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Monday, 31 January 2022

Brazil: Black Catholic leaders fear demise of quota law for Brazilian universities
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

What being Jewish means to the Tennessee couple disqualified by a Christian adoption agency
(Asaf Shalev, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Secularism is not atheism. A new book explains why the distinction is so critical.
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Four-in-ten countries and territories worldwide had blasphemy laws in 2019
(Virginia Villa, Pew Research Center)

Plug-In: 'We have to stop hate' – Why it's important to keep remembering the Holocaust
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Catholics for Choice boldly projects its own credo before the 2022 March for Life
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Former Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr. says he's 'not a religious person' in interview
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

The Bahá’í response to racial injustice and pursuit of racial unity
(The Bahá’í World)

Civilian-led peace-building: Both Catholic and Islamic communities through HWPL call for global peace law on annual peace day
(Religion News Service)

Jewish couple sues to stop Tennessee Christians from helping with adoptions
(Jonathon S. Tobin, The Federalist)

Religious disbelief: Paladino coasts to religious accommodation after refusing to show vax proof
(New York Daily News)

Somalia: Dialogue 360 Project is “triggering social transformation” in Somalia
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

India: Appropriating Subhas Chandra Bose: He was equally critical of both Muslim and Hindu communal streams
(Ram Puniyani, South Asia Monitor)

India: Hostility toward Christians keeps growing in Northern India
(Evangelical Focus)

India: ‘No moral policing’: HC upholds rights of MP inter-faith couple to marry, live-in
(Iram Siddique, The Indian Express)

Indian minorities laud court order on interfaith marriage
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

India: Karnataka: Student moves HC against ban on hijab in govt college
(Hindustan Times)

Indonesian clerics report army chief for insulting Islam
(Konradus Epa, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Philippine bishops vow to refuse mining firm donations
(Joseph Peter Calleja, Union of Catholic Asian News)

President of Italian Episcopal Conference expressed support for Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Oregon parish, diocese sue city for restricting feeding ministry
(Egan Millard, Episcopal News Service)

Myanmar’s military turns to Buddhism in bid for legitimacy
(Allegra Mendelson, Al Jazeera)

CAIR, 80+ U.S. Muslim groups to call on DOJ to probe anti-Muslim hate group’s effort to infiltrate and spy on American Muslim community
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)

Fairfax County adopts school calendar with more religious holidays
(Allison Klein, The Washington Post)

Faustian bargains: The great books, religion, and "higher education"
(Richard A. Rosengarten, Sightings - The University of Chicago Divinity School)

For ‘School Choice Week,’ arm yourself with facts about the problems with vouchers
(Rob Boston, Americans United for Separation of Church and State)

The Catholic Church cannot police itself
(Martin Gak, Deutsche Welle)

Parental ed choice and religious liberty are inexorably linked
(Lathan Watts, Inside Sources)

An encouraging word
(Kent Johnson, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Sunday, 30 January 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS, 30 January 2022: Virtual Conference: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in Turkey
(Freedom of Belief Initiative)

Friday, 28 January 2022

VIRTUAL COURSE: January and February 2022: Martyrs, Minorities, Faith And Fidelity: Exploring ‘Loyalty’ In Christianity And Islam
(Emory Continuing Education)

USCIRF observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Biden and Harris meet with Holocaust survivors to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Perspective: Reclaiming religious freedom from today’s culture wars
(Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum)

World remembers Holocaust as antisemitism rises in pandemic
(Vanessa Gera and Samuel Petrequin, Associated Press)

Standing Together: Rabbi and imam attend International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Holocaust remembrance and anti-Semitism, silence is not an option
(Parliament of the World's Religions)

Russia: Holocaust Remembrance Day reinstated at Russian schools
(Interfax-Religion)

Holocaust Memorial Day message
(Twitter, Archbishop Angaelos)

Photos of the week: El Salvador beatifications, Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Germany: Jehovah’s Witnesses claim archives from a military museum
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Germany: Child abuse scandal: Germany's Catholic Church fights for its future
(Sabine Kinkartz, Bettina Marx, Deutsche Welle)

Mississippi bill sets religious exemption on COVID vaccine
(Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press)

Idaho House panel introduces bill banning youth conversion therapy
(Rebecca Boone, Associated Press)

Court affirms ruling against bakery, wants fine revisited
(Associated Press)

Universal Life Church can move ahead with suit on marriage solemnization right
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Nevada prison's ban on prayer oil violates RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Trial set on why street preachers were removed from gay pride event
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

What Mormon bishops should and should not say in counseling LGBTQ+ Latter-day Saints
(Jana Riess, Religion News Service)

