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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 18 September
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
* Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission rejects Evangelical Alliance criticism over abortion <[link removed]>
NI's Human Rights Commission has hit back at criticism from the Evangelical Alliance over pending abortion legislation.
News Letter
* Cardinal George Pell to appeal to high court in Australia over child sexual abuse conviction <[link removed]>
Lawyers for Cardinal George Pell have lodged a special leave application with Australia's high court to try to appeal his historical sex abuse convictions.
The Guardian
* Catholic Church says police chief’s call to ditch religious segregation in Scotland’s schools is ‘offensive’ <[link removed]>
The Catholic Church has criticised an ex-police chief who says Scotland should not segregate children by religious background if it is serious about tackling sectarianism.
Daily Record
* Israel election too close to call, say exit polls <[link removed]>
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to suffer a setback in national elections Tuesday, with his religious and nationalist allies failing to secure a parliamentary majority, early exit polls showed.
DW
* ‘How conservative American money helped the religious right take over Israel’
Rami Hod and Yonatan Levi say the religious right is successfully dominating Israel's public discourse – with the help of funding and tactics used in the US.
Haaretz
* Hindu may face death in Pakistan after blasphemy accusation <[link removed]>
A Hindu principal in Pakistan may face the death penalty after a student accused him of making illegal comments about the Islamic prophet Muhammad, an act that spurred riots and led to dozens of arrests.
The Friendly Atheist (Patheos)
* Euthanasia campaigner dies at Swiss clinic <[link removed]>
A terminally ill former teacher has died at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland amid calls for a change in the law on assisted dying in the UK.
East Lothian Courier
* Two Northern Irish survivors of Protestant care home in Dublin call for apologies
Two men who lived in a home for unmarried Protestant mothers and their children have called for an apology from the Irish state and the Church of Ireland for their treatment while living there.
Belfast Telegraph
* 'In God We Trust': display in Kentucky schools marks effort to mix church and state <[link removed]>
The law in the US state of Kentucky now requires the words to appear in schools as conservative Christian groups seek to inject religion into public life.
The Guardian
* America’s abortion rate has dropped to its lowest on record <[link removed]>
Abortion in the United States has decreased to record low levels. New research suggests the decline may be driven more by increased access to contraception and fewer women becoming pregnant than by the proliferation of laws restricting abortion in some states.
The New York Times (£)
* Schools in Greece to stop recording students’ religion and nationality <[link removed]>
Greece's government has announced it's agreed to remove all references to school children's religious faith and nationality from school records and certificates.
Greek City Times
** In case you missed it: from the NSS
* A woman is convicted over circumcision. What happens next? <[link removed]>
A pharmacist has been convicted for having a baby boy circumcised against his parents' wishes. Megan Manson says the case raises alarming questions over our willingness to defend children's bodily integrity consistently.
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