Update: In response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, an Irish cabinet minister is calling for the abolishment of Ireland's ban on blasphemy.

Irish agriculture minister Simon Coveneytold the Irish Examiner that the prohibition on blasphemy in the country's constitution should be removed. Under a 2009 statute, a person who "publishes or utters blasphemous matter" in Ireland faces fines up to €25,000 or $30,000.

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In the wake of Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, secular advocacy groups in Canada are calling on their government to abolish the country's blasphemy libel law, which makes it a crime to speak sacrilegiously about god.

Reports the National Post: