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Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 16 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

 

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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’

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

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'

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

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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