Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Opening statement and global update of human rights concerns by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein at 38th session of the Human Rights Council
(Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner)
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
US leaves UN Human Rights Council over Israel bias
(kamp, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
US withdrawing from UN Human Rights Council 'cesspool;' Christian Watchdog warns of consequences
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
New poll says Pope Francis still widely popular among US Catholics
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Pope backs US bishops in resisting Trump on immigration
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
More than 600 members of Jeff Sessions' church just charged him with violating church rules
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Fellow church members file ecclesiastical complaint against Attorney General Sessions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Appeals court rules for Texas bishops in privacy dispute
(Becket)
5th Circuit: Bishops win temporary stay of subpoena for e-mails
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Blue Moon Diner sued by EEOC for religious discrimination
(Press Release, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
EEOC sues New Mexico diner for failing to accommodate Muslim employee
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Pope Francis and Cardinal Sarah look at European Catholicism and do the math
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Churches called to commemorate lives lost seeking safety
(Conference of European Churches)
What does it mean to be Christian in America?
(Eric C. Miller, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Albania: leaders of religious communities write to Macron and Merkel, opening negotiations for accession to the EU is “an important decision”
(Servizio Informazione Religiosa)
America v. Romans 13
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
The truth about separating kids
(Rick Lowry, National Review)
Thomas More Law Center agrees to help father in fight with school over Islamic indoctrination of 13-Year old daughter
(Press Release, Thomas More Law Center)
Polygamy banned in Turkmenistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Shamanism is building an organization
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Catholics protest priest killings in Philippines
(Ana P. Santos, Deutsche Welle)
After Colombian election, Church official urges talks with ex-guerrillas
(Cody Weddle, Catholic News Service)
Duterte spokesman says Australian nun still in danger of deportation
(Catholic News Service)
Study: Assault, harassment, denial of services plague many religious communities in NYC
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Nicaragua’s bishops strive to find way out of national crisis
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church suspends talks to ease Nicaragua political crisis
(Associated Press)
Ireland to hold referendum to remove blasphemy from constitution
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Minister Flanagan announces Government approval for the holding of a Referendum on the removal of the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution
(Department of Justice and Equality)
SPLC pays $3.375M for wrongful inclusion on extremist list
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
SPLC statement regarding Maajid Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation
(Southern Poverty Law Center)
SPLC apologizes, pay settlement to Islamic reformer it wrongly labeled ‘anti-Muslim extremist’
(Jack Crowe, National Review)
Timothy Larsen, “John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
Headlines about the Trinity Western case
New Mexico diner sued by agency for religious discrimination
(Associated Press)
Monday, 18 June 2018
The FAQs: What you should know about family separation at the border
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
Attention media folks: That White House PR event upset many on Southern Baptist right
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Law and religion round-up – 17th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
French female jihadists remain serious threat, document reveals
(Emilie Boyer King, France 24 Internaitonal)
Serving others in God’s love: Religious Freedom Week 2018
(USCCB Office of Religious Liberty)
Breaking bread, piercing prejudice: how a Ramadan meal united faiths
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)
'A month to help those in need': Ramadan relief around the world
(The Guardian)
For Ramadan, more Muslims shape diets around physical and mental health
(Maryam Jillani, NPR)
Why do I want my teenage Muslim boys to fast in Ramadan?
