Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 8 November 2019
Bangladesh's child marriage problem is the world's human trafficking crisis
(Corinne Redfern, Foreign Policy)
Jehovah's Witness in Tomsk receives excessive punishments
(Taiga.info, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
The forgotten mass destruction of Jewish homes during ‘Kristallnacht’
(Wolf Gruner, The Conversation`)
India’s court set to deliver verdict on temple dispute
(Associated Press)
Iraqi spiritual leader warns of ‘great risks’ from protests
(Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Associated Press)
France reopens contested Jewish tomb in east Jerusalem
(Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press)
Religion and urban planning: Challenges and possibilities
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
How should religion be considered in urban planning? (Responding to: Religion and urban planning: Challenges and possibilities)
(Chris Ives and Chris Elisara, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
In search of common ground: building relationships in the field of religion and planning (Responding to: Religion and urban planning: Challenges and possibilities)
(Richard Gale, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Los Angeles Times writes nice story about jail chaplains, with a few eyebrow-raising word choices
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Decline of Icelandic Church: Scandals and controversy lead to mass exodus
(Sam O'Donnell, The Reykjavík Grapevine)
New stay of execution for Buddhist inmate over access to chaplain
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When religion tangles with tax law: things to consider (podcast)
(Kathy Larsen, Bloomberg Tax)
State false advertising ban does not apply to Catholic schools
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
USCIRF condemns Turkish air strikes on Sinjar
(The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Urban gentrification and temple agency in Shanghai (Responding to: Religion and urban planning: Challenges and possibilities)
(Weishan Huang, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
When jail chaplains are volunteers, some faiths are more present than others
(Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times)
Meet the Hispanic evangelical minister challenging ‘AOC’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Judge dismisses Morrisey’s lawsuit against Diocese; refers to state Supreme Court
(The Intelligencer)
Wisconsin governor returns ‘holiday tree’ name to evergreen
(Todd Richmond, Associated Press)
The paradox of pluralism: What do we mean by ‘religion’?
(Jack Miles, Commonweal)
Petitions of the week (conscience exemption to the contraceptive-coverage mandate)
(Andrew Hamm, SCOTUS blog)
RFI president and executive vice president speak at conference on Christianity and national security
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Indonesia wants ‘halal tourism.’ But some want to wrestle pigs.
(Richard C. Paddock, The New York Times)
Meet the Hispanic evangelical minister challenging ‘AOC’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Uzbekistan: Haj pilgrims face state control, bribery, blacklists
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
US Latinos are no longer majority-Catholic, here’s why
(Alejandra Molina, Associated Press)
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Teacher-led prayer: Unconstitutional but appropriate?
(Benjamin Marcus, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Sentence for leader of Tomsk Jehovah's Witnesses consistent with current Russian law - Peskov
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian foreign minister complains of American involvement in Ukrainian church affairs
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Suspended Vatican official’s former diocesan offices raided in Argentina
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The high cost of change: Repression under Saudi Crown Prince tanishes reforms
(Human Rights Watch)
Mongolian Buddhism: Under the shadow of the CCP
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Germany: Imams will have to prove they speak the language
(Deutsche Welle)
Esther Mombo says African Christianity is 'young and vibrant,' but needs to listen to its women
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Turkmenistan: Two new conscientious objector jailings
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Ukrainian official has positive view of religious conditions
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
A new chain of Christian pregnancy centers will provide a controversial service: Contraception
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
America’s right is lobbying against South Africa’s sex education syllabus
(Haley McEwen, The Conversation)
European bishops mark 30th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
(Catholic News Service)
In India, gods 'flex their muscles' over scarce land
(Rina Chandran, Reuters)
Moscow offended by Pompeo's favoring new Ukrainian church
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
New study in Science: Medieval Catholicism explains the differences between cultures to this day
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Trump's 'conscience' rule for healthcare workers struck down by U.S. judge
(Jonathan Stempel, Reuters)
Auschwitz survivor a focus of Italy’s anti-Semitic tensions
(Colleen Barry, Associated Press)
Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats
(BBC News)
Paula White and the mainstreaming of American Pentecostalism
(Daniel G. Hummel, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Police have no pity for ill Jehovah's Witnesses
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
ProPublica: Pence's office pressured USAID to award grants to Christian groups in Iraq
(Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN)
Religious liberty begins in Queens
(Richard Brookhiser and Luke Thompson, National Review)
Civil partnerships, marriage registration, stillbirths – update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Court invalidates HHS conscience rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Montana, Jehovah’s Witness settle discrimination complaint
(Associated Press)
Sheriff refuses to remove ‘in God we trust’ from squad cars after atheist groups protest
(Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner)
Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
(Wendy Steele and Michelle Maloney, The Conversation)
New York trial court upholds vaccination requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge upholds New York vaccination law for students in Amish lawsuit
(David Robinson, Democrat & Chronicle)
South Carolina moves forward with bill that would ban nearly all abortion in the state
(Alexandra Hutzler, Newsweek)
Evangelical-Muslim conference brings college students together to solve 'the greatest interreligious challenge of our time'
(Hunter Moyler, Newsweek)
Has denying Communion lost its political luster?
