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Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Group seeks to halt prayers at West Virginia council meeting
(Associated Press)

DC court sides with transit agency in dispute with church
(Associated Press)

IS claims Tajikistan attack that killed 4 foreign cyclists
(Maria Danilova, Associated Press)

Nationalism, pluralism, and the World Cup
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Appellate court ruling favors carrier accused of religious discrimination
(Tyson Fisher, Land Line)

11th Circuit: Jehovah's Witness truck driver was offered reasonable accommodation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Intermarriage on the rise: How does Catholicism view Catholic-Jewish weddings?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

Churches for sale: New York Times visits a sexy former Catholic sanctuary in Quebec
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

India’s crackdown on illegal immigration could leave 4 million people stateless
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)

Indonesia's blasphemy law survives court challenge
(Michelle Winowatan, Human Rights Watch)

What Richard Dawkins doesn’t get about the Muslim call to prayer
(Rose S. Aslan, The Conversation)

For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal'
(Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene, The Conversation)

Sighting farm religion
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

The family that prays together … feels connected, unified and bonded with less relational tension`
(Jon McBride, BYU News)

A viral photo of lovers kissing offended many in Bangladesh. The man who took it says he was beaten and fired.
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)

Analysis: Kissing liberty goodbye?
(Tanin Ahmed, Dhaka Tribune)

EU wil islam anders behandelen (in Dutch)
(Sohail Wahedi, Nederlands Dagblad)

Of firearms and weak women: sex discrimination in Hülya Ebru Demirel v. Turkey
(Alexandra Timmer, Strasbourg Observers)

Withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration: An NHS Trust v Y
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Monday, 30 July 2018

Judge Kavanaugh on law and religion issues
(Frank Ravitch, SCOTUSblog)

SCOTUSblog coverage of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

Empirical SCOTUS: Indirectly inferring Kavanaugh’s position in abortion cases
(Adam Feldman, SCOTUSblog)

Ecclesiastical court judgments – July 2018
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Law and religion round-up – 29th July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Religion a punchbag for Indian election
(Uman Manzoor Shah, La Croix International)

Military Bible display at center of religious liberty tussle
(Mary Beth McCauley, Religion News Service)

Attorney General Sessions delivers remarks at the Department of Justice’s religious liberty summit
(U.S. Department of Justice)

Sessions: 'This Department of Justice is going to court across America to defend the rights of people of taith'
(Jeff Sessions, The Daily Signal)

Sessions: US culture ‘less hospitable to people of faith’
(Eric Tucker, Associated Press)

Seeing threat to religious freedom, Jeff Sessions announces special task force
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Sessions announces new 'religious liberty task force'
(Sarah Hallam, CNN)

How to stop religion’s influence on government: an interview with Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor
(World Religion News)

UK Jewish voices say 'United We Stand' waging anti-Semitism war against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Turkmenistan: Three more conscientious objectors jailed
(Forum 18 News Service)

Political fallout from celebrations of baptism of Rus
(Pavel Skrylnikov, Nezavisimaia Gazeta)

British Labour Party looking into 250 complaints of anti-Semitic abuse
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Street attacks on Muslims rocket in UK as perpetrators 'emboldened' by terror attacks and political rhetoric, report finds
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)

State Department Ministerial produces religious freedom declaration, action plan, skepticism
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

The Trump administration convenes the ‘Super Bowl’ of religious freedom
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Trump's religious freedom squad promises to deliver
(Lorraine Woellert, Politico)

No searches being conducted at Sofrino - source
(Interfax-Religion)

Indian Catholic leaders protest call to ban sacrament of reconciliation
(Catholic News Service)

Tens of thousands rally in Nicaragua to defend Catholic bishops
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)

AP Interview: Israel’s Herzog vows to bridge Jewish divide
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)

AG Sessions announces new Religious Liberty Task Force in extensive remarks on topic
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

DOJ religious liberty summit today
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pa. Supreme Court: Release redacted report that names more than 300 'predator priests'
(Angela Couloumbis & Liz Navratil, Philadelphia Inquirer)

New IRS rules on substantiation of charitable contributions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The billionaire yogi behind Modi’s rise
(Robert F. Worth, The New York Times)

