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** Your daily media briefing - Thursday 28 January

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** Secularism in the media

* Poland enforces controversial near-total abortion ban <[link removed]>

A controversial near-total ban on abortion in Poland has taken effect, the government announced, with enforcement from midnight on Wednesday.

BBC

* Former minister leads call for Domestic Abuse bill to protect women refused Jewish religious ‘divorce’ <[link removed]>

The proposals to protect victims of Get refusal – where one party refuses to grant a divorce to another under Orthodox Jewish rules – were put forward by members of the House of Lords.

Jewish News

* Catholic bishop: I wasn’t aware of what was going on in mother and baby homes <[link removed]>

A Catholic bishop in Northern Ireland has said he was not aware of "what was going on" in homes for unmarried mothers.

Belfast Telegraph

* Ian Paisley's 'Catholic IRA' remark criticised by MPs <[link removed]>

Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley has been criticised by the chair of a Westminster committee for referring to "the Catholic IRA".

BBC

* Peterborough mosque's call to prayer loudspeakers plan rejected <[link removed]>

Plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers three times a day to a city neighbourhood have been rejected.

BBC

* Scot 'forced to sign blank confession' in India <[link removed]>

A Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has said he was tortured to sign a blank confession. His brother says he is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.

BBC

* “The Indian comic in jail for jokes he didn't crack” <[link removed]>

Mr Faruqui has spent 25 days in prison for jokes he evidently "didn't make".

BBC

** From the archives

* The Catholic Church’s control over abortion policy has sparked a furious backlash in Poland <[link removed]>

A ruling on abortion in Poland has again highlighted the government's damagingly close relationship with the Catholic Church. But many Poles are now questioning the church's power, says Aleksandra Myslek.

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