Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Trump pushes religious freedom theme at UN, but critics say it clashes with his own record at home
(Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
U.S. tells United Nations: ‘There is no international right to an abortion’
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
At U.N., Trump Administration professes 'no international right to an abortion'
(Sarah McCammon, National Public Radio (NPR))
Clandestine medical abortions reportedly on the rise in the US
(Catholic News Agency)
Telescope Media Group v. Luthero: Federal appellate court weighs in on the religious liberty culture war
(Asma T. Uddin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
FBI: Three El Paso Catholic Churches were targeted by arson
(Catholic News Agency)
N Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party reiterates its prolife stance
(Catholic News Agency)
Burundi official calls for laicization of bishops over election message
(Catholic News Agency)
EVENT, 24 September 2019: Mapping the Landscape of International Religious Freedom Policy
(Religious Freedom Institute)
At UN, Trump focuses on religious freedom, not climate
(Jonathan Lemire and Deb Riechmann, Associated Press)
Christians ponder Egypt’s slow march away from diversity
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
Egypt says 6 Muslim Brotherhood killed in Cairo shootout
(Associated Press)
French bishops oppose medically assisted procreation for single moms, lesbians
(Catholic News Service)
A church, a synagogue and a mosque planned together for the Arabian Peninsula
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Biden backs nationwide ban on conversion therapy at LGBT forum
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
EVENT, 24-26 September 2019: First Meeting of Ecumenical Officers and Secretaries for Theology
(Orthodox Church of England, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Conference of European Churches (Kaunisniemi, Finland))
Democrats embrace the Nones: Religious scenarios for the big 2020 vote are taking shape
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Remarks by President Trump at the United Nations event on religious freedom | New York, NY
(The White House)
World's churches line up at New York for Climate Summit calling for action now to save creation
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
High school football coach who led team in prayer faces complaint for 'constitutional violation'
(Brinley Hineman and Cecil Joyce, Murfreesboro Daily News Journal)
Religious Americans are overly pessimistic about the family, study finds
(Jana Riess, Flunking Sainthood)
Turkey serves deportation order after German’s 20 years of tourism work
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Trump criticizes world leaders on religious freedom, earmarks $25 million
(Mairead McArdle, National Review)
After Cardinal Marx visits Vatican, Germany's 'synodal way' up for bishops' vote
(Ed Condon, Catholic News Agency)
Hong Kong Catholic leaders: Vatican involvement in protests unlikely
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican office temporarily suspends sanctions against Indiana Jesuit school
(Carl Bunderson, Catholic News Agency)
Chinese churches made to replace Ten Commandments with Xi Jinping quotes
(Catholic News Agency)
China’s atheist Communist Party encourages folk religion
(The Economist)
China calls on Washington to cancel Xinjiang meeting
(Joe McDonald, Associated Press)
At U.N., Trump pushes religious freedom at event slamming China over Uighurs
(Michelle Nichols, David Brunnstrom, Reuters)
Pompeo: Resist China’s demands to repatriate fleeing Uighurs
(Associated Press)
Official churches in China obliged to celebrate National Day
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Monday, 23 September 2019
Iran pressured to amend national security laws
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Law and religion round-up – 22nd September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Opinion: Good relations between church and state in Belarus
(Belarusian Telegraphic Agency)
When the laity led: Resentment & resignation in Nicaragua
(Eileen Markey, Commonweal)
ACLU bombards religious preference proceeding with form letters
(Paige Smith, Christina Brady, Bloomberg Law)
Decades-old Hindu pilgrimage, aided by Modi government, takes a populist turn
(Kalpana Jain, Religion News Service)
Is vegetarianism a “protected characteristic”? Conisbee
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Peter Edge: Vegetarianism as a protected characteristic: another view on Conisbee
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Islam and politics: Why American Muslims lean leftwards for 2020
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Head of Council of Muftis gives number of Muslims who live in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)
Burkina Faso Christians told to “convert or flee”
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Head of new Ukrainian church receives German diplomat
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Christian accused of selling beef lynched in India
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigerian bishop: We can’t lose sight of human side of nation’s conflicts
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Germany's Catholic Church struggles with women and power
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
Virginia jail ends ‘God Pod’ after Muslim inmates sue
(Matthew Barakat, Associated Press)
2 Muslim men from Texas say American Airlines profiled them
(Associated Press)
Human chain rings German cathedral to demand gender equality
(Associated Press)
Parent's challenge to California's boarding school regulation is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge: Christian group's lawsuit against Wayne State University can move forward
