Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Saudi Arabia seeking first death penalty for female activist, rights groups say
(Adam Taylor, The Washington Post)
Religious Freedom and land-clearing
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
SCC’s TWU decision not the last word on religious accommodation
(Barry W. Bussey, The Lawyer's Daily)
Kazakhstan: raid, fines to punish Koran teaching
(Forum 18 News Service)
Cardinal McCarrick scandal inflames debate over gay priests
(David Crary, Associated Press Top News)
Catholic News Agency pulls off investigative coup in the 'Uncle Ted' McCarrick saga
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Immigrants or children of immigrants make up at least 12% of Congress
(Katherine Schaeffer and Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
The must-cover 'Big Ideas' at heart of the complex Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Holy ghost in Alabama: NYT interviews white pastor friend of Rosa Parks, neglects to ask about his faith
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
U.S. advocates for persecuted pastors in Turkey & Iran
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)
Why are evangelicals teaching Jews in the West Bank?
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service: Martini Judaism)
Religion in North Korea: How dwindling Christian practice leads to oppressive dictatorship
(Ken Lambert, Christian Examiner)
Religion, constituency: Government oil companies mining sensitive data
(NDTV)
Argentine movement to quit the Catholic church
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
The resistance shows its anti-Christian bias
(Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review)
English bishop says prison “not fit for purpose” after scathing report
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church welcomes UK government pledge to end homelessness by 2027
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nicaragua’s political tensions need our prayers, US archbishop says
(Catholic News Agency)
Nigerian priest gunned down outside supermarket
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Plaintiffs argue Utah medical marijuana initiative violates the rights of religious objectors in new lawsuit
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
BJC’s Hollman analyzes Kavanaugh record, Kennedy legacy on religious liberty
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Syria’s Assad attends holiday prayers at Damascus mosque
(Associated Press)
Aung San Suu Kyi defends policies toward Rohingya Muslims
(Derek Cai, Associated Press)
Prosecutor’s death penalty stance offends Vatican official
(Associated Press)
Conservative Christian groups oppose Arkansas tort reform ballot measure
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Steeples, solar panels and legal precedent
(The Salem (Mass.) News)
Court says religious commitment to climate justice prevails over historic preservation rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Anti-Muslim group’s push to advertise on Metro revived by appeals court
(Max Smith, WTOP)
DC Circuit remands suit on anti-Sharia bus ads
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hosannahs in the sand? Saudi Arabia may relax its ban on Christian churches
(The Economist)
Three Jehovah's Witnesses detained in Russia's Kamchatka
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
The rise of the new cleric in Pakistan
(Irfan Haider, TRT World)
Chinese police threaten Muslim poet who Tweeted about Xinjiang camps
(Radio Free Asia)
Peter Ball – legislation, then and now (III)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Pope Francis issues response to Pennsylvania's Catholic church sex abuse report
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Cambridge University Press Law and Christianity Series
CUP Law and Christianity Series - Book Discount Pamplet 1
(Cambridge University Press)
CUP Law and Christianity Series - Book Discount Pamplet 2
(Cambridge University Press)
On August 24, simultaneous worldwide prayer to be held for Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
To ensure peace, 'Japan separates religion from politics'
(Liza Yosephine, Jakarta Post)
Monday, 20 August 2018
Saudi Arabia prepares for the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage
(Omar Akour, Associated Press)
Muslim pilgrims gather at Mount Arafat for hajj’s pinnacle
(Omar Akour, Religion News Service)
What is the Hajj?
