Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 18 May 2020
Law, Religion and Covid-19 Emergency – Ebook, Diresom Papers 1
(Edited by Pierluigi Consorti, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
Ambassador Brownback warns about the COVID-19 related burdens faced by religious minorities
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Briefing with Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback on COVID-19 impact on religious minorities
(United States Department of State)
Evangelical leaders urge Congress to protect churches from coronavirus lawsuits
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Indian dioceses pray with pope, as well as Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims (videos)
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)
Pope joins interfaith prayer for end to pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, The Tablet UK)
Coronavirus puts 4 million girls at risk of child marriage
(Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part II
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part I
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
The hidden victims off Covid19: Human trafficking and modern day slavery
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Access to healthcare and social distance during COVID pandemic cannot stop at the prison gate
(Maïté De Rue, Strasbourg Observers)
Me and We: Individual rights, common good and coronavirus
(Ted Anthony, Associated Press, Real Clear Politics)
Daily Highlight #62: COVID-19 and Religious Freedom in Latin America
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Court is critical of church's litigation tactics in challenge to covid-19 order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Louisiana limits on church services upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court strikes down North Carolina limits on worship services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Federal judge blocks NC governor’s restrictions on religious services
(Virginia Bridges, The News & Observer)
British government task force to develop rules for reopening of houses of worship
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New taskforce developing plan to reopen places of worship in the UK
(Stephen Greenhalgh and Robert Jenrick, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government)
Pastor in Nepal re-arrested on new series of charges to keep him in jail, sources say
(Morning Star News)
Italy opens churches as virus rules dictate how to eat, pray
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
As mosques reopen in West Africa, COVID-19 fears grow
(Krista Larson, Associated Press)
AP PHOTOS: Shrine in Japan offers solace to those at home
(Associated Press)
Brazilian Church ‘on the vanguard’ of fight against COVID-19 in São Paulo
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Montenegro: Coronavirus ban feeds clash between state and Serbian Orthodox Church
(Zoran Arbutina, Deutsche Welle)
Judge nixes Oregon governor’s coronavirus-related restrictions on religious gatherings
(Mairead McArdle, National Review)
Putin recommends Russian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr at home
(Interfax-Religion)
Global religious groups say COVID-19 presents 'prophetic moment' for governments on healthcare
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Sri Lankan officials stoke Covid-19 communal hate: 11 years after civil war’s end, no reconciliation efforts
(Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch)
Repatriated Muslims say diet at Joburg quarantine site is anti-religion
(Tebogo Monama, IOL News)
French government ordered to lift ban on religious meetings
(Agence France-Presse)
Sunday, 17 May 2020
On the first Sunday congregations could reopen, a church called Hopeful Baptist lived up to its name
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Daily Highlight #60: Advocating for People Forced to Move: The Vatican’s Voice
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
COVID-19 and common humanity
(Brian Bird, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Futility in the face of pandemic
(Daniel Gilman, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Shadow and light in the post-COVID Church
(Peter Stockland and Peter Menzies, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Serb church priests freed from detention in Montenegro
(Associated Press)
Charges dropped against Florida pastor over stay-home order
(Associated Press)
Churches sue over North Carolina COVID-19 order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Lawsuit filed to block Gov. Cooper’s order on churches
(Ken Lemon, WSOC TV)
UK taskforce on reopening places of worship
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
New emergency aid bill aims to cut most benefits to Catholic schools
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)
Iran’s clerics have bungled their coronavirus response, stoking doubts about their rule
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)
COVID-19 much more fatal for men, especially taking age into account
(Richard V. Reeves and Tiffany Ford, Brookings)
More women than men are dying of coronavirus in Massachussetts. Why is that?
(Rebecca Ostriker, The Boston Globe)
Friday, 15 May 2020
Berkley Forum COVID-19 Blogs
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Daily Highlight #59: Imams Who Oppose Pakistan's Coronavirus Orders
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Religious Liberty and the Corona Crisis before the German Constitutional Court
(Justin Collings, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Giving back to those who serve: Caring for our faith leaders
(Melinda Moore, Glen Bloomstrom, Religion News Service)
Daily Highlight #54 Digital Divides, Knowledge, and Empowerment: The COVID-19 Crisis and Black Churches
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Thursday, 14 May 2020
USINDO's WEBINAR on Religion and COVID Pandemic (recorded May 7, 2020)
(YouTube Video, The U.S. - Indonesia Society (USINDO))
PaRD-WEBINAR on COVID-19: A test for our humanity (recorded 12 May 2020)
(Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson, Jørgen Thomsen, Rev. Kyoichi Sugino, Mercy Niwe, International Partership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
When will we care about domestic violence?
(Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books)
Daily HIghlight #58: Interfaith Youth Mobilize against COVID-19 in Kenya
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Daily Highlight #57 | Masks and Niqabs: Face Coverings and Religious Freedom in France
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
BROADCAST, 14 May 2020: Inspiration & Hope: An Interfaith Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(The Parliament of the World's Religions, Facebook and YouTube)
Daily Highlight #56: Catholic Nursing Homes: Faith, Financial Struggles, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Pope joins interreligious prayer, begging God to end pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Spain gives Sephardic Jews extra time for citizenship suits
(Associated Press)
Montenegro: Dozens detained in clashes over priests’ arrests
(Predrag Milic, Associated Press)
LGBT people complain at rainbow being used to thank the NHS
(The Christian Institute)
Hair salon raises free exercise claims to Wisconsin covid-19 order as state supreme court invalidates it on other grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appleton salon owner claims business is ministry, Safer at Home violates Freedom of Religion
(WBAY News)
Churches fail in challenge to Illinois COVID-19 limits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What was that all about? New York hipsters, Hasidic Jews and slanted social-distancing rules
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Indian Muslims face renewed stigma amid COVID-19 crisis
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
Jewish Americans say they are scapegoated for the coronavirus spread
(Matt Katz, National Public Radio)
Army, city sanitation workers begin sanitizing Rome churches
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
English cardinal calls for ‘bit more sensitivity’ from government on opening churches
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
COVID-19 in Ukraine: Religion and geopolitics in a pandemic
(Polina Vynogradova, Geopolitical Monitor)
Distorting religious freedom will put people in danger
(Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, CNN)
Vatican finance in crisis thanks to Covid-19 and stock market meltdown
(Nicolas Senèze, La Croix International)
Has covid-19 killed globalisation?
(The Economist)
No food, no problem: Why mosques have embraced virtual interfaith events this Ramadan
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News | InDepth)
First coronavirus case found in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camps
(Aljazeera)
Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Caring for places of worship during coronavirus (COVID-19)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Netherlands: Of Rollercoasters and Elephants (COVID 19 and states of emergency)
(Antoine Buyse, Roel de Lange, Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional)
Reopening of places of worship in England: breaking news
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Comment réinventer les rites funéraires en temps de Covid-19 ?
(France Akindes, Bernard Taverne, Firmin Kra, Gabriele Laborde-balen, Khoudia Sow, and Marc Egrot, The Conversation)
Religious liberty in COVID-19’s wake
(Mark Movsesian, Law & Liberty)
The latest critique of the Coronavirus Act 2020
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Pursuing politics through legal means: U.S. efforts to hold China responsible for COVID-19
(Jacques deLisle, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
COVID-19: Something new under the sun?
(Adam Garfinkle, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
The worst is yet to come: Contact tracing, immunity cards and mass testing — OpEd
(JohnN. Whitehead, Eurasia Review)
Will COVID-19 usher on another decade of austerity within the United Kingdom? What does this mean for the protection of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR)?
(Poonam Shokar, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
COVID-19 isn’t partisan. But it’s intensifying America’s red-blue divide.
(Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor)
Coronavirus: Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says Sunday service will go ahead
(Ripu Bhatia, Stuff.co.nz)
Pastor Ted Wilson gives May message to the Adventist Church
(Adventist News Network)
Analysis: How the danger of coronavirus compares to the risks of everyday life
(Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph)
Genetic analysis of thousands of coronavirus patients may explain huge differences in case severity
(Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph)
We will have summer tourist season, promises EU
(BBC News)
Coronavirus lockdown: Allowing family gatherings in England 'complicated'
(BBC News)
With major deficits projected, Vatican says Holy See not at risk of default
(Hannah Brockhaus and JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican officials donate salaries to pandemic victims
(Catholic News Agency)
'Discovering what's essential': Strengthening marriages during lockdown
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Rev. Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign calls for resistance to reopening plans
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Government of Nicaragua ‘irresponsible’ in handling the pandemic, bishop says
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
The false choice presented to Sikh doctors serving COVID patients
(Simran Jeet Singh, Religion News Service)
Free Exercise challenge to St. Louis covid-19 order dismissed on standing grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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