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Thursday, 19 July 2018

Nicaragua’s bishops to pray for exorcism amid Ortega crackdown
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

'Cease State violence and protect the people,' WCC tells Nicaragua
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Catholic church in UAE to host fatherhood celebration for migrant workers
(Perry West, Catholic News Agency)

New Arizona law awards custody of frozen embryos in favor of birth
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

Hopes dashed for release of pastor Andrew Brunson as Turkish trial to continue in October
(World Watch Monitor)

Turkey remands Andrew Brunson back to prison until October after third hearing
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

US pastor denied release in latest trial hearing in Turkey
(Associated Press)

Turkey ends state of emergency, but introduces restrictive new rules
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Is Turkey’s state of emergency really over?
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Turkey formally arrests televangelist, scores of followers
(Associated Press)

Israeli law declares the country the ‘nation-state of the Jewish people’
(David M. Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)

Controversial law cements Israel’s status as a Jewish state
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Israel passes watered-down version of controversial Jewish nation-state bill
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Israel passes controversial Jewish nation-state bill after stormy debate
(Jonathan Lis and Noa Landau, Haaretz)

Israeli legislators strip Arabic of official language status
(Shiomi Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Israel in turmoil over bill allowing Jews and Arabs to be segregated
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)

Israel shoots herself in the foot
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Netanyahu’s Israel will know no peace
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Does Israel really need to be in a state of emergency?
(Yossi Beilin, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Israeli police detain liberal rabbi over ‘illegal’ weddings
(Associated Press)

LGBT community in uproar after Knesset passes surrogacy law that excludes single men and gay couples
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Orthodox mob harasses teenage girl in Jerusalem suburb over ‘immodest’ clothing
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Archbishop of Canterbury raises profile of Nigeria attacks as new humanitarian crisis looms
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

Renewal of anti-terror law threatens human rights in Iraqi Kurdistan
(Fazel Hawramy, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

ISIS is making a comeback in Iraq just months after Baghdad declared victory
(Liz Sly and Mustafa Salim, The Washington Post)

Iraq struggles to provide war orphans with identities
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Parliament puts a price on Egyptian citizenship
(Shahira Amin, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Play challenges deadly Egyptian wedding night tradition
(Amr Mostafa, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Egypt's activists fear social media law is anti-social
(Menna A Farouk, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)

Coptic woman details horrors of living as Christian female in Egypt: 'It's hell'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Too-perfect storyline: El Salvador criminal gangs gain respect of evangelical churches, let members go
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

The Jewish counterculture loses a founder
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

How white evangelicals are outliers among US faith groups
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Democrats for Life of America gather ’round a message: ‘We want our party back’
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)

Pompeo says Trump-Putin summit helps with religious freedom push
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Pompeo shifts Russia focus to another issue: Religious freedom
(Elizabeth Dias, The New York Times)

The Guardian view on religious education: bring it up to date
(The Guardian)

Religious freedom can be protected with 'tweaks', says Ruddock review member
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)

Jehovah's Witnesses do not succeed in keeping property
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witnesses, fleeing Russia crackdown, seek shelter in Finland
(Andrew Higgins, The New York Times)

Jehovah's Witnesses couple denied appeal against pretrial detention
(Alexandra Kashtanova, Omsk Zdes)

Ufa Jehovah's Witness awaits trial
(Darya Kucherenko, ProUfu.ru)

Location, location, location: Where a Supreme Court nominee kneels matters in DC life
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Trump, Kavanaugh and their strange (religious) bedfellows
(Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)

Religious groups review Kavanaugh's record for clues on religious liberty approach
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

LGBT advocates fear Kavanaugh’s votes on gay-rights issues
(Mark Sherman and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press)

Philippines orders Australian nun deported and blacklisted
(Jim Gomez, Associated Press)

Australian court bans niqab in spectator's gallery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Patricia Fox: Australian nun who angered Duterte ordered to leave Philippines
(Associated Press, The Guardian)

Australian prime minister calls on pope to fire archbishop
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)

Uneasy heritage: Australia's modern church buildings are disappearing
(Lisa Marie Daunt, CNN)

