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Monday, 26 April 2021

Anthony Albanese objects to idea God is ‘on any political side’ in response to Morrison’s evangelical speech
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

ABC casts light on Bahá’í community-building efforts in Sydney neighborhood
(Bahá’í World News Service)

Religious news from around the web April 26, 2021
(World Religion News)

The end of conviction and possible beginnings for criminal law and religion
(Matthew P. Cavedon, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Bishop tells Church of England’s General Synod to speak out against persecution of religious believers and atheists
(Episcopal News Service)

Saturday, 24 April 2021

What it means for the United States to recognize massacre of Armenians as genocide
(Miriam Berger, The Washington Post)

COVID-19 legislation and guidance: update to 24 April
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

USCIRF welcomes Administration’s historic decision to recognize Armenian genocide
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day
(The White House)

President Biden makes history recognizing the Armenian Genocide at last
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)

Hong Kong Baptist leader who backed protesters quits before abruptly leaving for UK
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Freedom of religion and judicial independence in northern Cyprus
(Alper Ali Riza, Cyprus Mail)

Friday, 23 April 2021

Protocol 15 Ratified by all Contracting Parties to the ECHR
(Kushtrim Istrefi, ECHR Blog)

The coming refugee crisis: how COVID-19 exacerbates forced displacement
(Alexannder Betts, OUPblog)

Despite COVID lockdowns, anti-Semitic incidents rise in Berlin
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

A House bill on Israel is flawed, but our Jewish civil war is worse
(Yehuda Kurtzer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

For social justice-oriented Jews in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin’s conviction represents a beginning, not an end
(Lonny Goldsmith, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Religions for Peace adopts governance guidelines on fundamental values and principles
(Religions for Peace)

Data shows white evangelicals and Catholics more likely to get vaccine than 'nones' and general public
(Ryan Burge, Religion Unplugged)

India prepares for Kumbh Mela, world's largest religious gathering, amid COVID-19 fears
(Tulasi Srinivas, Religion Unplugged)

Christian college files suit challenging Biden administration on gender identity
(Anne Stych, Religion Unplugged)

Survey: 'Faith-based approaches' could help convince millions of American to get COVID-19 vaccines
(Madeleine Carlisle, Time)

Religious identities and the race against the virus: Engaging faith communities on COVID-19 vaccination
(PRRI and Interfaith Youth Core)

Will there be life on earth? An Earth Day reflection on trusting our eyes.
(Cynthia G. Lindner, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)

The role of religion and faith-based communities in the African COVID-19 response
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

USCIRF reiterates call to release the Panchen Lama
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Russia: A case of violation of the right to freely practice one’s faith in community pending in Strasbourg
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Religious Freedom in the World Report 2021
(Aid to the Church in Need)

Aid to the Church in Need 2021 Report on Religious Freedom in the World
(Marcela Szymanski, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Vermont state school board orders payment of tuition to religiously affiliated schools
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

State Board of Education orders 3 districts to pay tuition at religious schools
(Lola Duffort, VT Digger)

Algerian professor gets 3-year jail term for offending Islam
(Associated Press)

Algerian journalist sentenced to prison for Facebook posts offensive to Islam
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Algeria: Islamic scholar sentenced to three-year prison term for “offending Islam"
(Amnesty International)

UK parliament declares genocide in China’s Xinjiang; Beijing condemns move
(Reuters)

Human Rights: Xinjiang
(UK Parliament)

Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Zoroastrian leaders at National Interfaith Iftar urge fighting hatred
(Jewish Press)

Casting the first stone? (death penalty)
(John Hirschauer, Real Clear Religion)

Parliament of the World’s Religions statement on the Indianapolis shooting
(Parliament of the World's Religions)

Open letter to U.S. President Biden in support of big commitments in COP26
(Parliament of the World's Religions)

Catholic foundation releases report on persecution of believers in Belarus
(Belsat)

Police in China's Chengdu detain children in Early Rain Church raid
(Radio Free Asia)

‘Tomorrow is not yours’: Extreme violence meets radical faith in Nigeria
(Mike Thom, CHVN Radio)

Religious hatred driven by weaponisation of technology
(Ruth Gledhill, The Tablet)

Turkish-backed extremists in Syria pose threat to religious freedom
(Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post)

No one should turn a blind eye to the plight Christians are experiencing today
(ADF International)

'Lifting the ban is not undoing the injustice': How Muslim groups want Biden to fight Islamophobia
(USA Today)

Photos of the Week: Racial reckonings, Sikh sorrow
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Israeli police arrest dozens in night of chaos in Jerusalem
(Joseph Krauss, Associated Press)

Mississippi city denies site approval for proposed mosque
(Associated Press)

