Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Japan’s anti-nuke bishops, hipsters garner support from Pope Francis
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Pope says no more nukes — even possessing nuclear weapons is ‘immoral’
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Against the open society
(Ryszard Legutko, First Things)
The Vatican and strategic competition between the United States and China (Responding to: Vatican diplomacy in historical and contemporary perspective)
(Juyan Zhang, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
UNC resolves Education Department complaint over anti-Semitism at Gaza conference
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Monday, 25 November 2019
‘Nothing short of a revolution’: Hong Kong elections see pro-democracy candidates win in record turnout
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
After 8-day hunger strike, Nicaraguan mothers transported to hospital
(Catholic News Agency)
We won’t allow religion to divide Nigerians, says Buhari
(Pulse.ng)
Secret documents detail inner workings of China’s mass detention camps for minorities
(Hannah Knowles, Kim Bellware, and Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post)
Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work
(Associated Press)
Christians have lived in Turkey for two millennia – but their future is uncertain
(Ramazan Kilinc, The Conversation)
Canada's Catholic bishops resist publishing list of accused priest-pedophiles
(Joseph Sinasac, La Croix International)
Controversial conscience rights bill for Alberta physicians voted down
(Wallis Snowdon, CBC News)
This week's podcast: Why it matters that Canadian Anglicans are having a near-death experience
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Articles of Interest - 25 November 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In South Sudan, hopes for a double celebration
(Guy Aimé Eblotié, La Croix International)
There are still huge gaps in Nigeria’s efforts to protect children
(Daniel Ogunniyi, The Conversation)
CCP tightens measures to stop leaks of its repressions
(Lin Feng, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Medical schools should deny applicants who object to provide abortion, assisted death: bioethicist
(Rachel Browne, Global News)
Q & A: Is a conspiracy theory responsible for the year's shocking Nobel Prize in Literature?
(Tayla Zax, Forward)
Religion hits the Inc. 5000: RFBF President Brian Grim quoted by Inc.
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Getting serious about conscience rights
(Barry W. Bussey, Intersection: Canadian Counsel of Christian Charities)
Alberta: Committee votes not to send conscience rights bill to house for debate
(Lisa Johnson, Edmonton Journal)
Alberta’s controversial ‘conscience rights’ Bill 207 voted down in committee hearing
(Phil Heidenreich, Global News)
New asylum rules ignore plight of Central Americans, Catholic leaders say
(Catholic News Service)
Religion Watch, November 2019, Volume 35 No. 1
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
The most dangerous anti-Semitic lie — The return of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(Aviya Kushner, Forward)
Argentine health chief quits in abortion fight with conservative president
(Marina Lammertyn, Reuters)
Bishop voices concern over proposed anti-conversion law in India
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
As data shows most Catholics don't accept transubstantiation, new book seeks to help
(Charles C. Camosy, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Echoing Japanese bishops, Pope backs abolition of nuclear power
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Why religious narratives are crucial to tackling climate change
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)
10,000 passengers ride buses as Shabbat service launches in Tel Aviv
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Japan rules against divorced parents seeking access to children
(Chang-Ran Kim, Reuters)
Ukrainian government still insists that Moscow church change its name
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Another case of vague prosecution of a Jehovah's Witness rejected
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Authorities rounding up Jehovah's Witnesses' Scriptures
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Interreligious Council of Russia calls on int'l community to restore Middle East's holy sites
(Interfax-Religion)
Egyptian woman 'wins court battle' over unequal inheritance laws
(BBC News)
Uri Regev: Religious freedom is important to Israelis, and could bring down Netanyahu
(Sue Fishkoff, J. The Jewish News of Northern California)
Sunday, 24 November 2019
The Catholic affinity with the Japanese imperial family
(Nicolas Senèze, La Croix International)
In Japan, Pope Francis condemns nuclear weapons as immoral
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis urges Japanese to address suicide, depression in Tokyo speech
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Friday, 22 November 2019
China pressuring priest at center of agreement with Vatican
(Associated Press)
Philippine Church dedicates 2020 to dialogue for “human fraternity”
(Robin Gomes, Vatican News)
South Sudan opposition appeals to Church for help in peace process
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Argentine bishop blasts prosecutors for seeking arrest order
(Associated Press)
Turkmenistan: Latest conscientious objector jailed for three years
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Nicaragua: Pro-government crowd attacks church parishioners
(Gabriela Selser, Associated Press)
Pope meets Argentine Interreligious Dialogue Institute
(Herald Malaysia Online)
Netanyahu at war with legal system
(Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Modern genetics will improve health and usher in “designer” children: It may also provoke an ethical storm
(The Economist)
Discrimination bill goes beyond matters of religion
(Mark Fowler, The Weekend Australian)
Israel’s Netanyahu charged in corruption cases
(Aron Heller, Religion News Service)
Islam and Orthodox Christianity have the same values, Putin says
(The Moscow Times)
Am I my brother's keeper? (Matthew Kaemingk challenges Christians to defend the religious freedom of all faiths as they do their own)
(Rebecca Atkinson, Convivium)
New 'playing God' technique to produce 'designer babies' may launch in a few months
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
USCIRF releases new reports on religious freedom in Indonesia and Vietnam
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Event, 22 November 2019: Religion in Mexican Politics, Migration, and Mexican American Communities, 1920-2020
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Canada's Anglicans are vanishing and RNS can't find any conservatives to debate the reasons why
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
China’s campaign to silence Americans (and religious freedom)
(Robert Carle, Religion Unplugged)
Pope calls Catholics in Thailand to follow in footsteps of early missionaries
(Catholic News Agency)
Sahel bishops seek peace for region facing growing humanitarian crisis
(Catholic News Service)
Transgender Catholic sues Argentine bishop
(Rodney Pelletier, Church Militant)
Are religious minorities safe in the BJP's India?
