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Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Dalai Lama says China’s leaders ‘don’t understand’ diversity
(Associated Press)

Country's first all-Muslim city council is elected in Michigan
(Safia Samee Ali, NBC News)

School must offer alternatives to nursing students who assert religious objection to covid vaccination requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Navy SEALs file federal lawsuit against Biden Administration for denying religious exemptions to vaccine mandate
(First Liberty)

S3, Ep. 03: What’s going on with religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates?
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Religious groups say implementing Biden’s vaccine mandate would be ‘sin against God’s Holy Word’
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)

Two evangelical seminaries sue to block vaccine mandates, citing religious freedom
(Bob Smietana, The Washington Post)

BLOG SYMPOSIUM (Book Discussion), 4-12 November 2021: David Lefkowitz’s Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (CUP, 2020)
(Gail Lythgoe, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

U.S. proposes rescinding expansion of religious exemption for contractors
(Julia Love, Reuters)

BYU Marriott School of Business renews focus on religious freedom
(Chad Little, Mike Miller, BYU Marriott School of Business)

A.M. and Others v. Russia: ECtHR stands up for trans parents
(Pieter Cannoot and Ingrida Milkaite, Strasbourg Observers)

Archbishop says closer Vatican-Russia ties could benefit the world
(Catholic News Service)

Russian PM satisfied with Pope's attitude to Moscow's views on int'l issues
(Interfax-Religion)

The Russian synagogues didn't turn off the lights until morning In memory of the Kristallnacht
(Interfax-Religion)

Survey in Britain finds lack of awareness about Holocaust
(Josef Federman, Associated Press)

Duchess of Cambridge officially opens new Holocaust exhibit at Imperial War Museum
(Justin Cohen, Jewish News)

Ban on conversion therapy in United Kingdom could lead to prosecution of pastors
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act will have a chilling effect on free speech
(Helen Joyce, The Economist)

Ecclesiastical court judgments – October (III)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Persecuting faith: Documenting religious freedom violations in North Korea
(David Alton, David Alton, Lord Alton of Liverpool)

HS2 – discoveries at St Mary’s Old Church, Stoke Mandeville
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Church Reporter, Vol. 6, 10 November 2021 - Newsletter for the English speaking members and friends of the Church Law Society
(Jiří Rajmund Tretera and Záboj Horák, eds., Church Law Society Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro)

China's unrelenting efforts to abolish Christianity continue with surveillance of clergy to ensure loyalty
(Andrea Morris, CBN News)

China shuts down Christian school in Beijing
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

US Holocaust Museum says China boosting Uyghur repression
(Matthew Lee, The Washington Post)

Philosophy and the law of armed conflict
(Alejandro Chehtman, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

David Lefkowitz’s response to EJILTalk! commentators
(David Lefkowitz, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Muslims barred from Friday prayer sites in India’s Gurgaon
(Aljazeera)

Hindu mobs storm Sunday prayer services in India
(Bijay Kumar Minj, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Indian govt's mindset is greatest hurdle towards peace in region: PM Imran Khan
(Geo News)

‘What fear?’: Hindus bathe in frothy, polluted Indian river
(Shonal Ganguly and Altaf Qadri, Associated Press)

Malaysian state's Sharia law criminalizes conversion from Islam
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

USCIRF releases new report on religious freedom conditions in Malaysia
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Weekly Highlight #181: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: Religion versus science, religion with science
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)

USCIRF releases new report on Egypt’s religious freedom improvements and challenges
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

WEBINAR, 17 November 2021 (12PM EST): Who Belongs at the Thanksgiving Table? Immigration, Religion, and the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Thanksgiving
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

COP26: Why is it a concern for churches?
(Conference of European Churches)

Italy: No one can oppose a crucifix in a classroom
(f, fsspx.news)

Secularism and its discontents: Religious liberty in France and the United States
(Stavros Niarchos Foundation, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins)

Human trafficking suit spreads to Hindu temples in 5 states
(Associated Press)

Ban on use of donated space as polling places is questioned
(David Eggert, Associated Press)

Court will take new look at masks in religious schools
(Associated Press)

Palestinian PM: Only two-state solution can end ‘apartheid’
(Joseph Krauss, Associated Press)

Why the Supreme Court’s conservatives may rule against a Christian inmate on death row
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

Court debates inmate’s request for prayer and touch during execution, but a key justice remains silent
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

High court skeptical of Texas death row inmate prayer demand
(Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)

Catholic bishops seek answers in rising vandalism incidents
(Alejandra Molina, Associated Press)

German president remembers anti-Jewish pogrom 83 years ago
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)

