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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 18 December
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** Secularism in the media
* 'Secular rites' - Letter from NSS president <[link removed]>
LGBT people must have the option of a secular union that cannot be subject to religious approval, says NSS president Keith Porteous Wood.
The Tablet*
* EU court backs ban on animal slaughter without stunning <[link removed]>
A Belgian ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals without being stunned has been backed by the European Court of Justice, which rejected objections by religious groups.
BBC
* Infant circumcision may lead to social challenges as an adult <[link removed]>
Undergoing male circumcision as an infant has delayed psychological complications, according to an international study.
Medical Xpress
* Liz Truss criticises Equality Act’s focus on protected characteristics <[link removed]>
Women and equalities minister Liz Truss has criticised the Equality Act 2010 and said the discrimination debate should not focus solely on race, religion, sexual orientation and disability.
Personnel Today
* Conversion therapy survivor opens up about undergoing horrifying ‘exorcisms’ <[link removed]>
A Scottish man has said he "hated everything" about himself after enduring six years of conversion therapy and "exorcisms" to make him straight.
Pink News
* Woman jailed for sharing Islamic State video of beheadings <[link removed]>
A woman formerly married to a hate preacher and who shared terrorist and extremist material has been jailed.
Plymouth Live
* ‘Government and religion’ <[link removed]>
Government should neither support nor restrict any religion or lack thereof, says Professor John Radford.
The Freethinker (Patheos)
* ‘How the pandemic revolutionised abortion access in the UK’ <[link removed]>
Since patients have been allowed to take pills at home to terminate pregnancies, major medical complications have dropped by two-thirds.
The New Statesman*
* Ireland: New hate crime laws to be introduced in the new year, says justice minister
Justice minister Helen McEntee is to bring forward new hate crime laws in the new year, saying existing legislation was "not fit for purpose".
Belfast Telegraph
* Poland increasingly distrusts Catholic Church <[link removed]>
Despite Poland being over 90 percent Catholic, a survey published on Thursday suggested that approximately 41 percent of Poles view the Church favourably.
Catholic Herald
* Nigeria school attack: Hundreds of boys freed, local authorities say <[link removed]>
Hundreds of schoolboys kidnapped last week from a boarding school in north-western Nigeria have been released, local authorities have told the BBC.
BBC
* Pakistan court acquits Christian man sentenced to life for blasphemy <[link removed]>
A court in Pakistan has acquitted a Christian after he was sentenced to life in prison for blasphemy over a decade ago.
Premier Christian News
** The latest from the NSS
* MSPs back ‘general principles’ of Scottish hate crime bill <[link removed]>
MSPs have approved the 'general principles' of a proposed bill on hate crime, but many have called for stronger free speech protections.
* RE shouldn’t be a vehicle for the Church of England’s interests <[link removed]>
A new study of a widely-used set of RE resources illustrates the way powerful groups control the subject to accommodate the evangelical mission of the Church of England, says Chris Selway.
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