Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 14 December 2020
Secular Constitutionalism: Introduction to the ICLRS Webinar, held December 7, 2020
(Brett G. Scharffs, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Christmas in China’s prison cells: Remembering Zhang Zhan and others over the festive period
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Taking action together for children in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
(Religions for Peace)
Articles of interest - 14 December 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Indonesian cleric turns himself in for COVID-19 violations
(Achmad Ibrahim and Niniek Karmini, Associated Press)
Legal Journal Number 2 (16): November 2020 (Spanish)
(Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)
Rio inaugurates long-awaited Holocaust memorial with 72-foot-tall tower
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A Catholic tribute to Lord Sacks
(Sohrab Ahmari, First Things)
Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Biden should silence Islamophobes and amplify voices of democracy and human rights in the “Muslim world” (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Tuqa Nusairat, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
No going back: How Biden should engage global Muslim communities (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Shahed Amanullah, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
To repair trust and relationships, Biden must act boldly (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(M. Arsalan Suleman, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Biden must end American support for Islam’s repression (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Nilay Saiya, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Rethinking public diplomacy: Engaging Muslim communities vs. groups who happen to be Muslim (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Shaarik Zafar, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Biden Administration and Muslim world engagement (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Emile Nakhleh, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Why the Biden Administration should stay out of the global “Muslim engagement” business (Responding to: Rethinking U.S. engagement with global Muslim communities)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Women’s human rights and U.S. relations with the Islamic world: Advice for the Biden Administration
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
U.S.A. challenges Russian stance in religious rights debate
(Krasnaya Vesna, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russian president bids to change terms of religious rights debate
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Religious news from around the web - December 14, 2020
(World Religion News)
IGE convenes timely webinar featuring models of Christian peacemaking at home and abroad
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Friday, 11 December 2020
Religious Freedom Lately: love jihad in India, an anti-Semitic town and more
(Timothy Nerozzi, Religion Unplugged)
On Human Rights Day: Working for religious freedom for everyone, everywhere
(Jeremy Barker, Religious Freedom Institute)
Photos of the Week: Start of Hanukkah, Our Lady of Guadalupe
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Religious scholars to sensitise public on GBV
(The Express Tribune)
Why the Virgin of Guadalupe is more than a religious icon to Catholics in Mexico
(Rebecca Janzen, The Conversation)
USCIRF hearing on blasphemy laws and the violation of international religious freedom
(YouTube Video, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Papal visit to Iraq will have geopolitical undertones
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Rethinking religious violence
(Kali Handelman and Darryl Li, The Revealer)
Religious freedom as a universal message of Hanukkah
(Arsen Ostrovsky, Jewish News Syndicate)
Jehovah's Witness has spent more than two years in prison without trial
(Sibir.Realii, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Muslim men can sue FBI agents over ‘no-fly list’: US high court
(Al Jazeera)
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ release in Eritrea a rare sign of religious toleration
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Religious liberty, a right in the Cuban Revolution (Spanish)
(Lidia Caridad Valdés Navarrete, Guerrillero)
Young Chileans most likely to leave religion and question current leadership in Latin America (Spanish)
(Patricia Schüller Gamboa, La Nación)
Uzbekistan repatriates women and children linked to Islamic State in Syria
(Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
State Department removes Uzbekistan from “Special Watch List” for religious freedom violations
(Institute for Global Engagement)
“Algeria urged to respect freedom of worship of non-Muslim communities”, FORB Roundtable Brussels-EU
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Pope Francis offers support to beleaguered Christians of Syria and Iraq
(Catholic News Agency)
Pope defends Christian presence in Iraq, Syria
(Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
France says stance on radicalism distorted, not anti-Islam
(Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Egypt begins dismissing imams based on Brotherhood ties
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egyptian forces kill, arrest Islamist fighters in Sinai
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Set up court to prosecute ISIS for genocide, human rights advocates urge
(Jackson Elliott, The Christian Post)
Pope Francis: ‘Even death trembles when a Christian prays’
(Catholic News Agency)
Council for Inclusive Capitalism launches partnership with Vatican
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Victoria's conversion therapy bill a 'dramatic overreach of the state'
(Catholic News Agency)
Indonesian Catholic bishops call for justice in local elections
(Catholic News Agency)
Remember Syrians this Christmas
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Argentina’s lower house approves bill legalizing abortion
(Almudena Calatrava, Associated Press)
Putin instructs FM to initiate discussions on measures to prevent insult of religious feelings at int'l forums
(Interfax-Religion)
Anti-conversion laws in India: Future of religious freedom grows bleaker
(India Legal)
Saying “non” to potpourri pluralism
(Robert Joustra, Convivium)
COVID can’t kill Christmas, survey finds: Canadians retain sense of spiritual importance of Christmas amid pandemic’s soul-destroying effects
(Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)
Handing over the G20 Interfaith Forum to Italy in 2021
(Faisal bin Muaammar, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
USCIRF releases factsheet on Brunei
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
A pastor fights to stop old men from marrying young girls in Nigeria
(Linus Unah, Religion Unplugged)
Statement from the Press Secretary (regarding the designation of Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern)
(The White House)
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
Human Rights Day 2020
(Achim Steiner, United Nations Development Programme)
Indonesian police kill 6 supporters of firebrand cleric
(Edna Tarigan, Associated Press)
American House of Representatives condemns Russian rights violations
(Credo.Press, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Pakistan: Christian woman killed for refusing marriage proposal, conversion to Islam
(The Christian Post)
Nigerian Christians ‘left to their fate’ with no defense from Fulani attacks, victims' advocate says
(Jackson Elliott, The Christian Post)
The heavy price paid by Christians who stand up to Colombia's powerful drug cartels
(Christian Today)
When will Laotians celebrate Christmas with cheer?
