Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
'Gospel Above All' drives diversity, unity, missions, abuse prevention
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)
Canada’s religious leaders should stop tolerating unjustified lockdown
(John Carpay, The Epoch Times)
Josh Hawley requests investigation of religious liberty violations by state officials
(Jon Guze, the Locker Room)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (due 10 June 2020): KAICIID Fellows Programme
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
ONLINE EVENT, 10 June 2020 (2pm EDT): Religious Responsibilities in Confronting Police Brutality
(Please RRSVP by 12:00 p.m. on June 10 to receive the Zoom link to this webinar, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture.)
WEB EVENT, 10 June 2020 (10:30 am EDT): USCIRF virtual hearing on safeguarding religious freedom in Northeast Syria
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
WEBINAR, 10 June 2020 (03:00 PM in Qatar, GMT+3, 8 am EDT): China’s Role in the MENA Region Post-COVID-19
(Adel Abdel Ghafar, Degang Sun, Emilie Tran, Yahia H. Zoubir, Zeno Leoni,, The Brookings Doha Center)
Outside-The-Box Ministry
(Sandra Blackmer, Adventist News Network)
EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement but 14 Protestants still in prison
(The 88 Project, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
ADRA Peru volunteers deliver vouchers, food kits to vulnerable families
(Rosemary Sanchez, Adventist News Network)
Programs on miscarriage, racial injustice recognized with awards
(Ellen Hostetler, Adventist News Network)
White Christians, it’s time for us to repent
(Tyler James Russell, Red Letter Christians)
United Methodist bishops affirm protests, call members to pray twice daily for 8 minutes, 46 seconds
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Trump faith advisers say the president did the right thing by visiting church
(Jace Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Litigation trends in the post COVID-19 world
(Dani Alexis Ryskamp, J.D., Expert Institute)
DC Catholic priests invited to 'prayerful protest' at White House
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Muslim World League head becomes first recipient of award uniting faiths
(Jewish News Syndicate)
Judicial restraint in the time of COVID-19?
(Karla Chaffee, RLUIPA-Defense)
COVID-19 arrests for religious gatherings in Chile
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Nepalese police arrest pastor for preaching about COVID-19
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Ban on sex offender attending church services is upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
TV pastor Jim Bakker hopes attorney general halts probe
(Associated Press)
Catholic stations in Brazil offer positive coverage for government money, report claims
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ukrainian president again asks pope to help with citizens’ release
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Swiss Guards receive formation in security, faith, chaplain says
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
France: Covid-19 – Scapegoating an Evangelical church in Mulhouse
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
German Foreign Minister’s humiliating supplication to Beijing endangers pro-democracy activist
(Aaron Rhodes, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Church participation has been declining for decades. Will the pandemic make it worse?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
God and guns: American churchgoers are packing heat and opening a new era in Christendom
(Paul Glader and Michael Ray Smith, Religion Unplugged)
In Jewish tradition, racism is a sin
(Jason Rubenstein, Forward)
New level of severity of punishment of Jehovah's Witnesses reached
(Memorial, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Crimea: Third jailing as second Jehovah's Witness jailed
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Dramatic funeral service for George Floyd: Was there Gospel in it, or only politics?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Hong Kong's religious freedom crisis takes backseat to basic journalistic norms in USA
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
China’s ‘repression against all religions continues to intensify’, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says as report devotes section to Xinjiang’s Uygurs
(Owen Churchill, South China Morning Post)
Ohio Senate unanimously passes student religious expression bill
(Laura Hancock, cleveland.com)
Indonesians remain sensitive to perceived blasphemy: YLBHI
(Budi Sutrisno, The Jakarta Post)
Race relations in light of Islamic teachings
(Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Michigan)
Italy’s homophobia law threatens pulpit
(Jules Gomes, Church Militant)
US watchdog group: Turkey’s actions in Syria endanger religious diversity
(Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Tuesday, 9 June 2020
Gay rights, religion, and what’s wrong with principles
(Andrew Koppelman, OUPblog - Religion)
DAILY HIGHLIGHT #75: The COVID-19 Vaccine Challenge: Faith Fears?
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
USCIRF commends Bahrain for release of prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
USCIRF releases new report about religious prisoners of conscience in Vietnam
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Religion Photos of the Week - 6 June 2020
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Nigeria: Alleged Christian persecution: Presidency accuses IPOB of misleading US, UK
(Omololu Ogunmade, This Day)
Latest on the Lockdown Challenge in the UK courts
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Interview: Leading Sant’Egidio’s Prayer for Peaceful Coexistence in US, Cardinal Farrell prays for unity & against division
(Deborah Castellano Lubov, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Getting ready for July 4th: What enduring values unite Americans of all religious outlooks?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
A moment we must face: Confronting a perennial sign of inhumanity
(Ganoune Diop, Adventist Review Online)
Round Up 8.6.2020 – George Floyd protests spread worldwide, Hong Kong concerns rise and the UK eases coronavirus lockdown…
(Thomas Hayes, UK Human Rights Blog)
Jewish American Heritage Month: annual celebration of Jewish American achievements and contributions to American culture
(Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice)
Will COVID-19 increase religious hostilities and discrimination?
