Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 4 September 2018
7 indicted for fraud in payments for internet equipment for Yeshivas
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New report reveals how Myanmar military blocked aid to Christians in Kachin
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
For Daesh survivors the worst fear becomes reality yet again
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Kazakhstan: Religious freedom survey, September 2018
(Forum 18 News Service)
Myanmar court jails Reuters reporters for seven years in landmark secrets case
(Shoon Naing and Aye Min Thant, Reuters)
Monday, 3 September 2018
Does the Secular Society know better than a child’s parents?
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
World has to confront oceans 'littered by fields of floating plastic,' says Pope Francis
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope Francis faces worst crisis of his five-year papacy
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Pope decries emergency of plastics blighting world’s seas
(Frances D’Emilio, Associated Press)
Asylum-seekers and religious conversion: TF and MA
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The universality of international law
(Jo Wojtkowski, OUPblog)
Sunday, 2 September 2018
Law and religion round-up – 2nd September
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Saturday, 1 September 2018
He said he wouldn’t join his company’s Bible study. After being let go, he’s suing.
(Rachel Siegel, The Washington Post)
“Confronting Religious Violence” (Burridge et al., eds.)
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum)
Thailand: Compulsory Buddhist education diminishes religious freedom: UN Envoy
(Punsita Ritthikarn, Khaosod English)
New Pakistani Prime Minister to push for global blasphemy laws
(Ed Brayton, Patheos)
Pakistan rally ends after Dutch cartoon contest is canceled
(Associated Press)
Metro is trampling on First Amendment rights
(Ashley McGuire and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, The Washington Post)
Austria's next Islamophobic policy: Banning the hijab in kindergarten
(Farid Hafez, Daily Sabah)
Michigan child's death puts spotlight on clash between medicine and religion
(Samantha Raphelson, National Public Radio)
Uniform civil code 'neither necessary nor desirable', says Law Commission in consultation paper
(Times of India)
'In God We Trust': Several states pass bills requiring (or allowing) motto's display in schools
(Taylor Swaak, Forbes)
Stop the persecution of Chinese refugees of The Church of Almighty God in South Korea
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Catholic Church should fight for freedom and unity in Europe
(Deutsche Welle)
Governor: courts, not church fund, better for abuse victims
(Associated Press)
International religious freedom report cites 28 nations falling short
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Pennsylvania House’s refusal to allow nontheists to deliver invocation ruled unconstitutional
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Texas town scrutinized for blocking Muslim cemetery plan
(Associated Press)
Catholics in Australia won’t make priests report confessions
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
Cleric: ‘No going back’ on Ukraine split from Russia Church
(Ayse Wieting, Associated Press)
Alabama ban on yoga in schools questioned
(Associated Press)
Coptic diocese says group attacked Christian homes in Egypt
(Associated Press)
Street preacher's disturbing-the-peace citation was valid
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
RLUIPA challenges to zoning decision on Catholic Church must go to trial
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Protestant Navy chaplains lose discrimination lawsuit
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Divided court stays out of foster care dispute
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)
Supreme Court refuses emergency injunction in Catholic social services foster care case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Links to August consistory court judgments
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Americans United for Separation of Church and State demands shut down of Trump’s Evangelical advisory council
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Friday, 31 August 2018
Ecclesiastical court judgments – August
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Sexual libertinism won't save the church
(David French, National Review)
Sex abuse scandal in the Church: How parishes are responding
(John Burger, Aleteia)
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Book Review: *On Islam* Fails to Enlighten
(David A. Rahimi, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Religion, banned books and the ECHR: Ibragimov and Others v Russia
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
New inter-State application brought by Ukraine against Russia
(The Registrar of the Court, European Court of Human Rights)
Cohabitation and widowed parent’s allowance: McLaughlin
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
McLaughlin, Re Judicial Review
(Judgment, United Kingdom Supreme Court)
Fighting the Burnout Culture: How personalist philosophers and Benedictine monks can help stressed-out college students
(Margarita A. Mooney, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
From the Solidly Secular to Sunday Stalwarts, a look at our new religious typology
(Becka A. Alper, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
When Leonard Cohen wrote about Eichmann
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
From ‘Judeo-Christian’ to ‘Potluck Nation,’ Muslim social activist pleads for religious pluralism
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
How faith and friendship are gaining as a remedy to the opioid crisis
(Katelyn Beaty, Religion News Service)
India’s Bnei Menashe community sets sights on immigrating to Israel
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)
Indonesian president invokes ‘Pancasila’ to counter rising Islamism
(Nithin Coca, Religion News Service)
Religion: Empowering or oppressive to women?
