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Friday, 19 October 2018

US Justice Department investigating Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, Buffalo
(Daniel Burke and Rosa Flores, CNN)

Open Consultation: Reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004
(Gov.UK)

Reform of the Gender Recognition Act – Government Consultation
(Presented to Parliament by the Minister for Women and Equalities by Command of Her Majesty)

S.V. v. Italy: on temporality and transgender persons
(Pieter Cannoot, Strasbourg Observers)

Pope indicates willingness to visit North Korea
(Associated Press)

Pope Francis willing to visit North Korea, Vatican official says
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Pope willing to visit North Korea
(Gina Goh, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Friday Five: Hurricane Michael, 'Uncle Ted' McCarrick, Ed Stetzer, Trump evangelicals, WWJF
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Thursday, 18 October 2018

Former Chinese internment camp detainee denied US visa
(Dake Kang, Associated Press)

Religion in Crazy Rich Asians?
(Michael Baysa, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))

Greens Bill a serious attack on religious freedom
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Man admits setting fire to doors of Sikh temple and church
(Express and Star)

Were Christian missionaries ‘foundational’ to the United States?
(Emily Conroy-Krutz, The Washington Post)

“The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics” (Jones & Pasquino, eds.)
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)

New federal lawsuit pits religion against gay rights in employment context
(Douglas M. Oldham, National Law Review)

Deep in the desert, a case pits immigration crackdown against religious freedom
(Ryan Lucas, National Public Radio)

Voters with no religious affiliation hold power to sway direction of country
(Annie Laurie Gaylor, Tribune News Service)

Shreveport Police Department will no longer host or promote prayer vigils
(Nick Wooten, Shreveport Times)

Ukrainian parliament supports transfer of St. Andrew's Church in Kiev to Constantinople
(Interfax-Religion)

Poroshenko makes good on proposal to accommodate Constantinople patriarch
(RISU, Russia Religion News)

A political clash over Ukraine shakes Eastern Orthodox unity
(Tyler Arnold, National Review)

Legal pot will have ‘disastrous effects,’ Canadian bishops say
(Jonah McKeown, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Chinese provincial official: Vatican will interfere in religious affairs
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Congo bishops worry elections scheduled in December will be postponed
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Trump aide ‘disagrees’ with Iraqi cardinal over US help for Christians
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Teaching public school students about religion requires proper focus
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Four new holiday season postage stamps issued
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

St. Cloud couple's bid to deny wedding videography to gay couples is argued before appeals court
(Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune)

8th Circuit oral arguments in wedding videographers' refusal to serve same-sex couples
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Another church building sealed shut in Algeria
(Morning Star News)

Coffee shop church’s claims survive motion to dismiss, city amends code to permit use
(Diana Neeves, RLUIPA-Defense)

CofE Living Ministry Report
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Archbishop Charles Chaput says the Catholic church needs to avoid using the term LGBT Catholics
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Chaput: The terrain and challenge U.S. Christians face
(Catholic News Agency)

Get real: What young religious hope to hear from the youth synod
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)

Andrew Brunson spent hours praying to keep sane in solitary confinement inside Turkish prison
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Pastor Andrew Brunson Is home
(John Stonestreet and David Carlson, The Christian Post)

Another major victory for religious freedom in America
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)

'A soaring miracle of art' – Albukhary Gallery of the Islamic World review
(Jonathan Jones, The Guardian)

Jailed preacher Anjem Choudary faces strict controls after release
(Vikram Dodd, The Guardian)

House of Lords debates religious intolerance and prejudice in the UK
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Divided Britain: study finds huge chasm in attitudes
(Peter Walker, The Guardian)

'Inequality is a poison': campaigning for Muslim women's rights – podcast
(Lucy Lamble and Simon Barnard, The Guardian)

Sabarimala to open today, Kerala braces for law vs faith standoff
(India Today)

Indian temple set to allow entry to females who menstruate
(Ashok Sharma, Religion News Service)

Tensions high in Kerala as Hindu temple opens gates to women
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)

India: Protesters stop females ages 10 to 50 from entering temple
(Ashok Sharma, Associated Press)

Sabarimala head priest appeals to young women not to visit hill shrine
(The Times of India)

Sabarimala Protests LIVE: 6 BJP youth activists held at Nilakkal for violating section 144, CM Vijayan slams RSS
(Vishnu Varma, The Indian Express)

What you might want to know about Sabarimala
(ET Online, The Economic Times (India))

Hindu nationalist-led state changes Muslim name of Indian city
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)

One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
(Samantha Subramanian, The Guardian)

Iraqi Christian boy Noeh, under his own roof again
(World Watch Monitor)

