Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 17 April 2020
Statement of solidarity from religious leaders on the COVID-19 pandemic
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Faith, freedom in action in troubled times – like now
(Blair Forlaw, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Are COVID-19 restrictions inflaming religious tensions?
(Geneive Abdo and Anna L. Jacobs, Brookings)
Eight rules for teaching during COVID-19
(Jennifer Snodgrass, OUPblog)
Will COVID-19 cause a religious recession?
(Brian Hollar, Religion & Diplomacy: A Resource of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy)
Lessons learnt from Coronavirus and global environmental challenges
(Amandine Orsini, OUPblog)
COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women
(Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)
Coronavirus outbreak highlights need to address threats to ecosystems and wildlife
(UN Environment Programme)
"HOVID": Hunger, COVID-19, and Religious Response
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
COVID-19 is a test of multilateralism - OpEd
(Dr. Esmira Jafarova, Geopolitical Monitor)
World Bank, IMF push to consolidate patchwork approach to coronavirus cases
(Josh Zumbrun and David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal)
A foreign policy for the climate: How American leadership can avert catastrophe
(John Podesta and Todd Stern, Foreign Policy)
The pandemic won't make China the world’s leader: Few countries are buying the model or the message from Beijing
(Michael Green and Evan S. Medeiros, Foreign Policy)
What to do about China?
(Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty)
Diplomacy seen in Mormons' first temple in China
(UCA News)
China's war against the soul
(Benedict Rogers, UCA News)
Jordan’s unique coronavirus challenge
(Bruce Riedel, Brookings)
Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen
(Bruce Riedel, Brookings)
Extending soldiers’ assignments may help the military maintain readiness: Defense during COVID-19
(Thomas Burke, Brookings)
A tale of two Koreas in the age of coronavirus
(Jung H. Pak, Brookings)
From “Western education is forbidden” to the world’s deadliest terrorist group: Education and Boko Haram in Nigeria
(Madiha Afzal, Brookings)
Reorganisation of the courts of the Vatican City
(Neil Addison, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
In Sweden, there's no COVID-19 lockdown. Here are 4 things to know
(Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal)
Brexit – Apportioning the blame
(Joseph Weiler, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Uzbekistan: Despite coronavirus lockdown officials continue literature raids
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
The coronavirus erases our living memory of the Holocaust and gives fresh life to old traumas
(Armin Rosen, Tablet)
Italian Jews battle COVID-19—and isolation
(Natan Greppi, Tablet)
Understanding India’s citizenship controversy
(Rudabeh Shahid and Champa Patel, Atlantic Council)
Some California churches call in-person services essential despite pandemic
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
As Ramadan nears, prisons urged to accommodate faith needs during pandemic
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Does the pandemic have a purpose? Only if we give it one. The coronavirus is neither good nor bad. It wants only to reproduce
(Stephen T. Asma, The New York Times Opinion)
LDS Church joins fight against Covid-19, with members sewing 5 million face masks
(Jana Riess, RNS Column: Flunking Sainthood)
Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
New podcast: Who-da thunk it? Drive-in churches are First Amendment battlegrounds
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Cardinal Pell, moral outrage, and the rule of law
(Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty)
In India, pandemic turns political opposition group into COVID-19 help line
(Adam Willems, Religion News Service)
Suit challenges Chattanooga's ban on drive-in church services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ADF files suit to challenge Chattanooga ban on drive-in church services
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
USCIRF welcomes release of hundreds of imprisoned Rohingya in Burma, calls for more to be released
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Justice Department backs church objections to discriminatory COVID-19 bans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Litigation delay refused in suit over Christian school's compliance with nondiscrimination requirements
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Churches sue challenging Kansas stay-at-home order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ADF sues KS governor over COVID-19 order that allows numerous gatherings, except churches
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
U.S. state of Idaho sued over trans birth certificate and sport laws
(Matthew Lavietes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)
German diocese transfers black priest after death threat
(Associated Press)
Italian bishops make proposal to government for restarting liturgical life
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Cardinal fears coronavirus could be end of European Union
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
German bishops criticize decision to maintain church service ban
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Guatemalan bishops: Deporting people during pandemic lacks humanity
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)
Shutdown of religious services in pandemic prompts varied responses
(Carol Zimmermann, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Russia's devout push back against coronavirus church closures
(Emily Sherwin, Deutsche Welle)
Will COVID-19 increase support for religious freedom?
(Stephen Enada, The Christian Post)
Collective prayers in mosques temporarily banned in Tajikistan due to coronavirus situation
(Interfax-Religion)
Holy Land Christians put their faith in the Resurrection during pandemic
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
‘World’s biggest lockdown’ enters critical phase amid starvation fears, says Gospel for Asia
(RNS Press Release Distribution Service)
The persecution of Christians in Muslim countries
(Rami Dabbas, The Algemeiner)
Can religious symbols in India be registered as trademarks?
