Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 18 October 2019
Working groups at the Vatican’s Amazon synod push for married clergy
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
China bans African students from worshiping in churches to prevent 'foreign infiltration'
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post)
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Defiant head vows to keep unregistered school open
(Zoe Conway, BBC News)
The Possibility of Religious Freedom: Early Natural Law and the Abrahamic Faiths
(Karen Taliaferro, Cambridge University Press)
A new defense of religious freedom drawing on Maimonides, Ibn Rushd, and Tertullian
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Highlighting Nigeria's abusive 'Islamic schools' challenge
(Daniel Mumbere, Africa News)
A mosque in the land of midnight sun
(Fortunato Salazar, BBC Travel (Norway))
How William Barr, culture warrior, weaponizes religious liberty
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Macron warning on stigmatising Muslims amid France veil row
(BBC News)
'It's not secularism, it's racism': Muslim mum at centre of French hijab row to sue politicians
(AFP)
Brexit: agreed revised texts on UK withdrawal from the EU
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Pondering how to cover religion news for readers in the 'nones' generation
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Another arrest of Jehovah's Witnesses for evangelism
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Gov. Cuomo pledges ‘full support’ for public statue of Mother Cabrini
(Catholic News Service)
EEOC sues Service Caster Corp. for national origin and religious harassment, retaliation
(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
EEOC sues over harassment of Pentecostal employees
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
US Supreme Court rebuffs student’s Islamic ‘indoctrination’ appeal
(Barry Duke, Patheos Blog: Friendly Atheist)
Cert. denied in challenge to high school unit on Islam
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EVENT, 17-19 October 2019: Alternative to Populism from a Human Rights Perspective
(Spanish Evangelical Church, Conference of European Churches (Ecumenical Center Los Rubios in Malaga, Spain))
EVENT, 17 October 2019: ‘Same God’ film screening
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Experts fear legislation will further reduce religion in Quebec schools
(Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News Service)
Invoking culture or religion to harm others can never be justified
(Pierre De Vos, Daily Maverick (South Africa))
Nearly half of immigrants’ descendants in Denmark say criticizing religion should be illegal
(RT.com)
Indonesian Islamists pursue mentally ill woman
(Amanda Hodge and Chandni Vasandani, The Australian)
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
New row erupts over the wearing of the Islamic hijab in public in France
(Jacques Demarthon, AFP)
40% of Muslim students in CA report being bullied due to religion, according to survey
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Electronic Communications Code and the CofE
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Media 'break out the pitchforks' after Pompeo's speech on 'Being a Christian Leader'
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Donbas: Luhansk: Community work, fines, property seizure
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Why Evangelical Christian leaders care so deeply about Trump abandoning the Kurds
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)
Honduran bishops denounce drug cartel incursion into politics
(David Agren, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigerian bishop says ‘border wall’ would be good for Nigeria
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Is the state church coming?
(Jane Clark Scharl, Crisis Magazine - A Voice for the faithful Christian Laity)
Naval base protesters may not raise RFRA or 1st Amendment defenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court to doctors: you won't be forced to perform gender transition procedures
(Press Release, Becket)
The Amazon Synod revives the myth of the noble savage
(Patrick Chisholm, Crisis Magazine - A Voice for the faithful Christian Laity)
Baby girl buried alive in India and sex trafficking in Dallas: The power (and hope) of ideas
(Jim Denison, Christian Headlines)
Conversion therapy rule draws statement of opposition from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Mormon church opposes Utah LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ ban
(Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press)
New York Law School adds religious training to its diversity program
(Karen Sloan, Law.com)
Where Americans and Europeans agree – and differ – in the values they see as important
(Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Meeting of Russian presidential advisors concerning religion
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Court vacates Obama-era rule mandating gender transition and abortion procedures
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Witch season provides a deep look into the millennial mindset
(Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service)
ECtHR engages in dangerous “triple pirouette” to find criminal prosecution for media coverage of PKK statements did not violate Article 10
(Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof, Strasbourg Observers)
The OSCE produces guidance on freedom of religion or belief and security
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Cultivate common ground regarding faith in public life
(Melissa Rogers, Religion News Service)
Albania gets religion: Resurgence of faith in the formerly communist country is raising fears of foreign influence.
