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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP and PUBLISHING PROJECT: 12-13 February 2021: Religion, State, and Society in Post-Communist Countries: Thirty Years after the End of the Cold War
(Elizabeth Clark, Merilin Kivirog, Dmytro Vovk, BYU Law ICLRS, University of Tartu School of Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University’s Center for Rule of Law and Religion Studies)
WEB EVENT, 10 June 2020 (10:30 am EDT): USCIRF virtual hearing on safeguarding religious freedom in Northeast Syria
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
ONLINE EVENT, 9 June 2020 (5 pm EDT) : China at a Crossroads: Standing up for Human Rights During the Pandemic
(Organizer, Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies & Raoul Wallenberg Centre For Human Rights)
WEBINAR RECORDING: Balancing in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis: Adapting and Reimagining Faith-Inspired Programs
(Olivia Wilkinson, Moderator, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | World Faiths Development Dialogue)
GAiN Europe Series Launches May 30, 2020
(Victor Hulbert/Corrado Cozzi, Adventist News Network)
International Headlines
Digest archive
Pope Francis to lead global prayer ceremony on eve of Pentecost
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Religion Photos of the Week - 29 May 2020
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Jews tell about celebrating Shavout under quarantine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #74: Reopening Churches: Risks Versus Benefits
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Covid-19 and Elections in sub-Saharan Africa: what risks for democracy and human rights?
(Statement, FIDH: International Federation for Human Rights)
West Africa facing food crisis as coronavirus spread: Pandemic adds to jihadi and climate change threats to present ‘immense challenge’ for region
(Emmanuel Akinwotu, The Guardian)
Human rights threatened under COVID-19 pandemic
(VOA - Straight Talk Africa)
Remembering Shaheen: A Yazidi who gave his life rescuing Arab Muslims in Mosul
(Matthew Travis Barber, Syria Comment: Syrian Politics, History, and Religion)
Worship in Coronavirus time- the latest NSW rules
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Isolation Bookshelf: Words matter
(Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
The McHugh Factor: The ideology of transgenderism will brook no dissent
(Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Ontario: Recalibrating education
(Peter Stockland, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
COVID-19: Re-opening plans across Canada
(Deina Warren, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Noteworthy)
USCIRF Commissioner James Carr adopts Deacon Zhang Wen Shi of North Korea and Pastor A Dao of Vietnam through the Religious Prisoners of Conscience Project
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
A call to end nonstop targeting of Egypt's Copts
(Michael F. Haverluck, One News Now)
Argentina's abortion campaign launches virtual events to revitalise movement
(Natalie Alcoba, The Guardian)
Abortion 'doulas' in Chile risk prison, saying women need their help
(Liam Miller, NBC News)
Experts raise Vietnam’s human rights violations against Christians in letter to US President
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Asia Today: Indonesians return to mosques, at a distance
(Associated Press)
Maghreb: Conservatives control the court systems, religion dominates over civil liberties
(The North Africa Journal)
A tightly linked triad: Women, faith, and peace
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs | World Faiths Development Dialogue)
Catholic Church suffering violence in Ethiopia, Eritrea
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Burundi opposition candidate goes to court to challenge vote
(Eloge Willy Kaneza, Associated Press)
Vietnam’s widely praised COVID-19 response harms religious minorities
(Kelsey Zorzi, Real Clear Religion)
Citing right to religious practices, Madras HC rejects plea against breaking coconuts on devotees' heads
(Siva Sekaran, The New Indian Express)
Desecration of three religious sites in Iran signal the Islamic Republic's continued oppression of minorities
(Global Voices)
Uzbekistan keeps up heat on marginal Islamic groups
(Eurasianet)
20 years after withdrawal, Israel, Hezbollah brace for war
(Bassem Mroue and Josef Federman, Associated Press)
COVID-19 Resources and Information
COVID-19 Resources and Information
Religion, Law and COVID-19 Emergency (DiReSoM)
COVID-19 Blog Series from the Canadian Council of Christian Charities
(Deina Warren)
Europe Headlines
The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review - Volume 1, Issue 1
The Conscience of Europe that Landed in Strasbourg: A Circle of Life of the European Court of Human Rights
(Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou and Vassilis P Tzevelekos, The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 1 (1): 1–6)
A sage appraisal of COVID-19
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ukraine opened a case against FSB for searches of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Islam and free speech in Denmark