Nigerian Islamist extremists kill aid worker ‘for work for Red Cross’; Christians ‘slaves for life’
(World Watch Monitor)

Kenya: Two Christian teachers killed by suspected Al-Shabaab attackers
(World Watch Monitor)

1,000 days since kidnap of 84-year-old doctor in Burkina Faso, family plea for freedom
(World Watch Monitor)

'It’s part of who I am': proposed Quebec law could push hijab-wearers out of jobs
(Martin Patriquin, The Guardian)

TX evangelicals sue for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ job candidates and employees
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

Archdiocese releases names of ‘credibly’ accused clergy
(Ashraf Khalil, Religion News Service)

List of 31 D.C. priests accused of sexual abuse has been released
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Trump to name Catholic lawyer to replace Donald Mcgahn
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

‘Acknowledging reality,’ a splinter church in Kenya ordains married Catholic priests
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)

Tired of war, South Sudanese pray for latest peace deal
(Doreen Ajiambo, Religion News Service)

Incoming Moody president hopes to give historic Christian school a ‘restart’
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

EVENT, 18-19 October 2018: Freedom of Religion: Recent ECtHR and CJEU Case Law
(Academy of European Law)

Wentworth byelection: Jewish voters split over embassy switch to Jerusalem
(Anne Davies, The Guardian)

Why suing Notre Dame over ‘secret’ birth control settlement isn’t kosher
(Charles C. Camosy, Religion News Service)

For Mexico’s Virgin of Zapopan, a 300-year-old journey home from Guadalajara
(Ameyalli Diaz Castro, Religion News Service)

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Austsralia: There’s no argument or support for allowing schools to discriminate against LGBTIQ teachers
(Mary Lou Rasmussen, Andrew Singleton, Anna Halafoff, Gary D. Bouma, The Conversation)

Australia: Freedom of Religion policy-making debacle
(John Warhurst, The Sydney Morning Herald)

Ruddock report (part 3): religious schools and gay teachers
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

One mixed-religion marriage exposes Israel's religious tension
(Eric Tlozek, The World Today)

‘This is not OK’: American Jewish students harassed for their support of Israel
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

SCOTUS: Petitions of the week
(Aurora Barnes, SCOTUSblog)

Malaysia to repeal death penalty and sedition law
(Richard C. Paddock, The New York Times)

Death knell for capital punishment? Washington becomes 20th state to ban executions
(Jorge L. Ortiz, USA Today)

He's 'one of us': The undying bond between the Bible belt and Trump
(Maggie Haberman, The New York Times)

Religion is ‘spiritual anesthesia’: The ideology behind China’s Uyghur crackdown
(Bonnie Girard, The Diplomat)

China breaks silence on Muslim detention camps, calling them 'humane'
(Chris Buckley, The New York Times)

China says camps for Muslims lead them to ‘modern’ life
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)

Nikki Haley slams China's 'free vocational training' internment camps
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

USCIRF strongly condemns codification of repression in Western China
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Ask the Expert: What is the largest religion in Iceland?
(Iceland Magazine)

Witches are free to operate in Guyana after dismissal of colonial laws
(Nduta Waweru, Face 2 Face Africa)

Most news coverage of Muslims is negative. But not when it’s about devotion
(Erik Bleich, Julien Souffrant, Emily Stabler and A. Maurits van der Veen, The Washington Post)

Does religious freedom extend to child endangerment? It’s not as simple as it seems
(Rebecca Moore, Rewire News)

Lutheran minister believes separation of church & state in Iceland should be examined
(Andie Fontaine, Reykjavík Grapevine)

Churches and refugees: When houses of prayer become places of shelter
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Israel and US postal services issue joint Hanukkah stamp
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

What comes after the wedding cake case? Experts consider religious freedom's future
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)

Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
(Associated Press)

Brazil presidential candidates woo religious leaders
(Associated Press)

US briefs Iraq Chaldean head, Vatican on aid after critique
(Associated Press)

Michigan court approves public funding for private school mandates
(Jonathan Oosting, The Detroit News)

Michigan Appeals Court OK's state funding for incidental costs of private schools
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Hate crimes in England and Wales targeting people by religion rose 40 percent
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Reported hate crimes in England and Wales show increase
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Islamists vow to kill a Christian woman if a Pakistan court acquits her
(Marlo Safi, National Review)

Pakistani judges receive threats over upcoming blasphemy decision
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Most news coverage of Muslims is negative. But not when it’s about devotion
(Erik Bleich, Julien Souffrant, Emily Stabler, & A. Maurits van der VEen, The Washington Post)

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