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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 12 July
In the Media <[link removed]>, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.
** Secularism in the media
* Archbishop of Canterbury banned abuse victim from cathedral grounds after treating his case with “casual indifference”, IICSA hears <[link removed]>
The archbishop of Canterbury banned a "vulnerable" abuse victim from cathedral grounds after treating his case with "casual indifference", an independent inquiry has heard.
The Telegraph
* Archbishop of Canterbury accepts need for mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse <[link removed]>
The archbishop of Canterbury has accepted that the government should make the reporting of sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults mandatory.
The Guardian
* ‘Faith in religion is dwindling, but when will British politics reflect that?’ <[link removed]>
NSS honorary associate Polly Toynbee says the decline in belief shown by the latest British Attitudes Survey is not reflected in diminished religious influence.
The Guardian
* Government figures highlight problem of unregistered schools in London borough of Hackney <[link removed]>
New government figures show that there are still seven times more Orthodox Jewish girls studying in registered state-funded or independent schools in Hackney than there are boys. The numbers highlight how little ministers have done to get on top of the problem of unregistered schools.
Jewish News
* Jeremy Hunt discusses his relationship with Christianity <[link removed]>
Conservative party leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has said he is like other "regular Church of England folk".
Church Times
* ‘The press must be free to criticise Islam’ <[link removed]>
Tom Slater says the Muslim Council of Britain's new report on the media is highly questionable.
Spiked Online
* Large parts of Poland declare themselves ‘free of LGBT ideology’ <[link removed]>
Government officials in at least 30 towns, villages, and regional assemblies throughout the staunchly Catholic country of Poland have declared themselves to be "free of LGBT ideology".
LGBTQ Nation
* US conference to host victims of religious persecution <[link removed]>
The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it would host a conference in Washington next week to highlight the problem of religious persecution, and has invited victims of recent attacks at a synagogue in San Diego, mosques in New Zealand and an Easter Day bombing in Sri Lanka.
Euronews
* Gay teacher launches lawsuit against US archdiocese over sacking from Catholic school <[link removed]>
A gay teacher who was fired from an Indiana Catholic high school for getting married has filed a lawsuit against the archdiocese of Indianapolis.
HuffPost
* Five-year-old boy in Indonesia climbs onto roof to avoid circumcision <[link removed]>
A young boy scrambled onto the roof of a medical clinic and refused to come down after his parents took him to be circumcised in Indonesia.
NZ Herald
** Latest from the NSS
* Why are we letting faith schools stigmatise same-sex relationships? <[link removed]>
Ofsted penalises schools that refuse to teach about LGBT people, but seems to ignore other schools that teach same-sex relationships are morally wrong. Megan Manson says this double standard needs to end.
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