Your daily media briefing - Thursday 15 October

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Catholic Church admits blame over pensioner's care home death

The Catholic Church has admitted it was to blame for the death of a 94-year-old man who died after falling from a Dundee care home window in 2017.

BBC

LGBT pupils in Wales 'need better support' from schools

Schools and colleges need to give better support to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, the schools inspectorate has urged.

BBC

Nine out of 10 EU citizens oppose animal slaughter without stunning, poll finds

Nine out of 10 EU citizens want their governments to ban the slaughter of animals that have not been stunned, according to a poll published last week.

The Guardian

Poland postpones non-stun slaughtered meat export ban until 2025

The Polish Senate voted Wednesday to postpone provisions in an animal rights bill that would ban exporting meat from animals slaughtered without stunning until 2025.

The Jerusalem Post

Two priests accused in Vatican's first sexual abuse trial

Two Catholic priests have gone on trial in the Vatican, marking the first time the city state has prosecuted a case of alleged sexual abuse.

BBC

Italian woman in Vatican financial scandal investigation arrested

A 39-year-old Italian woman with links to a deposed Roman Catholic cardinal was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the Vatican's latest financial scandal, Italian police and the Vatican said.

Reuters

Iceland: PM criticised for bill banning intersex surgery on children but not male circumcision

If passed, this bill would grant children born with atypical sex characteristics freedom from non-consensual and medically unnecessary surgery on their genitalia. People's Party MP Guðmundur Ingi Kristinsson criticised the bill for not including a ban on penile circumcision.

Reykjavik Grapevine

US: Student warned by Christian college after tweeting about being a lesbian

A student at Moody Bible Institute, a Christian college in Chicago, has revealed that she was placed on "warning status" after she tweeted about being a lesbian.

Pink News

New NSS podcast

Ep 36: Faith-shaped holes in the Equality Act

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Equality Act 2010, a landmark piece of legislation that reformed and improved the law on equality in the UK. Liberal Democrat peer Lynne Featherstone joins the podcast to discuss the Act's significance and the problems caused by continuing religious privilege, as covered in a recent NSS report.

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