Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 25 April 2020
In Albania, Ramadan under lockdown revives memories of communism
(France 24)
In Pakistan's fight against Covid-19, religion might not be helping
(Huma Yusuf, CNN International)
Sunday Best: A celebration of religious diversity in the English capital
(Olivia Campbell, Independent)
'This is exactly what we want to be doing': A friar's life in Brooklyn during coronavirus
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
You must live the faith to share it well, Pope Francis says
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Trump signs $484 billion coronavirus relief bill into law
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Colo. pregnancy center sees gains in support despite losing lawsuit against abortion activist group
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Minority council potentially to be formed
Easter bombing survivors in Sri Lanka continue slow recovery one year after attacks
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Egypt walks back COVID restrictions over Ramadan
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Saudi Arabia abolishes flogging
(Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Iraq's health system meets the challenge of coronavirus
(Lujain Elbaldawi, Al-Monitor)
Friday, 24 April 2020
Live Video Replay CLE, 24 April 2020 • COVID-19 Insurance Suits: Insurance Coverage Issues Raised by Coronavirus Losses
(Federal Bar Association)
Faith Communities Earth Day campaign
(Faith Communities)
A priority in a pandemic: The vulnerable first
(Editoral Board, The Christian Science Monitor)
Religious Freedom and Gender Equality: Reflections on the Recent UN Special Rapporteur’s Report
(Eugenia Relaño Pastor, Mine Yildirim, Robin Fretwell Wilson and Tanner Bean, Montserrat Gas-Aixendri, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
Articles of interest - 20 April 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A butcher by name, this Muslim surgeon saves lives across battle lines
(Ken Chitwood, Religion Unplugged)
Wondering where God is during this pandemic? (On Queen Elizabeth)
(Terry Mattingly, Religion Unplugged)
Muted celebrations as Britain's Queen Elizabeth turns 94
(Reuters)
Texas: Hotze's legal fight against Harris County stay-at-home order to continue in state district court
(Jasper Scherer and Robert Downen, Houston Chronicle)
USCIRF calls for release of the Panchen Lama
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
USCIRF commends U.S. Holocaust Museum spotlight on China
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Atheist firefighter's hostile work environment claim can proceed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
7th Circuit dismisses Satanist's challenge to bigamy, adultery and fornication laws
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
President Trump issues message of good wishes as Ramadan begins
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Presidential message on Ramadan, 2020
(The White House)
Nigeria’s Kano State Governor converts Christian under-age girl to Islam
(Julia Bicknell, World Watch Monitor)
Canadian Army bans use of male and female pronouns
(The Christian Institute)
Mississippi city revises limit on drive-up church amid virus
(Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press)
Updates on religious liberty lawsuits over stay-at-home orders
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Catholic agencies sign Climate Compact to help combat climate change
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
20 percent of church entities that applied received SBA loans to maintain staff
(Dennis Sadowski, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Trump Administration helps churches survive shutdowns
(Brian Burch, Real Clear Religion)
Controversy in Russia over church of the military
(Echo of Moscow, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Peskov not commenting on reports on use of Putin's image in decoration of main church of Russian Armed Forces
(Interfax-Religion)
The Church of England is going up against ExxonMobil on climate change. Can it win?
(Katherine Dunn, Fortune)
The rising cost of religious freedom in Vietnam
(Anurima Bhargava and Harley Rouda, The Hill)
Questioning Arief Budiman’s religion
(Abd Rohim Ghazali, The Jakarta Post)
Pakistan’s government is caught between a mosque and a hard place
(Michael Kugelman, Foreign Policy)
Tajikistan tells farmers to avoid ramadan fast, cites disease and need to work
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
New York City to provide 5L free halal meals during Ramzan
(India Post)
Americans are divided by religion on who should get critical care if there is a shortage of ventilators
(Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
‘Never mentioned religion, my side not heard,’ says Mumbai man held for refusing parcel by Muslim delivery boy
(Harshil Mehta, Swarajya)
Arrested Catholic lawyer warns of Chinese repression in Hong Kong
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Following Trump's halt to US immigration, bishops call for solidarity
(Catholic News Agency)
Texas ends emergency ban on elective abortions, but questions remain
(Catholic News Agency)
Chinese Communist Party 'is the most serious virus of all,' human rights activist says
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Scottish bishop: Permission for wholly at-home medical abortion is ideological
(Catholic News Agency)
Togo bishops decry arrest of opposition leader
(Catholic News Agency)
Italian cardinal calls for restoration of public Masses and church funerals
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Standing for life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic
(Christian Headlines)
President Donald Trump will try to delay the election, Joe Biden predicts
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Conservative group calls for 'reopen church sunday'
(Jack Jenkins, Christian Headlines)
Pakistan's most oppressed and the COVID-19 pandemic
(International Christian Concern)
Women, children face increased risk of abuse during Mideast lockdowns
(Al-Monitor)
Israel weighs strategic implications of coronavirus crisis
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor)
Intel: Biden vows to back Armenian genocide resolution as president
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor)
Coronavirus reveals Palestinian economic dependence on Israel
(Adnan Abu Amer, Al-Monitor)
Justice for genocide: Yazidis hopeful as Islamic State trial opens in Germany
(Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al-Monitor)
An evangelical Princeton PhD student explains why Christian should care about climate change
(Meagan Clark, Religion Unplugged)
Is the Russian Orthodox Church really pro-life?
