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Your daily media briefing - Friday 19 July

  

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

 

NSS backs call for council to scrap prayers at the start of meetings

The NSS has backed a bid to remove prayers from the council chamber in Norfolk.

Eastern Daily Press

 

Anti-RSE protest planned outside primary school in Nottingham

A protest against relationships and sex education lessons is planned outside a Nottingham primary school next Monday.

Nottinghamshire Live

 

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry: Boarding school run by monastic order ruled by 'hate and fear'

A former resident of Fort Augustus Abbey School, which was run by the Order of Benedictines in the Highlands, has described being beaten by a priest.

BBC

 

Priest 'systematically' abused boys at Catholic college, court told

A Catholic priest sexually abused two boys "regularly, systematically and horrifically", a jury was told.

BBC

 

Private Islamic school that had library book on how to help the Taliban is rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted

A private Islamic school that had an extremist library book on how to help the Taliban with "Don't make the Jews and the Christians your friends" on page one has been rated 'inadequate' by Ofsted.

Mail Online

 

Sajid Javid: Leaders must 'moderate language' to fight extremism

Home secretary Sajid Javid is to tell public figures they must "moderate their language" as part of a greater effort to tackle extremism.

BBC

 

Edinburgh prison bosses launch crackdown on inmates pretending to be Jewish to get better food

Prison bosses have launched a crackdown on a scam by cons pretending to be Jewish to get better food.

The Scottish Sun

 

‘The current laws around assisted dying are plainly inhumane and unjust’ – Vince Cable

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable says parliament should act to empower individuals, ensuring that nobody with a rational desire to end their suffering is forced to suffer.

Politics Home

 

Court rejects bid to suspend part of Canadian province's religious symbols ban

A court in the Canadian province of Quebec on Thursday rejected a bid to suspend parts of a new provincial law that bans public sector employees from wearing religious symbols to work.

Reuters

 

‘Tehreek-e-Labbaik: how blasphemy case in Pakistan neutralised hardline religious party’

Abdullah Yusuf says Pakistan's Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik appears to have been neutralised, and the rule of law and equal rights are the only way forward if Pakistan is to become a prosperous and progressive country.

The Conversation

  

Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

 

New autism centre opens at Catholic school in Berkshire

The NMFS campaign has criticised a decision to place a publicly-funded resource centre for pupils with autism within a Catholic school.

  

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