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Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 11 December

  

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

 

‘The campaigns trying to turn British Indians against each other’

Sunny Hundal says this election is turning Britain's minority religious communities against each other – and the tensions could reverberate for years.

openDemocracy

 

No action taken against Kent GP who introduces his faith during appointments – NSS quoted

Action will not be taken against a GP who was investigated over his use of prayer with patients.

Kent Online

 

Over half of young people don't get proper sex education at home or in school

A new study by the Sex Education Forum has revealed that many 16 to 17 year olds do not get a proper sex education from their parents or at school.

OK!

 

Boris Johnson says he’s ‘inspired’ by work of Hindu ‘community’ during visit to temple

The prime minister visited a Hindu temple in Hertfordshire on Sunday.

Borehamwood & Elstree Times

 

Protests grow as Indian parliament debates exclusionary citizenship bill

India's upper house of parliament is debating a controversial citizenship bill that offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from three neighbouring countries.

BBC

 

US state can continue to force abortion patients to listen to foetal heartbeat and look at ultrasound scan

US Supreme Court justices say the state of Kentucky can continue to force abortion patients to listen to the foetal heartbeat and look at ultrasound scans.

Metro

 

Prominent US anti-abortion chief warned of Muslims 'replacing' Christian Europeans

The chief executive of an anti-choice and anti-contraception organisation that has been awarded millions of dollars in grants by the Trump administration once said Christianity was dying out thanks to contraception and abortion, leading Europeans to be "replaced" by immigrant Muslims.

The Guardian

  

Latest from the No More Faith Schools campaign

 

Segregating schools in NI causes gross inefficiencies, says report

Taxpayers in Northern Ireland are wasting millions of pounds every year because of religious segregation in schools, a report has found.

  

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