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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 3 January
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
* ‘Reflect on the need for prayer in the Commons’ <[link removed]>
Newly-elected MP Kenny MacAskill questions the practice of holding Christian prayers as sitting days open in the House of Commons.
The Scotsman
* Government ‘changing law to protect gay marriage critics’ in NI <[link removed]>
A Christian campaign group says the government has committed to measures that will protect critics of same sex marriage from prosecution.
News Letter
* Britons split on whether religion is source of morality <[link removed]>
Across Britain, 34% of people agree that "all morals are grounded in religious teachings", with 32% disagreeing and the rest undecided, according to a survey by the publisher UnHerd and pollster FocalData.
Swindon Advertiser
* Procedural reform could make it harder to undermine human rights and equality in NI <[link removed]>
A key proposal in talks over power-sharing at Stormont is to reform the petition of concern so its use would have to be approved on each occasion by the Human Rights Commission, it has been claimed. The petition has previously been used to block measures including the legalisation of same-sex marriage.
News Letter
* Plans for first ever Jewish eruv to be created in north Leeds <[link removed]>
Proposals in Leeds would create a demarcated area for orthodox Jews to use during the Jewish Sabbath.
Leeds Live
* No certainty terror offenders can be 'cured', says top psychologist <[link removed]>
The psychologist behind the UK's main deradicalisation programme for terror offenders says it can never be certain that attackers have been "cured".
BBC
* Members of US Congress ask Supreme Court to 'reconsider' landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling <[link removed]>
More than 200 members of the US Congress are urging the country's Supreme Court to reconsider – if not overrule – the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalised abortion nationwide.
CNN
* India's Muslims tell of wave of police brutality <[link removed]>
Police in Uttar Pradesh state in India have embarked on a 'reign of terror' against Muslims in the wake of a discriminatory new citizenship law.
The Guardian
* Secular Israel rejoices over Sabbath buses <[link removed]>
Minibuses that run on Friday evenings and Saturdays buck Israel's religious restrictions.
The Guardian
* Murdered priest had abused father and son <[link removed]>
Two more cases of clerical sexual abuse have added new twists to the series of accusations that gnaw away at the image of the Catholic Church in France.
The Tablet
** Latest from the NSS
* Review prayers in parliament, NSS urges new Commons speaker <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged the new speaker of the House of Commons to support a review of the practice of holding prayers in parliament.
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