Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Bishops urge stay of execution, note ‘strong evidence’ inmate is innocent
(Catholic News Service)
Fired Indianapolis Catholic school counselor files lawsuit
(Associated Press)
UN mission head says risk of genocide recurring in Myanmar
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
Secular groups decry Carson’s church and state comment
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Can new amendment undermine Egyptian women's rights to divorce?
(Shahira Amin, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Behind Egypt's gift to Islamic Jihad
(Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Palestinians seek Egypt’s support to join free trade pact
(Ahmad Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
What's steering the PA ban of importing Israeli calves?
(Mordechai Goldman, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Lebanon’s protests continue to gain momentum
(Nicholas Frakes, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Texas grand jury declines to indict monsignor in consent case
(Nomaan Merchant and Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
How parishes can help address the epidemic of domestic abuse
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Cardinal Turkson says ordination of married men may be subject of further study
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu fails to form unified government
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
Suicide rate for kids ages 10 to 14 nearly tripled in last decade: CDC
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Jury rules against dad trying to save his 7-year-old son from gender transition
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
EJIL: Live!
(List of podcasts in video and audio, The official podcast of the European Journal of International Law)
Shamima Begum: Stripping citizenship put her at risk of hanging, court hears
(BBC News)
Isis Bride Shamima Begum to beg to get UK citizenship back
(Jen Mills, Metro)
The Power of Words: The role of religion, media and policy in countering hate speech
(KAIICID Dialogue Centre)
Lebanese Patriarch Béchara al-Rahï backs demonstrators
(Malo Tresca, La Croix International)
Lay Catholics organize march against graft in DR Congo
(Mélinée Le Priol (with Le Monde), La Croix International)
The Pact of the Catacombs (Domitlla): A poor servant Church
Synod on Amazon renews Catacomb Pact
(Nicolas Senèze, La Croix International)
Focus more on peace, not power-sharing, say South Sudan bishops
(Catholic News Service)
Washington Post keeps following 'Uncle Ted' McCarrick story – into Newark and New York
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
What a withdrawal from Afghanistan would look like: Learning to live with the Taliban rule
(Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs)
What is the effect of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring on Lebanon?
(Michal Kranz, Al-Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)
Why Trump’s sanctions failed to shock Turkey’s economy
(Mustafa Sonmez, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Who betrayed Syria’s Kurds?
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Syrian democratic forces commander says Turkey violated the ceasefire order
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Turkey, aggression, and the right to life under the ECHR
(Adil Ahmad Haque, EJIL: Talk!)
Turkey, aggression, and the right to life under the ECHR: A reaction to Professor Haque’s post
(Pavle Kilibarda, EJIL: Talk!)
Russia's historical mission is to keep Europe from breaking away from the Christian tradition - Foreign Intelligence Service chief
(Interfax-Religion)
Yes, Russian interests in Syria are political, but there are centuries of religious ties as well
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Abortion and same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Monday, 21 October 2019
FoRB on the Frontlines: “If I can kill a priest then I can kill anyone”
(FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
How Germany is rethinking security for its Jewish community following the Yom Kippur synagogue attack
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Chicago History Museum shares stories of ‘American Medina’ in new exhibit
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
UAE to begin Iraqi church restoration
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
As synod deliberates, vandals dump controversial indigenous carving into the Tiber
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Grant offered for creation of artificial wombs to help premature babies
(Mary Farrow, Catholic News Agency)
Three women of faith who changed America
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service Opinion)
Religious violence in Bangladesh leaves 4 dead, dozens injured
(Daily Star, Asia News Network)
ODIHR releases freedom of religion policy guide
(New Europe)
Transgender cyclist wins femal cycling world championship
(Tobias Hoonhout, National Review)
Ayodhya: How Rajiv Gandhi’s plan to use the Ram temple for the Congress party came undone
(Zoya Hasan, Scroll.in India)
With the New Year in Judaism, now is the time to atone for religious discrimination
(Keisha Russell, Real Clear Religion)
What are the biggest threats to religious liberty in the US?
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
There is no room in Islam for clerics who abuse women—not in Iraq, not anywhere
(Mohammed Al-Hilli, Newsweek Opinion)
Marijuana retailer, church face off over downtown Anchorage pot shop
(Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News)
French veil debate uncovers schism on religious symbols
(Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Financial Times)
IICSA final hearing – Roman Catholic Church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Chick-fil-A culture war goes international: What's the real story in plans to close British location?