(Marie Juul Petersen & Claire Thomas & Sajjad Hassan, OpenGlobalRights)
Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak
(BBC News)
Notre-Dame fire: Work starts to remove melted scaffolding
(BBC)
George Floyd: Black Lives Matter protests go global
(BBC News)
Minnesota Amish must install septic tanks
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Minnesota Court of Appeals upholds ruling in Amish gray-water case
(Emily Cutts, Rochester Post Bulletin)
Catholic peace activist sentenced to time served for trespassing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge sentences 80-year-old Catholic activist for breaking into nuclear submarine base
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
ONLINE EVENT, 9 June 2020 (5 pm EDT) : China at a Crossroads: Standing up for Human Rights During the Pandemic
(Organizer, Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies & Raoul Wallenberg Centre For Human Rights)
ZOOM WEBINAR: 9 June 2020 (1 pm EDT): Religious Studies and the 2020 Election: Tips for Sharing Scholarship with the Public
(David Campell, Iva E. Carruthers, Robert P. Jones, Terrence Johnson, Vincent Lloyd, Melissa Rogers, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Minister for Human Rights chairs coronavirus roundtable with faith leaders
(Department for International Development, Gov.UK)
2 men say hospital switched them at birth 80 years ago, sue diocese
(Associated Press)
Controlling thought: Changes in usage and semantics, when imposed, are usually exercises in power.
(Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty)
God has ‘removed’ coronavirus, Tanzania’s president claims
(Tom Odula, Associated Press)
Turkey seeks 191 soldiers for alleged tie to US-based cleric
(d, Associated Press)
Necessary bluntness: Archbishop Gregory’s stand for integrity
(John Gehring, Commonweal)
UK bishops urge changes to government’s immigration bill
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Spain begins trial for killings of 5 Jesuits in El Salvador
(Aritz Parra, Associated Press)
The U.S. must use the new Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act to sanction Chinese officials for religious persecution
(Nury Turkel, TIME)
Uzbekistan: When will draft religion law be made public?
(Mushfig Bayram, Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
When churches reopen, don’t sing or shake hands, do make sermons short, says new guide
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
With their annual meeting canceled, RNS (and others) try to assess Southern Baptist conflicts
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Funerals, Holy Communion and ordinations – further advice
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Outdoor weddings in Northern Ireland - "modified rapture"
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Faith leaders hold local Black Lives Matter vigil in South Africa to protest lockdown deaths
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
Argentina adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The dangerous power of the photo op
(Rachel McBride Lindsey, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Satanist’s religious rights not impaired by abortion law
(Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law)
Satanist loses challenge to Missouri abortion consent law
(Joe Harris, Courthouse News Service)
Afghanistan should ward off pervert / militaristic Islamic teaching by establishing enlightened religious education centers
(Mohammed Gul Sahibbzada, MENAFN)
Egypt Islamic body causes uproar by declaring Ottomans' Istanbul seizure 'occupation'
(Ragip Soylu, Middle East Eye)
Gantz asks High Court for delay on passing ultra-Orthodox military draft law
(The Times of Israel)
What Ministers, rabbis and imams preached last weekend about the George Floyd Protests
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Monday, 8 June 2020
Articles of interest - 8 June 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Protest and the raging Messianic: How do our responses to pestilence and protest reflect the value of human life in our religious imagination?
(Foster J. Pinkney, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Vandals and the hands of Christ in the world: Exploring what Christian theology might have to say about the looting and vandalism that has accompanied many protests around the country
(John Sianghio, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
We need art to help us heal, now more than ever: An invitation to process pain and to heal through the viewing and contemplation of contemporary Black art
(Aneesah Ettress, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Protests, looting, and iconoclams: Considering how Christian acts of iconoclasm may illuminate the aims and effects of property damage and looting during protests
(Nathan Hardy, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Asking the right questions about riots: Contemplating the questions we should and shouldn't be asking about riots by looking to the example of Martin Luther King Jr.
(Russell P. Johnson, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
A welcome development – the National Commission on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Sudan
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Trump’s use of religion follows playbook of authoritarian-leaning leaders the world over
(Laura R. Olson, The Conversation)
China: Believers forced to choose between faith or survival
(Tang Zhe, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Trump favorability slips among white Catholic and non-college Americans during national unrest
(PRRI)
Race, justice, and religious liberty in the world
(Ken Blackwell, The Patriot Post)
Bill would make small changes to Colorado’s immunization exemption program, but gets big push back
(Taylor Allen, Colorado Public Radio)
A culture of impunity: religious discrimination in Mexico
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Law and religion round-up – 7th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Jihadism, a growing reality in Mozambique
(Jonatán Soriano, Evangelical Focus Europe)
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