Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 8 March 2021
“Being different is considered a crime”: The story of a Muslim woman in Cuba
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Pakistani women protest 'patriarchy pandemic'
(Farah Bahgat, Deutsche Welle)
Jane Wise on International Women's Day
(Twitter, International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
WEBINAR, 8 March 2021 (5PM GMT): Turning Her Body into a Weapon of Persecution/Genocide: Rape and Sexual Violence Against Uyghur Women
(The Coalition for Genocide Response)
March 8 is International Women's Day - Commentary on India, Niger, Iraq, North Korea
(Weekly Bulletin, United Sates Institute of Peace)
EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?
(Dapo Akande, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Is Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 shot morally compromised? It's complicated
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Unplugged)
A third of Gen Z doesn't trust people of other religions, but they're willing to try
(Kevin Singer and Josh Packard, Religion Unplugged)
The state of religion and young people 2020
(Springtide Research Institute)
When your church sees medicine as weak faith: Kenyan Christians wrestle with cancer and God
(Diana Mwango, Religion Unplugged)
EEOC General Counsel fired by Biden
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
9th Circuit refuses emergency injunction for Apache tribal members
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Articles of interest - 8 March 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Massachusetts Supreme Court says social work prof not covered by the ministerial exception
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
State's top court says Gordon College professor not a 'minister'
(Paul Leighton, Salem News)
8th Circuit upholds Missouri immunization opt-out form
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Eighth Circuit tosses challenge to Missouri opt-out rules for vaccines
(Joe Harris, Courthouse News Service)
Swiss narrowly back proposal to ban face coverings in public
(Geir Moulson, Associated Press)
Swiss ‘burka ban’ accepted by slim majority
(Domhnall O'Sullivan, Swiss Info)
Swiss voters approve burka ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
UN religious freedom expert blasts Swiss move to ban burqa
(Daily Sabah)
Russia: Deteriorating religious freedom situation denounced at the OSCE
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
#ItsTheirLand: Unprecedented reaction makes voice of persecuted Bahá’ís in an Iranian village global
(Bahá’í World News Service)
UN expert warns counter-terror policies led to 'further stigmatisation' of Muslims
(Areeb Ullah, Middle East Eye)
Church confirms release of pastor threatened with execution in Nigeria
(Morning Star News)
21 women imprisoned from underground church in Eritrea raids freed
(Libby Giesbrecht, CHVN Radio)
Polish women mark Women’s Day protesting abortion ban
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
LGBTQ rights bill ignites debate over religious liberty
(David Crary, Associated Press)
Sri Lanka Catholics mark ‘Black Sunday’ for Easter victims
(Krishan Francis, Associated Press)
Pope says he’s not afraid of being called ‘heretic’ for outreach to Islam
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Where IS ruled, pope calls on Christians to forgive, rebuild
(Nicole Winfield and Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
After historic meeting with pope, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric says religious authorities have role in protecting Christians
(Associated Press)
Shiite powerhouse al-Sistani helped shape today’s Iraq
(Associated Press)
Protesters say out with Cyprus’ ‘Satanic’ Eurovision entry
(Menelaos Hadjicostis, Associated Press)
Religion and gender equality – A way forward
(Sofia Caseiro, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
Pope meets father of drowned child whose image captured imaginations
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Clarence Thomas delivers decisive ruling in religious-free-speech case
(Dan McLaughlin, National Review)
Moral constitutionalism
(Gerard V. Bradley, First Things)
VCL & AN v UK - Prosecution of trafficking victims breaches Article 4 ECHR
(Colin Gregory, ECHR Blog)
Equal protection in Virginia and free exercise in Maine
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUSblog)
An index of L&RUK posts – Reduction of carbon emissions
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 7th March
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Pope Francis denounces religious fanaticism in city reduced to rubble when ISIS persecuted Christians and other faiths
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Religion Watch, Volume 36 No. 4
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Should religions freedom be diluted into a general freedom of conscience law? Spain opens the debate
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Hope at the end of the tunnel: Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement and moving toward a more inclusive Myanmar (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Khin Mai Aung, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A Burmese tragedy of power (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Michał Lubina, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Finding a Buddhist middle way in post-coup Myanmar: Ethnocentric nationalism or democratic reform? (Responding to: Buddhism, ethnicity, and nationalism in the Myanmar coup)
(Paul Fuller, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