Pritzker signs COVID-19 amendment to Illinois conscience law
(John O'Connor, Associated Press)

Labor Department proposes rescinding Trump era's broad religious employer exemption rule
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Realtors group hearing "hate speech" "ethics complaint" against pastor-realtor …
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

6th Circuit: Prison cannot just fail to respond to inmate's religious requests
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Interfaith Youth Convention on the European Green Deal (PDF)
(Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))

‘The Church must be political’: An interview with Bishop John Stowe
(John Gehring, Commonweal)

Catholic Church still growing in Africa as it recedes in Europe
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Spanish cardinal warns against withdrawing God from ‘history of humanity’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Polish church leaders offer support for refugees, but back border security
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)

Government forces arrest Salesians in Ethiopian capital
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)

ECHR: Model for Algeria’s repression of free speech
(Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe)

Gonzaga University, a Catholic college near historically neo-Nazi territory, gets its first Torah scroll and Jewish space
(Rachel Román, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Christian humanism and the radical middle
(Lee Oser, Law & Liberty)

God and guns
(Kimberly Winston, FiveThirtyEight)

US Rep. Roy leads colleagues in condemning Finland for persecuting Christians
(Press Release, Chip Roy, Member of Congress)

Australia: LGBTQ+ groups mobilise against Coalition’s religious discrimination bill
(Sarah Martin, The Guardian)

Why the Supreme Court is debating ‘state secrets’ and government surveillance
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

Monday, 8 November 2021

Religious bias by the FBI? High court struggles with government secrets case
(Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)

Muslim monitoring case goes to US Supreme Court. What’s at stake?
(Joseph Stepansky, Al Jazeera)

Inside a Muslim community’s effort to rein in the FBI
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

Religious liberty at SCOTUS, again: Touch, comfort and the prayers of clergy at executions
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Supreme Court considers a minister’s role at the time an inmate is put to death
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)

Court to clarify the right of death-row inmates to receive spiritual guidance during execution
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

Lawyer takes rare case on religion, executions to U.S. Supreme Court
(Jordan S. Rubin, Bloomberg Law)

Muslim Jewish Leadership Council calls on European policymakers to protect the practice of religious rights during mission to Slovenia
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Parliamentarians draw attention to seeing freedom of religion or belief in broader context
(The International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief (IPPFoRB))

Increasing calls to find missing Yazidis (The International Freedom of Religion or Belief Alliance)
(Knox Thames, Blog of the London School of Economics)

Interfaith Dialogue Center opened in Egyptian church
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))

Journalists urged to contribute to peacemaking in Kaduna
(Amos Tauna, Daily Post)

How one atheist laid the foundation of contemporary Hindu nationalism
(The Conversation)

Interfaith action in COP26 week one
(Arthur Lyon Dahl, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

COP26: What can we expect? And how are Evangelicals engaging?
(Podcast, Didomi.com)

Comment on Lefkowitz, Philosophy and International Law: a critical introduction
(Nicole Roughan, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

What Rule of Law ideal is fit for International Law?
(Carmen Pavel, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Preventing disorder or silencing political opposition? on (the lack of) legitimate aims in Dareskizb LTD v. Armenia
(Tobias Mortier, Strasbourg Observers)

Akdeniz and others v Turkey: The ECtHR adopts a regressive interpretation of victim status in cases concerning injunctions contra mundum
(Ayşe Bingöl Demir, Strasbourg Observers)

Benin’s groundbreaking new abortion law will save the lives of many women
(Ramatou Ouedraogo, The Conversation)

USCIRF releases new report about entities of particular concern and religious freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Legal Spirits Episode 038: Law and religion in “The Merchant of Venice”
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

Religious plaintiffs, others, win stay of Biden’s private-employer vaccine mandate
(Mark A. Kellner, Washington Times)

Iran: FORB monthly digest : News about Baha’is and Christians in October
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Belgium: Media wrongfully stigmatized and failed to publish the judicial truth
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Ford Interfaith Network
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Portugal’s parliament backs revised bill allowing euthanasia
(Associated Press)

Christians in Libya an unwelcome and ignored minority
(International Christian Concern)

Catholic charity warns of 'killing campaign' against Christians in Burkina Faso
(Donna Birrell, Premier Christian News)

Statement on Missing Yezidi Women and Children
(Joint Statement of 18 countries, US Department of State - Office of International Religous Freedom)

Franklin Graham: Sheffield event to go ahead after legal challenge
(BBC News)

U.K. universities clamp down on speech about gender
(Lois McLatchie, National Review)

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK newsletter
(Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK)

Religious discrimination among NHS workers increasing, study says
(Debra Hunter, Wales Online)

Law and religion round-up – 7th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

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