Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 2 August 2018
"Ministerial exception" applies to church organist
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Remarks by President Trump in meeting with inner city pastors
(The White House)
President meets with inner city pastors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Treasury sanctions Turkish officials with leading roles in unjust detention of U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson
(U.S. Department of Treasury)
Treasury Department sanctions Turkish officials over imprisoned American pastor
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge to settlement in mosque zoning case is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IICSA – Mandatory Reporting Seminars
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Imran Khan's election in Pakistan presents a global dilemma
(Mihir Sharma, Economic Times)
The Roman Catholic Church and the death penalty
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
No need for court order for withdrawal of nutrition in case of PVS patients – Supreme Court
(Rajkiran Barhey, UK Human Rights Blog)
Controversy over another planned mosque in Assyrian neighborhood in Michigan
(Leo Hohmann, Assyrian International News Agency)
More Americans say businesses can refuse services to gay couples over religious objections: PRRI
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
ECHR condemns Pussy Riot and Anna Politkovskaya cases
(BBC News)
Who are Pussy Riot? A guide to the Russian activist group who crashed the World Cup Final
(NME)
English bishop opposes withdrawing feeding tube to end life
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
They came, they killed, they destroyed, and it will happen again
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
From the archive: church faces crisis over Pope’s ruling on birth control - July 1968
(Jean Stead, The Guardian)
More answers to readers’ comments and queries – July
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
USCIRF condemns detentions Iranian house church pastor and congregants
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?
(Myriam Renaud, The Conversation)
Judge: Christian parents who don't like new transgender policy can pull their children from school
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Bethel church asks for prayers as wildfires rage in California
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Anglican diocese of Leeds in serious financial crisis
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
‘Being Muslim’ offers an alternative history of Islam in America
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Greater Manchester: 65% of people victims of 'hateful behaviour'
(Helen Pidd, The Guardian)
Rare medieval bible returned to shelf at Canterbury Cathedral
(Maev Kennedy, The Guardian)
Israel’s most prolific actor: 'The synagogue of the Zionists was the theatre'
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)
Fake news, from Labour ‘mess’ to the Brexit vote
(Joe McCrthy, Diane Ordish, Pete Winstanley, Gren Gaskell, Donald Hawthorn, The Guardian)
More than 8,000 Rwandan churches closed following government directive
(World Watch Monitor)
Sri Lankan Christian: ‘They took everything from us’
(World Watch Monitor)
UN tells Algeria to ‘guarantee freedom of religion to all’ after church closures
(World Watch Monitor)
Conservatives are scared, even under Trump
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
In Turkey, suspicion of US clouds case of pastor Andrew Brunson
(Ulmer Farooq, Religion News Service)
Brunson’s third Turkish hearing focused on PKK allegations
(World Watch Monitor)
U.S. sanctions Turkish officials to protest American pastor’s detention
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Bad vibrations: the implosion of the New Age cult
(Steve Kilgallon and Tony Wall, Stuff)
Why Christians can’t compromise on conscience
(David French, National Review)
Christian camps get creative to attract youth in a tech-distracted age
(Steve Rabey, Religion News Service)
The culture wars need to make a safe space for conscience
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
An atheist philosopher leaves the door open to religion’s power
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
How can the church punish bad bishops?
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
That rock that fell from the Western Wall
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Diocese names 71 accused of child sex abuse, blames bishops
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
The Satanic Temple bringing Baphomet statue to protest in Arkansas
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Religious leaders’ hands are tied in countering violent extremism
(Qamar-ul Huda, Religion News Service)
Reversal of previous reversal regarding Jehovah's Witnesses on internet
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Legislative prayer is still constitutional
(Kelly Shackelford, The Daily Signal)
Protecting religious adoption agencies won’t stop LGBT people from adopting
(Brad Polumbo, National Review)
Brief filed with Supreme Court to try to save cross-shaped war memorial
(Catholic News Service)
Congo cardinal says he will not run for president, after parties back him to lead country
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Metro can ban religious ads, appeals court rules in case brought by Washington Archdiocese
(Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times)
Metro can ban all religious ads on buses and trains, court rules
(Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules issue-based ad ban is permissible
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Argentine doctors protest legal abortion ahead of key vote
(Almudena Valatrava, Associated Press)
China promoting flying of state flags at religious events
(Associated Press)
Danish ban on face-covering garments enters into force
(Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press)
Danes rally as 'burqa ban' law comes into effect – video
(The Guardian)
Protests in Denmark as 'burqa ban' comes into effect
(Reuters in Copenhagen, The Guardian)
Israeli military faces Druze uproar over Jewish nation law
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Judge rules in favor of city allowing mosque to be built
(Associated Press)
Gym's failure to disclose transgender policy violates Michigan consumer protection law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Planet Fitness loses locker room case
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
Museum can keep Nazi-looted masterpiece: Court
(Jonathan Stempel, Forward)
Museum can keep Biblical paintings first acquired by Nazis
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Unification Church sues its founder's son for trademark infringement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FFRF sues over recitations of Lord’s Prayer at W. Va. city meetings
(Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Suit challenges city council opening meetings with Lord's Prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
DC Circuit upholds bus ad restrictions on religious subject matter
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What's chewing gum got to do with it? Paper delves into why transgender teen was denied Communion
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches
(Samuel Brunson, The Conversation)
Is Germany lurching to the right?
(Der Spiegel)
New York City's forgotten Muslim past
(Rozina Ali, The New Yorker)
Does a thaw in relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia offer hope for Christians?
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Group seeks to halt prayers at West Virginia council meeting
(Associated Press)
Florida Rabbi speaks on DOJ religious liberty panel
(Chabad Lubavitch News)
Religious education through new eyes
(Caroline Matas, The Harvard Gazette)
EVENT, 1-3 August 2018: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, Oxford, UK
(Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies)
Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson resigns after covering up child abuse
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Views from Tokyo: What does religion mean to you in your everyday life?
(The Japan Times)
Pope accepts McCarrick resignation as cardinal amid sexual abuse allegations
(Guardian staff and agencies, The Guardian)
US prelate McCarrick resigns from College of Cardinals
(Frances D'Emilio, Religion News Service)
New coalition seeks sainthood for five African-Americans
(Kirk Petersen, Religion News Service)
Why Americans go (and don't go) to religious services
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Why fewer Americans are attending religious services
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
New twist: Supreme Court accepts Buddhist claim in Ayodhya dispute
(Valay Singh, The Economic Times (India))
How partisanship drives religious attitudes, and not the other way around
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Trump admin says fighting homophobia abroad is anti-Christian
(Trudy Ring, Advocate)
The Catholic Church and justice: The Vatican shows an overdue decisiveness on sexual abuse
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ulianovsk Jehovah's Witnesses fail in attempt to give property to Portuguese coreligionists
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
British Jewry and Labour ask who gets to define anti-Semitism
(Dov Waxman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Progressive reactions to the religious-liberty task force prove we need it
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Newly developed executive seminars and trainings help companies embrace religious diversity and inclusion
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Catholic priest assaulted, doused in wine at Delaware church
(Associated Press)
Cardinal Mueller: To lead in Europe, Germany must recover moral strength
(Catholic News Agency)
Religious liberty ‘rooted in dignity of human person,’ says archbishop
(Steve Larkin, Catholic News Service)
Clash heats up between Italy’s populist government, the Church
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Francis & the ‘religious left’: It won’t be an easy match
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
Attorney General announces creation of Religious Liberty Task Force
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Hindu elected to Pakistan parliament vows to seek reforms
(Associated Press)
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