(James Lovelock, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Turkey: Challenges facing Christians 2016-2020
(Middle East Concern)
Most religious freedom violations in North Korea are against Christians
(Evangelical Focus)
China: Special weekly FoRB newsletter (01-07.12.2020)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Love and the law: Hindu-Muslim couple challenges India’s marriage rule
(Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor)
Analysis: The illegality of Uttar Pradesh’s crackdown on interfaith marriages
(KTS Tulsi and Tanessa Puri, Hindustan Times)
Coronavirus and religiosity theme of 3rd Iran, Ethiopia interfaith dialogue
(International Quran News Agency)
Quebec court rejects ex-Hasidic couple’s suit over lack of secular education in yeshivas
(Jordan Kutzik, Forward)
Why universities — and the rest of us — need religion studies
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
Support for Jehovah's Witnesses prisoners needed
(Kavkazskii Uzel, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Catholicos Karekin II of All Armenians urges PM Pashinyan to resign
(Interfax-Religion)
Tribals in India seek census recognition of faith after resolution passes in Jharkhand
(Shuriah Niazi, Religion Unplugged)
Outcry over Jesuit priest Stan Swamy’s arrest tests Indian authorities’ anti-terror sweep
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis proclaims Year of St. Joseph
(Catholic News Agency)
Faith leaders counter rise of gender-based violence
(Religions for Peace)
Building interfaith peace virtually: A lesson from youth
(Merylene Chitharai, Religions for Peace)
5 interfaith leaders answer: Does faith conflict with science during COVID-19?
(Jillian Cheney, Religion Unplugged)
Legal reform in Uzbekistan: Prospects for freedom of religion or belief and covenantal pluralism
(Elizabeth A. Clark and Dmytro Vovk, The Review of Faith & International Affiars, Volume 18)
The Christchurch commission’s call to improve social cohesion is its hardest — and most important — recommendation
(Alexander Gillespie, The Conversation)
COVID-19: 14 NGOs urge China, Iran and Russia to release all religious prisoners
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Weekly Highlight #135: Fierce and Important Debates about Ethics of Vaccines; Working to Organize Religious Actors
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Anger after Jewish man torches historic Jerusalem church
(Jewish News)
USCIRF releases groundbreaking report on the enforcement of blasphemy laws globally
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Apparent fallout from Moscow case of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Anti-Semitism at its lowest point in history in Russia, FJCR president says
(Interfax-Religion)
Two Catholic priests to face trial in Vitebsk for administrative violation
(Interfax-Religion)
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Samuel D. Brownback briefing on rollout of U.S. actions against religious freedom violators
(U.S. Embassy in Georgia)
Tajikistan disagrees with its designation by U.S. for particular concern over religious freedom
(Interfax-Religion)
State Department adds Nigeria, 9 other countries to list of worst religious freedom violators
(Ryan Foley, The Christian Post)
Monday, 7 December 2020
Case preview: Justices to consider immunity for Germany in claims arising from Nazi-era art sale
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Pope Francis: Ask God for the gift of conversion in Advent
(Catholic News Agency)
Report: Vatican seeks 8-year jail sentence for ex-Vatican bank president
(Catholic News Agency)
Gethsemane church targeted in arson attack
(Catholic News Agency)
Articles of interest - 7 December 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Australian Catholic bishops establish new agency to fight abuse
(Catholic News Agency)
Pakistan’s Christians to protest violations and violence
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
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