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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 14 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
* Call for end to compulsory religious worship in Scottish schools <[link removed]>
Children's rights organisations have backed a report calling for an end to compulsory religious worship in Scottish schools.
Scottish Legal News
* Joint schooling in NI should be revisited, Foster suggests <[link removed]>
An end to denominational education may be a fitting way to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland next year, First Minister Arlene Foster has suggested.
The Irish Times
* Church knew of sex‑sadist priest Joseph Quigley years before police <[link removed]>
Rather than report priest's abuses, officials sent him to a private clinic for treatment.
The Sunday Times (£)
* First same-sex religious wedding takes place in Northern Ireland <[link removed]>
Chris McNaghten and Jon Swan married in Co Antrim in a ceremony officiated by a religious minister with the Harbour Faith Community, which describes itself as the home of progressive Christianity.
ITV
* Religious group's speech in Redditch treated as hate crime <[link removed]>
An investigation is under way after Redditch Labour councillor Joseph Baker stood up to a group of around eight people reportedly shouting that "homosexuals are going to hell".
Redditch and Alcester Advertiser
* Strictly-Orthodox Jewish leader banned from three hospitals for ‘abusive behaviour’ <[link removed]>
The head of a strictly-Orthodox advocacy group in Stamford Hill has been banned from three London hospitals after being accused of abusive behaviour towards nurses and of falsely claiming to be a chaplain.
Jewish News
* London warned to be on alert for Christmas terror attack <[link removed]>
Londoners are being warned to be on the alert to thwart a potential pre-Christmas terror attack as the country's top counter-terrorism officer revealed that investigations into extremist plotting have reached a new record high.
Evening Standard
* ‘Changes to Hate Crime Bill must get the closest scrutiny’ <[link removed]>
"As it stands, the bill is a shoddy piece of work: unfit for its intended purpose, a significant attack on free expression and an affront to foundational standards of liberty."
The Herald
* ‘Ideas can be tolerated without being respected. The distinction is key’ <[link removed]>
Tolerance is being perverted by those who think it is about not causing offence, says Kenan Malik.
The Guardian
* Spain: New education law will downgrade religion in schools <[link removed]>
Church organisations in Spain are opposing a new education law which will downgrade religious teaching and curb the independence of Christian schools.
Church Times
* Muslims targeted under Indian state's 'love jihad' law <[link removed]>
Police in India have rounded up Muslim men and disrupted interfaith marriage ceremonies under new laws prohibiting so-called "love jihad".
The Guardian
* ‘Protection of blasphemers in Nigeria’ <[link removed]>
The fact that blasphemers need protection in our 21st-century world is a bad sign and a clear indication that humanity in many parts of the world has not made much progress, says Leo Igwe.
Modern Ghana
** The latest from the NSS
* Pandemic harming freedom from religion in many countries, says report <[link removed]>
The Covid-19 pandemic has undermined the rights of people who reject religious norms in many countries, a report has found.
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