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WEBINAR, 30 June 2021 (9AM New York/3PM Brussels): Freedom of Religion or Belief to Promote Peace, Justice & Stronger Societies
(EU & International Affairs office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the G20 Interfaith Forum, Ahead of the 2021 Italy G20 Summit Webinar Series)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 June 2021 (3PM ET): USCIRF Conversation on the Exodus of Religious Minority Communities in Afghanistan
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
LECTURE SERIES, 28 June 2021, (6:30PM GMT+2): Assisted suicide: an Italian perspective
(Adelaide Madera, Universität Trier)
WEBINAR, 23 June 2021 (3PM Brussels): Faith & Society Webinar Series [Ep. 4] | Interfaith Dialogue: The Key to Peace and Pluralism
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints European Office)
ONLINE EVENT, 21 June 2021: Online Academy Europe challenged by populism: Churches as “the salt of the earth”?
(Conference of European Churches)
LECTURE SERIES, 21 June 2021, (6:30PM GMT+2): Religious minorities in Turkey
(Adelaide Madera, Universität Trier)
ONLINE EVENT, 16-18 June 2021: Human Rights and the Governance of Religious, Cultural and Gender Diversity
(Summer Courses Foundation, University of the Basque Country)
EVENT, 17-19 June 2021: Religious Pluralism In An Era of Globalization
(Center for Studies on New Religions, Centre de Ressources et d’Observation de l’Innovation Religieuse, International Society for the Study of New Religions)
EVENT, 17-19 June 2021: Foundations of religious liberty seminar: Common moral commitments in an age of individual autonomy
(Religious Freedom Institute)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 17 June 2021: The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on religious exercises in the context of the United States (PDF)
(Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Messina)
WEBINAR SERIES, 20-22 July 2021: 8th Summer School On Human Rights: Ensuring Security of Worship Places & Religious Communities
(Conference of European Churches)
International Headlines
America must rethink its unique and contradictory advocacy of Israel’s Jewishness
(Shibley Telhami, The Brookings Doha Center)
Will Naftali Bennett’s diverse coalition lead Israel to recognize Jewish diversity?
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Haredi parties boycott Haredi consultants working with Bennett's government
(Sam Sokol, Haaretz)
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, shorn of influence, vow to unseat new leader
(Felicia Schwartz, Dov Lieber, The Wall Street Journal)
Christian candidates to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights should not face discrimination
(ADF International)
Open letter to the Sovereign States of the Organization of American States (PDF)
(multiple signatories)
Iran expels Italian nun who served 26 years at leprosarium
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Vietnam: Religious leaders call for prayer, fairness over church-linked COVID outbreak
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
More Singapore residents identifying as having no religion: census
(Yahoo News)
20% of Singapore residents have no religion, an increase from the last population census
(Cheryl Lin, CNA)
Weekly Highlight #160: COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions: Masks and secularism; vaccine rates; nationalism and COVID-19
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
A call for religious reform
(Justin L. Wejak, Union of Catholic Asian News)
China: Freedom of religion or belief: Special bimonthly newsletter (01-15.06.2021)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Churches become refuges for fleeing civilians in Myanmar
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
China: UN human rights experts alarmed by ‘organ harvesting’ allegations
(UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights)
China offers glimpse of Tibetan life without the Dalai Lama
(Sam McNeil, Religion News Service)
EU urged to press Laos over human rights violations
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
More than 450,000 people apply to perform Hajj during first 24 hours of registration
(Deema Al-Khudair, Arab News)
Women can register for Hajj without male guardian
(Mohammed Al-Kinani, Arab News)
Ministry reopens 7 Saudi mosques after sanitization
(Arab News)
Saudi decision to allow 60,000 vaccinated residents on Hajj and bar foreigners welcomed
(Arab News)
UN envoy regrets failure to mediate a Yemen cease-fire
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
Saudi man accused of participating in rebellion executed
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)
Critics say Argentinian blacklist of pro-lifers uses Dirty War tactics
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
As fighting continues in Myanmar, thousands take refuge in churches
(Catholic News Service)
President Pedro Castillo has radical plans for Peru
(Camilo Toledo, Jan D. Walter, Deutsche Welle)
The theological and the political in Christianity, socialism, and modernity
(Gary Dorrien, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Europe Headlines
Ireland: Children being bullied at school because they practice their religion
(Jess Casey, Irish Times)
Council’s admission shows Christians can’t be cancelled
(Lois McLatchie, The Times)
Faith Leaders tell G7 Leaders to strengthen the international rules-based order and respond to Uyghur Genocide
(David Alton, Lord Alton of Liverpool)
50th Anniversary of COPIC (PDF)
(Conference of European Churches)
Conference of European Churches president congratulates COPIC on 50th anniversary and signing of climate memo
