Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Episcopal couples, advocates hope the church removes gay marriage restrictions
(Holly Meyer, Religion News Service)
Episcopal Church needs to look for #MeToo in the details
(Sean W. Rowe, Religion News Service)
Are we killing religion by loving celebrities?
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
The strange relationship between Christianity and Mexican politics
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Central African Republic in mourning again as another priest killed
(World Watch Monitor)
Church of Muslim converts told to close in Kyrgyzstan
(World Watch Monitor)
Iraqi archbishop tells USAID delegation to hurry up aid delivery
(World Watch Monitor)
Australian Archbishop sentenced to 12 months home confinement for concealing priest abuse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Archbishop Philip Wilson to appeal conviction for concealing child abuse
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
Australia bishop appeals conviction for protecting pedophile
(Rod McGuirk, Religion News Service)
Australian bishop sentenced to year’s detention for cover-up
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
Archbishop Philip Wilson sentenced for concealing child sex abuse
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Former party chair calls for inquiry into Islamophobia within Tory party
(Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on world heritage: in the beginning was the dream
(Editorial, The Guardian)
The coming battle to overturn Roe v. Wade
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
How Roe v. Wade changed the lives of American women
(Constance Shehan, Religion News Service)
Evangelical leaders downplay potential Roe v. Wade reversal
(Steve Peoples, Associated Press)
When liberals who identify as 'Christian' defend Roe
(Ryan Bomberger, The Christian Post)
Denial of religious freedom in China threatens idea of freedom itself
(Aaron Rhodes, The Epoch Times)
Poll: Americans trust NPR and PBS, but don't trust Fox and MSNBC
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Government LGBT Action Plan
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ealing Council use of PSPO “safe zone” upheld
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Faith as identity: Why Church members have a responsibility to protect religious freedoms
(Aubrey Eyre, LDS Church News)
Child abuse case brings outrage, but no change in Iran
(Zahra Alipour, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Sufi women blazing a new trail in Nablus
(Aziza Nofal, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Instant verbal divorce rips families apart in Iran's Kurdish region
(Leila Alikarami, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Egypt delivers Friday sermons in English, French
(Ahmed Fouad, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Faith school zealots are abusing girls’ rights. Ofsted is correct to censure
(Catherine Bennett, The Guardian)
Heterosexual civil partnerships are for better, not worse
(David Mitchell, The Guardian)
Slam from Sudan: how Emtithal Mahmoud shook the world
(Alison Flood, The Guardian)
Fundamentalism is coming for us – and women, as ever, will be first
(Suzanne Moore, The Guardian)
Protests across America on Saturday for immigration; George Takei shares his experience
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Thailand's religion unite to pray for boys trapped in cave
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
What does faith in America mean?
(Jason Coache, World Religion News)
Christian group apologizes to LGBTQ community at Filipino pride march
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
The LGBTQ movement and Christianity (its threat and our response): Part 1
(Pastor Ric Fritz, Christian Headlines)
Jeff Woodke’s wife releases third video plea for news of her husband
(World Watch Monitor)
Reconciliation with Ethiopia could improve human rights in Eritrea – UN rapporteur
(World Watch Monitor)
Vatican City still has no policy to fight clergy sex abuse
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
US travel ban leaves far-flung Syrian family in limbo
(Sarah El Deeb, Religion News Service)
Church ‘detains’ Jesus, Mary, Joseph to protest Trump’s immigration policy
(Faith E. Pinho, Religion News Service)
Church goes ‘wild’ as believers and seekers head for the trees
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
By any other name: Why the ‘travel ban’ really is a Muslim ban
(Todd Green, Religion News Service)
Catholic bishops end border trip by suggesting alternative to family detention
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Spain rescued a ship. It won't rescue Europe
(Gonzalo Fanjul, Foreign Policy)
Nigeria's Plateau state clashes leave 86 dead
(BBC News)
Nigeria: 86 dead in reprisal attack by Muslim herders on Christian farmers
(Agence France-Presse, South China Morning Post)
Farmer-Fulani herdsmen clashes eclipse Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria
(Awo Awokoya, Geopolitical Monitor)
When reporting on bitter fighting in central Nigeria, the truth is (somewhere) out there
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The New York Times 'reports' on an old mantra: Free speech for me, but not for thee
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Mother: Girl at center of debate over brain death dies
(Paul Elias, Associated Press)
Jahi McMath improved after she was declared brain-dead, doctors say
(Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News)
As Jahi McMath — girl at center of life-support controversy — dies, coverage still haunted by ghosts
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
