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Bnois Jerusalem Girls School in Stamford Hill, north London, was rated "inadequate" by Ofsted last year after it was discovered to be teaching creationism in geography and science and not letting students take GCSEs. NSS chief executive Stephen Evans is quoted.
More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes did not open for Sunday services. NSS's opposition to religious exemptions from lockdown rules is quoted.
Psychologist David Morrison references NSS's work drawing attention to Dr. Kate Godfrey-Faussett's anti-LGBT+ 'Stop RSE' campaign, which aims to undermine the teaching of inclusive relationships and sex education in schools.
Leeds-based Imam Qari Asim is running a campaign to encourage Muslim communities to take the coronavirus vaccine and dispel some of the myths around the procedure.
Women in mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland experienced the same treatment as those in the Republic, deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said.
The leader of the Irish Catholic Church has said he would be disappointed if religious congregations were to carry all the blame for the country's mother-and-baby homes.
The Mother and Baby homes report has highlighted the need to end the dominance of the Catholic Church over Ireland's education system, according to the Labour Party.
For decades a deeply conservative Ireland put unmarried mothers in the care of the Catholic Church, a brutal 'shadow state' in which thousands of children died or were forcibly adopted. It claims to be sorry — so why won't it open up its archives, asks Colm Tóibín.
French Muslim leaders have approved a charter rejecting radicalism and accepting equality between the sexes as part of President Macron's plan to promote an "enlightened Islam".
The indictment alleges Zahra Badri, a 39-year-old British Muslim woman residing in Houston, knowingly transported a minor from the US in foreign commerce for the purpose of female genital cutting between July and October 2016.
Some registered charities exist primarily to convert members of one religion to another. Megan Manson says such activity is harmful to community cohesion – and shouldn't be treated as a valid charitable purpose.
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