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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.
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 SNP must limit the stirring up offences to "threatening" behaviour and ensure much more robust free speech provisions are included, says Jim Sillars.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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The latest from the NSS and the No More Faith Schools campaign
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.
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.
