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A couple who threatened to take a school to the High Court over its religious assemblies have won their fight for alternative activities for their children.
A submission has formally been made to open a new Roman Catholic school in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. The NSS's No More Faith Schools campaign is
opposing the plans.
Andrew Penman says a promotional video for the Operation Christmas Child scheme, run by the evangelical charity Samaritan's Purse, is creepy. He also
highlights NSS research on the unpopularity of collective worship.
The Liberal Democrats' election manifesto includes proposals to enable the Church of England and Church in Wales to conduct same-sex marriages and legal
recognition of Humanist marriages. Elsewhere it would make all hate crimes aggravated offences.
The shadow home secretary has been criticised for meeting an anti-LGBT education activist who joined 'homophobic' protests outside a school in Birmingham.
The Church of England has said Christians must repent for centuries of antisemitism which ultimately led to the Holocaust in a new document. But the document
has been criticised by the chief rabbi, who says it does not mention the continued "specific targeting" of Jews for conversion to Christianity.
Hardliners in India are pushing to rename the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, on the grounds that it had an ancient Hindu name that predated its
better-known Muslim heritage.
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