Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 18 September
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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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