(International Christian Concern)
Many in Venezuela’s 2nd city turn to prayer, not politics
(Scott Smith, Associated Press)
Cameroon prelates lead ‘peace caravans’ to troubled Anglophone regions
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Patriarch of Jerusalem initiates meeting of heads of local churches in Amman with view to preserving church unity
(Interfax-Religion)
Statue of Christ at Shandong church replaced with a lightning rod
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Indian court to set law on women's entry in temples, mosques
(The Philadelphia Tribune)
China pressures Trump to veto bill of solidarity with Hong Kong protesters
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Argentinian court dismisses transgender man's suit against Catholic Church that refused to change his name on records
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Guatemalan bishops’ ministry: Bad idea to send asylum-seekers to jungle
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)
God, family, homeland: Brazil's Bolsonaro launches new party
(France 24)
Hong Kong ablaze as protests intensify: 'We might as well go down fighting'
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
UP law panel moots legislation to check religious conversions
(The Hindu)
Religion no bar to this professor of Urdu in BHU
(Omar Rashid, The Hindu)
USCIRF statement on three key developments in Rohingya justice
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Tokyo archbishop: Japanese Shinto celebrations a chance for evangelization
(Timothy Nerozzi, Catholic News Agency)
Archbishop of Tokyo: ‘Collapse of traditional family system’ a challenge for irreligious Japan
(Timothy Nerozzi, Catholic News Agency)
Canadian doctors get ready for child euthanasia
(Wesley J. Smith, National Review)
Four powers the pope needs to grant the new chief of Vatican finances
(Thomas Reese)
Tibetans cast alarm on high-tech persecution of faiths in China
(Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
‘Absolutely no mercy’: Leaked files expose how China organized mass detentions of Muslims
(Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley, The New York Times)
39 Falun Gong practitioners in China sentenced to prison in October 2019 for refusing to renounce their faith
(Minghui.org)
She survived a Chinese internment camp and made it to Virginia. Will the U.S. let her stay?
(Emily Rauhala and Anna Fifield, The Washington Post)
Israel to host largest event ever focused on anti-Semitism
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Much is legally incorrect about the Sabarimala judgment
(Arghya Sengupta, The Telegraph (India))
Opposition activists hold hunger strikes in Nicaraguan churches
(Catholic News Agency)
In West Africa, Church leaders meet to discuss humanitarian crisis
(Catholic News Agency)
The Xinjiang Papers: Either turning or returning point
(Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter)
Siege of Nicaragua’s Catholic cathedral eases as hunger strikers leave
(Ismael Lopez Ocampo and Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post)
The "synodality" masquerade
(George Weigel, First Things)
The Amazon fires: Notre Dame, nostra culpa—our house is burning (Responding to: Religious responses to the Amazon rainforest fires)
(Aaron Perry, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Amazon synod: "plus tard sera trop tard" (Responding to: Religious responses to the Amazon rainforest fires)
(Michael Schuck, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
FoRB on the Frontlines: “Everyone’s hatred was ever present”
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
The convergence of religious, economic, and political fundamentalisms undermines God’s creation in the Amazon (Responding to: Religious responses to the Amazon rainforest fires)
(Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religious responses to the Amazon rainforest fires
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Douglas Todd: How Quebec’s religious garb ban compares to harsh regimes
(Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun)
The fires of Amazonia (Responding to: Religious responses to the Amazon rainforest fires)
(Drew Christiansen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
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