Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 10 August 2018
Got those religious-liberty news blues: Nuns with charge cards buying birth control?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is Lucy McBath the new religious star of the Democratic Party?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The job of Human Rights Chief isn't what you think
(Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Policy)
Hate in schools
(Francisco Vara-Orta, Education Week)
Why Silicon Valley needs theologians
(Scott Midson, The Conversation)
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby set to address UN Security Council
(Anglican Communion News Service)
We live in a populist age – but who are ‘the people’?
(Peter Bloom, The Conversation)
Turkmenistan: Conscientious objector's maximum two-year jail term
(Forum 18 News Service)
Reviving pre-Christian religions: Neo-paganism offers something old and something new
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Russian Foreign Ministry asks Greek embassy for explanations on problems with issuing visas to priests
(Interfax-Religion)
Mormon, Muslim and Sikh student groups kicked off Iowa campus amid legal battles
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Brazilian evangelicals, swinging hard to the right, could put a Trump-like populist in the presidency
(Peter David Arnould Wood, The Conversation)
The millions of Hindu devotees walking across India
(BBC News)
Indonesian president picks cleric as running mate in 2019
(Stephen Wright, Associated Press)
Rebuilding mosques priority for devout on quake-hit Lombok
(Andi Jatmiko, Associated Press)
Court refuses to dismiss church's challenge to zoning conditions for homeless shelter
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ahmadiyya community comes together for largest Muslim convention in the UK
(Eastern Eye)
St. Petersburg resident sentenced to 5 years in prison for preparing Kazan Cathedral terror attack
(Interfax-Religion)
Thursday, 9 August 2018
What the early church thought about God's gender
(David Wheeler-Reed, The Conversation)
Most churchgoers say God wants them to 'prosper financially', survey finds
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Low-cost abortions on every college campus is goal of California bill
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Elementary schools using drag queens to teach kids about gender
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
New survey explores why people don't attend church
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy
(Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian)
Buddhist monks in the Himalayas get ready for winter – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Illinois: church leadership steps down after sexual harassment allegations
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
Boris Johnson’s burqa comments fuel violent crime against Muslim women
(Dal Babu, The Guardian)
Boris Johnson to face Tory party inquiry over burqa remarks
(Dan Sabbagh, Jessica Elgot, and Rajeev Syal, The Guardian)
What Muslim women ought not to wear isn’t a matter for Boris Johnson
(Letters, The Guardian)
Could Brunson’s release ease Turkey’s diplomatic standoff with the US?
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
‘How can reading the Bible be acting against national security?’ asks Iranian Christian from prison
(World Watch Monitor)
What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?
(World Watch Monitor)
Bible gateway reveals the #1 most searched terms
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Bethel Church to donate $1,000,000 families that lost their homes in Carr fire
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
As activists rally, hymns of protest rise again
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Why Cory Booker matters to the Jews
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Timing is everything in Pennsylvania’s clergy sexual abuse report
(Thomas Reese, RNS: Signs of the Times)
How would Brett Kavanagh rule in Supreme Court religion cases?
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
Jeff Sessions cleared in church complaint perplexing some top Methodists
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at the Alliance Defending Freedom's summit on religious liberty
(U.S. Department of Justice)
What binds Muslims to the Democratic Party?
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
‘Hands off!’; Clergy balk as European politicians brandish the crucifix
(Francis X. Rocca and Drew Hinshaw, The Wall Street Journal)
Parents' spirituality or religion tied to lower suicide risk in kids
(Linda Carroll, Reuters)
Chinese Hui Muslims rally to protect Weizhou Grand Mosque from government’s wrecking ball
(Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post)
Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest
(Sam McNeil and Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
China shutting down churches, seizing Bibles in 'ambitious new effort' to eradicate religion
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Thousands in China mosque standoff over demolition plan
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
Vigilante killings in Tanzania spur a hunt for witch-hunters
(Religion News Service)
Protecting religious liberty advances women's causes
(Ashley McGuire & Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Real Clear Politics)
Pastors in US are seen as a primary voice on poverty: Barna survey
(Ecumenical News)
Islam and the British Conservatives: Being Muslim and Tory is hard and may get harder
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Follower of Krishna penalized under anti-evangelism law
(Prosecutor's office of Yamalo-Nenets, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses arrested for a year's worth of activity
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Fighting for Judaism in the Jewish State
(Seth Farber, The New York Times)
When it comes to conflict, religion is part of the solution
(Sharon Rosen and Kimberly Hart, The Hill)
Justice Kennedy departs with an ethical teaching
(Richard Foltin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
US wants synagogues to pay taxes on employees’ benefits. Jewish groups are fighting the plan.