NYT profiles wealthy Hindu holy man with rising political power in India
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pennsylvania Supreme Court orders release of redacted grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

At Prayer Breakfast, guests seek access to a different higher power
(Kenneth P. Vogel and Elizabeth Dias, The New York Times)

Another side of the National Prayer Breakfast
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Nuns lose interstate natural gas pipeline challenge
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)

Anthony Kennedy opens new chapter in American pluralism
(William N. Eskridge, Jr. and Robin Fretwell Wilson, Real Clear Religion)

Liberal Lutherans doubling down
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)

Are Evangelical women stepping back from the culture wars?
(Chelsen Vicari, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)

Union Theological Seminary hosts identity politics-driven panel on evangelicalism
(David Jensen, Juicy Ecumenism: The Institute on Religion & Democracy's Blog)

Judaism and abortion
(Daneil Mark, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

The Jewish position on abortion isn't what you think it is
(Mitchell Rocklin and Howard Slugh, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Ministerial: Major moment for religious freedom
(Daniel Philpott, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)

Unprecedented ministerial tees up the crisis and the solutions: Now the work begins
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Pope accepts resignation of McCarrick from the College of Cardinals
(Christopher White and Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal McCarrick amid growing sex misconduct charges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Saturday, 28 July 2018

Photos of the Week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Is there a scientific explanation for religious devotion?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Belief in British Columbia: New Canadians are injecting vigour into the country’s religious life
(Erasmus, The Economist)

Voters not easily swayed by 'race and religion', says Guan Eng
(Ian McIntyre, The Sun Daily)

Podcast: The importance of religious freedom around the world
(Katrina Trinko and Daniel Davis, The Daily Signal)

Poroshenko sees Russian Orthodox Church as threat to Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Putin sees Christianization of Kievan Rus as start of Russia's statehood
(Interfax-Religion)

Putin: Christianity is the foundation of the Russian state
(Associated Press)

Putin joins religious procession marking 1030th anniversary of Christianization of Kievan Rus in Moscow
(Interfax-Religion)

Ukrainian Orthodox did not get hoped-for independence on national holiday
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Constantinople sends highly placed emissary to Kiev
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)

State Department religious freedom summit ends with commitments, critiques
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Lord Carey PTO: Statement from Bishop of Oxford
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

New balance of probabilities test for suicide verdict
(Owain Thomas QC, UK Human Rights Blog)

3 key takeaways from this week's first-of-its-kind State Department religious freedom event
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)

Brownback sees ‘Iron Curtain moment’ looming on religious freedom
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

“No-fault” divorce: the Supreme Court reluctantly dismisses the appeal in Owens v Owens
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Let’s talk about the nation-state
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Friday, 27 July 2018

America and faith: Sam Brownback makes the right noises about religious liberty
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Brownback opens religious freedom summit with plea to fight persecution
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Restoring religious liberty
(Steve Scalise and Randy Weber, The Washington Times)

Protecting religious freedom provides common ground for all
(Tenzin Dorjee and Kristina Arriaga, The Hill)

Law against racial, religious hatred can’t have room for abuse, rights groups say
(Loghun Kumaran, Malay Mail)

Faith-based organizations key in global HIV response bridge-building, says UNAIDS chief
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Turkmenistan: Appeals against 12-year jail terms fail
(Forum 18 News Service)

U.S. diplomats slow in learning how to assess faith in consular efforts
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)

About 250,000 attend cross procession in Kiev - organizers
(Interfax-Religion)

Kostroma prosecutor reports case that sounds like Jehovah's Witnesses
(Website of prosecutor's office of Kostroma oblast, Russia Religion News)

Pence announces Genocide Recovery Program for Iraqi minorities
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)

Remarks by Vice President Pence at Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
(The White House)

Pence announces new US program to aid victims of genocide and religious persecution
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Cardinal Ouellet reminds Canada to be mindful of migrants, refugees
(Philippe Vaillancourt, Catholic News Service)

Religious liberty advocates “optimistic” for sanctions against persecuting countries
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

A religious freedom summit can’t undo Trump’s record on Islam
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)

Duterte OKs bill creating Muslim autonomous region in south
(Jim Gomez, Associated Press)

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