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Wednesday, 15 December 2021

No merry Christmas for Christians in Myanmar
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Church leaders in India advised by police not to host Christmas services
(Kelly Valencia, Premier Christian News)

Key facts about the religiously and demographically diverse states of India
(Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center)

India: Don’t send notices to parents of couples under Special Marriage Act: Delhi government
(Sofi Ahsan, The Indian Express)

India: Caste, faith can’t be basis for determining a father’s duty, says Kerala HC
(The New Indian Express)

India: Mother Theresa charity probed over 'forceful conversions'
(Joe Wallen, The Telegraph)

Nigeria: Open letter to President Biden: Please don't ignore "rampant violence” in Nigeria
(ADF International)

As another pastor is slain, Christians urge US to reinstate Nigeria as 'country of particular concern'
(Christian Today)

Zainab Al-Suwaij full interview (on Iraq and human rights)
(YouTube Video, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global)

Paul Lambert discusses religious inclusion with U.S. Navy DEI team
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Refugees in Utah create self-sustaining goat farm to support refugee community
(Arianne Brown, KSL)

Weekly Highlight #186: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: Religious leaders support vaccine acceptance, religious exemption requests rise
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)

Muslim org fires leader for working with anti-Muslim group
(Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press)

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s 2021 Christmas message: 'In the name of these refugees, let us help all refugees'
(Michael Curry, Episcopal News Service)

Lebanon to deport outlawed Bahrain opposition party members
(Associated Press)

Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)

House responds to GOP’s Boebert with Islamophobia bill
(Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press)

Blinken says US weighing new sanctions on Myanmar
(Matthew Lee, Associated Press)

Mormon women's influence expands despite priesthood ban
(Lindsay Whitehurst and, Associated Press)

European court urges Russia to tackle domestic violence
(Dasha Litvinova, Associated Press)

‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
(Houman Oliaei, The Conversation)

France targets mosque for closure after ‘unacceptable’ preaching
(The Local)

Quebec teacher removed from classroom for wearing hijab under law banning religious symbols
(Kimberley Molina, CBC News)

Canada bans LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ as France moves to criminalize it
(The Washington Post)

African immigrants in U.S. more religious than other Black Americans, and more likely to be Catholic
(Jeff Diamant, Pew Research Center)

How an independent tribunal came to rule that China is guilty of genocide against the Uyghurs
(David Tobin, The Conversation)

Two awarded top bravery honor in New Zealand mosque attack
(Nick Perry, Associated Press)

9th Circuit: Seminary is exempt from Title IX in applying its sexual standards
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ninth Circuit clears expulsions for seminarians in same-sex marriages
(Nicholas Iovino, Courthouse News Service)

Antisemitism of sellers impacts court's decision on breach of contract
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Defendants get lit up by the Court on the fifth day of Hanukkah
(Farrell Fritz, JD Supra)

Christian wedding photographer loses suit against NY public accommodation law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court denies motion under RFRA and 1st Amendment to dismiss indictments
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Scientology at UN: “It is up to Faith leaders to influence and make of this one, a better world”
(The European Times)

Celebrating 70 years, Caritas Internationalis aims to tackle new challenges
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Podcast: What’s in a name? (federal trademark rejection)
(Soundcloud, Becket)

Nuns and Catholic hospitals ask court to stop harmful transgender mandate
(Becket)

Does President Joe Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan threaten home-based, faith-based child care?
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)

Britain facing Christmas shortages
(Birgit Maass, Deutsche Welle)

Eric Adams moved his inauguration to after Shabbat so Jewish supporters could attend
(Shira Hanau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Our preschool welcomed Santa — and exiled my Jewish daughter
(Meg Keene, Forward Opinion)

The ‘Islamophobia’ canard returns
(Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review)

Is a new kind of religion forming on the internet?
(Rebecca Jennings, Vox)

Nuns against nuclear weapons – Plowshares protesters have fought for disarmament for over 40 years, going to prison for peace
(Carole Sargent, The Conversation)

Uzbekistan: More Muslims targeted for criticising regime hostility to Islam
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Tops in religion for 2021: Gallup spotlights America's downward Church Lurch
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

Vicarious liability for sexual abuse again: Hugh Kennedy
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Churches in West Papua call for end to operations by Indonesian military
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Philippine anti-terrorism law 'threatens human rights'
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Supreme Court case threatens further destruction of church-state wall in education
(Peter Greene, Forbes)

In Hinduism, women create spaces for their own leadership
(Deepti Hajela, Religion News Service)

