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** Your daily media briefing - Friday 6 November
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 <[link removed]> and opinion <[link removed]> and listen to our podcasts <[link removed]> on our website.
** Secularism in the media
* Assisted dying travel allowed during lockdown, says Hancock <[link removed]>
People travelling abroad for the purpose of assisted dying will not be breaking coronavirus travel rules, the health secretary has said.
BBC
* Leader of Catholic church in England and Wales expects government U-turn on lockdown services ban <[link removed]>
The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has predicted the government will shortly abandon the ban on church services during the new lockdown.
The Independent
* Church pastor exposed as a career con artist <[link removed]>
SPAC Nation claims it is helping disadvantaged young people – but former members say that its leaders encourage young congregants to take out loans and give huge sums to the church.
BBC
* Boohoo, Nike and H&M deny Uighur forced labour in supply chains <[link removed]>
Fashion brands including Boohoo and Nike have denied the use of suppliers or manufacturing in the Xinjiang region of China as they expressed "shock" surrounding allegations regarding the forced labour of Uighur Muslims.
Shropshire Star
* Dutch teacher goes into hiding after cartoon mocking jihadists prompts online threats <[link removed]>
Police are investigating online threats against the unnamed teacher - who works at the Emmauscollege high school in Rotterdam - after they were accused of blasphemy by some Muslim students over a cartoon in support of the controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Mail Online
* Macron clarifies French fight against Islamist extremism, not Islam <[link removed]>
French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country is fighting "Islamist separatism, never Islam", responding to a Financial Times article that he claimed misquoted him and has since been removed from the newspaper's website.
RFI/Yahoo
* Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing <[link removed]>
A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria.
The Independent
* 'Attacks on Christians show hypocrisy of "blasphemy" controversy' <[link removed]>
Why would being offended by a cartoon lead a man to attack a church, asks Seth J. Frantzman.
The Jerusalem Post
* UN investigator: Rights of minorities to worship undermined <[link removed]>
The UN special investigator on religious freedom urged countries to repeal laws undermining the right of minorities to worship and hold beliefs, pointing as examples to China's detention of Uighurs, 21 countries that criminalize apostasy, and sweeping surveillance of Christians in North Korea and Muslims in Thailand.
Associated Press
* Pakistan: Bank manager shot dead by security guard over ‘blasphemy’ <[link removed]>
A senior manager of the National Bank of Pakistan was killed by the bank's security guard over the allegation of blasphemy, police said on Thursday. The deceased's family said that it was a murder by the accused over a personal grudge, claiming that the guard took the cover of blasphemy to save himself.
Kashmir Reader
* Egypt university professor suspended for ‘insulting the Qur’an’ <[link removed]>
Egypt's minister of higher education has suspended a university professor following claims that he 'insulted the Qur'an'.
Middle East Monitor
* Caste discrimination taints corporate India <[link removed]>
A sixth of India's 1.3-billion population are Dalits, whose low status in Hinduism's hereditary social hierarchy exposes them to daily violence and abuse.
Yahoo!/APF
** The latest from the NSS
* Religion shouldn’t undermine children’s rights in UK, NSS tells UN <[link removed]>
The NSS has urged a United Nations committee to ensure children's rights in the UK are not undermined by religion.
* Ensure women can access emergency contraception, pharmacy told <[link removed]>
A regulator has reminded Lloyds Pharmacy of its guidance after the NSS raised the case of a woman who was refused the morning after pill.
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