Transit system's rejection of religious ads violates synagogue's free speech rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Tampa Bay delivery service to pay $50,000 to settle EEOC religious discrimination lawsuit
(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

The religious leaders caught in the vaccine wars
(Mansee Khurana, The Atlantic)

DRC: Superstructure of temple nears completion
(Bahá’í World News Service)

Malaysia: Spirit of service inspires immediate response to floods in Malaysia
(Bahá’í World News Service)

Would you change your religion for a religious exemption to the covid-19 vaccine?
(Dwight M. Kealy, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

The holiday blues in prison
(Juan Carlos Riofrío, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

On tech and dignity: How we can stay human (Part II)
(Deion A. Kathawa, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

Costa Rica bishops weigh in on cannabis approval row
(La Croix International)

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Decades after war, Bosnian Jews who lost homes, synagogues still await restitution
(Kimberly Winston, Religion Unplugged)

Former postal worker continues battle to honor the Sabbath
(Chris Woodward, American Family News)

China: Beijing Olympics begin amid atrocity crimes
(Freedom House)

China: UN human rights chief allowed to visit Xinjiang after Olympics
(Al Jazeera)

India: Two arrested for vandalizing St. Sebastian statue in India
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

India: Love and faith in India (video)
(Al Jazeera)

Religions for Peace and United Religions Initiative sign a memorandum of understanding
(Religions for Peace)

Louisville to pay $75,000 to cop suspended for off-duty prayer outside abortion clinic
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)

Philippine bishops' chief lashes out at fake election news
(Joseph Peter Calleja, Union of Catholic Asian News)

South Korea: Repatriation fear grips Chinese Christian group in South Korea
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Pakistan: Blasphemy case registered over church attack in Pakistan
(Kamran Chaudhry, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Honduran bishops urge dialogue during political crisis
(David Agren, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Supreme Court contender Leondra Kruger versus religious liberty
(Ed Whelan, National Review)

Rethinking Islamic school education
(Abid Haseeb, Traversing Tradition)

UK Ukrainian bishop calls on pressure to be applied to Putin
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Ukraine: CEC offers prayers for peace in Ukraine
(Conference of European Churches)

Ukraine: "Truth is on our side. Where there is truth, there is God's assistance and victory," - the Primate of the OCU addresses the Ukrainians
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Ukraine: Religions for Peace statement on the Ukraine situation (PDF)
(Religions for Peace)

Belarusian dictator threatens Ukrainian liberty on spiritual basis
(Union of Orthodox Journalists, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Russia: Judge applies Supreme Court ruling in Jehovah's Witnesses' favor
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Kazakhstan: Supporters of caliphate are among those detained in Kazakhstan during the January riots
(Interfax-Religion)

Russia: Three acquitted on "extremism" charges but jailings continue
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

Russia: A Jehovah’s Witness fined as an objector to military service
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Russia, Ukraine, and moral reckoning
(George Weigel, First Things)

In post-pandemic America, will sagging church health damage public health?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

RFI's Jeremy Barker joins Drew Mariani Show to discuss contemporary Christian persecution
(Religious Freedom Institute)

UK: Ecclesiastical court judgments – January (I)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

UK to make all records related to Shoah public, including ‘dark period’ for Jersey
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

Is Christianity doing more harm than good to American men?
(Anthony Bradley, Acton Institute)

In lawsuit, Catholic lawyer claims World Relief rescinded job offer because he is gay
(Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Sudan: Adultery prosecution causes religious freedom concerns in Sudan
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Egypt: Human Rights Watch submission to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its review of Egypt
(Human Rights Watch)

A new project scores colleges on how much they welcome religious diversity
(Kevin Singer, Religion News Service)

The deadly dogmatism of Christian nationalism
(Samuel L. Perry, Religion News Service)

What’s next for conservative Christian policymakers?
(Mya Jaradat, Deseret News)

Appeals Court affirms right of inmate under RLUIPA to possess scented oil for daily prayers
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Canada: Ontario announces plan to combat antisemitism in schools
(Ontario Newsroom)

J. C. Murray, the Vatican, and the lay state challenge
(Susanna De Stradis, The Immanent Frame)

The spiritual lives of the unhoused: Susan Dunlap has held prayer services for the unhoused. In ‘Shelter Theology,’ she looks at how the homeless integrate worship and religion into their lives.
(Yonat Shimron, The Washington Post)

Canada’s public safety minister calls for removal of Hillier ‘hate’ tweet about Alghabra
(The Canadian Press)

Thursday, 27 January 2022

WEBINAR, 27 January 2022 (11AM EST): The Enduring Presence of Religion in the Making of Europe: A Launch Event for the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Wednesday, 26 January 2022

For the Holocaust Remembrance Day we must seek memory, dignity and justice
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)

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