(Emily Richardson, The Guardian)
Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Filipino Muslims mark Eid in ruins of war-torn Marawi
(Joeal Calupitan and Aaron Favila, Associated Press)
Far from home, Rohingya Muslim refugees count their blessings at Eid
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion News Service)
Muslims in Australia at a crossroads, Australian senator says
(Katharine Murphy, The Guardian)
June 17: New Justice Department initiative, Sessions quotes Bible on immigration, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
South Australia to compel priests to report abuse revealed in confession
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
South Australia Catholic church to ignore law on reporting confessions of abuse
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Australian priests ‘willing to go to jail’ rather than break confessional seal
(Catholic News Agency)
Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox wins appeal to stay in Philippines
(Margaret Simons, The Guardian)
Evangelical Christians step up abortion clinic protests in Queensland
(Ben Smee, The Guardian)
Shadow of jihadists falls on Cameroon's cattle farmers
(Reinnier Kaze, France 24 Internaitonal)
Indian chess champion quits competition in Iran over headscarf rule
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Taking a lesson from Michael Curry could just save the Church of England
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
Antisemitism is well-defined already
(Dave Rich, The Guardian)
The Supreme Court of Canada and Trinity Western Law School
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Trinity Western loses
(Peter Stockland, Convivium)
Trinity Western law school gets nixed, while the Canadian news coverage is mixed
(Julian Duin, GetReligion)
Trinity Western University loses before Supreme Court of Canada
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Canada's Supreme Court: Provinces can refuse law school accreditation over LGBTQ rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
STATEMENT on Supreme Court of Canada against Trinity Western University
(Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)
The Supreme Court has dismissed religious practice as a matter of mere choice in its TWU decision
(Anna Su, CBC Opinion)
Trinity Western loses fight for Christian law school as court rules limits on religious freedom 'reasonable'
(Kathleen Harris, CBC News)
TWU law school ruling: 'limiting diversity' or 'a game-changer for LGBTQ rights'?
(Clare Henning, CBC News)
Is Harvest America the biggest evangelical event in the country?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Daily Beast article claims evangelicals are to blame for decrease in Christianity
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories
(The Conversation, Religion News Service)
Evangelicals visit West Bank to see life — and Christian faith — on the other side
(Dan Rabb, Religion News Service)
Immigration policies of Trump administration are 'immoral', say US Catholic bishops
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
When the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law
(Daniel José Camacho, The Guardian)
Trinidad and Tobago Catholics aid Venezuelan migrants amid government crackdown
(Melissa Williams-Sambrano, Religion News Service)
America, migration and the Bible: Scripture offers much material for arguments about dividing families
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
AG Sessions cites scripture to question religious criticism of immigration policy
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Black religious leaders criticize Sessions’ use of scripture
(Tramon Lucas, Associated Press)
What did America’s three founding presidents believe about religion?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
The fight to define Romans 13
(Lincoln Mullen, The Atlantic)
The ’Splainer: Why is Jeff Sessions quoting Romans 13 and why is it so often invoked?
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Seven can't-miss takes on use of Romans 13 to defend policy on separating immigrant families
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Six Bible verses Jeff Sessions should read as he separates migrant families
(Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian)
'Troubled' by forced separation of families, LDS Church calls for 'rational, compassionate' immigration solutions
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
United Methodist church slams Jeff Sessions over migrant separation
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
This isn’t religion. It’s perversion.
(Dana Milbank, The Washington Post Opinion)
Religious condemnation of family-separation policy
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)
Parents' Rights in the border context . . . and beyond
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
Pleas for border justice are aimed at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
U.N. human-rights chief who backed religious blasphemy-laws condemns family-separation policy
(Jack Crowe, National Review)
Comey and moral-theology debates
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)
Egypt goalkeeper declines Budweiser-sponsored ‘Man of the Match’ trophy at World Cup
(Des Bieler, The Washington Post)
Erdogan’s plan to raise a ‘pious generation’ divides parents in Turkey
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
Leaked State Department memo advised Trump administration to push for “Islamic reformation”
(Mehdi Hasan, Ryan Grim, The Intercept)
Trump is creating his American caliphate, and democracy has no defence
(Nesrine Malik, The Guardian)
Geneva's Protestant cathedral of St. Pierre holds celebration for 70 years of World Council of Churches
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Church and Russian Health Ministry to chair the program of helping Syrian children
(Interfax-Religion)
Several thousand people participated in parade organized by LGBT activists in downtown Kiev
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses hit with two-month pretrial detention
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Shamanism moves toward status as organized religion
(SMNews, Russia Religion News)
Islam isn't holding back Muslim women's education—here's the bigger problem
(Shane Croucher, Newsweek)
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