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Your daily media briefing - Tuesday 5 November

  

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

 

Home Office pays religious groups to help deport rough sleepers

Religious and community organisations have been paid thousands of pounds by the Home Office to assist immigration enforcement teams in removing people from the UK, in most cases rough sleepers.

The Guardian

 

‘Religious education in Greece: privileges and recent controversies’ – NSS quoted

A recent European Court of Human Rights case, in which the NSS successfully intervened, centred on the need for parents to submit a declaration to their children to opt-out of RE in Greece.

News Intervention

 

Abuse victims warned over payout clause in Scotland

A financial redress scheme for survivors of abuse while in care could allow those responsible to avoid court cases, it has been claimed.

The Times (£)

 

Telford MP Lucy Allan echoes call to review assisted dying law

A Shropshire MP has again called for a review into the UK's ban on assisted dying.

Shropshire Star

 

Germany unveils draft law to ban gay ‘conversion therapy’

German health minister Jens Spahn has unveiled a draft law that will ban 'conversion therapy'.

Gay Times

 

Muslim wives in China 'forced to sleep in the same bed as male officials while husbands are indoctrinated in re-education camps'

Married Chinese Muslim women are regularly forced to share the same bed as male officials sent by government to monitor them when their husbands are being indoctrinated in internment camps, it has been revealed.

Mail Online

 

European MP: We need to increase security ‘wherever Jewish life takes place’

Europe needs to do much more to protect its Jewish community, including stationing police outside every Jewish institution, according to the new head of the working group on anti-Semitism in the European Parliament.

The Times of Israel

 

Man tries to break into French Jewish school while shouting antisemitic slurs

A man who tried to break into a Jewish school in southern France while shouting insults about Jews was prevented from entering by the guard and arrested after fleeing the scene.

Jewish News

  

Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

 

Faith schools perform less well under fairer assessment, says study

Faith schools drop dramatically in league tables when fairer indicators of pupils' background are taken into account, a study has found.

  

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