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International Headlines
Pope Francis: A world free of nuclear weapons is necessary and possible
(Vatican News)
Pope blasts violence in Mexico as he mourns 2 slain Jesuits
(Associated Press)
Australian state outlaws public displays of Nazi swastikas
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
Maldives religious extremists disrupt Yoga Day event
(Associated Press)
Will La Luz Del Mundo persist with leader behind bars?
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Bhutan: Buddhist leader in Bhutan fully ordains 144 women, resuming ancient tradition
(Haley Barker, Religion News Service)
Kenya: Tribal tensions challenge Christian unity during Kenyan elections
(Robert Carle, Religion Unplugged)
Kenya: We are not electing saints or angels, bishops caution against careless voting
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
African bishops call on world leaders to protect biodiversity
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Uzbekistan: "The authorities do not want us to exist"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Afghanistan: 'No future for us,' say Afghan Sikhs after temple attack
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Afghanistan: KAICIID’s Board of Directors’ statement on Attack against Sikh Temple in Afghanistan
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Nigeria’s religious-cleansing crisis is not due to climate change
(Nina Shea, Hudson Institute)
Nigeria: KAICIID Board of Directors condemns church attacks in Nigeria
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Korean archbishop seeks dialogue to ease border tensions
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Tunisia’s Saied confirms no state religion in new charter
(Arab News)
Syria: Islamic State group claims Syria bus attack that killed 13
(Associated Press)
U of T grad Mukti Patel on studying religion and its role ‘in the everyday’
(Rahul Kalvapalle, University of Toronto)
India: In the world’s largest democracy, people of faith aren’t free
(David Curry, Religion News Service)
India: OIC human rights body denounces discriminations, rights violations against Indian Muslims
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Mali: Islamist militants kill 132 villagers in Mali weekend attacks, government says
(Reuters)
Uganda: Bishops decry high cost of living
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Canada: The Government of Canada calls for applications to fill the new position of Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia
(The Government of Canada)
Canada: Privatization of Canada’s part-time prison chaplains hurting inmates of minority faiths: Report
(Omar Mosleh, Toronto Star)
Podcast: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Cultural Heritage Protection: Synergistic not Competitive
(Knox Thames)
Vietnam: Draft decrees on religion provoke concern
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Answering the refugee crisis as a matter of faith
(Waseem Ahmad, Anne Burghardt, Mark Hetfield, Religion News Service)
Europe Headlines
French court blocks Grenoble’s bid to allow full-body swimsuit
(Al Jazeera)
France rules against burkini swimwear for religious reasons
(Associated Press)
Judgment: In the case of Abdullah Yalçın v. Turkey (no. 2)
(The European Court of Human Right)
ECEN Assembly highlights Christian perspectives in addressing environmental challenges
(Conference of European Churches)
Belgium: Ghent decision overturned on appeal: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ shunning can be freely taught and practiced in Belgium
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Religious liberty in Italy after World War II
(Providence Mag)
Religious conversion, asylum law and the ECtHR case-law: M.A.M. v. Switzerland
(Christos Tsevas, Electronic Immigration Network)
UK: Reform of the Human Rights Act – The government’s lack of humanity
(Sam Fowles, Politics)
UK: Crucifixes, neck-chains and food hygiene: Kovalkovs
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
UK: The Lady of Heaven, blasphemy and free speech
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
UK: Islamic marriage and the English legal system: Nikkah
(Tahir Khan, Lexology)
Lithuanian bishops call for scrapping of same-sex partnership bill
(Premier Christian News)
CEC participates in high-level Ukrainian interreligious delegation meeting
(Conference of European Churches)
Moscow church leader continues defense of Russian aggression
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Jerusalem Patriarchate condemns Western rhetoric against Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
USCIRF welcomes European Court judgment against Russia on Jehovah’s Witnesses
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Ecodefence v Russia: The ECtHR’s stance on foreign funding of civil society
(Florian Kriener, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Patriarch Kirill says invaders in Ukraine "protect Russia on the battlefield"
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
United States Headlines
State funds for students at religious schools? Supreme Court says ‘yes’ in Maine case – but consequences could go beyond
(Charles J. Russo, The Conversation)
Why religious schools just won big — again — in front of the Supreme Court
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
The Supreme Court tears a new hole in the wall separating church and state
(Ian Millhiser, Vox)
No wonder Christian nationalists wanted these justices on the Supreme Court
(Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post)
Court strikes down Maine’s ban on using public funds at religious schools
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Sotomayor vs. Roberts on religion, schools, and the First Amendment
(Damon Root, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Humanists outraged as Supreme Court attacks separation of church and state
(American Humanist Association)
Why the Supreme Court got it right in Maine voucher case
(Ilya Somin, NBC News)
How the fight over school prayer became a battle for the soul of the nation
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Justices say Maine school subsidy program unconstitutional
(Jimmy Hoover, Law360)
Exclusion of religious schooling from generally available school choice programs generally unconstitutional
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
The Supreme Court strikes another blow to the separation of church and state
(Elie Mystal, The Nation)
U.S. Supreme Court backs public money for religious schools
(Andrew Chung, Reuters)
Supreme Court: The First Amendment bans states from excluding religious schools from school-choice programs
(Dan McLaughlin, National Review)
In another victory for religious conservatives, the Supreme Court struck down Maine’s prohibition against funding religious schools
(Michael Bobelian, Forbes)
Breyer’s history of ‘strife’
(Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review)
The fall of the wall around religious education
(National Review)
Court’s excellent free-exercise ruling in Carson v. Makin
(Ed Whelan, National Review)
Another SCOTUS win for 'equal access,' whether most journalists realized this or not
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
A long awaited win for educational pluralism and religious freedom in Carson v. Makin
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice)
Supreme Court upholds religious freedom for Maine families
(Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission)
SCOTUS ruling hints at why religious freedom means living with views we don’t like
(Neil Schoenherr, Washington University in St. Louis)
In blow to religious freedom, SCOTUS rules for the first time that a state’s tuition assistance program must fund religious education
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
2022 update: First Amendment sparks - and could bridge - divides
(Freedom Forum Institute)
SC medical ethics law prompts concerns re: LGBTQ healthcare
(James Pollard, Associated Press)
The importance of water conservation
(Newsroom: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Bill de Blasio seeks forgiveness in bid for Orthodox votes in Borough Park
(Jacob Henry, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
An elite Christian college has become the latest battleground in America’s culture wars
(Jonathan Cohn, The Huffington Post)
The future of religious arbitration in the U.S.
(Lee Ann Bambach, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Football coach Joseph Kennedy talks about life after the Supreme Court ruling
(Jovan Tripkovic, Religion Unplugged)
US ‘forced labour’ law bans goods from China’s Xinjiang region
(Al Jazeera)
Podcast: Vincent Phillip Muñoz on the establishment of religion
(R. R. Reno, First Things)
Why protect religious conscience?
(Josh Blackman, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Has American conservatism abandoned the Christian right?
(Bradley Onishi, Religion Dispatches)
Podcast: Episode 5 – You, Coach Kennedy, are no Tim Tebow
(We Dissent)
2022 Update: First Amendment sparks — and could bridge — divides
(Freedom Forum)
Nury Turkel elected as Chair of bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Abraham Cooper as Vice Chair
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
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