Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 19 February 2021
Trump impeachment lawyer interviewed about his Jewish religious observance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EEOC lawsuit on behalf of fired Seventh Day Adventist employee settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Frito-Lay settles EEOC religious discrimination lawsuit
(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
By debasing religion, Canadian intellectuals are playing a dangerous game
(Conrad Black, National Post)
Canada: "conscience rights" failing to argue against MAiD bill
(Peter Stockland, Convivium)
Canadian court refuses to order churches to follow health orders pending hearing on constitutionality
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Canada lawmakers to vote on accusing China of genocide
(Rob Gillies, Associated Press)
Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as patriarch
(Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press)
Iraqi official says top Shi’a cleric won’t sign fraternity doc with pope
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Kemp: Bar Georgia governors from limiting religious services
(Associated Press)
Faith, medical leaders collaborate to get COVID-19 vaccine in arms of more people
(Yonat Shimron, Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Disputes over church property and ACCA ambiguity
(John Elwood, SCOTUSblog)
Belarus: Bailiffs, police evict Church
(Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)
Ryan Burge day: Political tensions rise as secularism grows (yet faith numbers stay strong)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Employment law and religious opposition to homosexuality: Omooba
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Vatican says it won't punish those who refuse COVID-19 vaccine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Decree of the President of the Vatican City Commission on Public Health Emergency on vaccination obligation of employees (Italian)
(DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
Anti-vax at the Vatican? You might lose your job
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Toward a new jurisprudential consensus: Common good originalism
(Josh Hammer, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
India: Government policies, actions target minorities
(Human Rights Watch)
Delhi High Court directs authorities to register marriage of interfaith couple
(Poonam Sharma, India Today)
India: father, brother among 4 held for killing woman for wanting to marry outside religion
(The Indian Express)
A year later, UAE govt grants birth certificate to interfaith couple’s child
(Hindustan Times)
India: Hindu nationalists injure Christians in ‘pre-planned’ attack on church construction site
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
Catholics fearful over 'hounding' of young Indian activists
(Bijay Kumar Minj, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Development, good governance don't know religion, caste, creed: PM Modi
(Deccan Herald)
Photos of the Week: Serbian Orthodox patriarch, Pachamama offerings
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
French Minister of Interior apologises for “unfortunate” remarks against evangelicals
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
Algeria: About the criminalization of freedom of expression on religious issues
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Kashmir's status change poses risk to minorities: UN
(Peter Kenny, Anadolu Agency)
Glasgow priest launches legal action over Covid church closures
(Scottish Legal News)
Why are Mr. Bean, and Christian churches, opposing Scotland’s new hate speech law?
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Charting the legality of religious-based exemptions to COVID-19 vaccinations (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(James G. Hodge, Jr. and Emily Carey, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christian ethics and global equity in COVID-19 vaccine rollout (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(Doug Fountain, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christian morality and the COVID-19 vaccine (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(Kevin Wm. Wildes, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Having “faith” in vaccination (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(Ben Kasstan, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Insights on vaccine hesitancy from religious people’s view of science (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(John H. Evans, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
On life, grace, and vaccines: a sacramental approach to public health (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(David C. McDuffie, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination: Muslim views (Responding to: Religion, bioethics, and COVID-19 vaccination)
(Abdulaziz Sachedina, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Bilad al-Brazil: The Importance of West African Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective
(Ayodeji Ogunnaike, MDPI)
China betrays its deal with the Vatican
(Nina Shea, National Review)
US reintroduces bill to ban forced-labour products from Xinjiang
(Aljazeera)
Tanzania’s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb
(Associated Press)
Scotland: confusion over free speech protection on religion in hate crime bill
(National Secular Society)
Remarks of The Most Rev Dr Antje Jackelén Archbishop, Primate of the Church of Sweden, at the High Level Dialogue on Multi-Religious Response to Covid-19
(The Most Rev Dr Antje Jackelén Archbishop, Religions for Peace)
Thursday, 18 February 2021
WEBINAR, 18 February 2021 (12:30PM EST): Engaging with Difference, Religious Pluralism, and Building a Tolerant Civil Society: A Conversation with Adam Seligman
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
WEBINAR, 18 February 2021 (16.30 CET): Vaccination – Curse or blessing? A spiritual and theological approach to Covid-19 vaccination