(Conference of European Churches)
Edinburgh Council apologises for the cancellation of a church conference
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
Spanish High Court defends Christian television: opinions about homosexuality are not hate speech
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
Green church movement in France holds first assembly on World Environment Day
(World Council of Churches)
Rome tribunal backs Vatican in case against Italian broker
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Ukraine honors 2 tiny sects with Jewish roots as ‘indigenous peoples,’ and Putin is furious
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
An EU ruling on kosher slaughter tells rabbis how to go about their business
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Azerbaijan: 8 new Strasbourg judgments, 9 judgments awaited - list
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Azerbaijan: A Strasbourg Court judgment alone "is not enough for justice"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
New database of judgments in England & Wales to start in April 2022
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religious circumcision in the courts again: P
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Weddings, wakes and face masks
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Recognition of paganism (or not) in Lithuania: Romuva
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
United States Headlines
What to read, and why, as Catholic bishops mull plan to deny Biden Holy Communion
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
Catholic bishops this week will discuss if Biden qualifies for Communion
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Ramadan at Starbucks: How companies can profit by respecting religious diversity
(Eboo Patel, USA Today)
Evangelicals are losing their climate skepticism
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
Nadine Maenza elected as Chair of Bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Nury Turkel as Vice Chair
(United States International Religious Freedom)
Street preacher lacks standing to challenge COVID restrictions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
College seeks injunction pending appeal to 8th Circuit in suit against HUD's transgender policy on student housing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
MO college asks appeals court to halt Biden order that opens dorms, showers to opposite sex
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Michigan Governor bans use of state funds for conversion therapy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Whitmer bans government funds for conversion therapy on minors, calls for practice to be outlawed in Michigan
(Malachi Barrett, M Live)
5 things to watch for as Catholic bishops conference debates Communion ban
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Archdiocese of Los Angeles issues new guidelines to fully reopen parishes
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
‘Am I the worst thing a person can be?’: Witches fight media bias
(Heather Greene, Religion News Service)
Perspective: Why this lesbian is for religious liberty
(Meg Mott, Deseret News Faith)
Texas Supreme Court: First Amendment bars clergyman’s million-dollar suit against Catholic Church
(Becket: Press Release)
South Carolina city bans conversion therapy for minors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Baker violated public accommodation law in refusing to sell gender transition cake
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Jack Phillips to appeal CO court’s decision punishing him for not designing cake celebrating gender transition
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Challenge to "sanctuary city for unborn" dismissed on standing and abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
White evangelicals are more likely to support death penalty than atheists, study finds
(Jeff Parrott, Deseret News)
Religious freedom: A diversity of thought and experience
(Meg Mott, Jacqueline Cooke-Rivers, and Jonathan Rauch, Deseret News)
The right (and wrong) way for pastors to help the country heal
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
America is in crisis. Many Christians are making it worse
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
What a Title IX lawsuit might mean for religious universities
(William Trollinger and Susan L Trollinger, The Conversation)
Don’t believe the hype about the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting
(Ed. Condon, The Pillar)
Abbott signs religious freedom law prohibiting government from closing places of worship
(Houston Keene, Fox News)
How COVID and shadow docket exploded SCOTUS' scope of religious freedom
(Brendan Pierson, Reuters)
Faith still shapes morals and values even after people are ‘done’ with religion
(Philip Schwadel, Sam Hardy, Religion News Service)
Border work: Review of “At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion”
(Brent Nongbri, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
New book: At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion
(Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Columbia University Press)
Southern Baptists’ new leader: long career as bridge builder
(David Crary, Associated Press)
Sex abuse survivors call for system-wide audit of Southern Baptist Convention
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Who is Ed Litton, the new Southern Baptist Convention president?
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
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