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Your daily media briefing - Friday 12 July

  

In the Media, 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

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

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?’

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

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

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’

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’

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

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

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

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?

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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