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Your daily media briefing - Monday 16 November

  

In the Media is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion and listen to our podcasts on our website.

  

Secularism in the media

 

'Parents United campaign should ring alarm bells' - Secular Legal Forum chair

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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'

"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'

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

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

The Department for Education has approved a plan to open a new faith school in Cambridgeshire, despite local opposition.

  

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