Victorian judge bans niqab in court's public gallery
(Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian)

Court thwarts Illinois agency’s attempt to tax religious ministry to underprivileged children
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

Christian after-school program is exempt from Illinois unemployment taxes
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court rules mission trip fundraiser at Douglas County school violated First Amendment
(Anna Staver, The Denver Post)

School's mission trip fundraising violated Establishment Clause
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Three weekend reads: Another #MeToo case for SBC, faith-based adoption and Bible teacher Jimmy Carter
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Why ignoring a reporter's call probably isn't the best media relations strategy for a religious leader
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Anti-Semitism: Journalistically parsing its current upsurge both here and abroad
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Overturning Roe v. Wade would send issue back to states. Then it gets complicated
(Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star)

'Will Roe v. Wade be overturned?' Yes, do take the time to read this excellent piece of journalism
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Perennial issue whenever journalists write about religion: Which Bible to quote?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

More patriarchy, less #MeToo?
(Paul Mundey, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Is an ordinand in training an employee? Gabe
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

New sexual abuse allegations leveled against Cardinal McCarrick
(Catholic News Agency)

Americans divided on Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court
(Pew Research Center U.S. Politics & Policy)

Wednesday, 18 July 2018

Humanists campaign for more non-religious NHS ‘chaplains’
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)

Investigating a Catholic school body is no dark conspiracy
(Samantha Maiden, The Guardian)

Shock over ruling that 'brides of Christ' need not be virgins
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Labour party must listen to the Jewish community on defining antisemitism
(Letters, The Guardian)

Organ donation: we can break taboos among British BAME communities
(Nishtha Chugh, The Guardian)

Labour’s antisemitism code exposes a sickness in Jeremy Corbyn’s party
(Dave Rich, The Guardian)

Iran and Saudi Arabia fight war of words over Muslim holy sites
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)

Chad: Sultan in Christian and Animist South is ‘threat for peace’
(World Watch Monitor)

Vatican-OK’d journal strikes out again at US evangelicals
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)

United Methodist court filings detail proposals for averting schism on sexuality
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Why Mariia Butina wasn’t the only Russian targeting the National Prayer Breakfast
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Researchers find link between Trump tweets and spike in anti-Muslim hate
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Is China’s atheist Communist Party trying to eradicate Islam?
(Agence France-Presse, South China Morning Post)

Muslim candidates run in record numbers but face backlash
(Philip Marcelo and Jeff Karoub, Associated Press)

How free movement, a founding principle of the E.U., became less free
(James McAuley and Luisa Beck, The Washington Post)

Non-religious countries experience greater economic growth, study finds
(Josh Gabbatiss, The Independent)

Religious change preceded economic change in the 20th century
(Damian J. Ruck, R. Alexander Bentley, and Daniel J. Lawson, Science)

Everybody has religious beliefs, some people just deny it
(Stephen Roberts, The Federalist)

For American Muslims, family border separations are personal
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)

[Wyoming] City unanimously passes nondiscrimination ordinance
(Associated Press)

Is this cross-shaped WWI memorial unconstitutional?
(Catholic News Agency)

Uzbekistan: More legal personality restrictions imposed
(Forum 18 News Service)

Unity, truth, and Catholic social thought
(Robert P. George, First Things)

Austrian state mulls limiting kosher meat sale to registered Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Spanish Church leaders criticize government plans on religion in schools
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)

Pulled from the sea, migrant’s rescue puts spotlight on Italian policy
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)

Israeli parliament to vote on contentious Nation State bill
(Associated Press)

Austrian province faces controversy over kosher meat
(Associated Press)

Chicago museum stops selling doll depicting Hindu god
(Associated Press)

Challenge to HHS family planning grant criteria fails
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

3rd Circuit hears oral arguments in minister's breach of contract case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Asylum seeking Indian Sikhs have turbans taken away in federal custody
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

India’s Supreme Court warns of ‘mobocracy,’ urges government to pass anti-lynching law after deadly attacks
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)

Judge sees no religious bias against Catholic agency on same-sex foster care
(Matthew Gambino, CatholicPhilly.com)

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