In The Media

Aaminah Amatullah, who used to be called Alison Clare Beech, pleaded not guilty to both charges she faced.

Birmingham Mail

An attack on a Sikh schoolboy which was filmed by witnesses is being treated as a hate crime, police have said.

Asian Image

Keir Starmer has been urged to return donations to Labour made by a property developer whose tweets have been condemned by Muslim groups as 'Islamophobic'.

The Guardian

It's been clear throughout that insufficient preparation has gone into the bill before it was published, says Jenni Davidson

Holyrood

An MEP from Hungary's ruling party, which is hostile to LGBT rights, has quit after he was caught attending what Belgian media describe as a gay sex party in Brussels on Friday.

BBC

Anti-government demonstrators attempted to block the path of a rally supporting Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada al-Sadr.

Express and Star

We are combating radicalisation in our country — never a religion or a community, says the ambassador of France to the United States.

The Washington Post

The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court, says Larissa MacFarquhar.

The New Yorker

Several out of more than 20 Latin American nations ban abortion outright, including El Salvador, which has sentenced some women to up to 40 years in prison.

Reuters

A man and woman have denied two charges of child cruelty following an alleged botched circumcision procedure in Co Fermanagh.

Belfast Telegraph

The judge leading Northern Ireland's hate crime review has recommended abolishing 'protected speech' in private houses on issues such as race, sexual orientation, transgenderism and religion.

News Letter

Campaigners are demanding that two streets named after a popular former councillor be renamed because they are said to be offensive to Catholics.

The Times (£)

A transgender Christian minister who appeared in a film promoting more LGBTQ tolerance in the church has reported an evangelical Christian over an alleged hate crime.

Mail Online

Rabbi councillor Alan Plancey is taking legal action against Christian Gray and Chris Myers after they opposed his appointment as mayor, calling him "prejudiced".

Jewish News

A moderate imam has been forced into hiding after receiving a deluge of death threats for advocating religious tolerance and denouncing Islamist terrorism in France.

The Times (£)

France's State Council, the country's highest court, has ordered the government to review a rule limiting the number of people in churches during religious services to 30.

France 24

At least 110 people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram jihadist group, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country.

The Guardian

Thousands of anti-abortion protesters, many of them mobilised by Catholic or evangelical groups, demonstrated on Saturday across Argentina against a government-backed new bill to legalise abortion.

IB Times

In Pakistan, more than 20 girls from minority communities are kidnapped and converted every month on the pretext of marriage, according to civil rights groups.

Vice

Scandal has surrounded the private school in recent years and an independent inquiry into child sexual abuse published a highly critical report in August 2018 that said "appalling sexual abuse [was] inflicted over decades on children as young as seven".

The Guardian

All schools in Northern Ireland should be integrated, according to a DUP member of Stormont's Education Committee.

BBC

An all-girls school could form part of a huge new development set to feature a mosque described as a potential 'tourist attraction', it has been revealed.

Birmingham Live

The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, has apologised to victims and survivors of abuse inflicted over 50 years in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.

Church Times

400 Rabbits Tequila and Mezcal Cocktail Bar has registered to become 'The Church of The Four Hundred Rabbits'.

Nottingham Post

A man was remanded in custody after being charged with threatening to kill Muslims, burn down a mosque and blow up council buildings.

South Wales Argus

In the year to March, almost 1,500 people were considered by the Prevent programme over concerns linked to Islamist extremism, up 6 per cent on the previous year.

The Independent

President Macron is right – this is an intellectual battle to confront a grotesque form of separatism in our midst, says Sajid Javid.

The Telegraph (£)

Some are claiming that secularism is against religion, and even tantamount to atheism. They are wrong, says Ed Husain.

The National News

The treatment of those facing deportation to countries where they are at risk of FGM exposes a gaping flaw at the heart of policies to tackle gender-based violence, says Sian Norris.

Politics.co.uk

Sudanese authorities have announced they will end child marriage and enforce the country's ban on female genital mutilation (FGM), in a major step forward for the rights of women and girls.

The Guardian

Churches have started lobbying for a parliamentary seat to have issues affecting their constituency debated.

The Zimbabwe Daily

The Church of England's new Anti-Racism Taskforce has been advised that religious selection of pupils by some Church schools is dividing and privileging families on the grounds of race.

Ekklesia

Women are being offered controversial "virginity tests" at British medical clinics, an investigation has found. The intrusive tests are considered a violation of human rights by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations.

BBC

Paul Lamb said he was 'devastated' the Court of Appeal has refused him permission to bring a legal challenge over assisted dying laws.

Shropshire Star

Work has started to build three new schools in Leicester and Derby, two of which are faith schools.

Insider Media

Rabbi Alan Plancey told the BBC there was 'nothing controversial' about remarks made in 2014 that homosexuality was 'against Jewish law'.

The JC

An interfaith campaign against domestic abuse launched this week is sounding the alarm over "spiritual abuse" within religious communities.

The JC

The Scottish Government continues to amend its controversial Hate Crime Bill. But the fearful prospect of a court case may still limit artistic expression, says Edinburgh Secular Society' Neil Barber in a letter to The Courier (scroll down).

The Courier

The European Parliament on Thursday accused Poland's nationalist government of improperly influencing a court that imposed a near total ban on abortion, which it said showed that the rule of law had collapsed in Poland.

Reuters

Fashion model Halima Aden has revealed on her Instagram that she is quitting runway shows due to her religious beliefs.

Metro

The hearing of an appeal against the death sentence passed on Sheriff Yahaya, 30, a popular entertainer by Kano Sharia court has began.

TheGuardian.ng

Three international human rights groups on Thursday denounced recent attacks on Pakistan's minority Ahmadi community and asked Islamabad to "urgently and impartially investigate a surge" in violence.

Associated Press

Foreign religious groups and worshipers could be the latest targets of a growing crackdown on organised religion in China under President Xi Jinping.

CNN