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** Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 16 July
In the Media <[link removed]>, 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
* Education secretary rules out Charedi Jewish school loophole over teaching LGBT equality
Education secretary Damian Hinds has said Charedi Jewish schools reluctant to teach LGBT equality will be unlikely to be able to put it off until the sixth form.
The JC
* Protests against LGBT-inclusive education spread across the UK <[link removed]>
Protests by conservative Muslim parents, angrily claiming that school lessons which include information about LGBT relationships 'promote' homosexuality or 'indoctrinate' children, have spread nationwide.
Mail Online
* Jewish headteacher: If we taught about sex, pupils would be removed from school <[link removed]>
A faith school leader was among those to defend restricting children's knowledge about sex and relationships in a BBC Panorama documentary last night.
Jewish News
* Anti-LGBT protest schools 'hung out to dry by ministers’, says prominent lawyer <[link removed]>
Head teachers have been left alone to confront people resisting "hard-won equalities" at the school gates, according to human rights lawyer Nazir Afzal.
Birmingham Live
* ‘LGBT-inclusive education saves lives and is worth defending’ <[link removed]>
Matt Bagwell says schools have a duty to reflect what is enshrined in law and the government must back them up.
HuffPost
* London abortion clinic protest ban legal challenge reaches Court of Appeal <[link removed]>
A challenge against a ban on demonstrations outside an abortion clinic in west London has reached the Court of Appeal.
Evening Standard
* Hindu body wins contest to sponsor three new schools in Herts <[link removed]>
A Hindu faith organisation will run a new secondary school and two new primaries in Hertfordshire.
Bishop's Stortford Independent
* Regulator probes Christian charity alleged to have paid Islamic State to free hostages <[link removed]>
A Christian charity is the subject of a terrorism funding investigation by the police and is being looked into by the Charity Commission amid allegations that the charity paid money to free hostages held by Islamic State.
Third Sector
* ‘Donald Trump has made it clear: the only “real Americans” are white and Christian’ <[link removed]>
Theodore Johnson says the US president is pushing a divisive ethnoreligious nationalism.
The Guardian
* Baby’s penis amputated after nurse posing as doctor circumcises him in Egypt <[link removed]>
A one-month-old baby had to have his penis amputated after a nurse allegedly pretending to be a doctor circumcised him in Egypt.
Mirror
** Watch: BBC Panorama
* 'Sex education: the LGBT debate in schools' <[link removed]>
Sima Kotecha speaks to religious campaigners who object to LGBT-inclusive education.
** In case you missed it: from the NSS
* Just 12% of Brits are affiliated to C of E, major survey reveals <[link removed]>
The NSS has called for a "serious rethink" of religion's public role amid a significant decline in affiliation to the Church of England.
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