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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 16 November
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** Secularism in the media
* 'Parents United campaign should ring alarm bells' - Secular Legal Forum chair <[link removed]>
Sadikur Rahman of the National Secular Society's Secular Legal Forum says the sentiments expressed by the Redbridge group Parents United bear all the hallmarks of a campaign against inclusive relationships & sex education and the scaremongering hallmarks of similar campaigns mounted around the UK.
Ilford Recorder
* Church leaders launch legal challenge over lockdown closure of places of worship <[link removed]>
A group of more than 100 church leaders has launched a legal challenge against the government's decision to force places of worship to stop services during the second lockdown.
The Independent
* Religious intolerance is 'bigger cause of prejudice than race', says report <[link removed]>
Religion is the "final frontier" of personal prejudice, with attitudes to faith driving negative perceptions more than ethnicity or nationality, a report says.
The Guardian
* Pair due in court over 'botched circumcisions' <[link removed]>
A man and woman are due in court after two babies were taken to hospital following alleged botched circumcisions.
Belfast Telegraph
* Evangelical charity funds intern in SNP MP's office <[link removed]>
An SNP MP has taken an "in-kind" donation from an anti-abortion, anti-same-sex marriage evangelical lobby group.
The National
* Police stop lockdown-busting service at London church <[link removed]>
About 30 worshippers had gathered at the Angel church in north London on Sunday for a service including a baptism after pastor Regan King said Christians served "a greater law".
The Guardian
* More than one third of Muslim Labour members and supporters have witnessed 'Islamophobia' in the party, report finds
More than one third of the Labour Party's Muslim members and supporters have witnessed 'Islamophobia' within the party, according to a new report.
ITV
* Attacks spur EU to weigh tough border, anti-extremism steps <[link removed]>
European Union interior ministers are weighing new measures to counter extremist attacks following a series of killings in Austria and France in recent weeks by lone-wolf attackers with links to Islamic groups.
The Independent
* Theodore McCarrick abuse scandal tarnishes John Paul II’s sainthood <[link removed]>
John Paul II turned a blind eye to reports of a cardinal's serial sex abuse of seminarians, raising doubts about the wisdom of the late pope's rapid canonisation, a Vatican report has found.
The Times (£)
* 'The Vatican has failed to stop abuse. Now the law must' <[link removed]>
"The church had one simple thing to achieve: stop its clergy sexually molesting children. It failed."
The Times (£)
* 'The Polish activists in Scotland fighting for equality back home' <[link removed]>
Poland's hostile environment for its LGBT citizens has been a reality for years. But it was during the nation's presidential elections in July that it really came to the fore, says Ross Hunter.
The National
* US: Jehovah’s Witness elders made teen listen recording of her rape for hours, lawsuit claims <[link removed]>
Elders at a Utah congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses allegedly forced a 15-year-old to listen to a recording of her rape over and over again for hours as part of a religious inquiry, a lawsuit before the Utah Supreme Court claims.
The Independent
** The latest from the NSS
* Government approves new faith school despite local opposition <[link removed]>
The Department for Education has approved a plan to open a new faith school in Cambridgeshire, despite local opposition.
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