Governor signs religious freedom bill allowing challenges
(Associated Press)

Texas ends clergy, spiritual advisers ban in death chamber
(Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press)

Board: districts must pay for 3 to attend religious schools
(Associated Press)

Florida Senate OKs bill requiring school moments of silence
(Associated Press)

The future of U.S. Evangelical Christianity (plus 10 responses)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Vow of silence? U.S. bishops are quiet on voting restrictions.
(John Gehring, Commonweal)

Alberta: Charting educational justice
(Brett Fawcett, Convivium)

Can Dave Ramsey’s ‘righteous living’ requirement stand up in court?
(Jennifer Graham, Deseret News)

In 2020, religious freedom faced a new foe: COVID-19
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

RSV, a childhood illness that receded during COVID-19, is surging in Orthodox Brooklyn
(Shira Hanau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Virginia Republicans won’t move convention voting off Shabbat
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ukrainian churches at odds over military situation
(Religiina Pravda, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Catholic news site proving to be a 'Pillar' when it comes to religion journalism
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)

New Chinese decree tells religious leaders to ‘support the Communist Party’
(Yang Ming, Voice of America)

Muslim leaders in Malaysia call for religious harmony
(International Christian Concern)

Sri Lanka arrests top Muslim leader over 2019 Easter attacks
(Bharatha Mallawarachi, Associated Press)

Ethnic engineering: Denmark’s ghetto policy
(Binoy Kampmark, International Policy Digest)

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Constitutionality of abortion: Legal analysis of the recent case in Poland
(Piotr Szymaniec, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Quebec Superior Court upholds most of religious symbols ban, but English-language schools exempt
(CBC News)

Quebec’s ban on public religious symbols largely upheld
(Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times)

Canadian trial court upholds most applications of Quebec's ban on officials wearing religious symbols
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious symbols law is cruel, but notwithstanding clause makes it legal: court
(Paul Cherry, Montreal Gazette)

Supreme Court’s COVID rulings raise questions about wider religious liberty impact, emergency procedures
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Quebec to appeal court ruling on disputed religious symbols law
(Allison Lampert, Reuters)

University of Chicago creates course on intersection between religion & law
(Becky Beaupre Gillespie, UChicago News)

Conceptualizing religious persecution as a crime against humanity
(Werner Nicolaas Nel and Michelle Coleman, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

The applicability of “grievous religious persecution” in international criminal law: Response to Werner Nicolaas Nel
(Michelle Coleman, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Japan’s Suga makes offering at war shrine but doesn’t visit
(Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press)

How Japanese women saved Shinto
(Cristian Martini Grimaldi, The Diplomat)

S. Korean, Japanese activists, religious leaders urge US to change its N. Korea strategy
(Cho Yeon-hyun, Hankyoreh)

More money to MIVILUDES: The governmental anti-cult mission that his former member, sociologist Olivier Bobineau, denounced as a “police des esprits” will receive € 1 million per year.
(Patricia Duval, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

Weekly highlight #152: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: COVID-19 and Ramadan; more on faith support for COVID-19 vaccinations
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)

Corruption and COVID-19: Old problems, new challenges?
(Eduardo António da Silva Figueiredo, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Don’t go down the road of hate speech: LWF General Secretary says dialogue and cooperation must prevail in debates over immigration requirements
(The Lutheran World Federation)

Britain’s changing religious vote: why Catholics are leaving Labour and Conservatives are hoovering up Christian support
(Stuart Fox and Ekaterina Kolpinskaya, The Conversation)

Episcopal Church releases racial audit of leadership, citing nine patterns of racism in church culture
(David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service)

Christian college sues HUD over interpretation of Fair Housing Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Missouri college challenges Biden order that opens dorms, showers to opposite sex
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

The Syrian uprising: A decade on
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)

Nigeria's 'atheist with a cause' still in jail after a year
(The Straits Times)

Religious freedom groups lament rising Nigerian persecution
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)

Asia Bibi appeals for the repeal of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Criminalised, killed and cursed: The plight of Pakistan’s Ahmadiyya community
(Ellis Heasley, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)

Croatia offers scholarships to young persecuted Christians
(Catholic News Agency)

USCIRF reiterates its call to urgently increase the refugee ceiling
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

States of emergency: The pandemic, protests, and the persistent assault on global free expression
(Pen America's Freedom to Write Index)

ISIS executes a Coptic Christian in North Sinai: he had financed the construction of a church
(Asia News)

5th Circuit remands religious medical providers' challenge to anti-discrimination rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Faith leaders hope Chauvin verdict lifts racial justice work
(David Crary and Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)

Sri Lankan archbishop asks Muslims to reject extremism
(Krishan Francis, Associated Press)

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