Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Michigan college to keep graduation prayer, with changes
(Associated Press)
Italy’s church acknowledges looming tax bill after ruling
(Associated Press)
Diocese asks judge to grant temporary restraining order in border fence case
(Mark Reagan, The Brownsville Herald)
Catholic Diocese opposes taking of church land for border fencing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge to Jewish religious chicken-killing ritual defeated in court
(Danielle Leigh, ABC 7)
New York's top court denies mandamus in battle against Kaporos ritual
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Finally: A decent mainstream news article about the Southern Poverty Law Center
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
WAPO runs study of Southern Poverty Law Center
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ACLU of Missouri settles lawsuit with City of Wentzville
(American Civil Liberties Union)
ACLU settles free speech suit against Missouri City
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
9th Circuit hears oral aguments in Title VII case against Salvation Army
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Is India waging a 'war' on Islamic names?
(Soutik Biswas, BBC News)
Egyptian women and the fight for the right to work
(Leslie T. Chang, The New Yorker)
Relentless 'hollowing out' of newsrooms shapes all beats, and our democracy
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Court considers: Can gov't ban Christian schools from praying at state championships?
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Franklin Graham's son encourages Christians to step up to help wildfire victims
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Israeli defense minister resigns over Gaza cease-fire
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
Pastor under fire for kicking man dressed like a woman out of church service
(Sarah Curlee, Christian Headlines)
Job search has ended for Kim Davis...She wants to be a preacher
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
'Christian supremacism" and the U.S. presidency blasted at Parliament of the World Religions
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Three Malibu Jewish summer camps destroyed in CA wildfire
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
The Pope's message of peace on the WWI centenary
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Albany's Episcopal bishop bans same-sex marriages in the Diocese's churches
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Muslim fashion: The beauty of modesty
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
What the November 13 attacks taught Paris
(Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic)
The Vatican swoops in
(Olivia Paschal, The Atlantic)
BBC faces renewed calls to open Thought for the Day to atheists
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
It’s time we heard humanist views on Thought for the Day
(Sandi Toksvig, Julian Baggini, Alice Roberts, Ed Byrne, Peter Tatchell, Nick Brown MP, Tristan Garel-Jones, The Guardian)
Do we need a humanist Thought for the Day?
(Letters, The Guardian)
A journal for anonymous ‘controversial’ ideas will only fan the flames
(Nesrine Malik, The Guardian)
The Quaker told he was too young to have a conscience
(William Hetherington, The Guardian)
Attendance at Church of England’s Sunday services falls again
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on returning the Rohingya to Myanmar: don’t make them go
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Amid arrests and killings, Bangladesh and India must fight censorship
(Arundhati Roy, The Guardian)
Man jailed for fire attacks on Edinburgh temple and church
(Press Association, The Guardian)
Churches use political pressure, small-dollar loans to fight predatory payday lending
(Mark A. Kellner, Religion News Service)
In Kenya, a pastor’s refusal to marry an HIV-positive bride stirs debate over AIDS stigma
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Khashoggi’s death is just one reason to boycott hajj. Every Muslim has reasons not to
(Dilshad Ali, Religion News Service)
How to talk about racism in the church without becoming bitter
(Jemar Tisby, Religion News Service)
Stan Lee, Jewish literary hero
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
A lot of white evangelical voters aren’t evangelicals
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Close encounters of the God kind: Scalzi, others mix religion in science fiction
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Clergy sex abuse: Why a national all-faiths inquiry is needed
(Christa Brown and David Clohessy, Religion News Service)
Seminaries partner with prisons to offer inmates new life as ministers
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Blasphemy laws: An excuse for persecution
(Editorial Board, The New York Times)
Wolterstorff, “Religion in the University”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
Russia cracking down on Jehovah’s Witnesses even more often than on Islamist radicals
(Paul Goble, Window on Eurasia)
Group provides Christians faith-based support to veterans who have experienced trauma
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
As immigrants come north, ‘Let Our Families Go’ caravan heads for border tent city
(Eric Berger, Religion News Service)
Bishops angered by scandal involving ex-Cardinal McCarrick
(David Crary and David McFadden, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Duma proposes drawing up map of Greek churches, monasteries Russian Orthodox believers can visit
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin stresses importance of friendly relations between Russia, Muslim countries
