Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 3 January 2020
After killing of Iranian general, religious leaders call on Americans to #PrayForPeace
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
US strike on Iranian military leader sparks escalation fears
(Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Mideast expert calls strike on Iranian general a ‘game-changer’
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News)
Will Iran's response to the Soleimani strike lead to war? What Tehran is likely to do next
(Ilan Goldenberg, Foreign Affairs)
The death of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship (Soleimani wasn’t the only casualty of the U.S. strike in Baghdad)
(Emma Sky, Foreign Affairs)
How Russia is reading the killing of Qasem
(Maxim A. Suchkov, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Methodists propose split in gay marriage, clergy impasse
(Travis Loller and Gary Fields, Associated Press)
What does the Methodist divide mean?
(Mark Movsesian, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Methodist Church leaders from around world propose amicable split to resolve dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy
(Associated Press)
Yemeni local tribal mediation succeeds in releasing 135 prisoners
(Naseh Shaker, Al-Monitor: Gulf Pulse)
Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (NI) Regulations 2019
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EJIL: Talk! - Most read posts in 2019
(Dapo Akande, EJIL: Talk!)
The Top Ten consistory court judgments of the decade?
(Matthew Chinery, guest post, Law & Religion UK)
Opposing same-sex marriage is not "vilification"
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Procedural deference at Strasbourg: A trend calling for a new admissibility criterion?
(Reto Walter, EJIL: Talk!)
Amicus briefs in Supreme Court's abortion cases now available
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Montenegro denounces protest attack on its embassy in Serbia
(Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press)
Sri Lanka president urges limit on minority political power
(Associated Press)
Trump portrays himself as defender of faith for evangelicals
(Jonathan Lemire and Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Campaign rally at Florida church raises questions about tax-exempt campaigning
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A battle for the soul of the nation: eugenics and religion in post-revolutionary Mexico, 1925–1935 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Elizabeth O’Brien, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Between Catholic tradition and the nationalist state: the Mexican Christian family movement, 1960–1970 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Emilio Coral Garcia, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Cristero legacies: conflict, landlessness, and Bracero emigration in Mexico's Rosary Belt (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Alberto García Maldonado, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
December 12, 1531: Garrido Canabal against Guadalupe (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Ben Fallaw, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Food for healing: food sovereignty movements in Mexican and Mexican-American communities (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Alyshia Gálvez, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Montezuma’s gold: U.S.-Mexican diplomacy and the rebuilding of Mexican Catholicism, 1937–1960 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Matthew Butler, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
“Chicago Católico”: Making parishes Mexican in Pilsen (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Deborah Kanter, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
“The Revolution is afraid”: Cristeros and Sinarquistas in Mexico and the United States, 1926–1950 (Responding to: Religion in Mexico and Mexican-American communities)
(Julia Young, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
President of Asia’s bishops’ confederation calls for end of police brutality in Hong Kong
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Cuomo: Rebuilding of church lost in 9/11 attacks to resume
(Karen Matthews, Associated Press)
Senator tries again to ban Indiana vouchers over gay firings
(Associated Press)
Federal government’s brief in abortion case supports Louisiana’s position, raises possibility of overruling Whole Woman’s Health
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Australia's churches act on national fire crisis with responders and prayers
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Ryan Burge combination punch: Concerning Republicans, Democrats and gaps in pews
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Harassment of ordinary Jehovah's Witnesses in south of Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Liberalism and the death penalty
(Craig S. Lerner, Law & Liberty)
I care about Muslim persecution. And so should you.
