Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 18 May 2020
Pope joins interfaith prayer for end to pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, The Tablet UK)
The Black Church and LGBTQ people: Lessons learned from #dems2020
(Lerone Jonathan Wilder and Myriam Renaud, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Coronavirus puts 4 million girls at risk of child marriage
(Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
Portugal’s ruling party wants to limit Jewish law of return policy
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part II
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Do we need an International Commission of Inquiry for COVID-19? Part I
(Michael A Becker, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
The hidden victims off Covid19: Human trafficking and modern day slavery
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Yet another girl in Pakistan abducted, forcibly converted and forcibly ‘married’ to her abductor
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
The International Criminal Court is moving forward with investigations into the situation in Afghanistan
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Access to healthcare and social distance during COVID pandemic cannot stop at the prison gate
(Maïté De Rue, Strasbourg Observers)
Me and We: Individual rights, common good and coronavirus
(Ted Anthony, Associated Press, Real Clear Politics)
Iran sentences French academic Fariba Adelkhah to five years in prison
(AFP, France 24)
Church Law Society Newsletter Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro, No. 4/2020
(P. Jiří Rajmund Tretera OP, Záboj Horák, et al., English Version)
Daily Highlight #62: COVID-19 and Religious Freedom in Latin America
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Court is critical of church's litigation tactics in challenge to covid-19 order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Louisiana limits on church services upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court strikes down North Carolina limits on worship services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Federal judge blocks NC governor’s restrictions on religious services
(Virginia Bridges, The News & Observer)
British government task force to develop rules for reopening of houses of worship
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New taskforce developing plan to reopen places of worship in the UK
(Stephen Greenhalgh and Robert Jenrick, Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government)
Pastor in Nepal re-arrested on new series of charges to keep him in jail, sources say
(Morning Star News)
LGBTQI+ advocates in Taiwan call for full recognition of same-sex marriage involving foreigners
(SBS News)
Albanian psychologists ban so-called conversion therapy
(Associated Press)
‘Primary schools not required to teach LGBT issues’, UK's Ofsted reminded
(The Christian Institute)
Italy opens churches as virus rules dictate how to eat, pray
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Jewish extremist convicted in arson that killed Arab toddler
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
‘GOD TV’ spat exposes tensions between Israel, evangelicals
(Joseph Krauss, Associated Press)
As mosques reopen in West Africa, COVID-19 fears grow
(Krista Larson, Associated Press)
Tibetans demand China disclose fate of boy taken away in ’95
(Associated Press)
AP PHOTOS: Shrine in Japan offers solace to those at home
(Associated Press)
Sacred spaces: A visit to Wisconsin’s Man Mound
(Jacob Riyeff, Commonweal)
Brazilian Church ‘on the vanguard’ of fight against COVID-19 in São Paulo
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic groups convey hopes, concerns about U.S.-British trade talks
(Nick Mayrand, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Montenegro: Coronavirus ban feeds clash between state and Serbian Orthodox Church
(Zoran Arbutina, Deutsche Welle)
Judge nixes Oregon governor’s coronavirus-related restrictions on religious gatherings
(Mairead McArdle, National Review)
Book review: Religious liberty, natural law, and liberalism
(Steven Grosby, Law & Liberty)
Eight Jehovah's Witnesses are subjects of criminal case in Siberian city
(Sibir.Realii, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Putin recommends Russian Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr at home
(Interfax-Religion)
LGBT activists in Georgia hold annual rally online due to pandemic
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: On trial despite age, sickness
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)
Global religious groups say COVID-19 presents 'prophetic moment' for governments on healthcare
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Law and religion round-up – 17th May
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Pope St. John Paul II and religious freedom: An interview with George Weigel
(Religious Freedom Institute)
An Army chaplain's reflections on Armed Forces Day
(Graham B. Glover, Religious Freedom Institute)
Atheism to orthodoxy: Russia’s convoluted relationship with God
(Julietta Bisharyan, The California Aggie)
A coalition that will escalate Jewish disunity
(Uri Rege, The Jerusalem Post)
Sri Lankan officials stoke Covid-19 communal hate: 11 years after civil war’s end, no reconciliation efforts
(Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch)
Repatriated Muslims say diet at Joburg quarantine site is anti-religion
(Tebogo Monama, IOL News)
French government ordered to lift ban on religious meetings
(Agence France-Presse)
The Prophecies of Q: American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase
(Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic)
Playing the ostrich; or, How not to think about QAnon
(Richard A. Rosengarten, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Sunday, 17 May 2020
On the first Sunday congregations could reopen, a church called Hopeful Baptist lived up to its name
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Daily Highlight #60: Advocating for People Forced to Move: The Vatican’s Voice
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
COVID-19 and common humanity
(Brian Bird, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Futility in the face of pandemic
(Daniel Gilman, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Shadow and light in the post-COVID Church
(Peter Stockland and Peter Menzies, Convivium: Canada's Premier Hub for Faith in Common Life)
Women’s work boosts middle-class incomes but creates a family time squeeze that needs to be eased
(Isabel V. Sawhill and Katherine Guyot, The Brookings Gender Equality Series)
After recent violence, is Afghanistan’s peace process dead?
(Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)
Serb church priests freed from detention in Montenegro
(Associated Press)
Charges dropped against Florida pastor over stay-home order
(Associated Press)
Churches sue over North Carolina COVID-19 order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Lawsuit filed to block Gov. Cooper’s order on churches
(Ken Lemon, WSOC TV)
North Korea 'church' doesn't look like any other but it exists: watchdog
(Caleb Parke, Fox News)
Bulgaria: new law poses threat to parental rights
(ADF International)
UK taskforce on reopening places of worship
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ukraine’s Catholic prelates condemn surrogacy as a ‘moral evil’
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
New emergency aid bill aims to cut most benefits to Catholic schools
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)
Patriarchate agrees to remove Stalin from church building
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Hungary contributes money to restore churches destroyed by illegal immigrants on Greek island
(Paul Antonopoulos, Greek City Times)
Iran’s clerics have bungled their coronavirus response, stoking doubts about their rule
(Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post)
China’s pandemic of religious persecution
(David Curry, The Christian Post)
How will antisemitism and Zionism look after the coronavirus?
(Shlomo Fischer, The Jerusalem Post)
Understanding radicalisation and building resilience to counteract polarisation
(European Commission CORDIS)
European court says Muslim inmate's religious rights were infringed in Russian prison
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
COVID-19 much more fatal for men, especially taking age into account
(Richard V. Reeves and Tiffany Ford, Brookings)
More women than men are dying of coronavirus in Massachussetts. Why is that?
(Rebecca Ostriker, The Boston Globe)
Friday, 15 May 2020
Berkley Forum COVID-19 Blogs
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Daily Highlight #59: Imams Who Oppose Pakistan's Coronavirus Orders
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Religious Liberty and the Corona Crisis before the German Constitutional Court
(Justin Collings, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Giving back to those who serve: Caring for our faith leaders
(Melinda Moore, Glen Bloomstrom, Religion News Service)
Adoption, culture, religious background and Article 8 ECHR: Abdi Ibrahim
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
ATV ZRT v. Hungary: a missed opportunity to address Hungary’s oppressive Media Act
(Nina de Puy Kamp, Strasbourg Observers)
Daily Highlight #54 Digital Divides, Knowledge, and Empowerment: The COVID-19 Crisis and Black Churches
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Thursday, 14 May 2020
USINDO's WEBINAR on Religion and COVID Pandemic (recorded May 7, 2020)
(YouTube Video, The U.S. - Indonesia Society (USINDO))
PaRD-WEBINAR on COVID-19: A test for our humanity (recorded 12 May 2020)
(Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson, Jørgen Thomsen, Rev. Kyoichi Sugino, Mercy Niwe, International Partership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
When will we care about domestic violence?
(Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books)
Daily HIghlight #58: Interfaith Youth Mobilize against COVID-19 in Kenya
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Daily Highlight #57 | Masks and Niqabs: Face Coverings and Religious Freedom in France
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
BROADCAST, 14 May 2020: Inspiration & Hope: An Interfaith Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
(The Parliament of the World's Religions, Facebook and YouTube)
Daily Highlight #56: Catholic Nursing Homes: Faith, Financial Struggles, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Pope joins interreligious prayer, begging God to end pandemic
(Cindy Wooden, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Jewish rights group urges ban of pro-Nazi commemoration
(Associated Press)
Spain gives Sephardic Jews extra time for citizenship suits
(Associated Press)
Montenegro: Dozens detained in clashes over priests’ arrests
(Predrag Milic, Associated Press)
China: Tibet anti-crime campaign silences dissent
(Human Rights Watch)
Bigotry mars return of Italy hostage who converted to Islam
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Balloons bring Bibles to North Korea
(Male Marvin, Uganda Christian News)
Same-sex marriage will be legal in Costa Rica on May 26. Some legislators hope to delay it
(Alejandro Zúñiga, The Tico Times)
LGBT people complain at rainbow being used to thank the NHS
(The Christian Institute)
Call for Westminster to put abortion legislation responsibility into NI hands
(Belfast Telegraph)
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