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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 4 October
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
* Northern Ireland abortion law found to breach human rights <[link removed]>
Northern Ireland's abortion law breaches the UK's human rights commitments, the High Court ruled.
BBC
* What are the UK's laws on abortion? <[link removed]>
Abortion laws in Northern Ireland breach the UK's human rights commitments, the High Court has ruled. So what are the laws on abortion in the UK?
BBC
* Christian prayer 'divisive' at Bucks County Council meeting – NSS extensively quoted <[link removed]>
The NSS has called Bucks County Council's practice of beginning its meetings with a Christian prayer "alienating," "exclusionary," and "divisive."
The Bucks Herald
* Hallmarks of grooming ‘overlooked’ by staff at cathedral school <[link removed]>
Wells Cathedral School in Somerset failed to recognise "all the hallmarks of grooming" among music staff who were later convicted of child sexual abuse, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
Church Times
* Brain-damaged girl from Muslim family can go abroad for treatment, court rules <[link removed]>
The parents of a brain-damaged girl will be allowed to take her abroad to continue her treatment, the High Court has ruled. Her parents argued in court that argued that the girl was from a Muslim family and Islamic law said only God could take the decision to end her life.
BBC
* Christian doctor loses trans beliefs case <[link removed]>
A doctor who refused to use transgender pronouns as people's chosen sex as it went against his Christian faith has lost his tribunal.
BBC
* Peer quits Thought for the Day and blasts BBC for trying to censor his address in case it offended Muslims <[link removed]>
Sikh peer Indarjit Singh has quit BBC Radio Four's Thought for the Day after more than three decades and criticised the over-sensitivity of the corporation's bosses.
Daily Mail
* US man drowned his 6-year-old son while trying to cast out a ‘demon’, police say <[link removed]>
An American man faces a federal murder charge for allegedly holding his six-year-old son's face under hot water for several minutes to cast out a "demon".
The Independent
* ‘Killer Isis brides rule Al-Hawl camp with a rod of iron’ <[link removed]>
'Morality police' are engaged in a violent bid to impose Isis control over a camp of 68,000 mostly women and children, remnants of the collapsed caliphate. Anthony Loyd reports.
The Times (£)
* India top court recalls controversial caste order <[link removed]>
India's Supreme Court has reversed one of its previous judgements that was criticised for "diluting" protections for lower castes.
BBC
** Latest from the NSS
* Welsh government considers ending right to withdraw from RE & RSE <[link removed]>
The Welsh government is consulting on plans to end parents' right to withdraw children from classes on religion, relationships and sex.
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