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian patriarch and president in tandem
(Andrei Melnikov, Artur Priimak, Nezavisimaia Gazeta)
IICSA Hearings – Roman Catholic Church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Let's play 'Spot the religious test' in some big news stories – on left and the right
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Why Muslim news media have shied away from covering the Uighur persecution story
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Bulgarians rally to pray, protest proposed religious restrictions
(Ken Camp, Baptist Standard)
Why a far-right extremist targeted a yoga studio for violence
(Natalia Petrzela, The Washington Post)
Lion elected Jerusalem mayor in victory for ultra-Orthodox
(Associated Press)
Colorado sees increase in bias-motivated crimes against Jews
(Associated Press)
8th Circuit: Title VII failure to accommodate does not equal retaliation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FFRF sues over Wisconsin’s DOJ chaplaincy
(Press Release, Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Chaplaincy program of Wisconsin Justice Department challenged
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FBI’s new hate crime report captures an America changed by hate
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
FBI data shows sharp rise in US hate crimes
(Staff and agencies, The Guardian)
ADL calls on leaders to redouble efforts to counter hate after FBI reports hate crimes jumped 17 percent
(Press Release, Anti-Defamation League)
Law enforcement moves against Siberian Jehovah's Witnesses
(Interfax-Siberia, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian president's plans hit bumpy road
(Union of Orthodox Journalists, Russia Religion News)
Case of Danish Jehovah's Witness continues
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian president and Moscow church in stand-off
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
As religious freedom law turns 25, vast majority of Democrats oppose what Bill Clinton signed into law
(Ernest Istook, Washington Examiner)
FBI releases 2017 hate crimes report
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Attacks on religious and racial minorities fueled sharp rise in hate crimes in 2017, FBI says
(Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times)
FBI report: Religion-based hate crimes in 2017 increased for the third consecutive year
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
British Muslims will live with an intolerable burden of uncertainty under new counter-terrorism bill
(Tarek Younis, The Conversation)
Sisi tackles discrimination, religious freedom in his talk at WYF
(Egypt Today)
Thinking about Trump, young evangelicals, The New York Times and ... Screwtape
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
RNS points out how ICE detainees' religious rights get shafted in prison
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The price we pay for decades of school funding based on religion
(Ross Gittins, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Trump Admin cements Little Sisters’ exemption to the contraceptive mandate
(Nicole Russell, The Federalist)
The call of covenantal pluralism: Defeating religious nationalism with faithful patriotism
(Chris Seiple, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Election day drinking game? Maybe. But here's another evangelical politics stat for news stories
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Religion law puts “thousands in a position of fragility”, Spanish EA tells Bulgarian ambassador
(Evangelical Focus)
Here we go again: U.S. Supreme Court gains even more power in America's culture wars?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Religious liberty is under significant threat this term
(Tyler Broker, Above the Law)
Sen. Ben Sasse stands out politically, and religiously, in the post-election GOP
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Opposition to tentative deal on Church and state grows
(ekathimerini.com)
Tensions on Religious Right? Did you notice Trump's political kill shot on Rep. Mia Love?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Nigerians spotlight children in UN review after seeking world churches help
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Kyrgyzstan: "The attackers are in freedom"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Poroshenko no-show at Kiev Monastery of the Caves to meet with Ukrainian Church clergy
(Interfax-Religion)
Rising hate in India
(Annie Gowen and Manas Sharma, The Washington Post)
Hindu vs. Muslim in India: The Washington Post covers a battle that's getting worse
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Post-election storylines: Five religion angles as dust settles from Midterm voting
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Ballot-box religion ghost for 2018? U.S. Senate races plus Supreme Court heat equals ...
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
It's a new fact of news life: Reporters have to start reading the alternative Catholic press
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
What are the odds of this Catholic clergy abuse study receiving some elite ink?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Faith leaders describe the 'inner conflict and turmoil' they've experienced since Trump took office
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Spanish bishop urges solidarity among nations to resolve migrant crisis
(Catholic News Service)
Experts say Francis faces uphill battle to persuade Europe on immigration
(Claire Giangravé, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
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