Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 20 December 2019
Donbas: Luhansk: Gospel of John, Baptist books banned
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
“Sex” vs “gender identity” as a philosophical belief: Forstater
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Losing a job for believing that biological sex is immutable
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Schüth v Germany: a footnote
(Frank Cranmer, wih thanks to Dr Georg Neureither, Law & Religion UK)
BAG: Compensation for damages from a church musician (Schüth) for deliberate moral harm - legal force of a judgment rejecting an action against dismissal
(Dr. Georg Neureither, Religion- Welanshauung - Law [RWR])
Let Christmas come early
(Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review)
Favourite Readings 2019 – Recommendations for Vacation Reading
(Sarah Nouwen, EJIL: Talk!)
Paralysed Leeds man Paul Lamb loses 'right to die' case
(BBC News)
The ECHR and gender quotas in elections
(Jurij Toplak, EJIL: Talk!)
Mexico: Hidalgo state official denies religious intolerance
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Police in Vietnam detain Falun Gong follower, seize her pamphlets
(Radio Free Asia)
Tajik pastor released early after 3 years in prison
(International Christian Concern)
Tajikistan: Muslim faces 18-year charges, Jehovah's Witness prisoner denied Bible, Pastor freed
(Mushfig Bayram, Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Tajik woman says police detained, threatened her over Islamic head scarf in anti-hijab raid
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Be strong to resist foreign interference, Dr M tells Muslim nations
(Free Malaysia Today)
Malaysian ex-PM takes Islamic oath denying murder claim
(Associated Press)
Mahathir: Islamic conference in KL to tackle Islamophobia
(Associated Press)
Islamophobia in Muslim-majority Malaysia
(Sheith Khidhir, The ASEAN Post)
Religious diversity in Kyrgyzstan: A believer is a man and a citizen, first of all
(Leila Saralaeva, Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting)
Religious leader protection bill sparks debate in Indonesia
(Ryan Dagur, UCA News)
Islam used as soft power by Turkish government in Europe
(Revue des Deux Mondes, 97 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris, France – www.revuedesdeuxmondes.fr, Religion Watch - Baylor Institute for Religious Freedom)
Wanted: Imams made in Germany
(Zia Weise, Politico)
British court says Sikh challenge to census proposal Is premature
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pope, UN issue message on migrants, climate, nuclear weapons
(Associated Press)
Iraq’s top cleric calls for quick formation of government
(Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
Germany signs ‘historic’ deal to reintroduce military rabbis
(Associated Press)
Argentina bishops criticize new government’s decree liberalizing abortion
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigeria: The misplaced priority of the Jigawa state government
(Ibitoye Olukosi, Qwenu!)
China sets new restrictions on Tibetan religious festival in Lhasa
(Radio Free Asia)
Examining the second draft of religion bill (Australia)
(Kieran Pender, The Saturday Paper)
Serbian Church to rally in Montenegro against property law
(Samir Kajosevic, Balkan Insight)
United States takes action against violators of religious freedom
(Mike Pompeo, U.S. Department of State)
Joseph in a cage, Mary on a raft: Should churches make political statements with Nativity scenes?
(Jennifer Graham, Deseret News)
Friday Five: CT's editorial, LDS church's $100 billion, Catholic priests, SBC sex abuse, holiday grief
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
The cost of secrecy isn’t worth it for the LDS Church
(Nathan B. Oman, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Loyola University Law Professor Sam Brunson on transparency in the Mormon Church
(Paul Glader, Religion Unplugged)
Thursday, 19 December 2019
Jews and Judaism, religion and identity (Placing Trump's executive order to combat anti-Semitism in the long history of debates about Jewish identity)
(Simeon Chavel, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Black Jews are being forced to answer for Jersey City. It's disgraceful
(Tamar Manasseh, Forward Opinion)
Katherine Marshall receives the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area's 2019 Louis B. Sohn Human Rights Award
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
India's Supreme Court will review controversial citizenship law amendments
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
1,200 detained in India amid ban on citizenship law protests
(Emily Schmall and Ashok Sharma, Associated Press)
India’s new citizenship law excludes Muslims, leading to mass protests, violence
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Radio Times broadcast: Religion and politics
(WHYY Radio Times)
Maldives arrests 3 suspected religious extremists on island
(Mohamed Sharuhan, Associated Press)
Iran leader urges deeper Muslim links to fight US ‘hegemony’
(Eileen Ng, Associated Press)
Yediyurappa says Citizenship Amendment Act does not discriminate on basis of religion
(Times of India)
India’s citizenship law more sinister than it seems
(Asia Times)
Fairness For All Act aims to expand nondiscrimination protections, secure religious exemptions
(Holly Hollman, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Authors: Recent media coverage causes misperceptions on Vatican finances
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)
Brazilian Church helps communities, industries affected by oil spills
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Set aside indifference, fear in order to build peace, pope tells diplomats
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
UN rapporteur praises pope for reform of abuse secrecy
(Associated Press)
Pope meets new arrivals in Rome, says helping migrants is moral duty
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Americans’ religious affiliation has declined over the last decade
