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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 17 December
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** Secularism in the media
* Consideration of "single education system" included in NI education review <[link removed]>
A consideration of what a "single education system" would involve is to be part of a review of Northern Ireland's education system. The review will also examine how much segregation is involved in education.
BBC
* Church dismissed priest’s sex abuse as drunkenness <[link removed]>
Church officials dismissed claims a priest was sexually abusing young men as "drunkenness", a report has found.
BBC
* Charity denies ‘sham’ church elder inquiry <[link removed]>
Kenneth Ferguson, a treasurer and elder with the Free Church of Scotland, is suing the Robertson Trust, a poverty relief charity linked to one of the biggest whisky producers in Scotland, for unfair dismissal, religious discrimination and religious harassment.
The Times*
* Religious group breaking Covid rules 'ignored' request to leave Northampton hotel <[link removed]>
Hotel Campanile says it has now cancelled all future bookings with the "religious group" involved with the event.
Northamptonshire Live
* ‘Northern Ireland should study free speech fears over Scotland’s hate crime proposals’ – NSS mentioned
MLAs must tread very carefully when considering new legislation on hate crime, says Jamie Gillies. NSS's support for the Free to Disagree campaign is referenced.
News Letter
* ‘Britain needs to catch up in curbing Islamist extremism’ <[link removed]>
Various Islamist groups use their ample resources to spread a divisive message within British Muslim communities but most civil servants lack the tools to counter or even understand the phenomenon, says Lorenzo Vidino.
The Times*
* Charlie Hebdo trial: Fourteen found guilty of being accomplices in 2015 terror attacks <[link removed]>
Fourteen people have been found guilty of being accomplices in terrorist attacks in France in 2015, which included the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Sky News
* US asks High Court to halt mail delivery of abortion pills <[link removed]>
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate a requirement that women visit a medical facility to obtain abortion-inducing pills, seeking to lift a lower-court order that has allowed delivery by mail during the pandemic.
Bloomberg
* New Zealand child abuse inquiry finds quarter of a million harmed in state and faith-based care
Up to a quarter of a million children, young people and vulnerable adults were physically and sexually abused in New Zealand's faith-based and state care institutions from the 1960s to early 2000s, a public inquiry revealed on Wednesday.
Reuters
* Senior faith leaders call for global decriminalisation of LGBT+ people <[link removed]>
More than 370 figures from 35 countries representing 10 religions have signed a historic declaration ahead of a conference on 16 December in a move that will highlight divisions within global religions.
The Guardian
** The latest from the NSS
* The Catholic Church’s dogma shouldn’t undermine sex education <[link removed]>
The local council in the Outer Hebrides has endorsed Catholic Church resources on sex and relationships – with some demanding they're used "exclusively". Neil Barber says this is a misguided decision.
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