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Fake news is likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned. Some of the disinformation is religiously
targeted.
A religious minister in Scotland has launched a crowdfunding drive in an attempt to bring a judicial review against the inclusion of churches in lockdown
restrictions.
Senior MPs and activists have spoken of the UK's urgent need to take a political stand against the genocide being inflicted on Uyghur Muslims in China.
A Muslim train driver has lost his religious discrimination claim after suing a security firm for using a fake bomb with the words 'Allahu Akbar' on it as
part of a training exercise.
Conditions at a mother and baby home in Cork led to a clash between church and state, when the former bishop of Cork said the state was seeking to ask a
religious order to go against canon law.
The two main churches in Ireland and the religious congregations that ran the mother and baby homes have been asked to make a contribution to the intended
redress fund for former residents and survivors.
Ireland's national broadcaster is facing calls to remove the Angelus from the air in light of the mother and baby home report released earlier this week. The
Angelus, or the church bells, is a one-minute-long programme which has aired at 6pm every evening on RTÉ One since 1950.
Argentina's historic decision to legalise abortion will help spur reform across Latin America, the country's gender minister has said, as a new law allowing
the practice goes into effect.
Pakistani authorities have asked leaders of the American Ahmadiyya Muslim community to take down its official website, claiming that the US-based site
violates Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws and new cybercrime regulations.
A French court sentences a 19-year-old Deliveroo courier to four months in prison on discrimination charges after he refused to deliver meals from Jewish
restaurants.
NSS chief executive Stephen Evans was interviewed in a recent edition of Charlie Hebdo which marked six years since the attack on its staff. The
interview is reproduced here in English.
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