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Quebec Superior Court upholds most of religious symbols ban, but English-language schools exempt
(CBC News)
Quebec’s ban on public religious symbols largely upheld
(Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times)
Canadian trial court upholds most applications of Quebec's ban on officials wearing religious symbols
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious symbols law is cruel, but notwithstanding clause makes it legal: court
(Paul Cherry, Montreal Gazette)
Quebec to appeal court ruling on disputed religious symbols law
(Allison Lampert, Reuters)
Conceptualizing religious persecution as a crime against humanity
(Werner Nicolaas Nel and Michelle Coleman, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
The applicability of “grievous religious persecution” in international criminal law: Response to Werner Nicolaas Nel
(Michelle Coleman, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Japan’s Suga makes offering at war shrine but doesn’t visit
(Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press)
How Japanese women saved Shinto
(Cristian Martini Grimaldi, The Diplomat)
S. Korean, Japanese activists, religious leaders urge US to change its N. Korea strategy
(Cho Yeon-hyun, Hankyoreh)
Weekly highlight #152: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: COVID-19 and Ramadan; more on faith support for COVID-19 vaccinations
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Corruption and COVID-19: Old problems, new challenges?
(Eduardo António da Silva Figueiredo, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
The Syrian uprising: A decade on
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Nigeria's 'atheist with a cause' still in jail after a year
(The Straits Times)
Religious freedom groups lament rising Nigerian persecution
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)
Asia Bibi appeals for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Criminalised, killed and cursed: The plight of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community
(Ellis Heasley, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
States of emergency: The pandemic, protests, and the persistent assault on global free expression
(Pen America's Freedom to Write Index)
ISIS executes a Coptic Christian in North Sinai: he had financed the construction of a church
(Asia News)
Sri Lankan archbishop asks Muslims to reject extremism
(Krishan Francis, Associated Press)
Church leaders seek Home Depot boycott on Georgia voting law
(Jeff Amy, Associated Press)
Catholic officials halt activity in Haiti for 9 kidnapped
(Evens Sanon, Associated Press)
China rejects accusations of abuses in Xinjiang
(Associated Press)
Chinese Church: ’knowing, thanking, listening, following the Party’
(Asia News)
USCIRF releases 2021 Annual Report with recommendations for U.S. policy
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Love and the core values of religious freedom
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Filipino church celebrates milestone while standing at a crossroads - 500 years
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Majority of world’s population live in countries that violate religious freedom, report says
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope renews call for debt forgiveness to poor countries
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
ISIS executes another Coptic Christian: Once again, this appears to be 'conservative' news
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
'Cyber-caliphate' linking Islamist network expanding globally with online recruitment, says religious freedom report
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Meet the Muslim activist who educates about the Shoah and Israel in Urdu
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)
Hundreds of Palestinians protest barriers in Jerusalem during Ramadan
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Legal Journal Number 6 (16): April (Spanish)
(Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)
World reacts to death of Chad President Idriss Deby
(Al Jazeera)
US commission: Put India, Russia on religious freedom blacklist
(Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)
Laws barring marriage through religious conversion run afoul of India’s foundational value of Secularism
(Indira Jaising, The Leaflet)
Europe Headlines
COVID-19 legislation and guidance: update to 24 April
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Constitutionality of abortion: Legal analysis of the recent case in Poland
(Piotr Szymaniec, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
More money to MIVILUDES: The governmental anti-cult mission that his former member, sociologist Olivier Bobineau, denounced as a “police des esprits” will receive € 1 million per year.
(Patricia Duval, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Don’t go down the road of hate speech: LWF General Secretary says dialogue and cooperation must prevail in debates over immigration requirements
(The Lutheran World Federation)
Britain’s changing religious vote: why Catholics are leaving Labour and Conservatives are hoovering up Christian support
(Stuart Fox and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, The Conversation)
Croatia offers scholarships to young persecuted Christians
(Catholic News Agency)
Greek Church to allow worshippers at Easter Week services
(Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press)
What’s at stake for Muslims in the Scottish elections?
(5 Pillars UK)
Ukrainian church suspects Moscow church will betray Ukraine
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Absurd misapplication of anti-evangelism law corrected
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Azerbaijan: State to have veto on religious leader appointments?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Dutch daily apologizes for drawing Jewish pollster as a puppet master
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dutch museum will pay $240K to owners of Nazi-looted painting it won’t return
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
U.S. report says Russia among 'worst violators' of religious freedom
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
United States Headlines
Supreme Court’s COVID rulings raise questions about wider religious liberty impact, emergency procedures
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
University of Chicago creates course on intersection between religion & law
(Becky Beaupre Gillespie, UChicago News)
Episcopal Church releases racial audit of leadership, citing nine patterns of racism in church culture
(David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service)
Christian college sues HUD over interpretation of Fair Housing Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Missouri college challenges Biden order that opens dorms, showers to opposite sex
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
USCIRF reiterates its call to urgently increase the refugee ceiling
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
5th Circuit remands religious medical providers' challenge to anti-discrimination rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Faith leaders hope Chauvin verdict lifts racial justice work
(David Crary and Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)
US Sikh community traumatized by yet another mass shooting
(Casey Smith and Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)
Missouri House passes bill for guns in churches, buses
(Summer Ballentine, Associated Press)
Bill ending religious vaccine exemption now heads to CT Senate
(Susan Haigh, Associated Press)
Organization plans to challenge Ten Commandments law
(Associated Press)
Biden administration moves to force religious hospitals to uphold transgender mandate
(Madeleine Kearns, National Review)
Christian morality is why weed isn’t legal yet
(Mira Fox, Forward Opinion)
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