(Andrew Sorokowski, RISU Column)
Thursday, 23 April 2020
ONLINE EVENT, 23 April 2020 (GMT-04:00): Order After Conflict: The State, Custom, and Sharia in Post-war Chechnya
(Elliott School of International Affairs (Internal), The Geroge Washington University)
WEBINAR, 23 April 2020 (3 pm Brussels - GMT+2)—COVID-19, RELIGION, and BELIEF Series: Episode 3, COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Civil Society Organizations' Perspective
(Judd Birdsall, Rachel Bayani, Christen Broecker, Giovanni Gaetani, Revd Dr Patrick Roger Schnabel)
WEBINAR, 23 April 2020 (9 am EDT)—COVID-19, RELIGION, and BELIEF Series: Episode 3, COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Civil Society Organizations' Perspective
(Judd Birdsall, Rachel Bayani, Christen Broecker, Giovanni Gaetani, Revd Dr Patrick Roger Schnabel)
WEBINAR, 23 April 2020 (3 pm Brussels)—COVID-19, RELIGION, and BELIEF Series: Episode 3, COVID-19, Religion and Belief: Civil Society Organizations' Perspective
(Judd Birdsall, Rachel Bayani, Christen Broecker, Giovanni Gaetani, Revd Dr Patrick Roger Schnabel)
WEBCAST EVENT, 23 April 2020 (9:30 am EDT): Pakistan’s coronavirus crisis: Impact and solutions
(Asia Center, United States Institute of Peace)
WEBINAR, 23 April 2020 (10:30 am CDT): Catholic-Buddhist Dialogue: Solidarity and Engagement on Climate Change
(Dr. David Loy, Dakila Chungyalpa, Rev. Dr. Leo Lebebure, Dr. Kathleen Deignan, The Parliament of the Worlds Religions)
Socially Distant TOWN HALL, 23 April 2020 (9:00 EDT): COVID-19 and Climate Change as Public Health Crises: How the values of religious and indigenous peoples can guide us in balancing our relationship with the Earth
(Michale McGarrell, Religions for Peace and The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers)
How is EU cooperation on the Covid-19 crisis perceived in member states?
(Sophia Russack / Steven Blockmans, CEPS)
A disproportionate interference: the Coronavirus Regulations and the ECHR
(Francis Hoar, UK Human Rights Blog)
Port denials and restrictions in times of pandemic: Did international law lose its North Star?
(Alina Miron, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Is religion OK within the Fortune 500?
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Washington’s Muslim community begins a Ramadan like no other
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
As the world looks for coronavirus scapegoats, India pins blame on Muslims
(Joanna Slater and Niha Masih, The Washington Post)
Hajj cancellation wouldn’t be the first – plague, war and politics disrupted pilgrimages long before coronavirus
(Ken Chitwood, The Conversation)
White evangelicals most likely to support religious exemptions to stay-at-home orders
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)
Church giving down more due to COVID-19 than during recession, survey shows
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Pandemic preaching: Exploring homiletical adaptation and invention in the midst of the global pandemic
(Cynthia G. Lindner, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Stories make us human: A rabbi's reflections on Passover 2020
(Joseph A. Edelheit, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Dispatch: India is scapegoating Muslims for the spread of coronavirus
(Sameer Yasir, Foreign Policy)
COVID-19: New poll reveals almost two-thirds of churches see drop in giving
(State of the Plate: Nationwide Poll, RNS Press Release Archive)
Coronavirus: Muslim Council of Britain warns UK mosques could close forever
(Inzamam Rashid, Sky News)
UN praises Israel aid to Palestinians as bereaved families demand block
(Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post)
Can the coronavirus help repair ties between Israel's Jews and Arabs?
(Editorial, The Jerusalem Post)
The Jewish Imperative of the coronavirus crisis
(Ronald S. Lauder, The Jerusalem Post)
Preference for the Poor: Responding to the COVID-19 Emergency
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Theology: New Starts or Wine in Old Bottles?
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
‘If you don’t work you don’t eat’: Where lockdowns have extra sting
(Whitney Eulich and Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor)
Could pandemic pave a path to peace? Why Yemen war is resistant.
(Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor)
States band together to take next step against coronavirus
(Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor)
Coronavirus response puts EU solidarity to the test
(Lenora Chu and Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor)
Don’t waste the pandemic response
(Bertrand Badré, Project Syndicate)
The Chinese Health Organization?
(Brahma Chellaney, Project Syndicate)
Patients vs. the Pandemic
(Joseph E. Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, Achal Prabhala, Project Syndicate)
UN urges for immediate release of Baha’i prisoners in Yemen
(Associated Press)
Mississippi city allows drive-up church services
(Associated Press)
During the coronavirus, academics have found themselves in a crisis of their work
(Rinaldo Walcott, Maclean's)
US judge denies bid to open California churches in pandemic
(Don Thompson, Associated Press)
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