EVENT, 3 July 2018: Baroness Berridge on Freedom of Religion or Belief
(Winckworth Sherwood Minerva House, 5 Montague Close, London SE1 9BB, Ecclesiastical Law Society)
EVENT, 3 July 2018: Interfaith practice: current research and future action
(World Congress of Faiths, Allia Future Business Centre, Peterborough UK)
EVENT, 3 July 2018: Mark Hill QC on The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measure 2018
(ELS Northern Province Lecture, hosted by Wrigleys Solicitors LLP, at Leeds Diocesan Offices)
Legal group appeals ruling that backed opening school's restrooms, locker rooms to transgender students
(Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal)
Rainforest thoughts: Considering news coverage of Orthodox ecumenical patriarch's views on climate
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers
(Steve Pinkerton, Religion News Service)
Monday, 2 July 2018
Religion and politics don’t mix with investing
(Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg)
Four questions and answers about the draft law
(Uri Regev, Jerusalem Post)
No, Mike Huckabee — Moses would be a bad Supreme Court pick
(PJ Grisar, Forward)
A campaign to blitz the country with ‘In God We Trust’ laws takes root
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
July 1: Supreme Court rules on travel ban, Justice Kennedy to retire, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Russia: Two years' jail to punish religious study meetings
(Forum 18 News Service)
William’s wanderings: Britain’s future king faces up to Jerusalem’s religious politics
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Bari archbishop says papal visit will focus on ecumenism
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Chaldean leaders pleased that U.S. aid helps Iraqi religious minorities
(Dale Gavlak, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
On Masterpiece and secular blasphemy laws
(Asma T. Uddin, Religious Freedom Center)
Why Jack Phillips still cannot make wedding cakes: Deciding competing claims under old laws (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Robin Fretwell Wilson & Tanner Bean, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Masterpiece Cakeshop and the costs of weaponization (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Perry Dane, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Muslim Arabs find warm welcome in Russia’s remote Grozny
(Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press)
Outrage after Malaysian man marries 11-year-old Thai girl
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Malaysia investigates marriage of man to 11-year-old girl
(Eileen Ng, Associated Press)
Conservatives, don’t put too much hope in the next Justice
(Marc O. DeGirolami and Kevin C. Walsh, The New York Times)
Reggae’s sacred roots and call to protest injustice
(David W. Stowe, The Conversation)
The Supreme Court’s dangerous inconsistency on religion
(Elliot Mincberg, The Hill)
Kill the Indian in the child
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
UN-related religious liberty committee led by ADF rep
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)
North Carolina city’s zoning code amendment “at the cross”-road of RLUIPA claim
(Diana Neeves, RLUIPA Defense)
Speaking in Utah gives lessons on civil dialogue
(Linda K. Wertheimer, Beacon Broadside)
Bishops propose solution for full access to same-sex marriage rites
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
Another shoe drops: Jonathan Merritt calls it quits at Religion News Service
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
How women got in on the Civil Rights Act
(Louis Menand, The New Yorker)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – June
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Religious-Freedom and LGBT advocates offer rare lessons in pluralism
(Betsy VanDenBerghe, National Review)
How Justice Kennedy's 30 years helped and hurt religious freedom
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Christian charity agrees to work with LGBT couples to resume foster care work in Philly
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Islamic State claims attack on Sikhs, Hindus in Afghanistan
(Associated Press)
Mexico City elects first Jewish mayor
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bishops travel to US-Mexico border to witness human ‘triage’
(Pablo Kay, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Sunday, 1 July 2018
Law and religion round-up – 1st July (a brief roundup of an extraordinary week)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
CALL FOR PAPERS [due 1 July 2018]: Ninth Annual Religious Liberty Student Writing Competition
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University)
Saturday, 30 June 2018
Northern Ireland Appeals Court says humanist wedding officiants are permitted
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Temporary injunction issued against Quebec's anti-niqab law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Prayer delivery may change at many NC government meetings after Supreme Court action
(Tim Funk and Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer)
Cert. denied, over 2 dissents, in legislative prayer case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
High school football coach who lost job for praying on field petitions U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal
(Heather Clark, Christian News)
Supreme Court review sought in case of football coach prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Supreme Court issued clean-up orders in other pregnancy clinic and travel ban cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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