(Kanika Handa https://www.livelaw.in/know-the-law/trademark-and-religion-symbols-155363, Live Law (India))
The coronavirus crisis in Latin America: Increased presidential power without solid foundations – Analysis
(Carlos Malamud and Rogelio Núñez, Elcano Royal Institute via Eurasia Review)
Cutting the funding: The WHO, Trump, and the coronavirus wars — OpEd
(Binoy Kampmark, Eurasia Review Opinion)
Is there a clash of civilization between the West and Islam? – Analysis
(Sinduja Umandi Wickramasinghe Jayaratne, Eurasia Review)
How New York hassidic communities have been beaten by coronavirus
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Iran’s Health Minister defends coronavirus “management” despite 30,700 deaths
(Adena Nima, Iran News Wire)
Special Covid-19 care sought for Bhopal disaster survivors
(UCA News)
Prominent Kosovo Serb journalist says intimidation worsening with COVID-19
(Milica Stojanovic, Balkan Insight)
Week in Review: Pandemics and Politics in the Balkans
(Milos Damnjanovic, Balkan Insight)
Bosnia takes first step to regulate same-sex partnerships
(Rasid Krupalija, Balkan Insight)
Oxford professor arrested over theft of ancient papyrus
(The Jerusalem Post)
COIVD-19's worst victims will be the persecuted Christians of Africa
(Jim Shannon MP, All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)
Thursday, 16 April 2020
Religion and COVID-19: Four Lessons from the Ebola experience
(Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson and Dave Robinson, From Poverty to Power)
Consultation on COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions: Brief
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religion and the COVID-19 crisis: Social welfare
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Where is justice? Islam, equality, and covid-19 (Responding to: religion and the covid-19 crisis: social welfare)
(Hossein Askari, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Toward a religious ethic of social equity through maximum productivity in a post-pandemic era (Responding to: religion and the covid-19 crisis: social welfare)
(Carl Raschke, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Of solidarity and global health security (Responding to: religion and the covid-19 crisis: social welfare)
(Drew Christiansen, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
“Let us remain united” – Churches call for commitment to common European values amidst COVID-19
(Conference of European Churches with the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union)
“Christ is risen!” – CEC and COMECE presidents offer Easter message
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches and Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union)
COVID-19: A prayer for the affected
(Prepared by CEC Executive Secretary Rev. Sören Lenz, Conference of European Churches)
How to build community while worshipping online
(Heidi A. Campbell, The Conversation)
Muslim women who cover their faces find greater acceptance among coronavirus masks – ‘Nobody is giving me dirty looks’
(Anna Piela, The Conversation)
Scapegoating “Christian Nationalists” for the coronavirus pandemic
(Steven Wedgeworth, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
It’s time for the government to introduce food rationing
(Robert Garner, OUPblog)
DOJ said judges can’t stop immigration hearings over COVID-19. Cleary Gottlieb called that a ‘death trap.’
(Jacqueline Thomsen, The National Law Journal)
Europe’s double standard for China’s overfishing
(Jonathan G. Odom, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Walmart faces wrongful death suit after employee dies from COVID-19
(Molly Stubs, Expert Institute)
Coronavirus crisis makes curtail of religious freedom justifiable — temporarily
(Thomas F. Farr, President, Religious Freedom Institute, National Catholic Register)
U.S. Justice Department sides with church in COVID-19 religious dispute
(Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
Supreme Court to hear cases on Trump's financial docs, religious freedom and Electoral College via telephone
(Ariane de Vogue, CNN Politics)
Lunch Series on Religion and Nationalism: Russia (view previous event)
(Jocelyne Cesari, Kristina Stoeckl, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Black clergy memorialize the dead, ask government to address disparities
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service Opinion)
Opposition to Samaritan’s Purse Central Park field hospital grows
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Bending the COVID-19 inequality curve
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Virtual tours bring Egypt's museums, archaeological sites online
(Amira Sayed Ahmed, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Calls for release of prisoners grow in Egypt despite arrest campaign
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
The show must go on: Egypt's Ramadan soap operas defy COVID-19
(Shahira Amin, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egyptians fear coronavirus count falls far short of reality
(Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Is coronavirus good for health of Turkish-US relations?
(Kadri Gursel, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Israeli annexation talks threaten ties with Arab world
(Ksenia Svetlova, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Gazan medical masks make a statement
(Ahmed Sammak, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Trump announced the U.S. will suspend WHO funding. That could leave another global initiative under China’s influence
(Alexander Cooley, Daniel Nixon, PONARS Eurasia)
Courtroom access: Faced with a pandemic, the Supreme Court pivots
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
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