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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 21 October
In the Media <[link removed]> is our daily collection of news and commentary related to secularism, available delivered to your inbox. You can also read the latest news and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Northern Ireland prepares for momentous abortion & same-sex marriage changes <[link removed]>
Campaigners who fought for decades to end Northern Ireland's same sex-marriage ban and restrictions on abortion prepare on Monday for a momentous change to the laws on both at the stroke of midnight.
Reuters
* Urgent meeting demanded over plans to shut Cardiff Catholic school <[link removed]>
The leader of Cardiff Council is seeking an "urgent meeting" with the Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff's education director over plans to close a city primary school.
Wales Online
* Labour politicians in outcry over government policy adviser sharing cartoons from ‘Jesus & Mo’ <[link removed]>
A government policy adviser has been accused of 'Islamophobia' and may face investigation after sharing Facebook posts which mock the Islamic prophet Muhammad, from the cartoon 'Jesus & Mo'.
Metro
* Gavin Williamson defends LGBT rights lessons <[link removed]>
Protests outside primary schools over the teaching of LGBT equality have been condemned as "disgusting" by the education secretary in his first intervention on the row.
The Times (£)
* Council asks judge to extend ban on anti-LGBT protesters near Birmingham primary school <[link removed]>
Anti-LGBT protesters in Birmingham could face a widened exclusion zone, after the city council asked a judge to extend a pre-existing ban.
iNews
* Four killed as anti-blasphemy protesters clash with police in Bangladesh
At least four people were killed and 50 others injured on Sunday as Bangladesh police opened fire on hundreds of Muslims protesting against a Facebook post.
The Hindu
* ‘A million people are jailed in China’s gulags. I managed to escape. Here’s what really goes on inside’ <[link removed]>
David Stavrou speaks to Sayragul Sauytbay, a teacher who escaped from China and was granted asylum in Sweden, about camps housing mainly Uighur Muslims in China.
Haaretz
* ‘Blasphemy laws coddle the faithful by killing religious debate’ <[link removed]>
Rick Snedeker criticises laws against blasphemy in some US states.
Patheos
* ‘Book review: inside the Westboro Baptist Church’ <[link removed]>
Grace McCleen says Unfollow, Megan Phelps-Roper's account of leaving the Westboro Baptist Church, is an exceptional book.
The Times (£)
** Latest from the NSS
* Time to stop pretending we have a ‘national church’ <[link removed]>
As affiliation to Anglicanism continues its rapid decline the Church of England's privileges are increasingly unsustainable, says Stephen Evans. Let's disestablish the church and embrace a secular state.
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