India sets up holding center for Rohingya in Kashmir
(Associated Press)
Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 passed in Assembly
(Times Now News)
Friday, 5 March 2021
APPG launches commentary on the current state of FORB
(All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
The Best and Worst ECtHR judgments of 2020 are…
(Strasbourg Observers)
Only love, no jihad, say Kolkata’s interfaith couples
(Priyanka Dasgupta, Times of India)
Revisiting Jericho: The Biblical exegesis of violence in America and Israel
(Rachel Havrelock, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Faith and belief accommodation at work: More than the right thing to do
(Paul Lambert, Freedom Forum Institute)
IPDC: Three years of dialogue and cooperation in the Arab World
(The Interreligious Platform for Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arab World (IPDC), KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
5th Circuit hears oral arguments on enjoining health care anti-discrimination rule
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Panel asked to OK injunction against vacated anti-bias health care rule
(Sabrina Canfield, Courthouse News Service)
Bangladesh: Two Protestant churches targeted, attacked and ransacked
(Sumon Corraya, Asia News)
Ahead of Pope visit, survivor recalls Iraq church massacre
(Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
Pope’s upcoming visit brings attention to the dwindling population of Christians in Iraq
(Ramazan Kılınç, The Conversation)
RFI joins discussion hosted by Al-Rafidain Center for Dialogue on the Papal visit to Iraq
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Photos of the week: Francis in Iraq, unrest in Myanmar
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Regional and world church bodies urge respect for will of Myanmar people
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope honors massacre victims at Baghdad church
(Associated Press)
Pope urges Iraq to embrace its Christians on historic visit
(Nicole Winfield and Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
A timeline of disaster and displacement for Iraqi Christians
(Associated Press)
In Iraq, Pope condemns ‘murder, exile, terrorism, and oppression’ in name of religion
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Iraqi Christians in Germany have high hopes for Pope Francis' visit to their old home
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
Pope’s planned visit to Iraq, amid pandemic, raises questions of timing
(Jason Horowitz, The New York Times)
Pope Francis in Iraq for 'difficult journey' to bolster Christians and peace
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Agriculture Department issues temporary reprieve for sacred Apache land after federal court rejected tribe’s religious freedom claim
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Angolan bishops warn of deteriorating social situation
(Catholic News Service)
Religious liberty hangs in the balance this summer
(Josh Hammer, Deseret News)
Draft laws on collaboration registered in the Parliament: religious organizations to be also penalized
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Extremism case opened against 5 members of Jehovah's Witnesses in Syktyvkar
(Interfax-Religion)
Disputed respite care for Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys: A and B
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
We hope this review on Get refusal in the UK will lead to a mindset shift
(Gary Lesin-Davis, Jewish News)
Evangelicals are divided over the movement’s support for Donald Trump
(The Economist)
Orthodox and secular Israelis are fighting over Jewish conversion. Why?
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A healthy secularity is possible: A response to Scott Hahn and Brandon McGinley
(Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Bishops voice concern over treatment of religion in Irish reopening plan
(Catholic News Agency)
Resolution to make the Bible Tennessee's official state book returns
(WBIR)
WEBINAR, 5 March 2021 (12PM EST): Understanding Religion and Populism
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
New religious service group formed to help community
(Cindy Skop, Daily Sun)
When Covid constraints come to church
(Don Hutchinson, Convivium)
Canada: Sean Murphy’s initiative to amend the Criminal Code
(Peter Stockland, Convivium)
Religion, vaccines, medical ethics and just distribution – a Hindu perspective
(Brij Maharaj, Daily Maverick)
Anti-Muslim hatred has reached 'epidemic proportions' says UN rights expert, urging action by States
(UN News)
'Dragged in the street': Christian persecution in Tunisia still rampant decade after revolution
(Emily Wood, The Christian Post)
UN Human Rights Council 46: UK statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief
(Rita French, Gov.UK)
What’s happening in Donbas? Analysis and forecast
(Sergei Garmash, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
United Kingdom/World: APPG launches commentary on the current state of FORB
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Synod may take over property of defunct church
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Puzzling opinion dismisses suit against archdiocese and counselor on ecclesiastical abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Justices affirm dismissal of suit claiming deacon’s relationship with man’s wife led to divorce
(David Yates, Southeast Texas Record)
Washington Supreme Court rejects facial challenge to discrimination exemption for non-profits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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