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Longer jail time asked for Jehovah's Witness in Siberia
(Taiga.info, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Nineteen Jehovah's Witnesses' homes penetrated
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Rights activist points to plan to destroy Jehovah's Witnesses
(Svetlana Kravchenko, Kavkazskii Uzel, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Hong Kong’s spiritual battle: With parishioners split over politics, pastors try to keep churches together.
(Jillian Kay Melchior, The Wall Street Journal (Opinion))
William Barr’s wild misreading of the First Amendment
(Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker)
‘A new movement’: Pray for the country, its leaders, church official urges Latter-day Saints
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News)
Mexican bishops call for peace, conversion amid growing violence
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)
Lebanon’s Catholic patriarchs support protesters seeking economic reforms
(Catholic News Service)
What should college grads, and high school grads, know about world religions?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Hong Kong leaders apologize for water cannon use at mosque
(Kelvin Chan, Associated Press)
Library removes Sikh memorial after criticism from India
(Associated Press)
Judge OKs $40M settlement with Duluth diocese
(Associated Press)
Video highlights from Constitution Day at The King’s College
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
When is a Byzantine cross just a tattoo and when is it a reason to ask another question?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Law and religion round-up – 20th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religious freedom and security as mutually reinforcing objectives: Reflections on the new OSCE/ODIHR policy guidance
(Dmytro Vovk, Jeroen Temperman, Mine Yildirim, Asma Uddin, Peter Weiderub, Talk About: Law and Religion (blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies))
In U.S., decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Can you protect religious minorities and still withdraw from Syria? A story of life and death
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Pew report: Older US Christians being quickly replaced by young ‘nones’
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Obituary of powerful Congressman Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland haunted by religion ghosts
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Friday Five: Elijah Cummings, Kurdish evangelicals, Tree of Life, viral forgiveness, open marriages/NYT
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law
(Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, due NOW! Artificial Intelligence and Religion – AIR2020
(International Conference, 3-5 March 2020, Centre for Religious Studies Centre for Information and Communication Technology Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento)
Separation of state from religion is preferable: Condoleezza Rice
(NDTV)
Pope affirms Catholic Church’s duty to indigenous Amazonians hurt by climate change
(Vincent J. Miller, The Conversation)
Japan funding for imperial ceremonies sparks rare dissent
(Asia One)
Muslim employee claims discrimination by New York DMV over Friday prayers
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Share of Americans with no religious affiliation growing
(David Crary, Associated Press)
World Evangelical Association deeply concerned at suffering of vulnerable, including Christians, on Syria-Turkey border
(Ecumenical News)
Christians, Hindus must show world peace is possible, official says
(Catholic News Service)
Emerging from Isis genocide, Yazidis in Armenia open religion’s biggest ever temple
(Independent)
Pittsburgh abortion clinic buffer zone law upheld
(Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law)
Pa. city can’t stop pro-life activists from counseling women outside abortion clinics, says federal court
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Louisiana court skeptical, but lets challenge to abortion regulations continue
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Abortion legalized in N Ireland, after deadlock in devolved legislature
(Catholic News Agency)
Abortion law – Northern Ireland
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
NI politicians receive ‘highest-level of correspondence’ on a single issue ever from constituents demanding extreme abortion regime is rejected
(Right to Life)
Northern Ireland prepares for momentous abortion, same-sex marriage changes
(Reuters, Amanda Ferguson, National Post)
Calls grow for Northern Ireland politicians to lay aside differences, stop abortion law
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
China demolishes 3,000-seat megachurch during worship service
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
New Yorker riffs on Doug Pagitt counseling Democrats on how to reach out to evangelicals
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Sunday, 20 October 2019
Coptic Christians in Egypt fear martyrs are being forgotten
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Hindu exremists, police shut down worship services in Uttat Pradesh, India
(Morningstar News)
Hong Kong court rules against same-sex unions
(Tiffany May and Gerry Mullany, The New York Times)
Melbourne Anglicans find regional same-sex blessings move ‘profoundly disappointing'
(SBS News)
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