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Janet Daby suggested registrars who have a religious objections to same-sex marriage should be protected from losing their jobs if they refuse to certify the partnership.
Rabbis and teachers are considering a return to the pre-pandemic practice of verifying synagogue attendance to get a pupil's Certificate of Religious Practice (CRP) to enable them to attend Jewish schools.
A Kentucky religious school has defied state order to close in-person learning amid a rise in Covid-19 cases, despite a recent court ruling affirming the mandate.
Twitter has been accused of censoring the prominent Indian journalist Salil Tripathi by suspending his account, after he tweeted on subjects including the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque and his work on India's shrinking democratic space.
Police in northern India have arrested 10 men for allegedly compelling women to change their religion after getting married, using a new anti-conversion law popularly called the "Love Jihad" law, officials said on Monday.
New Zealand's security agencies were "almost exclusively" focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of the 2019 Christchurch shooting, in which a gunman shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry into the country's worst peacetime massacre has found.
In recent years, videos of children being beaten in Sudan's Islamic schools have been widely shared on social media, and there have been stories in local media of sheikhs (religious teachers) accused of rape.
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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