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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 1 November
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.
** Latest from the NSS
* Compulsory RE mustn’t indoctrinate, says European Court of Human Rights <[link removed]>
The European Court of Human Rights has said RE curricula must be conveyed in an "objective" manner after a successful NSS intervention.
** Secularism in the media
* Anti-choice groups target SDLP over abortion move <[link removed]>
Anti-choice groups in Northern Ireland are targeting the SDLP for the party's refusal to prevent the legalisation of abortion in NI.
The Irish Catholic
* Warwickshire vicar admits child porn charges <[link removed]>
A vicar had 400 indecent images of children in a hidden gallery on his mobile phone, a court heard.
BBC
* Attempted prosecution over man praying outside abortion clinic collapses <[link removed]>
The country's first arrest and prosecution for praying in public has collapsed.
The Telegraph
* Senior rabbi urges congregants to vote tactically against Labour <[link removed]>
Rabbi Jonathan Romain has intervened in the general election campaign.
The Jewish Chronicle
* Sectarian chanting could lead to football match abandonments in Scotland <[link removed]>
Sectarian and racist chanting at football matches in Scotland could lead to games being abandoned if the game's world governing body gets its way.
BBC
* ‘The war on African women is supported by foreign activists, with no regard for our lives’ <[link removed]>
Olutimehin Adegbeye says religious groups are limiting access to sexual and reproductive services – and this needs to end.
openDemocracy
* Macron condemns those who use secularism to 'sow hatred and division' <[link removed]>
Religion is once again at the forefront of public debate in France.
euronews
* Judge suspends publication of book about clerical child abuse in Colombia <[link removed]>
Judges in northwest Colombia suspended the pending publication of a book about clerical child abuse in the country and threatened to take legal action against the journalist.
Colombia Reports
* Christians want Belgian opera’s naked Joan of Arc banned <[link removed]>
A Christian association is trying to prevent a Brussels opera house La Monnaie from staging a production in which the heroine appears dressed in men's clothes and, at one point, naked.
New York Post
* Amsterdam refuses mosque’s request for loudspeaker call to prayer <[link removed]>
Amsterdam has rejected a plan by a prominent mosque to become the first in the city to broadcast its call to prayer over loudspeakers, on the grounds that it's unnecessary in a world of mobile apps.
The Irish Times
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