(Donah Mbabazi, The New Times)
Religious freedom feels the heat from growth in atheism and irreligion
(Will Jones, Christian Today)
Asking the Clergy: What if school lessons conflict with religious beliefs?
(Jim Merritt, Newsday)
For a 'house church' in Beijing, CCTV cameras and eviction
(Christian Shepherd, Reuters)
Australia's new prime minister Scott Morrison is an evangelical Christian
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Prosecutor moves against church of alternative Orthodoxy
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)
The situation of Baha'is in Yemen
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Who is killing Yemen’s clerics? Mystery murders are sending a chill through the mosques.
(Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post)
Senior Labour politician quits Parliament over party’s anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Putin punk group Pussy Riot headlines UK Christian music festival
(Rosie Dawson, Religion News Service)
The unintended consequences of the Equal Access Act
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
LGBTQ student organizations and the Equal Access Act: Betsy DeVos has no power to restrict the protections of the EAA (Responding to: The unintended consequences of the Equal Access Act)
(Richard Fossey & Todd A. DeMitchell, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Clubs must meet certain standards to merit Equal Access Act protections (Responding to: The unintended consequences of the Equal Access Act)
(Leah Farish, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Lebanon’s religious leaders call for ‘dignified’ return of refugees
(Doreen Abi Raad, Catholic News Service)
Philippine immigration officials reaffirm move to deport missionary nun
(Catholic News Service)
Human rights groups slam Iran for prison terms of Christians and Dervishes
(Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem Post)
Church urges fairer conditions as Bosnia-Herzegovina elections near
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Meet Rabbi Sam Spector, the new 30-year-old leader of Utah's largest Jewish congregation
(Trent Toone, Deseret News Faith)
Puerto Rico Archdiocese files for bankruptcy amid lawsuit
(Danica Coto, Associated Press)
China blames local officials for protest over mosque razing
(Sam McNeil, Associated Press)
Nonbelievers win suit over Pennsylvania House prayer policy
(Mark Scolforo, Associated Press)
China rejects US lawmakers’ sanctions call over Muslim camps
(Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press)
Land and Environment Court says Colo property illegally cleared by fringe Islamic group
(Jonathon Hair, ABC Net)
Iranian activist jailed over hijab protests goes on hunger strike
(Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian)
Yazidis seek church asylum as Europe's empathy for refugees wanes
(Katy Fallon, Al Jazeera)
Excluding non-theists as legislative guest chaplains violates Establishment Clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court will not order group's Christian flag displayed on city flag pole
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Federal judge rules Boston can deny request to fly Christian flag over City Hall Plaza
(Travis Andersen, Boston Globe)
Australia: Scott Morrison at centre of ABC row over religion
(news.com.au)
Growing Catholic insurgency threatens top cardinal in Washington
(Daniel Burke and Rosa Flores, CNN)
Doubts about Viganò’s accusations aside, Pope Francis needs a better response
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
The charge against Viganò must now be investigated
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
The Religious Typology: A new way to categorize Americans by religion
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
New poll finds even religious Americans feel the good vibrations
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Federal Court agrees with Americans United that Pennsylvania House invocation practice discriminates against nontheists
(Americans United)
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
Will Europe ban circumcision?
(Seth Kaplan, Mosaic: Advancing Jewish Thought)
Religious activist blames religion for high rate of poverty in Nigeria
(Inemesit Udodiong, Pulse)
China's ruling party orders crackdown on religion in its ranks
(Radio Free Asia)
Clergy, government inching towards religious tax
(Ghana Web)
Religious accommodations: How far must employers go?
(Barry Black and Jonathan Robert Nelson, New York Law Journal)
10th anniversary of Kandhamal violence marked by India's Christians
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Azerbaijan: conscientious objector's criminal conviction – more to follow?
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Anti-Semitism: A senior British rabbi takes the fight to Jeremy Corbyn
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Followers of traditional religion run afoul of anti-evangelism law
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)
In small-town Virginia, Muslim residents face a crisis of sheep and zoning laws
(Abigail Hauslohner, The Washington Post)
Brett Kavanaugh is a mensch
(Jay P. Lefkowitz, National Review)
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