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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 13 December
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.
** Secularism in the media
* ‘After the worst election campaign in memory, Britain’s religious minorities must unite’ <[link removed]>
Sunny Hundal says the manner in which faith groups have been set against each other is unprecedented and dangerous.
New Statesman
* Sikhs lose High Court battle to be included as ethnic group in UK census <[link removed]>
A bid for Sikhs to be included as an ethnic group in the UK census has been rejected by a High Court judge.
Birmingham Live
* School apologises after deputy head told pupils 'there is no Father Christmas' <[link removed]>
A faith school has apologised after its deputy head told pupils "there is no Father Christmas".
Mirror
* Latest Oxfordshire FGM victim numbers revealed by NHS <[link removed]>
At least three new victims of female genital mutilation have been seen by NHS services in Oxfordshire so far this year.
The Herald (Oxfordshire)
* Two dead, several wounded in India as protests escalate over citizenship law <[link removed]>
Violent mobs in India's northeastern state of Assam torched buildings and clashed with police on Thursday, leaving two dead and 11 with bullet wounds, as protests grew over a new citizenship law for non-Muslim minorities from some neighbouring countries.
Reuters
* Costa Rica's president says therapeutic abortions will be allowed <[link removed]>
Costa Rica's president Carlos Alvarado on Thursday issued a technical decree that will allow for therapeutic abortions in the Central American nation, despite opposition from religious and conservative political groups.
Reuters
* Atheist reaches settlement over religious objection to mandatory Alcoholics Anonymous <[link removed]>
A Canadian atheist has won a legal battle over mandatory attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous.
BBC
* ‘“God has a new Africa”: undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT “hate movement”’ <[link removed]>
Rita Nketiah reflects on an undercover trip to a summit organized by the World Congress of Families, an international network led by US and Russian ultra-conservatives which has strong religious links.
openDemocracy
* More than 1m Brazilian Christians want ‘gay Jesus’ Christmas special removed from Netflix <[link removed]>
A Netflix Christmas comedy special portraying Jesus as gay has outraged more than a million conservative Christians in Brazil who want it removed.
QN
* Christian group calls for repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy law <[link removed]>
The charity Release International, which supports persecuted Christians, has called for the repeal of Pakistan's blasphemy law.
Church Times
** Latest from the NSS
* NSS criticises BBC video promoting Operation Christmas Child <[link removed]>
The NSS has said a BBC video on the Operation Christmas Child shoebox scheme acted as "propaganda for fundamentalist Christianity".
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