(Flemming Rose and Mustafa Aykol, Law & Liberty)
Growing animus toward religious schools in Sweden
(Jacob Rudenstrand and Paul Marshall, Religious Freedom Institute: Cornerstone Blog)
The ECtHR issues an advisory opinion to the Constitutional Court of Armenia
(The European Court of Human RIghts, Posted on the website of the Strasbourg Consortium)
APPG Statement on COVID-19 and prisoners of conscience
(UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
APPG statement on EU’s Special Envoy on FoRB
(UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Bishop of Truro: FoRB, persecution and COVID-19
(UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
MPs bring bill to ban late abortions for cleft lip, cleft palate and clubfoot
(Amelia Hill, The Guardian)
Turkey reopens some mosques, prayers held in ex-cathedral
(Associated Press)
Communion unchanged in Greek Orthodox Church despite virus
(Elena Becatoros and Costas Kantouris, Associated Press)
IKEA manager charged for firing Pole over anti-gay remarks
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
Germany launches ‘meet a Jew’ scheme ‘to give Jewish people a face and a voice’
(Jewish News)
EHRC draft report ‘imminent’, JLM national secretary expects
(Jewish News)
Russian army's main church due to open on June 22
(Interfax-Religion)
Vatican official says anti-religious bias was evident during lockdown
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Religious leaders speak out over Government's 'unlawful' closure of churches
(Gabriella Swerling, The Telegraph)
Italian cardinal calls for better spiritual guidance for gays, lesbians
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
United States Headlines
What COVID-19 restrictions on religious freedom reveal about America in 2020: An interview with Thomas Farr
(Religious Freedom Institute: Cornerstone Blog)
Churches begin navigating a gradual reopening with safety as top priority
(Jeff Thomas, Catholic News Service)
Supreme Court, in rare late-night ruling, says California may enforce certain restrictions on religious gatherings
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
Why staying home from church fulfills commandment to love thy neighbor
(Gracie Bond Staples, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Opinion)
When pastors and pews disagree on churches reopening
(Kara Bettis, Christianity Today)
Supreme Court rejects challenge to limits on church services
(Mark Sherman, Religion News Service)
From Illinois to Puerto Rico, Latino Muslims navigate faith and quarantine among their non-Muslim families
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Trained in rebuilding after disasters, NC Baptists now distribute food boxes
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Efrem Smith on the death of George Floyd and what divides white and black Christians
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
In Minneapolis, faith groups rush to aid demonstrators as they decry racism
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Condemnation of acts of racism and white supremacy
(Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, RNS Press Release Distribution Service)
How Ravi Zacharias changed the way evangelism is done
(Timothy Keller, Religion News Service)
George Floyd's ministry friends say he was their 'OG,' a 'man of peace'
(Liza Vandenboom, Religion Unplugged)
State bar group calls for ‘mandatory’ COVID-19 vaccinations, regardless of objections
(Jason Grant, New York Law Journal, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
COVID-19 story few are covering: Vast majority of Baptists (and others) are being careful
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
When American conservatism becomes un-American
(George F.Will, The Washington Post Opinions)
Why Americans should worry about religious persecution in Nigeria: A conversation with Eric Patterson
(https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/blog/why-americans-should-worry-about-religious-persecution-in-nigeria, Religious Freedom Institute Blog)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #73: Episcopal and Catholic Leaders Express Solidarity with Native American Communities Affected by COVID-19
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Parents settle lawsuit over disabled son’s forced baptism
(Associated Press)
New USAID adviser sparks furor over past anti-Islam comments
(Mariam Fam and Elana Schor, Associated Press)
World churches group condemns violence, racism calling for justice in US after black police suspect killed
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
For top U.S. virus experts, faith and science work together
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
COVID-19 and the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights is being tested by the coronavirus
(John Curran, Jake Gardener and Jeffery Ding, law.com)
Yahoo! podcast: Jon Ward offers lots of questions about evangelicals falling for QAnon
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
CDC quickly changed its guidance on limiting choirs at religious services
(Bill Chappell, National Public Radio)
‘AKA Jane Roe’ and the humiliation of the pro-life movement
(Karen Swallow Prior, Religion News Service Opinion)
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