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** Your daily media briefing - Monday 20 January
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** Secularism in the media
* New Catholic school in Peterborough set to be approved – NSS quoted <[link removed]>
A new Roman Catholic school in Peterborough is set to be approved by the city council, despite vocal opposition.
Peterborough Telegraph
* Secular groups 'hugely disappointed' after first state-funded Catholic school in England for 10 years gets go-ahead – NSS quoted <[link removed]>
The first state-funded Catholic school in England for over 10 years is set to get the green light.
iNews
* ‘Church hypocrisy in outing troops’ – NSS letter <[link removed]>
NSS chief executive Stephen Evans notes that Catholic clergy were willing to break the seal of confession to 'out' gay and lesbian military personnel, and yet reject the idea of the mandatory reporting of child abuse applying to priests in the confessional.
The Sunday Times (£)
* Bradford man jailed for downloading terrorism manuals had 'ISIS ideology' <[link removed]>
A man who downloaded guides on how to make explosives has been jailed for more than four years for terrorism offences.
Leeds Live
* Edinburgh MP to lead debate at Westminster on assisted dying <[link removed]>
Edinburgh West Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine is to lead a debate at Westminster on assisted dying in a bid to keep the issue on the agenda.
Edinburgh Evening News
* Review law on assisted dying, says Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner <[link removed]>
Existing law on assisted dying does not offer enough protection to potentially vulnerable people, Gwent's Police and Crime Commissioner has warned.
South Wales Argus
* Catholic Church opposes gender recognition reform in Scotland <[link removed]>
The Catholic Church has called on its congregation to oppose proposed reforms to gender recognition laws in Scotland, which it called "troubling".
Pink News
* Worcester Muslim Cemetery 'a risk to city's water' says Environment Agency <[link removed]>
Major concerns have been raised over whether the land at a cemetery is suitable to bury people in, with fears coffins could leak into the city's water.
Halesowen News
* Offence of blasphemy officially scrapped from Irish law <[link removed]>
The offence of blasphemy has been official removed from the Irish constitution.
The Irish Post
* ‘Trump’s ‘religious freedom’ initiative is mostly a rehash of current law — yet still finds a way to be troubling’
This editorial says President Trump is again trying to score political points with his evangelical supporters by unveiling a "religious freedom" initiative that suggests, cynically, that Christianity in America is under sustained attack and that the federal government must come to its rescue.
Los Angeles Times
* US Supreme Court to hear Trump appeal in Obamacare contraception fight <[link removed]>
The US Supreme Court has taken up an appeal by the Trump administration seeking to enforce new federal rules allowing employers to obtain religious exemptions from an Obamacare requirement that health insurance that they provide to employees pays for women's birth control.
Reuters
* Cult ‘anointed by God’ killed pregnant woman and five of her children in Panama by forcing them to walk through fire, locals say <[link removed]>
A religious sect whose members professed to be "anointed by God" forced a pregnant woman and five of her children to walk through fire as part of a cult ritual, according to local residents.
The Independent
** Latest from the NSS
* Let’s disestablish the church that covered up sexual abuse <[link removed]>
Keith Porteous Wood says the shocking failings highlighted by the BBC documentary The Church's Darkest Secret show the need to separate church and state.
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