Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 6 August 2018
Wedding cakes, same-sex marriage, and the future of LGBT rights in America
(Alex Vandermaas-Peeler, Daniel Cox, PhD, Molly Fisch-Friedman, PRRI)
Why the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling won't be the last you hear about service refusals
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
ERLC video: Malaysian liberty burdened by I.D. cards
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
The local-news crisis is destroying what a divided America desperately needs: Common ground
(Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post)
Blood, soil and paper: Thailand’s mission to reduce statelessness
(Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul, The Conversation)
In key moment, Argentina to vote on loosening strict abortion laws
(Ryan Dube, The Wall Street Journal)
Religion News Service touts its new 19-member advisory board – but what does it mean?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Augusta school committee to address proposal on religious holidays
(Keith Edwards, Central Maine)
Unions seek to end religious bodies' right to discriminate in hiring
(Luke Henriques-Gomes, The Guardian)
Interfaith text to replace Bible at Wyoming Air Force base memorial
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Adventists bring distinct perspective to high-level religious liberty talks
(Bettina Krause, Adventist Review)
Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
(Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept)
Rome Statute at 20: Suggestions to states to strengthen the ICC
(Fergal Gaynor and Christopher “Kip” Hale, EJIL: Talk!)
Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Law and religion round-up – 5th August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Aug 5: DOJ task force announced at international summit, ACLU sues ICE, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Trump admin. seizing Bibles, violating religious freedom of detained immigrants, ACLU says
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Sunday, 5 August 2018
Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissable’
(Linda Bordoni, Vatican News)
Pope Francis changes teaching on death penalty, it’s ‘inadmissible’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Francis kills the death penalty for Roman Catholicism
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
New revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”, 02.08.2018
(Holy See Press Office)
Letter to the Bishops regarding the new revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
(Holy See Press Office)
The Pope's groundbreaking rejection of the death penalty
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Pope’s death penalty teaching lies beyond prudential judgment
(Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Doing some thinking, with the Catholic left, about Pope Francis, death penalty and LGBTQ future
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Pope changes teaching to oppose death penalty in all cases
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Death penalty doctrine: Francis builds on insights of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Pope Francis changes catechism to declare death penalty ‘inadmissible’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
What does Pope's death penalty shift mean for Catholic politicians?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Catholic church catechism changed to reject capital punishment in all cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oliver O'Donovan on the death penalty
(Michael Moreland, Mirror of Justice blog)
Prosecutor in US disagrees with Pope Francis’s death penalty ruling
(Associated Press)
This journalist — a Catholic — has witnessed 400-plus executions, but he won't say if he approves
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Indian Catholic leaders doubt death penalty will deter child rapists
(Catholic News Service)
US court hears case against Germany over Namibia genocide
(Howard Rechavia Taylor, Al Jazeera Africa)
Namibia’s long fight for justice
(Gouri Sharma, New Internationalist)
Mark Helprin on Gov. Cuomo at ND and the "Guillotine of Sophistry"
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
The Guillotine of Sophistry
(Mark Helprin, Claremont Review of Books)
Akhter: legal consequences of an unregistered nikah ceremony
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Void, valid and very confusing – what is the status of sharia marriages in the UK?
