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Events Headlines
Sixth ICLARS Conference, 19-21 September 2022: Human Dignity, Law, and Religious Diversity: Designing the Future of Inter-Cultural Societies
(Córdoba, Spain, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (due 10 June 2020): KAICIID Fellows Programme
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
GAiN Europe Series Launches May 30, 2020
(Victor Hulbert/Corrado Cozzi, Adventist News Network)
GOOGLE MEET EVENT, 22 March 2020 (11:30 CEST): Old identities, new times: Does the common legal identity withstand modernity?
(Sharon Shakargy, Roberto Toniatti, Nausica Palazzo, Marco Ventura, FBK-Centro Per Le Scienze Religiose and Università Di Trento-Facoltà Di Giurisprudenza)
ZOOM WEBINAR, 20 May 2020 (3 pm EDT): Faith, Freedom in Action in Troubled Times (Indiana Quakers and Rev. John Misao Yamazaki)
(Tom Meenan on Rev. Cotton Mather; Jackie Fishman on Rabbi Samuel Thurman, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
WEBINAR, 19 May 2020 (12 noon EDT): How Ethics and Religion Shape Policy Responses to Refugees
(David Hollenbach, S.J., T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Elizabeth Ferris, Clemens Sedmak, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University and University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs Washington Office)
International Headlines
Berkley Forum COVID-19 Blogs
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
USINDO's WEBINAR on Religion and COVID Pandemic (recorded May 7, 2020)
(YouTube Video, The U.S. - Indonesia Society (USINDO))
PaRD-WEBINAR on COVID-19: A test for our humanity (recorded 12 May 2020)
(Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson, Jørgen Thomsen, Rev. Kyoichi Sugino, Mercy Niwe, International Partership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
When will we care about domestic violence?
(Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books)
Daily HIghlight #58: Interfaith Youth Mobilize against COVID-19 in Kenya
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Pope joins interreligious prayer, begging God to end pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
China: Tibet anti-crime campaign silences dissent
(Human Rights Watch)
Balloons bring Bibles to North Korea
(Male Marvin, Uganda Christian News)
Same-sex marriage will be legal in Costa Rica on May 26. Some legislators hope to delay it
(Alejandro Zúñiga, The Tico Times)
Kazakhstan: "I lost consciousness three times because of the pain"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Indian Muslims face renewed stigma amid COVID-19 crisis
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
Vatican finance in crisis thanks to Covid-19 and stock market meltdown
(Nicolas Senèze, La Croix International)
Has covid-19 killed globalisation?
(The Economist)
Comment réinventer les rites funéraires en temps de Covid-19 ?
(France Akindes, Bernard Taverne, Firmin Kra, Gabriele Laborde-balen, Khoudia Sow, and Marc Egrot, The Conversation)
Coronavirus: Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says Sunday service will go ahead
(Ripu Bhatia, Stuff.co.nz)
Pastor Ted Wilson gives May message to the Adventist Church
(Adventist News Network)
Afghan attack: Maternity ward death toll climbs to 24
(BBC News)
With major deficits projected, Vatican says Holy See not at risk of default
(Hannah Brockhaus and JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)
Locusts threaten East African food crisis, members of Congress call for aid
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican officials donate salaries to pandemic victims
(Catholic News Agency)
Government of Nicaragua ‘irresponsible’ in handling the pandemic, bishop says
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
U.N. conference on role of religious leaders in addressing covid-19 crisis
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Secretary-General's remarks at high-level video conference entitled, "The Role of Religious Leaders in Addressing the Multiple Challenges of COVID-19" [as delivered]
(The United Nations)
RFI joins coalition letter to the White House on misguided report of the UN Special Rapporteur on FoRB
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Vatican backs worldwide interfaith day of prayer and fasting
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
COVID-19 Resources and Information
COVID-19, from the Adventist News Network
(Adventist News Network)
Europe Headlines
Religious Liberty and the Corona Crisis before the German Constitutional Court
(Justin Collings, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Adoption, culture, religious background and Article 8 ECHR: Abdi Ibrahim
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
ATV ZRT v. Hungary: a missed opportunity to address Hungary’s oppressive Media Act
(Nina de Puy Kamp, Strasbourg Observers)
Daily Highlight #57 | Masks and Niqabs: Face Coverings and Religious Freedom in France
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Jewish rights group urges ban of pro-Nazi commemoration
(Associated Press)
Spain gives Sephardic Jews extra time for citizenship suits
(Associated Press)
Montenegro: Dozens detained in clashes over priests’ arrests
(Predrag Milic, Associated Press)
Bigotry mars return of Italy hostage who converted to Islam
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
LGBT people complain at rainbow being used to thank the NHS
(The Christian Institute)
Call for Westminster to put abortion legislation responsibility into NI hands
(Belfast Telegraph)
International experts appeal to European Commission President to do more for religious freedom worldwide
(ADF International)
Prisoners, prayer, Islam and Article 9 ECHR: Korostelev
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Russia uses new form of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Versiia Saratov, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Army, city sanitation workers begin sanitizing Rome churches
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
English cardinal calls for ‘bit more sensitivity’ from government on opening churches
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
COVID-19 in Ukraine: Religion and geopolitics in a pandemic
(Polina Vynogradova, Geopolitical Monitor)
How clipping Turkey's religious reach has boosted Erdogan in Europe
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
The Netherlands: Of Rollercoasters and Elephants (COVID 19 and states of emergency)
