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Events Headlines
EVENT, 16 June 2022: Religious Freedom Annual Review: Living Peaceably: Religious Freedom as a Foundation for Civic Harmony (Provo, Utah)
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 13-15 June 2022: ECEN Assembly 2022: Challenges we are living in
(European Christian Environmental Network)
EVENT, 23-25 May 2022: Oslo Freedom Forum
(Human Rights Foundation)
EVENT, 16 May 2022 (6PM ET): How Catholics Became American: 2022 Annual Penn Club Reception
(Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture)
EVENT, 13 May 2022 (12PM ET): Putin vs. Zelensky: Religion, Holy War, and Just War in the Current Crisis
(Eric Patterson, Faith & Law)
WEBINAR, 10 May 2022 (10:30AM ET): USCIRF Hearing: Freedom of Religion or Belief in Syria
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
International Headlines
Tel Aviv’s war on Muslim, Christian rights in Jerusalem
(Najla M. Shahwan, Daily Sabah)
Perspective: Have we gone from ‘never forget’ to ‘never remember’?
(Ari Blaff, Deseret News)
Israeli police enter tense holy site as Jewish visits resume
(Joseph Krauss, Associated Press)
Russia to hold consultations with Hamas on situation around Al-Aqsa
(Interfax-Religion)
Feminists rally for Argentine nuns who denounced archbishop
(Natacha Pisarenko and Almudena Calatrava, AP News)
Democratic Republic of Congo: A nun built a hydroelectric plant that's providing free power to a town in Africa. Here’s how
(World Economic Forum)
You are my other me: The importance of educating the Mexican women of the future
(Emily Featherstone, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Cuba: The new Cuban legislation on the family is ‘harmful for families and the nation’
(Daniel Hofkamp, Evangelical Focus)
Cuban Zersetzung: The disruptive Stasi tactics employed by the Cuban government to disintegrate church life in Cuba
(Freya Vickery, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Canada: Memo: Redefining chaplaincy
(Michael Van Pelt, with Andrew Bennett, Andreae Sennyah, Cardus)
Canada: Euthanasia is a runaway train in Canada. It’s time to hit the brakes.
(Brian Bird, National Post)
Canada: Sidelined by election, anti-Islamophobia bill promised by NDP, Liberals
(Jennifer Bieman, London Free Press)
Remember Afghanistan’s Hazaras
(Knox Thames, The Diplomat)
Iran: Second Iranian Christian woman began prison sentence on Easter Saturday
(Article 18)
Iran: No place for converts: Iran's persecuted Christians struggle to keep the faith
(Michael Scollon, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Chinese court summons Christian pastor for ‘illegal’ religious acts
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Tunisia: Amid political turmoil, Tunisian Church faces questions of unity
(Kevin Zeller, Mission Network News)
Death doesn’t stop persecuted churches from multiplying in South Asia
(Sue Sprenkle, International Mission Board)
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro calls defending the unborn a 'mission from God'
(Life Site News)
Beauty ban: Turkmenistan puts severe restrictions on women's appearance, ability to travel
(Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Sudan: Mohaned Elnour full interview (on human rights)
(YouTube Video, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global)
Cardinal: Pope OK’d spending 1M euros to free kidnapped nun
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Nigerian president: ‘Fratelli Tutti’ good road map for West African peace
(Peter Ajayi Dada, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
New video: Generosity leads to global impact
(Institute for Global Engagement)
IGE Global Horizons | April 2022
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Scientology says World Press Freedom Day must protect media but also religion from biased hurtful lies
(The European Times)
Homophobia: Africa’s moral blind spot
(Tafi Mhaka, Al Jazeera)
The Society: Scientific Journal of the Social Doctrine of the Church (Italian)
(Religions for Peace)
Religion News Association names new executive director
(Religion News Service)
Cameroon: Ethnic clashes in Cameroon aren’t about religion
(R. Maxwell Bone, Foreign Policy)
Australia: Bid to have satanism classes in Queensland government schools dismissed as a ‘stunt’
(The Guardian)
India: Many times over, Haryana's BJP govt has shown it stands with the extremist Hindu right
(Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar, The Wire)
WCC, Religions for Peace will release joint message on statelessness: “Belonging—Affirmations for Faith Leaders’
(World Council of Churches)
WCC joins online event to share initiatives protecting children from the climate crisis
(World Council of Churches)
South Sudan: church leaders vow to enhance spiritual renewal in a bid to bring peace
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Mozambique: Bishop appeals for aid in the troubled Cabo Delgado Province
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Europe Headlines
United States Headlines
Coexistence after the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting
(Marie Griffith, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Missouri man charged with federal hate crime and arson for burning down a church
(U.S. Department of Justice)
A Proclamation on National Day of Prayer, 2022
(Joseph R. Biden Jr., The White House)
Is the abortion debate a religion story? - Disucssion
(Bobby Ross Jr., Clemente Lisi, Adelle Banks, Kelsey Dallas, BeLynn Hollers, Kate Shellnutt, Religioni Unplugged's Weekend Plug-In)
Abortion restrictions v. religious free exercise: Which will win?
