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Subject PM should consider disestablishment if bishops' intervention continues, says MP
Date October 21, 2020 8:06 AM
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* PM should consider disestablishment if bishops' intervention continues, says MP <[link removed]>

Boris Johnson should move to disestablish the Church of England if controversy over its clergy's political interventions continues, a leading Conservative MP has said.

The Times (£)

* Churches to close in Wales in new Covid 'firebreak' <[link removed]>

The Archbishop of Cardiff has expressed his "disappointment" that churches in Wales will have to close for three weekends under the coronavirus "circuit break" lockdown.

The Tablet

* Beheaded teacher to get France's highest honour, says minister <[link removed]>

Samuel Paty, the 47-year old history teacher beheaded last week by a suspected Islamist, will be posthumously given France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur, the education minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, has said.

The Guardian

* 'Samuel Paty and the world’s forgotten blasphemy laws' <[link removed]>

It is impossible to separate the killing of Samuel Paty with the Islamic blasphemy laws that are in place around the world, says Kunwar Khuldune Shahid.

The Spectator

* 'The Times view on the murder of Samuel Paty' <[link removed]>

France deserves unqualified support in confronting Islamist terrorism.

The Times (£)

* Two Muslim women stabbed under the Eiffel Tower <[link removed]>

Two Muslim women were 'stabbed repeatedly' under the Eiffel Tower amid rising tensions in Paris after the beheading of a teacher last week.

Mail Online

* Ireland: Archbishops protest over suspension of public worship <[link removed]>

Ireland's four Catholic archbishops have jointly written to the Taoiseach Micheál Martin requesting a "constructive discussion" over the suspension of public worship under new restrictions aimed at curbing the rise in Covid-19 cases.

The Tablet

* Polish gym declares itself a church to avoid coronavirus restrictions <[link removed]>

The move comes after Poland shuttered most gyms and pools in an effort to curb a recent surge in COVID-19 infections. Church services are still allowed.

New York Post

* Iranian woman arrested for 'cycling without hijab' <[link removed]>

A young woman has been arrested in central Iran for "insulting the Islamic hijab", state media said on Tuesday, after a video appeared to show her cycling without a veil.

The Guardian

* 'Pakistani Shias live in terror as sectarian violence increases' <[link removed]>

The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call 'heretics'.

The Guardian

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* Brutally murdered for doing his job <[link removed]>

The beheading of Samuel Paty, a teacher in France who showed Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his students, was an appalling attack on critical enquiry.

* The Church of England’s culture of entitlement has to end <[link removed]>

The furore over John Sentamu not being handed a life peerage reveals an ugly culture of entitlement that has not served church or state well, argues Richard Scorer.

** Online Bradlaugh Lecture 2020

* Geoffrey Robertson to argue for disestablishment in NSS lecture <[link removed]>

Human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson will make the case for disestablishing the C of E in the NSS's 2020 Bradlaugh Lecture.

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