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Your daily media briefing - Monday 21 October

  

In the Media 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 and listen to our podcasts on our website.

  

Secularism in the media

 

Northern Ireland prepares for momentous abortion & same-sex marriage changes

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

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’

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

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

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’

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’

Rick Snedeker criticises laws against blasphemy in some US states.

Patheos

 

‘Book review: inside the Westboro Baptist Church’

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’

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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