(Mark Silk, Religion News Service)
Here's what hospital care could look line in a post-Roe world
(Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Religion Dispatches)
Roe vs Wade is purely an American issue, not a regression to 'Supreme Sharia Court'
(Diana Alghoul, The New Arab)
Podcast: About post-Roe politics and Biden's evolving doctrines on choosing to 'abort a child'
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Abortion bombshell: Panel explores religious response to Roe v. Wade's likely strikedown
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Unplugged)
Once conflicted, Biden embraces role as abortion defender
(Chris Megerian, Associated Press)
Survey: White evangelicals oppose abortion; all other religious groups support it
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Will President Biden protect worshipping Catholics from pro-abortion zealots?
(Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, National Review)
Spanish bishop laments that Biden is fashioning a religion to suit his support for abortion
(David Ramos, Catholic News Agency)
America’s abortion quandary
(Pew Research Center)
Threat of losing Roe is clergy's call to action for abortion rights
(Bob Smietana and Alejandra Molina, The Washington Post)
With Roe teetering, religious activists on both sides flock to the Supreme Court
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Churches are closing in predominantly Black communities – why public health officials should be concerned
(Yusuf Ransome, Insang Song, Linh Pham, and Camille Busette, Brookings Institution)
Seeking clarity on prayer at school
(Asma Uddin, Freedom Forum Institute)
Perspective: Government speech doctrine is a dangerous path toward censorship
(David Hudson, Freedom Forum Institute)
McConnell, Utah leaders honor ‘larger than life’ Orrin Hatch
(Sam Metz, Associated Press)
Universities hide anti-Israel faculty behind shield of 'academic freedom'
(Scott A. Shay, Real Clear Religion)
Church cannot remove cremated remains over objections of families
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
1st Circuit hears oral arguments on religious exemption to school's vaccine mandate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Unanimous Supreme Court holds Boston’s refusal to fly Christian flag violates free speech guarantee in light of practices allowing other flags
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
S3, Ep. 16: SCOTUS decision roundup: Shurtleff v. Boston, Ramirez v. Collier, and the leaked Dobbs draft
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Arizona bishops lament upcoming executions, say death penalty is unneeded
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Satanic Temple follows ‘Judeo-Christian’ group’s SCOTUS win with flag request
(Heather Greene, Religion News Service)
When assisted suicide becomes 'a crossing over' church rite and a mere 'procedure'
(Douglas LeBlanc, GetReligion)
What theological roots of reasonable doubt might teach us
(Peter Wosnik, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Why the Dobbs leak is dangerous
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)
Three new Christian colleges face federal Title IX probes over gay, transgender complaints
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Protecting religious free exercise like other First Amendment rights: A response to Justice Barrett
(Frederick Mark Gedicks, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Whatever happened to separation of church and state?
(Chris Williams, Above the Law)
Orthodox Jews who served as US Supreme Court clerks
(Avigail Goldberg, Jew in the City)
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