(Cheryl Charles, Item Live)
The deadly perils of religious nationalism
(Saad Hafiz, Counter Punch)
Soleimani air strike could mean new danger for Iraqi Christians
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Qasem Soleimani: A portrait of a revoluntionay
(Al Bawaba News)
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities, satellite images show
(Matt Rivers, CNN World)
Thursday, 2 January 2020
Militias lay siege to US embassy in Iraq
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Trump responds swiftly after pro-Iranian protestors attack U.S. embassy in Iraq
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Several thousand protest church bill in Montenegro
(Predrag Milic, Associated Press)
US Embassy attack backfires on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Russia and Serbia concerned as Montenegro church law sparks protests
(Daniel McLaughlin, The Irish Times)
Religious scholars visit Kartarpur Corridor
(The International News)
Iran VP denies Tehran behind attack inside Iraq
(Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
IS militants exploit political unrest in Iraq to rise again
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
O Centro sues over failure to process visa applications
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New Mexico church sues US over religious discrimination
(Associated Press)
Suit challenges attempt to force sex offenders out of church's program
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wayside Cross residents who are registered child sex offenders again sue over notices warning them to move
(Sarah Freishtat and Megan Jones, Chicago Tribune)
AP: Catholic Church's release of sex offenders' names is incomplete
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Archbishop accuses Togo government of ‘specializing in fraud’ ahead of vote
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
NY governor says he’ll try again to legalize paid surrogacy; plan opposed by bishops
(Marina Villeneuve, Associated Press)
Sick Jehovah's Witness mistreated in prison
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Nonprofit demands IRS investigate Florida church over planned Trump rally
(Aris Folley, The Hill)
Is Brazil becoming an Evangelical theocracy?
(Raphael Tsavkko Garcia, Sojourners)
Religious faith in the ‘Mahdi’ could bring catastrophe to Turkey
(Ergun Babahan, Ahval)
Abuse lawsuit window opens in California
(Catholic News Agency)
Push for buffer zones in Ireland follows pro-life vigil outside Dublin hospital
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
China announces new measures to govern religious groups
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
When retail and reverence collide
(Indu Viswanathan and Parth Parihar, Religion News Service)
Turkish parliament approves troop deployment to Libya
(Diego Cupolo, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Netanyahu boasts about Israel’s situation, ignores security negligence
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Nowhere else to flee: Why Idlib’s humanitarian crisis is so dangerous
(Madeline Edwards, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Strategy of the radical right to pass Knesset-entry threshold
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Nineveh plains transitional justice report: 2019 in review
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
New challenges to Christianity's growth in Nepal
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Chinese Christians face difficulties for Hong Kong Christians' involvement in protests
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Hundreds of accused clergy left off church's sex abuse lists
(Claudia Lauer, Meghan Hoyer, The Associated Press, National Catholic Reporter)
They made a mark on the religious scene this decade; some rose, others fell
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Nine years for 'subversion': Protestant pastor convicted in China
(Al Jazeera)
US calls on China to release jailed Pastor Wang Yi
(AFP, Deccan Herald)
Roundtable: The Uyghus, China, and Islamist terrorism
(Michael P. Noonan, Colin P. Clarke, Jacqueline Deal, June Teufel Dreyer, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
‘We’re not safe as Jews in New York’
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Jews are going underground: A month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks culminated with a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York
(Deborah Lipstadt, The Atlantic)
End of the year 2019: Trying to understand the blitz of anti-Semitism that's shaking New York
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: The keys to understanding American anti-Semitism — and fighting back
(Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Our culture of apathy has normalized anti-Semitism
(Kaylee McGhee, The Washington Examiner)
New York City to launch 3 initiatives to combat anti-Semitism
(Adi Eshman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
Pope Francis apologizes for losing patience with woman who grabbed him
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
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Year in review: Ten religion stories that stuck with me in 2019, including one of my own
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Can mindfulness save Buddhism in Japan?
(Karen Jensen, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review)
Moscow patriarchate breaks fellowship with Alexandria
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Holiness in the midst of pain: Reflections on a year of difficult events
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News | InDepth)
Russia Orthodox Church cuts ties with Alexandria patriarch
(Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – December (II)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Security tight, Jews gather at stadium for religious event
(Associated Press)
As Jewish enclaves spring up around NYC, so does intolerance
(Mary Esch and Ryan Tarinelli, Associated Press)
Opposite-sex civil partnership and “illegitimacy”?
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Articles of Interest - 30 December 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What is causing the rise in anti-Semitism in New York?
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Top 10 religious liberty and church state developments of 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Decade in review: Same-sex marriage
(Kalvis Golde, SCOTUSblog)
Law and religion round-up – 29th December
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
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