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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 7 December
In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news <[link removed]> and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts <[link removed]> on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Church elder takes legal action against charity alleging 'anti-religious' bias <[link removed]>
A Free Church of Scotland elder is taking legal action against one of Scotland's leading charitable organisations for alleged anti-religious bias.
The Scotsman
* Catholic priest locked boy in crypt during six-year campaign of abuse <[link removed]>
The disgraced former national education advisor for Roman Catholic schools sexually and physically abused a boy while he was a parish priest in Warwickshire.
Coventry Live
* Islamic State 'plotting Christmas terror attacks in UK and Europe', ex-MI6 spy warns <[link removed]>
The so-called Islamic State is plotting Christmas terror attacks in Britain and European countries in revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in France, a former MI6 spy has warned.
Mail Online
* Joy for same-sex marriage campaigners as final hurdle crossed for those in civil partnerships
Landmark legislation comes into effect allowing the conversion of same-sex civil partnerships into marriages, which many saw as the "final hurdle" for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.
The Irish Times
* Macron to counter radical Islam with home-schooling ban <[link removed]>
Home-schooling is to be banned for all children in France from the age of three as President Macron presses ahead with plans to clamp down on radical Islam.
The Times (£)
* Switzerland looks set to be the next country to legalise same-sex marriage <[link removed]>
Switzerland has taken a major step on the path to equality after its parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law to pass same-sex marriage.
Pink News
* EU must protect rights of Jews to circumcision and kosher meat, top rabbi declares
One of Europe's leading rabbis has criticised the Council of the European Union's declaration on antisemitism issued earlier this week, highlighting the absence of protection for Jewish rituals such as circumcision and kosher that have faced legislative challenges in a number of European countries.
The Algemeiner
* Chicago archdiocese to pay $1.5 million in sexual abuse suit
The Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who says he was sexually abused as a child by a defrocked priest who was convicted of sexually abusing several boys, the man's attorney said Thursday.
The Washington Post
* ‘The Supreme Court is colliding with a less-religious America’ <[link removed]>
Justices' drive to promote "religious liberty" may only become more intense, says Ronald Brownstein.
The Atlantic
* Officials say gunmen kill secular thinker in southern Yemen
A Yemeni university professor and secular thinker was killed on Saturday in a drive-by shooting in southern Yemen, local officials said.
The Washington Post
* Pakistan: Christian woman killed for refusing forced marriage and conversion to Islam <[link removed]>
A Christian woman in Pakistan was shot multiple times in the head after refusing to marry a Muslim man and convert to Islam.
Premier Christian News
* Iran condemned for sending leading human rights defender back to prison despite health fears <[link removed]>
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who represented women who protested against the forced hijab, was allowed to return home at the beginning of last month after being given temporary release to allow her to have treatment for heart and lung problems.
The Independent
** New NSS podcast
* Ep 40: Rachel Laser, the Americanisation of the religious right <[link removed]>
Emma Park speaks to Rachel Laser, to discuss the state of US secularism in the aftermath of their 2020 election, and the American Christian rights' support for similar movements around the world.
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