Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 6 August 2019
India’s Parliament OKs ending instant divorce for Muslims
(Ashok Sharma, Associated Press)
‘Historic’ day as India outlaws ‘triple talaq’ Islamic instant divorce
(The Guardian)
Indian Parliament outlaws triple talaq
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Largest reported actions against Jehovah's Witnesses since 2017 ban
(Koza Press, Russia Religion News)
‘The next big religious freedom case just landed at SCOTUS’
(David French, National Review)
Symposium: The calm before the storm for religious-liberty cases?
(Mark Rienzi, SCOTUSblog)
Symposium: The new court and religion
(Erwin Chemerinsky, SCOTUSblog)
Reordering the public square
(Gunnar Gundersen, First Things)
Pentecostal church's permit revoked in Indonesia after Muslim radicals protest: report
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
Canada: 'A clear message:' Injunction against religious symbols law struck down
(Libby Giesbrecht, CHVN 95.1 FM)
What Americans know about religion
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Can you pass a basic religious knowledge quiz? Most Americans can't, and that's likely bad news for the country
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Americans say civics is a must and religion a maybe in schools
(Stephen Sawchuk, Education Week)
Pence meets with Russell Moore, religious freedom advocates to discuss China's abuses
(Samuel Smith, Christian Post)
Monday, 5 August 2019
A Christian case for religious liberty
(Nathaniel Peters, Law & Liberty)
'Offensive to my culture and religion': Rainbow flag row costs $2500
(Jacob Saulwick, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Senators oppose Trump refugee cuts on religious freedom grounds
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
North Carolina becomes first Southern state to ban state funding for conversion therapy
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Religious leaders react to mass shootings, call for action from Trump, Congress
(Adelle M. Banks, World Religion News)
For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left
(Shadi Hamid, Brookings)
The Satanic Temple appeals Missouri’s ‘non-scientific’ based abortion law
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Interfaith network to counter human trafficking launched in Nigeria
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
'Latest gun violence in U.S. poses challenges for churches'
(J. Michael West, Ecumenical News)
Law and religion round-up – 4th August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Statutory school worship – managing post-Christendom pluralism
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
400th anniversary special report: Don't miss Adelle Banks' must-read RNS series on slavery and religion
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Religion and vulnerability: Why charismatic Christianity is popular with migrants
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Youngest Jehovah's Witness to be taken to court
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
More presidential candidates are visiting mosques than ever before
(Rowaida Abdelaziz, Huffington Post)
Vatican envoy: Nicaraguan government says talks ‘concluded’
(Gabriela Selser, Associated Press)
Nigeria to allow Shia leader to leave jail for medical care
(Sam Olukoya, Associated Press)
Anti-Christian carnage in Nigeria could be global security nightmare
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Large number of Dutch churches to close in near future
(Michiel van de Kamp, Katholiek Nieuwsblad)
South Dakota’s ‘In God We Trust’ law helped by foundation
(Associated Press)
OrthodoxChurch files new suit in Jerusalem property battle
(Associated Press)
New Kansas governor brings sharp shift on LGBTQ foster kids
(John Hanna, Associated Press)
USCIRF Commissioner Gary Bauer calls for release of imprisoned underground church leader Hu Shigen
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Preliminary injunction denied in challenge to conscience provisions in insurance law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Whatever happened to the Arab uprisings?
(Daniel Philpott, Religious Freedom Institute)
Kazakhstan: eight jailed for up to eight years
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Quebec religious symbols law gets fair, if bewildered, treatment by news media pros
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Abusing religion for extremism is universal
(James J Zogby, Pakistan Today)
Judge orders graduation prayers to stop in South Carolina school district
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Sunday, 4 August 2019
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(International Center for Law and Religion Studies [ICLRS], J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University)
Friday, 2 August 2019
People are now leaving 1-star ratings for Zomato after religion controversy
(Jashodhara Mukherjee, News 18)
Saudi Arabia allows women to travel without male consent
(Religion News Service)
India's top court to hear Ayodhya religious dispute on daily basis
(Suchitra Mohanty, Mayank Bhardwaj, Reuters)
Humanists to help shape religious curriculum after threatening legal action to sit on education board
(Gabriella Swerling, The Telegraph)
Christian ‘historian’ insists religious people have extra rights under the Constitution
(Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation)
Dutch burqa ban prompts concern for religion in the public square
(Catholic News Agency)
In Cameroon, religious freedom can’t be separated from politics
(R. Drew Smith, Religion News Service)
American Jews are asking: is it safe to pray in synagogue?