Australia: Attorney-General Michaelia Cash speaks up on the religious discrimination bills
(John Sandeman, Eternity News)

Canada: Anyone can criticize Quebec’s religious symbols law, but only Quebeckers can fix it
(The Globe and Mail)

Court won’t stop Texas abortion ban, but lets clinics sue
(Mark Sherman, Religion News Service)

PBS documentary broadcast part of Sikh awareness campaign
(Jospeh Hammond, Religion News Service)

Chinese authorities double down on Tibetan reincarnations
(Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch)

Is the world failing the Uighur people?
(Al Jazeera)

The Uyghur Tribunal verdict: Where do we go from here
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

Egyptian Parliament reopens debate on Quran's place in curriculum
(George Mikhail, Al-Monitor)

Meet Sister Nathalie Becquart, the woman who is helping reshape the Catholic Church
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)

Public Discourse and the need for reason, good government, and moral realism
(Micah Watson, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

The cautious rapprochement between Rome and Moscow
(La Croix International)

Interfaith platform intervenes, preventing escalation of violence in CAR
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

There are no African American saints. A lay Catholic group seeks to change that.
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)

Ukraine: Lyudmila Fylypovych: Despite the declared equality, the state is inattentive to the needs of religious minorities
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Why Pakistan has such strict blasphemy laws: It's more about politics than religion
(Ahmet T. Kuru, Religion Unplugged)

Leaving gender out of genocide obscures its horror: As the 1948 Genocide Convention makes clear, killing isn't the only crime.
(Emily Prey and Erin Rosenberg, Foreign Policy)

Monday, 13 December 2021

Abdi Ibrahim v. Norway: Child adoption without taking account of the mother’s wishes breached her human rights
(Grand Chamber, European Court of Human Rights)

Supreme Court rejects religious challenge to vaccine mandate for NY health care workers
(Brittany Bernstein, National Review)

Supreme Court denies relief in challenge to NY vaccine mandate that lacks religious exemption
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religion has nothing to do with the abortion case before the Supreme Court
(Jordan Lorence, Real Clear Religion)

First edition of the thematic case-law guide on "LGBTI rights" is now available in English
(The Registry of the Court, The European Court of Human Right)

Healing the Russia-Ukraine faith divide
(The Christian Science Monitor)

Statement of Religions for Peace women of faith on overcoming (sexual) violence against women (PDF)
(Religions for Peace)

Ukraine: Representatives of the Council of Churches met with Ruslan Stefanchuk
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Pope seeks diplomatic end to Russian tensions over Ukraine
(Associated Press)

BBC stands by bus attack report, insisting: ‘Anti-Muslim slur WAS spoken in English’
(Richard Ferrer, Jewish News)

Anti-Christian hate crimes in Europe rose 70% between 2019 and 2020, watchdog reports
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)

Regulation alone cannot protect freedom of speech, says Archbishop of Canterbury
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

UK: Mandatory COVID-19 status checks in England: exemption for places of worship
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Law and religion round-up – 12th December
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Scottish charity to pay $26K for unlawfully canceling BGEA, church event bookings
(Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post)

Guatemala to be declared Latin American Pro-Life capital
(Evangelical Focus)

Lahore: US Commission calls for release of Christian accused of blasphemy
(Shafique Khokhar, Asia News)

Schools in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan train educators to introduce peace education
(Shyamal Sinha, The European Times)

Int’l Human Rights Day: Legal safeguards to protect minorities against forced conversions demanded
(Mati Ullah, DND)

Vietnam: Religious literacy training
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

New directions and opportunities for freedom of religion or belief
(Brian Grim and Greg Mitchell, Research Features)

Texas Instruments executives discuss workplace religious inclusion
(YouTube Video, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

The Science of Adam
(Kenneth Kemp, First Things)

From Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 to Beijing 2022
(George Weigel, First Things)

Russia: A Tablighi Muslim sentenced to 3 years in a penal colony
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Taiwan: Corruption, human rights and the Tai Ji Men case
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

“The end of the affair” (book review)
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion, St. John's Law School)

Insurer agrees to $800M settlement in Boy Scouts bankruptcy
(Randall Chase, Associated Press)

Gov. Noem offers bill to create moment of silence in schools
(Associated Press)

Pope says he’ll meet with French sex abuse commission
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)

Bomb injures 12 at Russian school; ex-student suspected
(Associated Press)

In Hinduism, women creating spaces for their own leadership
(Deepti Hajela, Associated Press)

Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)

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