedd to back curriculum reforms <[link removed]>
The National Secular Society (NSS) has urged a Senedd education committee to back new legislation to reform religious studies and sex education in Wales.
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Note: Yesterday's media briefing suggested a proposed assisted dying bill had been tabled in Northern Ireland. It was instead tabled in the Republic of Ireland.
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