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** Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 16 December
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** Secularism in the media
* NSS council member: Christian prayers at Harrogate council ‘exclusionary’ <[link removed]>
Harrogate Borough Council's practice of reading Christian prayers before meetings is exclusionary to people of other faiths, says Judy Audaer, a member of the National Secular Society's council.
The Stray Ferret
* 'Horror’ that abusive priest allowed back into schools <[link removed]>
Devastated head teachers, teachers and other education experts have spoken of their anger regarding the Catholic Church's handling of the case of Fr Joseph Quigley, an authority and adviser to bishops on Catholic education, who has been convicted of child sex abuse.
The Tablet
* SNP hate crime legislation clears first Holyrood vote <[link removed]>
MSPS have approved the principles of controversial hate crime legislation seen as a threat to freedom of speech after the Scottish Government agreed to water it down.
The Herald*
* Hospital can let Catholic man die against family wishes, court rules <[link removed]>
A middle-aged Catholic man who was left in a coma after a cardiac arrest can be allowed to die despite his mother's objections, a High Court judge has ruled. His mother and sisters said that, because of his Catholic beliefs, he would not have wanted his life to be terminated if it could be preserved.
Essex Live
* Outlaw ‘medieval’ virginity testing in the UK, ministers told <[link removed]>
Proposals to outlaw "medieval" virginity testing in the UK have cleared their first parliamentary hurdle.
Express & Star
* Julie Burchill’s book is ditched by publisher after her comments on Islam <[link removed]>
A forthcoming book by Julie Burchill, the writer and newspaper columnist, has been dropped by its publisher after she was accused of being 'Islamophobic' on Twitter.
The Times*
* Shamima Begum must be treated as a threat, anti-terror commander Neil Basu says <[link removed]>
The Islamic State bride Shamima Begum will be treated as a threat and arrested if she wins her legal battle to return to Britain, the country's top counter-terrorism officer has said.
Evening Standard
* Hungary amends constitution to redefine family, limits gay adoption <[link removed]>
Hungary amended the definition of family in its constitution Tuesday to allow an effective ban on adoption by same-sex couples, another win for the ruling conservatives but decried by one pro-LGBTQ group as "a dark day for human rights".
Reuters
* Boys kidnapped by Boko Haram due to school being ‘too western’ <[link removed]>
Boko Haram extremists who kidnapped hundreds of students in Nigeria said they took them because their western education goes against Islam.
Metro
* ‘I can no longer remain silent about the plight of the Uighurs’ <[link removed]>
An unfathomable mass atrocity is being perpetrated in China. The responsibility for doing something lies with all of us, says chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis.
The Guardian
** The latest from the NSS
* NSS urges government to explain erasure of Ahmadis in faith review <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged the government to explain why it apparently removed Ahmadi Muslims from a list of Muslim denominations in a review.
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