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Your daily media briefing - Thursday 10 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

 

£1m charity cash for group linked to Iran

A group called the Islamic Human Rights Commission has received more than £1m in charity cash despite being run by self-declared Islamist revolutionaries closely aligned to Iran who say that the West is "the enemy" and Britain a "Stasi state".

The Telegraph

 

‘The Times view on the Islamic Human Rights Commission: Organised hypocrisy’

This editorial says a human rights group benefiting from charity laws ignores repression in Iran.

The Times (£)

 

Integrated schools in NI 'humbled' by Nobel Peace Prize nomination

A group of schools in Northern Ireland has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for working to educate children from different religious backgrounds together.

Tes

 

Church of Ireland leader calls on Christians to work to prevent NI abortion reform

The leader of the Church of Ireland has said it is a "duty" of Christians to approach their representatives in an attempt to stop Northern Ireland's abortion laws from being liberalised.

Belfast Telegraph

 

Germany shooting: Gunman kills two after attacking synagogue

A gunman has killed two people in eastern Germany after attempting to enter a synagogue where dozens were observing a Jewish holiday. Prosecutors say there are indications of a possible right-wing extremist motive.

BBC

 

Macron vows ‘unrelenting fight’ against Islamist terror after Paris knife attack

French president Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist terror on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalised colleague.

The Times of Israel

 

Irish education minister says faith ethos can’t hinder sex ed classes

Religious ethos cannot be allowed to interfere with the teaching of Relationships and Sexuality Education in schools, Ireland's education minister Joe McHugh has said.

The Irish Catholic

 

China destroys dozens of Uighur cemeteries in drive to 'eradicate' cultural history of Muslims

Even in death there is no respite for the Uighurs, one of the world's most persecuted minorities, according to a new investigation that has revealed China is destroying burial grounds where generations of families have been interred.

The Telegraph

 

Judge overturns ban on gay ‘conversion therapy’ in Florida city

A US federal judge has overturned a ban on conversion therapy in the Florida city of Tampa, saying the health care regulation is the prerogative of the state, not the city.

Newsweek

  

Latest from the NSS

 

Regulator can’t reject ‘controversial’ religious charities, says CEO

The NSS has again called for legal reform after a regulator said it couldn't refuse to register 'controversial' religious charities.

  

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