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Your daily media briefing - Thursday 28 January

  

In the Media is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion and listen to our podcasts on our website.

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Secularism in the media

 

Poland enforces controversial near-total abortion ban

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’

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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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