(Reporting Watch Team, The Transparency Project)
Missouri brewery removes Hindu deity from beer artwork
(Associated Press)
Arizona clergy call activists to support migrants on border
(Anita Snow, Associated Press)
Woman fined $156 for wearing face veil in Denmark
(Associated Press)
Putin man in the middle between Assad, Erdogan over Idlib
(Week in Review, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Judge rules Jericho Missionary Baptist's spat not in court's purview
(Debra Pressey, The News-Gazette)
Deacon's suit dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ohio cops face free-speech suit from anti-abortion protesters
(Lisa Klein, Courthouse News Service)
Qualified immunity for issuing citation to street preaher
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Brazil’s top court wrestles with abortion at special hearing
(Peter Prengaman and Beatrice Christofaro, Associated Press)
Abortion protesters sue city for violating their rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suicide bombing at mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 29
(Amir Shah, Associated Press)
Friday, 3 August 2018
Christian student group refuses university’s LGBT demands
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Interfaith Foundation India: Responding to the changing needs of our times
A deeper respect for life: Francis’s stance on capital punishment
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
AP reporter who observed 400+ executions in Texas retires
(Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press)
News mystery: Why so little interest in 'mainline' Protestants' liberal politicking?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
China and its creepy facial recognition technology targets Uighur Muslims
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Potomac Plan of Action
(US Department of State)
As Muslim students fight for protection, some parents battle to keep Islam out of schools
(Rupa Shenoy, PRI)
EVENT, 3 August 2018: Living with Genocide: Four years after ISIS Attacked
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Notre Dame, McCarrick, Cosby, Obama and the revocation of honorary degrees
(John M. Bree, Mirror of Justice blog)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Will Iraq's Sunni provinces join in on protest movement?
(Mustafa Saadoun, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Did concert in Iranian holy city topple an ayatollah's ban on music?
(Rohallah Faghihi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Residents of Cairo's historic buildings make plea to prevent demolitions
(Ayah Aman, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Why Israel’s Nationality Law could be good for Palestinians
(Akiva Eldar, The Christian Post)
Turkey accuses Trump of jeopardizing long-standing ties
(Suzan Fraser, Associated Press)
What will it take to defuse US-Turkey crisis?
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Rare medieval Bible lost during reformation ear returns to Canterbury Cathedral
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
United Methodists debate, lobby and worry in advance of LGBT decision
(Mary Jacobs, Religion News Service)
Pro-LGBT United Methodists divided over Bishops-supported plan to avoid church split over homosexualilty
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
41 percent of white Evangelicals say they support Trump regardless if he delivers what they want
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Planet Fitness loses appeal against woman who lost membership for opposing trans locker room policy
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Israel's looming civil war
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)
Torn between two cultures? Revoice, LGBT identity, and Biblical Christianity
(Albert Mohler, Christian Headlines)
US Catholics urged to withhold donations amid 'grave moral failures'
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
Military chaplains could be atheists if discrimination complaint upheld
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
How one movie is sparking a conversation on being Baha'i: An interview with "The Gate" documentary creators
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
US adults are more religious than others in wealthy countries
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his ‘kith and kin’ – Christian Association of Nigeria
(World Watch Monitor)
Mazal tov, Paul Ryan?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
At national retreat, Jews embrace tradition with a self-help bent
(John Dyer, Religion News Service)
What the early church thought about God’s gender
(David Wheeler-Reed, Religion News Service)
'Now it's a sign of protest:' Muslim women in Denmark defy the face veil ban
(Karis Hustad, TIME)
Moldova preparing for Patriarch Kirill's visit
(Interfax-Religion)
Poroshenko dismissed an official who promised him autocephaly to the Day of Russia's Baptism - media
(Interfax-Religion)
More details in case of Kostroma Jehovah's Witnesses
(Website of Investigation Department of SKRF Kostroma, Russia Religion News)
Abortion bill a matter of life and death, Australian bishop says
(Catholic News Agency)
Philippine Church leaders fear blast may heighten tensions with Muslims
(Catholic News Service)
Catholic aid agencies welcome UK parliament recommendations for reform
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The importance of creation care (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Mitchell Hescox, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Faith-based organizations as advocates for climate action (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Anubhavam: A call to Hindus to support environmentalism and combat global warming (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Hari Venkatachalam, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
BJC’s Amanda Tyler questions Sessions’ “one-sided” Religious Liberty Task Force
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Pope seeks to abolish death penalty, changes church teaching
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Egypt Coptic Church stops accepting monks after bishop death
(Menna Zaki, Associated Press)
Study: US religious orders overwhelmingly back women deacons
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Thousands march in Jerusalem Gay Pride amid surrogacy uproar
(Caron Creighton, Associated Press)
Ex-St. Stanislaus parish music director loses job discrimination case; ministerial exception applies
(Chandra Lye, Cook County Record)
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