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BBC Radio 4's Sunday show features an interview with Leo Igwe on the imprisonment of humanist Mubarak Bala in Nigeria (from 01:30), and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's report on the Church of England (from 13:30).
French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer has promised to back teachers, pupils and parents who expose breaches of the country's law on secularism in schools, as he reported figures on infringements in the past year.
Mennel Ibtissem is a French-Syrian singer who has become an internet sensation. However, she faced a lot of criticism following her decision to no longer wear a hijab.
While Trump-supporting Republicans are usually assumed to be staunchly anti-LGBT+, the poll found that across the board participants were in favour of marriage equality, adoption rights and trans people serving in the US military.
Following the suicide of a young bisexual woman in India, an LGBT+ rights group has filed a petition to the Kerala High Court seeking to ban the practice of conversion therapy.
China has ordered Muslim citizens to prove that they are patriotic and law-abiding before they are allowed to undertake the haj pilgrimage, under a new law that it says will safeguard national security.
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot and killed a religious scholar who belongs to a little-known branch of Islam in Pakistan's bustling city of Karachi, police said.
Police say three girls from the Dalit (formerly known as 'Untouchable') community have been targeted in a possible acid attack while they were sleeping in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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