(Conference of European Churches)
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Sisters and brothers, welcome home: Catholic perspective on refugee resettlement
(Greg Marcar, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Scotland: hate crime bill amendment to protect free speech on religion approved
(National Secular Society)
WEBINAR, 17 February 2021 (10AM EST): Building Better Together: An Interactive Conversation on the Future of Our Movement, Our Communities, and Our Work
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
WEBINAR, 17 February 2021 (1PM EST): Israel’s Religious Soft Power: A Conversation with Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Interfaith relations: In Berlin, a dream of three faiths worshipping in one building meets reality
(Ken Chitwood, Sight Magazine)
To understand America, you need to understand the Black Church
(Henry Louis Gates Jr., Time)
‘The Black Church’ explores the ‘most important institution’ in African American history
(Christina Sturdivant Sani, The Washington Post Religion)
One-fifth of Black Americans not affiliated with any religion, straying from majority Black churches
(Mattie Townson, Religion Unpugged)
Black History Month: 7 pioneering African American clergy
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Why the Black Church matters to African Americans living in Utah
(Trent Toone, Deseret News)
Faith among Black Americans
(Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life)
Survey: Black Americans attend church and pray more often
(David Crary, Associated Press)
Can I get an amen? Black Americans’ faith, religious practice detailed in Pew study
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Four years, no answers: The disappearance of Pastor Raymond Koh
(Mervyn Thomas, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Max Lucado apologizes for past comments on homosexuality after outrage at National Cathedral
(David Paulsen, Episcopal News Service)
Why Ethiopia’s one-year-old hate speech law is off the mark
(Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew, The Conversation)
Five year jail penalties for Falun Gong practitioners in Liaoning, Jiangxi
(Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
CCP cracks down on Association of Disciples in Tianjin
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Church of Almighty God refugee cases discussed in new book
(Alessandro Amicarelli, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Is religious liberty a shield or a sword?
(PRRI)
Americans divided on letting people skip COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)
The merits of Mitt Romney's pro-family policy
(Erika Bachiochi, First Things)
The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision (forthcoming)
(Erika Bachiochi, University of Notre Dame Press)
Joe Biden is restoring the White House Faith Office, but it's no cause for alarm
(Hemant Mehta, Patheos: The Friendly Atheist)
Who are the Uighurs, and what’s happening to them in China?
(Eva Dou, The Washington Post)
The digital divide Is giving American churches hell: Covid-19 has upended churchgoing in the US. Like so much else with the pandemic, the impacts are not felt equally.
(Arielle Pardes, Wired)
Pakistan: Two Christians charged under blasphemy law for distributing Christian literature
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Pakistan police seek arrest of 2 Christians over blasphemy
(Associated Press)
Multan peace committee takes multiple initiatives for restoration of Holi-origin Prahladpuri temple (Pakistan)
(Associated Press of Pakistan)
Pakistan: Minister stresses promotion of harmony, peace
(The News International)
Is begging speech? Assessing Judge Keller’s concurring opinion in Lăcătuş v. Switzerland
(Dimitrios Kagiaros, Strasbourg Observers)
Editorial: A path to unity, Mr. President: The Fairness for All Act
(Tanner Bean, Public Square Magazine)
Conversion therapy laws: Standing with Jesus against injustice (Australia)
(Patrick Parkinson, Eternity News)
Internet evangelism? For clergy, that's a good news-bad news discussion right now
(Terry Mattingly, OnReligion)
“We are not safe anymore”: Burma’s coup shatters hopes for democracy, religious tolerance and human rights
(Benedict Rogers, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Americans say religion is more central to their identity than politics
(Ryan Burge, Religion Unplugged)
Myanmar's asylum seekers in Malaysia face uncertain deportation to military regime
(Alexandra Radu, Religion Unplugged)
Pew report findings will validate faith of some, or cause soul-searching
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
New website aims to educate, offer Catholic response to gender ideology
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Holy Week 2021: Vatican issues guidelines for Catholics amid ongoing COVID-19 restrictions
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Bangladeshi Christians concerned by government inaction after church attack
(Catholic News Agency)
Belgium: A criminal case against Jehovah's Witnesses in Gent
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Belgium and the Netherlands see rapid rise in euthanasia and assisted suicide cases
(Catholic News Agency)
Report: Vatican not mentioned in China’s new rules on bishop appointments
(Catholic News Agency)
Grand Mufti of Egypt says OK for Muslims to build churches
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Gazans outraged over million-dollar mosque reconstruction
(Rasha Abou Jalal, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Russia plays up ties to Syrian Christians
(Khaled al-Khateb, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Islamic State escalates attacks in Syrian desert
(Sultan al-Kanj, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
C of E goes online for Ash Wednesday
(Tim Wyatt, Church Times)
Religious News From Around the Wed February 15, 2021
(World Religion News)
Supreme Court allows pastoral comfort for condemned in execution chamber
(Becket: Press Release)
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