Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 20 April 2020
Historical development of favoritism and nepotism in Pakistan — OpEd
(Mehwish Mahar, Eurasia Review)
Scientists test drug that slash COVID-19 viral load by 94%
(Andreia Verdélio, AgênciaBrasil)
COVID-19: Satellite data reveal global pollution levels plummeting
(Passant Rabie, Inverse)
Religious communities are critical in the fight against COVID-19
(Aasim I. Padela, Chicago Tribune)
COVID-19 Economic Crisis Challenges Religious Communities
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Cellphone data shows coronavirus kept churchgoers at home in every state on Easter
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey , Kevin Schaul , Lauren Tierney and Kevin Uhrmacher, The Washington Post - Religion)
COVID-19 Crisis Highlights Complex Intertwining of Religious and Cultural Factors in Changing Public Health Behavior: The Somali Diaspora in Sweden
(Daily Highlight, Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Court upholds New Mexico 5-person limit on size of church gatherings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Kansas churches get TRO to protect against enforcement of congregant number limits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court halts KS governor from targeting churches in COVID-19 order
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Church's challenge to Kentucky ban on mass gatherings is rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge denies Maryville Baptist Church's bid to block Gov. Beshear's coronavirus order
(Andrew Wolfson, Louisville Courier Journal)
Churches mostly empty for Orthodox Easter due to virus rules
(Jim Heintz, Associated Press)
Pope dreams of post-virus world where inequalities abolished
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Judge doubts Kansas COVID-19 rule, blocks it for 2 churches
(John Hanna, Associated Press)
‘Holy Fire’ ceremony held in empty Jerusalem church
(Associated Press)
COVID-19 gives new urgency to plans to modernize Catholic healthcare in Brazil
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Inside the fringe Japanese religion that claims it can cure Covid-19
(Sam Kestenbaum, The New York Times)
UN report on religious freedom deems abortion and gender identity as human rights
(Emilie Kao and Shea Garrison, The Daily Signal - Commentary)
Russian president takes note of Christian holiday
(Interfax-Religion, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Antisemitic attack fails in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Muslim board calls on Russian Muslims not to visit mosques during Ramadan
(Interfax-Religion)
Jews are concerned with attempts to blame them in spreading coronavirus
(Interfax-Religion)
Kazakhstan: Emergency hospital stay for jailed Muslim
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Hulu and the press give Schlafly top billing in new series. Her Catholic faith? Say what?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Catholics must be vigilant in monitoring restrictions on religious freedom
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Recognition of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland: Re X
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Coronavirus COVID-19: Further marriage law update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Polish leaders block resolution that would have stopped restitution of property lost during the Holocaust
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Law professors break down freedom of religion, labor issues amid COVID-19
(John Taylor and Anne Lofaso, News Wise)
Algeria’s religious minorities are being restricted
(International Christian Concern)
Palghar lynching: India police arrest more than 100 suspects
(BBC News)
American soft power can help protect Christians in Nigeria
(William Upton, The Washington Examiner)
Family cut off from Lao pastor since his mid-March arrest for Christian service
(Radio Free Asia)
Will a new government in Malaysia reset India ties?
(Yatharth Kachiar, The Diplomat)
Religion in American public life (audio episode)
(Inside Higher Ed)
UAE-based Kerala businessman apologises for poem that 'hurt religious sentiments'
(The News Minute)
Thousands sign in defense of the Madrid pastor accused of performing conversion therapy
(Daniel Hofkamp, Evangelical Focus)
Indian hospitals refuse to admit Muslims as coronavirus causes Islamophobia surge
(Joe Wallen, The Telegraph)
COVID-19 makes life harder for hundreds of thousands of Africa’s persecuted Christians
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Christians are 'treated very unfairly' by politicians in U.S., Trump says
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Americans list opening of retail stores, churches as top priorities
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
China shuts down zoom Easter church service, detains church members
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Pope Francis postpones World Youth Day and Meeting of Families due to coronavirus
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Capitol Hill parish takes adoration to the streets for Divine Mercy Sunday
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Updated: Three states' coronavirus abortion bans remain after court interventions
(Catholic News Agency)
Brazilian Supreme Court to consider legalizing abortion in Zika cases
(Catholic News Agency)
The loneliness pandemic: How the quarantined are grappling with solitude and faith
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
The loneliness pandemic: The elderly in ICUs battle coronavirus and solitude
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Experts: Coronovirus brings spike in anti-Semitic sentiments
(Aron Heller, Religion News Service)
Renewed lockdown, new guidance: new episode of Law Pod UK
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Americans are abandoning faith. Could the COVID-19 crisis be a moment to rebuild?
