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Events Headlines
EVENT, 27 October 2022: Faith in Action Gala
(Outreach Aid to the Americas)
EVENT, 8 July 2022: Liberalism’s Limits: Religious Exemptions and Hate Speech (Rome)
(The Department of Law, Economics and Languages (GEPLI) at LUMSA University (Rome) and the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's University (New York))
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, 15 June 2022 (10AM ET): Engaging Islamic civil society organizations in Central Asia
(The United States Institute of Peace)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 14 June 2022 (12PM ET): Crisis on the Temple Mount: Religious Freedom & International Law (PDF)
(Featuring Professors Brett Scharffs and Eugene Kontorovich, Center for the Middle East and International Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University)
International Headlines
Pakistani filmmakers take top honors in 2022 Religious Freedom & Business Foundation Film Competition
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
New book: The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History
(Michael Rosen, Harvard University Press)
In Nigeria, faith is flourishing in the face of the deadly persecution of Catholics
(Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register)
Bachelet won’t seek 2nd term as UN human rights chief
(Jamey Keaten, Associated Press)
Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest
(Associated Press)
Articles of interest - 13 June 2022
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cuba: Fears for health of imprisoned Yoruba religious leader
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Myanmar bishops demand that human life, places of worship be respected
(Catholic News Service)
Jehovah’s Witnesses and religious persecution: Do signed declarations help?
(George D. Chryssides, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Secretary Blinken: The rights of religious minorities are under threat in communities around the world
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Religion Unplugged)
India police crack down on protests against Prophet remarks
(Zafar Aafaq, Al Jazeera)
India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed ‘illegally’
(Zafar Aafaq, Al Jazeera)
Muslims in India stage protests over Prophet comments
(Al Jazeera)
Asia/India - Violence against churches and Christians increase: United Christian Forum appeals to authorities
(Agenzia Fides)
The loneliness of the model minority: Muslim belonging in Malerkotla, Punjab
(Anna Bigelow, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
America/Brazil - Peace and tolerance in elections: cooperation agreement signed by religious confessions
(Agenzia Fides)
Peru: Bishops intervene to save "our common home" amid indiscriminate mining in Peru
(La Croix International)
Malaysia’s Islamists take on the Sultan of Selangor – analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Malaysia: Power struggle between Wahhabi-Salafism and Muslim Brotherhood – analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Two sacred spaces and two loving embracers: The Jerusalem Temple and its older brother: The Ka’ba
(Allen S. Maller, Eurasia Review)
Chinese religious groups pledge to follow communist regulations
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Thailand: Call for deeper ties between Thai Catholics and Muslims
(Tanya Leekamnerdthai, Union of Catholic Asian News)
World Assembly of Islamic Awakening condemns Israeli regime’s recent criminal acts
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
World: Intolerance and discrimination against Christians, a new report
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Tanzania: Religious leaders should work with the government
(Daily News)
Canada: Manitoba will intervene if Supreme Court hears battle over Quebec secularism law
(Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press)
Canada: Jewish York University students sound alarm over antisemitic graffiti found near campus
(Kayla McLean, Global News)
Canadian megachurch discloses 38 reports of sexual misconduct by 4 pastors
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Canada awaits Pope Francis visit as Pontiff aims at reconciliation with indigenous peoples
(Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)
Ohio bill calls for Canada to be put on religious-freedom watchlist over COVID restrictions
(Tom Blackwell, National Post)
UAE bans Disney-Pixar film over same-sex relationship characters
(Alexander Cornwell, Reuters)
China must address grave human rights concerns and enable credible international investigation: UN experts
(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)
Europe Headlines
Turkey: "Continuously shrinking space” for freedom in Turkey, warns EU
(ADF International)
Turkey’s ‘culture war’: Anger grows as string of events cancelled
(Paul Benjamin Osterlund, Al Jazeera)
Turkey: Erdogan escalates rhetoric against Greece and mobilizes imams in his re-election bid
(Sofia News Agency)
Germany: Study uncovers widespread sexual abuse in Münster diocese
(Deutsche Welle)
Germany: Report finds 196 clerics abused minors in German diocese
(Associated Press)
War and Peace episode 2: The War and the Churches. What can the Churches do? [German]
(YouTube Video, Glaube & Gesellschaft im Gespräch)
Italy: Renaissance synagogues being restored in Venice’s ghetto
(Chris Warde-Jones, Associated Press)
UN Human Rights Council 50: UK statement on Eritrea
(Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, GOV.UK)
2022 Ministerial Conference on FoRB: London – Is there a meaningful role for civil society?
(Juan Sanchez Gil, The European Times)
UK: Law and religion round-up – 12th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Ten Years of Law and Religion UK
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
L&RUK milestones
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
UK and US charities supporting refugees and asylum seekers to merge
(Stephen Oryszczuk, Jewish News)
UK: Rabbi says ‘there’s no right not to be religiously offended’ in Islam film row
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)
Russia: A pacifist Orthodox priest defrocked, arrested and facing 10 years in prison
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Crimean bishoprics directly subordinated to Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
"The ROC and Patriarch Kirill must be held liable for the crime of blessing the murder of peaceful Ukrainians," - Head of OCU
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
"The Russian religious and state machine is doomed" - Cyril Hovorun
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Ukrainian prosecution of ICC statute crimes: Fair, independent and impartial?
(Kai Ambos, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Moldova between aggression and accommodation
(Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe)
United States Headlines
Robin Hadaway, SBC presidential candidate, favors balance in handling abuse claims
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Around the web - 13 June 2022
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online
(Rebecca Boone, Associated Press)
11th Circuit: Jail's procedure for Passover participation is upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Defining the gap between the worlds of faith and mental health
(Rebecca Olds, Deseret News)
There is no one ‘religious view’ on abortion: A scholar explains
(Samira Mehta, Religion News Service)
Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop Lori decry attacks on pro-life centers
(Catholic News Service)
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she feels a ‘special calling’ to protect Jews
(Jacob Kornbluh, Forward)
Transphobic and anti-abortion policies are a direct threat to my religious freedom
(Susan Frederick-Gray, Religion Dispatches)
As Roe clock ticks, press avoids news about another big story – attacks on Catholic churches
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
Plug-In: Faith groups continue to debate solutions to blitz of mass shootings in America
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Catholic bishops appeal for peace as attacks on pro-life groups, churches rise
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Equality slippery slopes
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic
(Christian Britschgi, The Volokh Conspiracy)
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