US president Donald Trump has said the UK and US are united by "reverence for the rights
given to us by almighty God" during a speech on his state visit to the UK. NSS chief executive Stephen Evans has criticised his comments.
Faith-based weddings have fallen substantially in last decade,
while Humanist weddings have risen significantly. The NSS has said the government should take note and secularise the marriage laws.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has heard that a teenage boy was given
alcohol and raped at a children's home run by a religious order. An abuse survivor has also told how he was hit with a golf club and beaten with a leather belt
while resident at a children's home run by a religious order.
George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of child sexual abuse, has begun an appeal against his conviction
in Australia. Prosecutors have said his conviction should stand.
Plans to create 'buffer zones' around abortion clinics across Scotland have moved forward after meetings with police and
council representatives.
A claim that a Dutch teenager who was not terminally ill had been 'legally euthanised' was widely reported this week, but turned out to be false.
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