(Krithika Varagur, Politico)
The Forest Service ignored Apache religion in its review of Oak Flat Copper Mine
(Elizabeth Whitman, Phoenix New Times)
State Department website promotes Mike Pompeo speech on 'Being a Christian Leader'
(Savannah Behrmann, USA Today)
Restrictions on cremation ashes for jewellery – II
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
RFI president speaks about freedom of conscience at Newman canonization event in Rome
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Why are cathedrals in England hosting helter-skelters and golf courses?
(Duncan Leatherdale, BBC News)
Deja vu all over again: BBC does another fun cathedrals story that skips somber facts (again)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Uzbekistan: Muslim bloggers' sentences imminent?
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Traditional moral values, democracy can coexist - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin's advisors point out flaws in treatment of religion
(Natalia Bashlykova, Izvestiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Religious News worth reading, week ending Oct 12th 2019
(World Religion News)
Southeast Asia in the crosshairs of 'Islamic State'
(Rodion Ebbighausen, Deutsche Welle)
Attorney General William P. Barr delivers remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Religious liberty, nondiscrimination, and the left
(Peter Kirsanow, National Review)
Czech top court dismisses taxation of church restitution
(Associated Press)
Tunisia: Conservative law professor wins presidential race
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
Catholic church urges Angola to declare a drought emergency
(Associated Press)
German security services want more powers to fight extremism
(Frank Jordans, Associated Press)
Ethiopian Prime Minister awarded Nobel Peace Prize, more work needed
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Boko Haram leader ends silence with vow to continue violence
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Authorities set to close two Algerian churches
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Saudi Arabia sees little progress on religious freedom despite claims of reform
(International Christian Concern)
Religious discrimination bill will not override laws to ban gay conversion therapy, Porter claims
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Coalition's religious discrimination bill condemned by state and territory commissions
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Bishops join Extinction Rebellion protesters in London
(Joe Ware, The Guardian)
Dean Hall calls for state-funded Muslim schools
(Hattie Williams, The Church Times)
Meditation apps proliferate, even if what they provide is not enlightenment
(Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Religion News Service)
Synod appears to be moving toward ordination for married men in Amazon
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
American bishop says Amazon synod will enrich the church — and our lives
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
Sunnis support protests in Iraq, yet fear involvement
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
US announces full withdrawal from northern Syria as Turkish forces advance
(Amberin Zaman and Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
School declines free Chick-fil-A Food ‘out of respect’ to LGBT staff
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
California expands statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse
(Catholic News Agency)
Historic Marian shrine in Florida elevated to national shrine
(Catholic News Agency)
Newman, the newest Catholic saint, is a model of making reason our path to God
(Grazie Poso Christie, Religion News Service)
'Our rights come from God almighty:' President Trump reassures Christians at Values Voter Summit
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
Facing crises, Team Trump takes aim at the church-state line
(Steve Benen, MSNBC)
BOOK LAUNCH, 15 October 2019: Religious Freedom in Australia – a new Terra Nullius?
(Iain T. Benson, Michael Quinlan and A. Keith Thompson, The Sdyney School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia)
New York will get statue of Mother Cabrini
(Catholic News Agency)
Pakistan: The weaponization of blasphemy – analysis
(Tushar Ranjan Mohanty, South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP))
US policy changes leave Israel alone against Iran
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Gas trade: stand-alone win-win for US-Turkey relations
(Olgu Okumuş, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
U.N. nuncio praises nations for recognizing rights of indigenous peoples
(Catholic News Service)
Pope Francis appoints new head of Vatican security
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
New California law forces colleges to carry abortion pills so students can ‘stay on track’
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Calif. governor signs state college campus abortion pill mandate into law
(Catholic News Agency)
UK court authorizes forced abortion for disabled woman in new case
(Catholic News Agency)
Ohio down syndrome abortion ban remains blocked after court ruling
(Catholic News Agency)
China: Authorities forcibly demolish 'illegal' church; elderly congregants injured
(Leah MarieAnn Kleet, The Christian Post)
Monday, 14 October 2019
Troubling Q&A on tax exemption for churches during presidential candidate town hall
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Beto O’Rourke wants anti-gay churches to lose their tax exemptions. He’s wrong
(Hemant Mehta, Patheos Blog: Friendly Atheist)
Warren joins Buttigieg in nixing threat to church tax status
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Meet the imam building a ‘Muslim Village’ in the heart of Vegas
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
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