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Saturday, 30 June 2018

Beyond Roe, Bork and Trump: Can Americans find a way to discuss hot moral issues?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Friday, 29 June 2018

Safe Passage: Advocating for a humane asylum and migration policy in Europe (Booklet)
(Claudia Doldo, Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME))

Opposite-sex civil partnerships: Steinfeld
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Jewish editor among 5 killed in Annapolis newspaper shooting
(JTA)

Canadian top court renders ‘severe blow’ to religious freedom in Trinity Western Case
(Celeste McGovern, National Catholic Register)

Trinity Western University, Charter Values and Charter Rights
(Barry W. Bussey, iPolitics)

Our Philosopher-King retires
(Titus Techera, Law and Liberty)

Thursday, 28 June 2018

After Kennedy retirement, you'll find thousands of the nation's happiest people in ... Wichita, Kan.
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Civil partnerships for different-sex couples
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Equality won’t wait – UK Supreme Court rules in Equal Civil Partnership
(Martin Downs, UK Human Rights Blog)

Justice Kennedy, key vote on abortion and gay marriage, quits Supreme Court
(Mark Sherman, Religion News Service)

Justice Kennedy: The linchpin of the transformation of civil rights for the LGBTQ community
(Paul Smith, SCOTUSblog)

The legacy of Justice Anthony Kennedy
(Elizabeth Slattery, The Heritage Foundation)

Retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Jewish legacy
(Charles Dunst, The New York Jewish Week)

The country will miss Justice Kennedy
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

Kennedy's shift to the left of the Supreme Court
(Lazaro Gamio, Axios)

Is the open U.S. Supreme Court seat a religion story? Do we even need to ask that?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Justice Kennedy’s replacement and the religious test awaiting
(Marcia A. Hamilton, Verdict)

Second Canadian judge suspends Quebec niqab ban
(Reuters)

Quebec judge once again suspends application of province's face-covering law
(The Canadian Press)

The Guardian view on heterosexual civil partnerships: a good thing
(Editorial, The Guardian)

Jewish couple helps overturn ban in Britain on civil partnership for heterosexuals
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Couple say court ruling is 'a step forward' for humanist weddings
(Sarah Marsh, The Guardian)

The Templeton Prize: A Muslim monarch and religious diplomat wins some overdue recognition
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

King of Jordan wins Templeton Prize for fostering Muslim cooperation
(Chris Herlinger, Religion News Service)

Thailand's junta renews corruption crackdown on Buddhist monks
(Hannah Ellis-Petersen, The Guardian)

‘What faith groups do is offer hope in a hopeless situation’
(Stephen Bates, The Guardian)

Spanish doctor stands trial over Franco-era 'stolen babies'
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)

Macron meets Pope Francis for twice as long as Trump
(Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian)

Jewish school in UK criticised for redacting 'bare wrists' from books
(Richard Adams, The Guardian)

House arrest for polygamy pair after Canada's first convictions in a century
(Reuters, The Guardian)

The Guardian view on an Anglican cover-up: the church that didn’t want to know
(Editorial, Religion News Service)

Keep kids with parents at border — and remember how we got here
(Tony Perkins, Religion News Service)

Spirit of mythical princess looms over Thai cave crisis
(Tassanee Vejpongsa and Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Religion News Service)

At last, bad news is good news in the Catholic sex abuse scandal
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)

2 more Chilean bishops are out as Pope Francis cleans house
(Frances D'Emilio, Religion News Service)

Orthodox rabbi chosen to lead multifaith California theological center
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Faith-based agencies open doors to kids separated at the border
(Emily McFarlan Miller and Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Religion to the rescue: Zuma and religious leaders' romance kicks into high gear
(Huffington Post)

Healthy religious relationships necessary to protect human rights: Chinese expert
(Xinhua)

Secularism and religious tolerance: Singapore vs Australia
(Jean Seah, MercatorNet)

Samoa’s church and state settle tax stoush
(Taxation News & Information)

Legitimization of Ukrainian schism could cause bloodshed - Moscow Patriarchate
(Interfax-Religion)

Ivory Coast bishops link flood damage with corruption, underdevelopment
(Catholic News Service)

Pakistan’s new cardinal says climate in Islamic nation dictates restraint
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Prince William tours Jerusalem on final day of royal visit
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)