(Ken Chitwood, Religion News Service)
Hajj 'nap pods' being introduced for pilgrims to Saudi Arabia
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Why Jewish giving to Israel is losing ground
(The Conversation, Religion News Service)
Israeli questioning of US Jews at border exposes deeper rift
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
As wildfires rage, California town rallies for material, spiritual help
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)
Yes, it's genocide; yes, it's religious — The case of the Rohingya Muslims
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Pope Francis addresses Pennsylvania abuse report in letter to Catholics
(Zachary Basu, Axios)
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to the people of God
(The Vatican)
Francis' Letter to the People of God: The pope calls for prayer and fasting in penance for the 'atrocities' of sexual abuse
(La Croix International)
Critics say pope’s comments are both ‘bold’ and ‘too little, too late’
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
The Catholic Church needs a new doctrine of scandal
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
The secular fallacy and the war on common law
(Bruce P. Frohnen, Law and Liberty)
What the Court misses: Religion, community, and the bases of ordered liberty
(Bruce P. Frohnen, Law and Liberty)
The Supreme Court's religion problem
(Bruce P. Frohnen, Law and Liberty)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Religious divisions threaten to further inflame Ukrainian civil war
(Dmitry Babich, Consortium News)
Pope Francis calls on Ukrainian youth to be active peacemakers
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Pope Francis’s letter on child sex abuse and cover-ups
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Irish archbishop urges pope to speak frankly about abuse
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Blasphemy
(RFI's Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute)
‘Exploitation in the name of religion must be questioned’
(Times of India)
Why religious liberty matters for human dignity
(Daniel Darling, Fox News)
Ethiopia begins the harmony of peace through collaboration of politics, education, religion and civil society (press release)
(Borkena Ethiopian News)
No decision on Uniform Civil Code as law panel chairman set to retire, Sixth Schedule also a hurdle
(Debayan Roy, News 18)
To save America, we must examine our values
(John J. Grossenbacher, The Hill)
August 19: Muslim congresswomen, General running a Christian website, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Militant attacks in Chechnya aimed at disrupting Eid al-Adha celebrations - Kadyrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Tajik president urges citizens to be modest, vigilant
(Interfax-Religion)
Most Russians believe there are forces trying to undermine traditional spiritual values - poll
(Interfax-Religion)
The most consequential clash between Muslims and the Western World
(Raymond Ibrahim, National Review)
Tunisian Jew barred from getting kosher food in prison, family says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
VA doctor's statement did not violate Establishment Clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court awards attorneys' fees in contraceptive mandate case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EEOC sues Hackensack Meridian Health for religious discrimination
(U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
'The hardest story I've ever written': Journalist masterfully tells story of church gunman's wife
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
In U.S. political campaigns, 2018 will also be the year of the Muslim candidates
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
This week's podcast: Colorado fine-tunes legal campaign against Masterpiece Cakeshop owner
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Not all religions are the same, you know: Can a faith be good if it’s not true?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Never Again: Reflections on ten years since the Kandhamal Tragedy in India
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
The pope is set to visit an Ireland where true believers are in steep decline
(William Booth and Amanda Ferguson, The Washington Post)
In fight against ISIS’s propaganda machine, raids and online trench warfare
(Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)
Photo essay: Mexican festival honors Mary and maize
(Ameyalli Diaz Castro, Religion News Service)
You say “Mormon,” I say “Latter-day Saint”
(Joel Campbell, Meridian Magazine)
Trinity Western drops community covenant requirement for students
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Christianity and the abuse scandal: A Christian responds to revelations of clerical abuse
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Catholics and lawmakers respond to sex abuse report
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
It's time for #MeToo in the Catholic Church
(David Clohessy, The Guardian Opinion)
An open letter to my Roman Catholic friends
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Illinois Supreme Court Justice says government, not church, should investigate Catholic sex abuse
(Brian Mackey, NPR Illinois)
EEOC sues over hostile treatment of Catholic employee
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Scholarly impact and Catholic legal education (part one)
(Greg Sisk, Mirror of Justice blog)
Scholarly impact and Catholic legal education (part two)
(Greg Sisk, Mirror of Justice blog)
Lawyers foresee bumpy road ahead if TWU renews its bid for law school accreditation
(Cristin Schmitz, The Lawyer's Daily)
Trinity Western University caves on sex and marriage, but no one calls them on it
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
McCarrick, the Pennsylvania grand-jury report, and the freedom of the Church
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
India cast millions of Muslims as illegal immigrants. Their legal battles are just beginning
(Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)
Sunday, 19 August 2018
A too-narrow vision of religious freedom
(The New York Times Opinion)
NYTimes: Religious freedom focus undermined by political agenda
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
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