(Antoine Buyse, Roel de Lange, Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional)
Factsheet on ECtHR Judgments and Constitutional Reform
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
Analysis: How the danger of coronavirus compares to the risks of everyday life
(Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph)
Genetic analysis of thousands of coronavirus patients may explain huge differences in case severity
(Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph)
We will have summer tourist season, promises EU
(BBC News)
Coronavirus lockdown: Allowing family gatherings in England 'complicated'
(BBC News)
Montenegro police break up protests against priest detention
(Predrag Milic, Associated Press)
Muslim burials in Europe strained by virus lockdowns abroad
(Mike Corder, Associated Press)
Jehovah's Witness charged in Russian Far East
(Interfax-Dalnii Vostok, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Self-styled Siberian healer incarcerated
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
British tabloids use online reach and clickbait stories to intensify tale of warring popes
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
Bishops lament UK plan to keep churches closed until July
(Catholic News Agency)
Debate (texts): COVID 19 and States of Emergency
(Hosted by Verfassungblog and Democracy Reporting International under the reconstitution program, coordinated by Joelle Grogan., Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional)
COVID 19 and States of Emergency: Introduction & List of (52) Country Reports
(Joelle Grogan, Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional)
Coronavirus news UK (from The Telegraph)
(The Telegraph)
United States Headlines
Argument analysis: In a close case, concerns about chaos from “faithless electors”
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Giving back to those who serve: Caring for our faith leaders
(Melinda Moore, Glen Bloomstrom, Religion News Service)
Daily Highlight #56: Catholic Nursing Homes: Faith, Financial Struggles, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
USCIRF welcomes decision to prevent federal retirement savings from being invested in Chinese corporations
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Hair salon raises free exercise claims to Wisconsin covid-19 order as state supreme court invalidates it on other grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appleton salon owner claims business is ministry, Safer at Home violates Freedom of Religion
(WBAY News)
Churches fail in challenge to Illinois COVID-19 limits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge denies Chicago, Niles churches' restraining order against Pritzker, stay-at-home order, calls lawsuit 'ill-founded and selfish'
(WLS TV)
9th Circuit: Church has standing to challenge California abortion coverage mandate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ninth Circuit revives challenge to California abortion coverage mandate
(Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service)
What was that all about? New York hipsters, Hasidic Jews and slanted social-distancing rules
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Did the Supreme Court forget how it curtailed religious freedom 30 years ago? | Opinion
(Nathan Lewin, Newsweek)
Journalists should be gearing up for big 'culture war' cases at U.S. Supreme Court
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Jewish Americans say they are scapegoated for the coronavirus spread
(Matt Katz, National Public Radio)
Religious autonomy should be key in determining the scope of the ministerial exception in Morrissey-Berru v. Our Lady of Guadalupe School and Biel v. St. James School
(Victoria Dorfman, Todd Geremia, Anthony Dick & Kaytlin Roholt Lane, National Review)
Government shouldn't be in the business of telling religious schools who should teach religion
(Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Washington Times)
Distorting religious freedom will put people in danger
(Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, CNN)
Positive developments for the Little Sisters of the Poor
(Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review)
'Discovering what's essential': Strengthening marriages during lockdown
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign calls for resistance to reopening plans
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
The false choice presented to Sikh doctors serving COVID patients
(Simran Jeet Singh, Religion News Service)
Free Exercise challenge to St. Louis covid-19 order dismissed on standing grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
6th Circuit permits same-sex couple to intervene in lawsuit by Catholic adoption agency
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ADL releases 2019 audit of antisemitic incidents
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Antisemitic incidents hit all-time high in 2019
(ADL)
Poll shows a partisan split over virus-era religious freedom
(Elana Schor and Emily Swanson, Associated Press)
Educational seminar: Debrief of Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru
(Katie Bart, SCOTUSblog)
Talk about burying the lede! Knox officials wanted to 'open up,' while banning Holy Communion?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in ‘ministerial exception’ cases
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
It is not hypocrisy for pro-lifers to accept a risk of death
(Dan McLaughlin, National Review)
How do you protect against indirect discrimination?
(Dana Walters, Harvard Law Today)
Religious liberty is helping to reopen America | Opinion
(Kelly Shackelford, Newsweek)
Evangelicalism and US politics: Trump using religion to prop up Israel
(Iran Front Page)
Wisconsin salon owner claims coronavirus shutdown order violates freedom of religion
(Morgan Gstalter, The Hill)
How USAID case at Supreme Court could impact pro-life policies
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Supreme Court split on when parochial teachers may make discrimination claims
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
From flannelgraphs to Zoom, churches bring Sunday school home
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
If Costco can reopen safely, why not Illinois churches, Gov. Pritzker?
(Ed Stetzer, Religion News Service)
In lockdown, our longing for the world could be the antidote to our spiritual anorexia
(Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service)
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