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Innocent Jehovah's Witnesses locked up for two months
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Sikhism, ethnicity and the 2021 Census: R (Gill)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Cathedral in Iraq's largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Religious minorities around the world face an uncertain future: 5 essential reads
(Kalpana Jain, The Washington Post)
Muslims to contest religious law at Canada’s top court
(Barry Ellsworth, Anadolu Agency)
In Canada, Christmas traditions change as fewer people see religion as the reason for the season
(Angus Reid Institute)
Debates about the seal of confession intensify as Australian mandatory reporting laws move closer to reality
(Ben Wilkie, America Magazine)
In Germany, politics pours into Christmas
(Cathrin Schaer, U.S. News & World Report)
Promoting freedom of religion or belief – key lessons
(Marie Juul Petersen & Katherine Marshall, OpenGlobalRights)
The Afghanistan Papers make clear that America has a repentance problem
(Drew Christiansen, S.J., America: The Jesuit Review)
Authorities sealed off place of worship – Case against Russia filed at European Court
(ADF Inernational)
How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart: The editor in chief of Christianity Today explains his scathing editorial about the president’s behavior—and the damage he argues his fellow Christians are doing to the Gospel
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Trump Should Be Removed from Office (It’s time to say what we said 20 years ago when a president’s character was revealed for what it was)
(Mark Galli, Christianity Today)
Trump blasts Christian magazine that called for his removal
(Elana Schor and Jill Colvin, Associated Press)
First in a series? Ambitious AP feature examines waves of stress hitting Catholic priests
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
How a Burmese millionaire changed the world
(Raja Murthy, Asia Times)
Another ruling on business refusal to serve same-sex weddings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Despite whistleblower complaint, experts say IRS backlash to Mormon group unlikely
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
A Pew Research Center study on the varying lengths of sermons in Christian churches? That'll preach
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
The Digital Pulpit: A nationwide analysis of online sermons
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Latter-day Saints march out: AP needed to talk to religious groups that still back Scouting
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Why Pakistan’s former ruler Musharraf was sentenced to death, and what it means
(Madiha Afzal, Brookings)
Protests in Pakistan could shake prime minister’s mandate
(Madiha Afzal, Brookings)
Secretary of State Julian Smith signs regulations introducing same-sex marriage to Northern Ireland
(Belfast Telegraph)
Prince of Wales condemns 'assault on religious freedom' in service at Tamil church
(Press Association, Premier Christian News)
Is Judaism an ethnicity? A race? A nationality? Trump signs an order and provokes an identity crisis.
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Recent articles of interest - 16 December 2019
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Russian court liberalizes allowed religious use of residences
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Settlement approved in Muslim woman's suit over booking procedures
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Muslim woman paid $120K in suit alleging Ramsey County jail forced her to remove hijab, strip
(Paul Walsh, Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Mexico’s president wants to protect nation’s separation of church and state
(PBS News Hour)
Mexico president opposes bill to end church-state separation
(Peter Orsi, Associated Press)
Emirati diplomat says promoting tolerance takes time
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)
Justices could limit job bias lawsuits against churches
(Mark Sherman, Associated Press)
Prayer at Kashmir’s biggest mosque for 1st time in 4 months
(Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press)
Mayor: Schools official who called Jews ‘brutes’ should quit
(Associated Press)
Jewish cemetery vandalized in northern Slovakian town
(Associated Press)
The culture wars today
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
American conversions to Russian Orthodoxy amid the global culture wars (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Evangelical homeschooling and the development of “family values” (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Seth Dowland, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Exporting culture wars and reframing human rights: the global network of morally conservative homeschooling advocates (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Julia Mourão Permoser, Kristina Stoeckl, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Global culture wars from the perspective of Russian and American actors: some preliminary conclusions (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Dmitry Uzlaner, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Populism and Christianity: the tale of two continents (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Olivier Roy, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The Russian Orthodox church and global religious freedom (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Pasquale Annicchino, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The shifting coordinates of the conservative worldview (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Kristina Stoeckl, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Transnationalization of the culture wars: rights, rhetoric and reality (Responding to: The culture wars today)
(Clifford Bob, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
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