(Ilanit Chernick, The Jerusalem Post)
New sentencing guidelines – heritage crime
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
When covering Jewish views on abortion, don't forget the Orthodox, U.S. Judaism's fastest growing branch
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Friday Five: War in Babylon, Jews and abortion, Crystal Cathedral, slavery series, Fox News theft
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Our unalienable rights include freedom of—and from—religion
(Susan Shaw, Ms. Magazine)
Beyond a politics of nostalgia: Religious freedom and the ends of democracy
(Corey D. B. Walker, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Burkina Faso Church appeals for protection against terror attacks
(Catholic News Service)
Catholics appeal to Bangladesh prime minister to help return ‘seized land’
(Catholic News Service)
Cardinal defends Nigeria’s Shia Muslim minority after crackdown
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Uruguay bishops divided on transsexual referendum vote
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
“In God We Trust” going up in schools around the country this fall
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
USCIRF Commissioners travel to Iraq to support justice for Yazidi genocide survivors
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Israel Folau: Sacked player sues Rugby Australia over anti-gay row
(BBC News)
Australian rugby star sues over his firing for Instagram post
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court rejects monk’s lawsuit against US Embassy over Buddha image
(Zarni Mann, The Irrawaddy)
Court in Burma dismisses blasphemy suit against U.S. ambassador
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Rural Mexico a gut check for Catholic Church on religious freedom
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The New York Times team assumes Polish Catholics are justifying anti-gay violence
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Depok council to propose replacement for ‘religious city’ draft bylaw
(The Jakarta Post)
South Carolina foster ministry opens to Catholics for the first time
(Yonat Shimron, Christianity Today)
Actions against Jehovah's Witnesses in Russian northwest
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
All the times religion came up in Tuesday’s Democratic debates
(Relevant)
Dutch 'burqa ban' comes into force
(Deutsche Welle)
Partial Dutch ban on face-covering clothing takes effect
(Mike Corder, Associated Press)
Few police officers are religion experts. That can create big problems
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
UN experts: Islamic State aims for resurgence in Iraq, Syria
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
India promotes Hindu pilgrimage as sign of peace in Kashmir
(Emily Schmall, Associated Press)
Australia proposes new laws to keep extremists in prison
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
Cyprus’ top lawyer: Police to probe bishop’s remarks on gays
(Associated Press)
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(International Center for Law and Religion Studies [ICLRS], J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University)
Michigan city under fire for law forcing citizens to promote political views they oppose
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Consulting firm challenges city's ban on discrimination based on political belief
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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(International Center for Law and Religion Studies [ICLRS], J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University)
Ultranationalist Myanmar monk group declared illegal by top Buddhist organization
(Radio Free Asia)
Myanmar body outlaws ultra-nationalist Buddhist organization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 1 August 2019: Blasphemy and Violence. Interdependencies since 1760.
(Liberas( Ghent, Belgium) in conjunction with the School of History, Religion and Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, United Kingdom) and the Leibniz Institute of European History (Mainz, Germany), Liberaal Archief Liberas)
There’s a legal cure for woke corporations’ religious discrimination
(David French, National Review)
5 years on, Yazidis still live with IS massacre, enslavement
(Ali Abdul-Hassan and Hadi Mizban, Associated Press)
Canada rights groups may appeal judge's decision not to stay ban on religious clothing
(Moira Warburton, KDAL)
Atheists complain about back-to-school prayer event at Alabama high school
(Carolyn Salazar, Fox News)
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Samoa's 'third gender' delicately balances sex and religion
(Jonathan Barrett, Reuters)
How civil rights law protects religious employees
(Gene Veith, Patheos: Cranach, the Blog of the Veith)
Forthcoming JCPC challenge to same-sex marriage prohibition in Bermuda
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – July (Part 2)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Russia: Protestants face difficulties over place of meeting
(Mediazona, Russia Religion News)
After two months in prison cell, four Jehovah's Witnesses get two more
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Are religious people really ignorant about religion?
(Benjamin Marcus, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Rabbi spat on and cursed at in Berlin
(Deutsche Welle)
British PM aims to restore Protestant-Catholic power-sharing in Northern Ireland
(Jill Lawless, Associated Press)
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