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Minister says Greece will abide EU Court ruling on religion classes
(The National Herald)
Does the Civil Rights Act protect LGBT workers? The Supreme Court is about to decide
(Julie Manning Magid, The Conversation)
European court opposes Swiss deportation of Afghan refugee
(Swissinfo.ch)
Evangelicals in Brazil see abuse of God’s earth as a sin – but will they fight to save the Amazon?
(Amy Erica Smith, The Conversation)
Anti-Semitism in the US today is a variation on an old theme
(Pamela S. Nadell, The Conversation)
Marriage and cohabitation in the U.S.
(Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Nikki Graf, and Gretchen Livingston, Pew Research Center: Social and Demographic Trends)
Some Nigerians blame government, not religious leaders, for shocking school abuses
(Paul Carsten, Reuters)
Indian Muslims anxious as court prepares to rule on destroyed mosque
(Mayank Bhardwaj, Reuters)
Is American Christianity in decline?
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Title of liberty raised in three-country tour of Central America
(Newsroom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
First Presidency welcomes leader of Muslim World League
(Newsroom, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
2nd Circuit allows Christian adoption agency to continue ongoing cases pending appeal on anti-discrimination law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals court temporarily stops NY officials from threatening adoption provider for its religious beliefs
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Judge strikes down new Trump rule on religious objections
(Larry Neumeister, Associated Press)
Why Joe Biden was denied communion at a church
(Bruce T. Morrill, The Conversation)
EVENT, 6 November 2019: Systematic, Ongoing, Egregious: Religious Prisoners of Conscience - A Global Crisis
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 6 November 2019: Current Challenges in Refugee Policy: Kids, Courts, and Refugee Resettlement in Global Perspective
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Hate crime charges filed in plot to bomb synagogue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Southern Colorado man charged with federal hate crime for plotting to blow up synagogue
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Radical Pakistani cleric continues sit-in; PM won’t resign
(Kathy Gannon, Associated Press)
Islamic State exacts revenge on Turkey for selling out Al-Baghdadi – OpEd
(Nauman Sadiq, Eurasia Review)
Canada's state religion
(David T. Koyzis, First Things)
Abortion law, same sex marriage and opposite sex civil partnership in Northern Ireland: update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
"Prosperity gospel" minister joins White House staff
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Organization lacks standing to claim sexual orientation discrimination by Christian business owners
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Bankruptcy court upholds order to sell church property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
HHS to allow grantees to refuse to serve LGBT clients
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Adoption groups could turn away LGBT families under proposed rule
(Derrick Bryson Taylor, The New York Times)
Ministerial exception requires dismissal of elementary teacher's pregnancy discrimination suit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
European court criticizes Greece's procedure for exemptions from compulsory religion courses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judgment Papageorgiou and Others v. Greece - System for exempting schoolchildren from religious education classes breaches the European Convention
(European Court of Human Rights)
French bishops mull payments for church sex abuse victims
(Associated Press)
FBI: Man who spoke of hating Jews held in temple bomb plot
(Colleen Slevin, Associated Press)
Kentucky Supreme Court dismisses organization’s T-shirt refusal lawsuit for lack of standing
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
New HHS rule would allow child placement discrimination based on religion
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Nicaraguan bishop still experiencing ‘severe social, political and economic crisis’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Brazilian president posts video on Twitter comparing bishops to hyenas
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
CRISPR gene technology poses new moral questions
(Charles C. Camosy, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic, other religious groups endorse ‘Faithful Democracy’ statement
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Why a prominent Muslim leader is visiting with Latter-day Saints this week
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
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