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Your daily media briefing - Monday 15 July

  

In the Media, our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, is one of the most popular features on our website and now available delivered to your inbox.

  

Secularism in the media

 

‘Religion is the elephant in the room on relationships and sex education’ – letter from NSS

NSS chief executive Stephen Evans says compulsory education on relationships, sex and health is a positive development - but the government has been reluctant to confront religious interests. (Scroll down)

The Sunday Times (£)

 

Government accused of being 'too slow' to tackle anti-LGBT protests outside schools

The government was "too slow to respond" to "mob" protests over LGBT teaching outside Birmingham schools, according to the lead counter-extremism commissioner Sara Khan.

BBC

 

‘Children have a right to know about LGBT families’

The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission calls on the government to end the ambiguity on teaching of LGBT rights.

Politics Home

 

Sexual abuse victim dubs archbishops of Canterbury and York 'not fit for office'

Matthew Ineson, a former vicar who was raped by a Bradford priest when he was a teenager, has told an inquiry that senior Church of England clerics ignored his claims.

Examiner Live

 

Anti-abortion campaigners target Catholic services in NI with petition for Theresa May

A letter criticising a move by MPs to liberalise the abortion laws in Northern Ireland, addressed to Theresa May, was handed out at Catholic church services yesterday.

The Telegraph

 

‘What does the Muslim Council of Britain have against Muslims who challenge its narrative?’

Qanta Ahmed says the MCB's Centre for Media Monitoring would be better named the Centre for Controlling the Narrative of Islam.

The Spectator

 

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv after Israeli education minister praises gay ‘conversion therapy’

LGBT activists in Israel are calling for the resignation of education minister Rafi Peretz after he claimed gay conversion therapy could work.

Newsweek

 

Nearly two dozen countries condemn China’s mass detention of Muslims at UN

China has been urged to stop its mass detention of Uighur Muslims by 22 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the first such joint move on the issue.

The Independent

 

‘End the advancement of religion as a charitable purpose’ – NSS research cited

Neil Barber welcomes an NSS report calling for the end of 'the advancement of religion' as a charitable purpose. (Scroll down)

The National

 

US Catholic order releases names of members accused of abuse

A Baltimore-based Catholic religious order that sponsors schools across the US has released a list of dozens of members accused of sexually abusing children.

Mail Online

  

Latest from the NSS

 

Blasphemy culture mustn’t undermine freedom of the press

The press regulator is consulting on guidelines which will inform the way stories about Islam and Muslims are reported. It must not endorse taboos which shut down debate and harm social cohesion, says Chris Sloggett.

  

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