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Your daily media briefing - Thursday 26 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

 

Theatre critic and theologian cannot be used as expert evidence in Christian actress's discrimination case

A judge's decision on expert evidence in the case of a Christian actress sacked over her views on homosexuality has been upheld by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London.

Christian Today

 

Family who fled 'threat of violence' in Pakistan can stay in UK

A family who faced a "very real threat of violence" over a "false blasphemy charge" and attitudes to epilepsy and learning difficulties have won a fight to stay in the UK, an MP has said.

BBC

 

Churches must never be shut again, says Christian Institute

The Christian Institute is asking the government for assurance that it will never again force churches to close.

Christian Today

 

C of E synod votes unanimously to accept IICSA recommendations

The Church of England's General Synod has voted unanimously to accept all six recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to the Church of England in October.

Church Times

 

Archbishop of Canterbury denounces foreign aid cut

A £4bn cut to foreign aid spending to help pay for the cost of coronavirus was denounced on Wednesday as "shameful and wrong" by the archbishop of Canterbury.

The Telegraph

 

US Supreme Court blocks New York from enforcing Covid limits on churches

The US Supreme Court issued an injunction late yesterday blocking New York's governor from enforcing 10- and 25-person occupancy limits on religious institutions.

NBC News

 

‘Religious festivals have taken a backseat in Europe during Covid-19. Now leaders are prioritising Christmas’

2020 has been far from festive, but as the year comes to an end, many of Europe's governments are scrambling to avoid stringent lockdowns over the Christmas holidays.

CNN

 

‘Religious labels do not tell full story of people’s identities in NI’

If you were to do a survey amongst those nominally considered Catholics, how many of them could be really classified as Catholics?

News Letter

 

‘Is the Anglican Church about to split?’

Almost three years on from same-sex marriage becoming legal in Australia, the issue is threatening to break up the Anglican Church there.

The Conversation

  

The latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

 

Local anger over discriminatory new Catholic school in Peterborough

Residents of Hampton Water in Peterborough have expressed dismay at the implications of plans to open a discriminatory Catholic school.

  

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