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** Secularism in the media
* Police hand out £10,000 fine after ‘150’ attend service at yeshivah <[link removed]>
Police have handed out a £10,000 fine after dispersing a large gathering at Hitchin Yeshiva in Hertfordshire last Saturday.
Jewish Chronicle
* 'The Muslim Council of Britain should back off' <[link removed]>
The attack on BBC presenter Emma Barnett is designed to ensure no one can challenge it.
Jewish Chronicle
* Jews from a strictly Orthodox background aren’t ‘forced’ but can be ‘coerced’ into marriage, Jewish group says <[link removed]>
Jewish Marriage Council defends arranged marriages, saying they are 'done with consent from both parties'.
Jewish News
* 'On Islam, Macron isn’t flirting with the far right' <[link removed]>
French President Emmanuel Macron is under sustained attack for allegedly courting far-right votes with his government's policies and pronouncements on radical Islam. But Macron's approach is far more balanced than many critics claim.
Politico
* 'This is historic': Malaysian man wins appeal against Islamic gay sex charge <[link removed]>
A Malaysian man has won a landmark court challenge against an Islamic ban on sex "against the order of nature", raising hopes for greater acceptance of gay rights in a country where Islamic laws have been used to target country's gay community.
Guardian / Reuters
* Polish metal singer accused of blasphemy appeals for legal funds <[link removed]>
A heavy metal singer who is appealing against a conviction over a photo of him stepping on an image of the virgin Mary has launched a legal defence fund.
BBC
* Vatican says religious services are “the highest of essential services” <[link removed]>
Vatican officials are lobbying for religious worship exceptions from Covid-19 lockdown restrictions at the UN Human Rights Council.
Catholic Sun
* Covid-19: Sri Lanka reverses 'anti-Muslim' cremation order <[link removed]>
Sri Lanka has reversed an order to cremate the bodies of all those who died of Covid-19 after critics said the order did not respect religions.
BBC
* Indonesia’s government pushes back against Islamic dress codes <[link removed]>
Since 2001 local governments in Indonesia have passed at least 60 bylaws ruling that women should cover their heads. And many non-Muslim schoolgirls resent being forced to wear a hijab.
Economist
** To watch
* The hypocrisy of purity culture enables sexual abuse in churches <[link removed]>
This Zoom briefing explores how evangelical theology around sex and the purity culture enables sex abusers to be active and escape censure in a church.
Religion Media Centre (via YouTube)
** Latest from the NSS
* NI’s education review is a golden chance to take a stand for inclusion <[link removed]>
Alastair Lichten says a review of education provision in Northern Ireland must be willing to challenge entrenched religious interests to deliver on ambitions for a more efficient and inclusive system.
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