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Cardinal condemns violence at student protests in Bangladesh
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ghana bishop complains of growing Chinese influence in the country
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Courting the Catholic vote: How we got from ‘Roe’ to Trump
(Leslie Tentler, Commonweal)
Alabama voters to decide on Ten Commandments in schools, likely litigation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Muslim prayer at government meeting stirs controversy in Wisconsin county
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Michigan attorney set to be first Muslim woman in Congress
(Corey Williams and Jeff Karoub, Associated Press)
How the Trump era gave us Congress’s first Muslim woman
(Eugene Scott, The Washington Post)
Tlaib wins Conyers’ seat; Congress to get 1st Muslim woman
(Corey Williams, Religion News Service)
Satanist convicted of disrupting government meeting
(Associated Press)
Compound incident called anti-Muslim propaganda
(Associated Press)
Evangelist seeks prayer for yoga-practicing Oregon governor
(Andrew Selsky, Associated Press)
Maharashtra: Lingayats to relaunch protests for separate religion tag
(Daily News and Analysis)
At world’s largest refugee camp, trauma victims seek healing in God
(Tonny Onyulo, Religion News Service)
Why do some Muslim women wear burkas and niqabs and where is the veil banned?
(Jasmine Andersson, Inews.co.uk)
Why the LGBT alliance could be on the brink of schism
(Spencer McCloy and Monica Burke, The Daily Signal)
‘Peace in world impossible without religious freedom’
(The News International)
Catholic politicians and the new church stance on the death penalty
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The religion behind why some people of faith support the death penalty — and why others don't
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Argentine Senate rejects legalizing elective abortion
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Argentina’s Senate rejects bill legalizing abortion during the first 14 weeks of a pregnancy
(Max Radwin and Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post)
Argentina rejects legal abortion — and not all Catholics are celebrating
(Verónica Giménez Béliveau, The Conversation)
A 10-month-old died after her parents refused to get help for religious reasons, police say
(Lindsay Bever, The Washington Post)
What were the 'religious reasons' why a couple allegedly refused to get help for their infant?
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Cottage association ends 'Christian persuasion' requirement
(Grand Rapids News)
Chautauqua cottage community eliminates Christian-only clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church's RLUIPA zoning challenge can move ahead
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tribunal judge: independence is a 'philosophical' belief similar to a religion
(Paul Hutcheon, The Herald)
UK employment tribunal says Scottish independence is protected philosophical belief
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Peter Ball – legislation, then and now (I)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Abortion activists vow to press fight despite Argentina loss
(Luis Andres Henao and Almudena Calatrava, Associated Press)
The Guardian view on Argentina and abortion: a setback, but not the end
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Bethel Church will give $1,000 to every family whose home was destroyed in the Carr Fire
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Wednesday, 8 August 2018
Mormon distaste for Trump could hurt GOP candidates in 2018
(Adam Wollner, McClatchy DC)
Business success in a religiously diverse world
(Michael Bodson, President and CEO DTCC, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Religion needs to be governed by law
(Liu Peng, Global Times)
Tlaib wins Conyers’ seat; Congress to get 1st Muslim woman
(Corey Williams, Associated Press)
South Korea is going crazy over a handful of refugees
(S. Nathan Park, Foreign Policy)
U.S. judge rules against Trump policy restricting transgender troops
(Andrew Chung, Reuters)
Christians in China's heartland face government suppression
(Yanan Wang, Christian Science Monitor)
Christian heartland on front lines of China’s campaign of religious suppression
(South China Morning Post)
Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
Why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion
(Becka A. Alper, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
At gathering of 37,000 Ahmadi Muslims, USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore vows to make religious freedom in Pakistan a priority
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF))
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