(Guest column by Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, RNS Column: Flunking Sainthood)
Don't let COVID 19 kill the synagogue!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
Peter, Malchus and our nameless saviors of the coronavirus crisis
(Tara Isabella Burton, RNS Column: Religion Remixed)
Fleshly sacraments in a viral, virtual world
(Tara Isabella Burton, RNS Column: Religion Remixed)
Do we do everything in our power to lower the COVID-19 infection rate?
(Charles C. Camosy, RNS Column: Purple Catholicism)
Fighting anxiety and isolation the Sikh way: service
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
Afghanistan can’t protect its Sikhs from terror. It’s time for America to step up
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
Let's take enforced social distancing for what it is: A life intervention
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
UKHRB Roundup 20-4-2020: Coronavirus and a Labour party leak
(Sam Sykes, UK Human Rights Blog)
Italy is fighting COVID-19 — and capitalism
(Alberto Mingardi, National Review)
Prooposals to ban homeschooling are an attack on pluralism
(Fred Bauer, National Review)
Iran uses pandemic to further provocations in the Gulf
(Seth J. Frantzman, National Review)
Church building maintenance during lockdown – Update (II)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
It's time to redesign government-hospital coronavirus funding
(Brian Blase, Josh Archambault & Doug Badger, National Review)
Hong Kong police swoop on the territory’s most prominent democrats: The 15 arrested include veteran champions of liberal causes
(The Economist)
Notre-Dame de Paris: 'Place of encounter, A conversation with the chaplain of Paris' famed cathedral
(Clémence Houdaille, La Croix International)
Remembering Noël Choux, the French priest who resisted Soviet communism
(Martina Mašková, Religion Unplugged)
Factsheet: Religious freedom in Nigeria
(International Christian Concern)
Intel: Trump, Erdogan discuss coronavirus as pandemic worsens in Turkey
(Al-Monitor)
Meet Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisers
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor)
Lebanon bank attacked with explosive amid economic crisis
(Al-Monitor)
Growth in the LDS Church is slowing -- but not for reasons you might suspect
(Emma Penrod, Religion Unplugged)
Sunday, 19 April 2020
Advocates lament exclusion of those with criminal records from business loan program
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Saturday, 18 April 2020
What do countries with the best coronavirus responses have in common? Women leaders
(Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes)
Women leaders are doing a disproportionately great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them?
(Leta Hong Fincher, CNN)
Women are leading Canada's
(Victoria Forster, Forbes)
What religious leaders can do: Imams, clerics, and pastors can play a crucial role in the fight against Covid-19
(Samia Huq, Dhaka Tribune)
Preference to the Poor: Priority Ethics for Development Leaders
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
PODCAST: The case for interfaith America with Eboo Patel
(Bob Smietana with Eboo Patel, Religion News Service)
When religion and culture kill: COVID-19 in the Somali diaspora communities in Sweden
(Anne Speckhard, Othman Mahamud and Molly Ellenberg, GTSC Homeland Secuity Today)
Trump consults faith leaders on phased-in reopening
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Update on religious liberty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
U.S. seeks release of religious minorities imprisoned in other nations
(Mark Pattison, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Putin won't attend Easter vigil at Christ the Savior Cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)
It's a fact that the Holy Fire in Jerusalem is a hoax? Associated Press appears to assume that
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Israel to help Christians share 'holy fire' amid outbreak
(Josef Feder, Associated Press)
The last Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan plead for U.S. help
(Jessica Donati and Ehsanullah Amiri, The Wall Street Journal)
Height of discrimination in India
(Zamir Ahmed Awan, Modern Diplomacy)
China: Police arrest Christians participating in Zoom Easter worship service
(Christian Daily)
India, Pakistan, Turkey are going back to religion. There is a better way
(Khaled Ahmed, The Indian Express)
Domestic abuse killings 'more than double' amid Covid-19 lockdown
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)
Vatican congregation to send ventilators to Syria and Holy Land
(Catholic News Agency)
How a megachurch adapted to social distancing
(Casey Cep, The New Yorker)
Friday, 17 April 2020
LIVE VIDEO CLE, 17 April 2020: Coronavirus/Covid-19 Business Disruption and Contract and Insurance Claims
(Federal Bar Association)
Interreligious Council of PERU provides essential supplies to Venezuelan refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants
(Religions for Peace)
Working with religion or working for faith?
(Prof. Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General, Religions for Peace)
Faith leaders strongly echo the UN Secretary-General's call for a ceasefire
(Religions for Peace)
Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: Environmental health
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Coronavirus is also a threat to democratic constitutions
(Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings (originally in Financial Times))
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