UK jury convicts nurse who used Voodoo in trafficking women
(Associated Press)

Self-styled Utah prophet gets additional 15-year prison term
(Associated Press)

Supreme Court remands case involving officers ordering suspect to cease praying
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Supreme Court won’t take North Carolina county prayer case
(Associated Press)

Andy Khawaja appointed as a USCIRF commissioner
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Two FLDS leaders convicted of polygamy in Canada
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

2 men guilty of polygamy given get house arrest in Canada
(Associated Press)

Key government minister drops support for egalitarian prayer section at Western Wall
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israeli Minister: My conscience won't let me approve mixed-gender prayer at Western Wall
(Chaim Levinson, Haaretz)

In Israel, new legal hurdles to egalitarian prayer space at Western Wall
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Challenge to hearing scheduled for Rosh Hashanah is rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Two prominent namers of names inside DC Beltway warrant in-depth religion profiles
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

Go deeper: How SCOTUS could start rolling back abortion rights
(Caitlin Owens, Sam Baker, Axios)

Physician assisted suicide and the rise of suicide cults
(Grace Emily Stark, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Balancing protected expression and protection against discrimination is not always a piece of cake
(Stephen Loeb, Jewish Link of New Jersey)

Humanist weddings in Northern Ireland: Smyth
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Court of Appeal: Current law enables legally valid humanist weddings in Northern Ireland
(Seosamh Gráinséir, Irish Legal News)

Assisted dying: Noel Conway loses his appeal
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

After election boost, Turkey's Erdogan may reward nationalists with cabinet jobs: Sources
(Orhan Coskun, US News and World Report)

Lutheran World Federation and Islamic Relief Worldwide to publish manual on faith-sensitive humanitarian action
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Assisted dying and the removal of all hope
(Letters, The Guardian)

2018 State of the First Amendment survey reveals Americans consider fake news more objectionable than hate speech
(Freedom Forum Institute)

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

5 facts about the death penalty
(David Masci, Pew Research Center Factank)

Double standard? Religious animus? Five links to help dissect SCOTUS ruling on Trump's travel ban
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Extremists emboldened as religious intolerance rises in India's Tamil Nadu state
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Re-Up on #MuslimBan post: What did religious liberty have to do with SCOTUS decision?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Rainbow soccer jerseys don't prevent harassment. They provoke it
(Jennifer S. Bryson, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Should Trump staffers be able to eat in peace?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Religion News Foundation appoints two new board members (Muhammad Chaudhry and Judith Golub)
(Religion News Service)

Macron blasted for saying up to Pope: French secularism ‘disrespected’ say rivals
(Romina McGuinness, Express)

Church row over Madigan’s prayer role
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)

Uzbekistan: Freed from punishment, but property ordered destroyed
(Forum 18 News Service)

Russian MP Gavrilov elected president of General Assembly of Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
(Interfax-Religion)

Does the Supreme Court have a double standard on religion?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Unity among shamans unlikely
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Patriarch Kirill brings Ukrainian problem to attention of international political event
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Does Christianity demand open borders?
(Christopher Roach, American Greatness)

Today’s decision in NIFLA v. Becerra
(Ed Whelan, National Review)

What binds us together still more important than what separates us
(Richard T. Foltin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Belgian model poses nude in front of Western Wall plaza
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

French imam who heads an interfaith group gives sermon predicting Israel’s demise
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Berlin international school acknowledges it underestimated bullying of Jewish student
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ivanka Trump gave $50,000 to help migrant kids, Texas church says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

New #FoRBDefender movement calls on people of all faiths and none to declare: “Believe it or not, it’s my Right!”
(European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination)

Taiwan's LGBTQ still struggling for equal marriage rights
(William Yang, Deutsche Welle)

Faith-based groups turn up the heat on ICE
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

In Europe, religious minorities face mounting hostility, harassment
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)

El Al vows to end practice of moving women to accommodate ultra-Orthodox
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Citing workplace equality, Irish Prime Minister gives support to women’s ordination
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

In Rome, Nicaraguan bishops will inform pope of worsening crisis
(Catholic News Agency)

After calling God ‘stupid,’ Duterte seeks collaboration with bishops
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

Kurtz, Barron seek to reframe religious freedom debate in positive key
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mexican cardinal calls separating families at border ‘unthinkable’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

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