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Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 9 October

  

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

 

Government issues advice on handling school protests against LGBT-inclusive education

The government has issued advice to local authorities on dealing with protests outside schools over LGBT-inclusive teaching.

BBC

 

Boy of seven died after beating from staff member at celebrated Scottish Catholic school, inquiry hears

A boy of seven at a highly-rated Catholic school died after being given a 'vicious' beating by a member of staff, an inquiry heard yesterday.

Scottish Daily Mail

 

Calls for review of rejected ‘buffer zones’ plan outside abortion clinics

Charities and medical bodies have called on the Home Secretary to bring in buffer zones outside abortion clinics.

ITV News

 

‘The BBC’s paranoia about causing offence has reached a new high’

Hardeep Singh says BBC paranoia over giving offence has caused a Sikh contributor to Thought for the Day to quit the slot.

The Spectator

 

Anti-abortion activists offer financial support to pregnant students

Anti-abortion campaigners are offering to help fund pregnant students in Scotland to discourage them from having terminations.

The Times (£)

 

Parliament’s chaplain complained about “stench” and security risk of Westminster Tube’s homeless

The chaplain to the speaker of the House of Commons complained to parliamentary authorities about the "ongoing stench" and "unsanitary state" created by rough sleepers in an underground entrance used to access parliament.

New Statesman

 

German lorry attack in Limburg seen as 'act of terrorism'

An attack on motorists in the western town of Limburg is being investigated as terrorism, security sources have told German media.

BBC

 

US blacklists dozens of Chinese tech companies and agencies over ‘brutal oppression’ of Uighurs

The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese companies and government agencies over what it called the "brutal" treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang province.

The Independent

 

Iranian women allowed to watch football at stadium for first time in decades

Iranian women will be able to enter a football stadium on Thursday for the first time in decades, after Fifa threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.

The Guardian

 

Junaid Hafeez: Why is Pakistani scholar's blasphemy case receiving scant attention?

Human rights organizations are demanding the release of a 33-year-old university lecturer who has been in solitary confinement on blasphemy charges in Pakistan since 2014. His family discusses his case.

DW

 

‘As a doctor, vaccination column shook me to my core’

Avi Korman responds to a previous column on vaccinations in Jewish News, saying it distorted the facts. He adds that recognised doctors would strongly and firmly advise people to vaccinate their children.

Jewish News

  

Latest from the NSS

 

Ritual infant circumcision “morally impermissible”, say experts

The religious and cultural circumcision of non-consenting boys is "morally impermissible", according to a panel of experts.

  

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