(David Jesse, Detroit Free Press)
Christian student group may continue suit against university
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
RLUIPA does not apply to uninsured Amish roofer repairing homeowner’s damaged roof
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)
AJC welcomes historic UN report on antisemitism
(Press Release, American Jewish Committee)
The abortion mysticism of Pete Buttigieg
(Ross Douthat, The New York Times)
Civil rights group: Airline forced girl, 12, to remove hijab (USA, Canada)
(Associated Press)
What is restorative justice, and what does it have to do with being Catholic? (Harm, Healing, and Human Dignity)
(Caitlin Morneau, Catholic Mobilizing Network)
American government speaks out for Russian Jehovah's Witnesses
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Friday, 20 September 2019
Friday Five: #RNA2019, pastor suicide, newspaper credibility, culture wars, hilarious sermons
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
ODIHR provides new guidance on freedom of religion or belief and security
(Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
Iceland may establish separation of church and state in 15 years
(Reykjavik Grapevine)
The Supreme Court considers mandatory government funding of religious education
(Daniel Mach, American Civil Liberties Union)
These Jehovah's Witnesses have been imprisoned in Eritrea for the past 25 years without trial
(Daniel Avery and K Thor Jensen, Newsweek)
BJC issues public comment opposing proposed hiring discrimination rule
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Previous SYRIZA government’s reforms to religious education ruled unconstitutional
(Nick Kampouris, Greek Reporter)
Why we need religion more than ever in the pursuit of peace
(Blerim Mustafa, Inter Press Service News Agency)
Does “conversion therapy” hurt people who identify as transgender? The new JAMA Psychiatry study cannot tell us
(Mark Regenerus, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
The court in Ukraine returns citizenship to the deported rector of the Desyatinny Monastery
(Interfax-Religion)
Six Jehovah's Witnesses convicted in same trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
A California court dealt a blow to religious liberty. It’s time for SCOTUS to act.
(David French, National Review)
Embracing liberty in no way means embracing moral relativism
(David French, National Review)
Diyanet: The Turkish religious authority that makes millions
(Aram Ekin Duran, Daniel Bellut, Deutsche Welle)
Religious liberty, discrimination and DACA highlight court’s new term
(Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service)
During Brexit storm, UK’s efforts to protect religious freedom fly under the radar
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Crisis in Kashmir: Modi’s aggressive Hindu nationalism
(Nicole-Ann Lobo, Commonweal)
Just how secular is Britain?
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant
(Collin Binkley, Associated Press)
Israel’s election highlights secular-religious divide
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Troy sued by feds, accused of illegally rejecting mosque, curbing religious freedom
(Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press)
Justice Department files lawsuit against City of Troy, Michigan, for restrictions on Muslim religious group trying to establish a place to worship
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Justice Department sues Michigan city over mosque zoning
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saudi government denies medicine to religious prisoner of conscience
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Indonesia rethinks ban on sex outside marriage
(BBC News)
Why federal leaders, despite criticism, aren’t taking a stronger stance on Quebec’s Bill 21
(Maham Abedi, Global News)
New York wants to rescind its anti-conversion therapy law and no one nails them for it?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Rikers Island prison ‘has got to go,’ says New York cardinal
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Former FARC leader calls on Pope Francis to mediate Venezuela-Colombia crisis
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
British news reports Russian mistreatment of Jehovah's Witnesses
(BBC Russian Service, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
China/Vatican agreement may signal lessening of religious tension
(World Religion News)
‘Boiling us like frogs’: China’s clampdown on Muslims creeps into the heartland, finds new targets
(Gerry Shih, The Washington Post)
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Rise in police killings worry the Church leaders in Brazil
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
U.N. Special Rapporteur warns about etthno-religious tensions in Sri Lanka
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
An interdisciplinary look at IP and religion
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Religion Watch, September 2019, Volume 34 No. 11
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Israel: Majority of public want unity govt with no ultra-orthodox parties
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
The U.K. is using religion to discriminate against LGBTQ+ refugees
(Shannon Power, Out)
Symposium: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: The battle between may fund and must fund
(Frank Ravitch, SCOTUSblog)
Symposium: Anti-Catholic Blaine Amendments like Montana’s are presumptively unconstitutional
(Eric Rassbach, SCOTUSblog)
Symposium: Stripping church-state separation to the bone? The Supreme Court considers mandatory government funding of religious education
(Daniel Mach, SCOTUSblog)
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