Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Christianity in Europe: In lands where “Christian civilisation” emerged, faith still shapes identity
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Moscow patriarchate claims to have pope's protection in current dispute
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
New tactic against Jehovah's Witnesses: charge them with economic crime
(Website of Investigation Department of SUSKR, Russia Religion News)
Faith-based help for the flooding foster-care system
(National Review Interview)
Israel’s conversion laws are about to get stricter
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel reportedly will not recognize Uganda’s Jewish community
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
German Catholic hospital cannot fire remarried doctor, says EU court adviser
(Deutsche Welle)
Churches, Scouts and YMCA join Australian abuse redress plan
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)
So-called honor killing in Catholic family shocks Indian state
(Catholic News Service)
Judge throws out settlement in Kentucky foster care case
(Associated Press)
OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS [due 31 May 2018]: The KAICIID Fellows Programme 2019
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
EVENT, 31 May – 6 June 2018: “You shall be my witnesses”
(Novi Sad General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches)
CJEU & temporary slaughterhouses for ritual slaughter: Liga van Moskeeen
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Ritual slaughter allowed only in approved slaughterhouses, EU court rules
(Deutsche Welle)
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Asia Bibi will be given another chance at justice
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
India, Indonesia to organise interfaith dialogue in both nations
(Lorna Pouf Mistana, The Times of India)
Reflections on Memorial Day: The chasm in the middle of the forum
(Rev. Mark H. Creech, The Christian Post)
Release of the 2017 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
(Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, United States Department of State)
Briefing on the release of the 2017 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
(Sam Brownback, US Department of State)
International Religious Freedom Report for 2017
(Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, United States Department of State)
Five things to know about this year's International Religious Freedom Report release
(United States Department of State)
US: Religious freedom 'under assault' across globe
(Ken Bredemeier, Voice of America)
US State Department report notes assaults, harassment of minority religions in Bulgaria
(Sofia Globe)
State Department releases annual report on international religious free
(Catholic News Service)
Gone too soon: Charanjit Singh — a beacon of interfaith harmony
(Riaz Ahmad, The Express Tribune)
US State Dept. issues annual report, to host religious freedom “ministerial” in July
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
US report: Ethnic cleansing of Rohingya persists in Myanmar
(Josh Lederman, Associated Press)
In Iraq, the US State Department has a religious blindspot
(Qamar-Ul Huda, The Hill)
US Secretary of State announces major religious freedom meeting
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
Pompeo to host religious freedom summit at State Department
(Guy Taylor, The Washington Times)
Sixth Circuit shenanigans: Is ‘In God We Trust’ really just barely constitutional?
(Diana Verm, National Review)
Religious liberty clinic files brief in support of housing credit for ministers
(Helen Clarke Ebert, University of St. Thomas)
Judge extends abortion-clinic law to Falun Gong
(Amanda Ottaway, Courthouse News Service)
Education next battle between Church and State
(Cormac McQuinn, The Independent)
Imam, rabbi and Protestant deacon awarded first Swiss Jews' Dialogue Prize
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Iceland's pagan Zuist religion hopes to build temple
(BBC News)
Islamic centre in Dubai invites non-Muslims for interfaith Iftar
(The Siasat Daily)
Legal expert anticipates European court's ruling on Jehovah's Witnesses
(Portal-Credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses held in pretrial detention for two months
(Interfax-Povolzhe, Russia Religion News)
Unusual political activism by alleged Jehovah's Witness
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Danish government takes interest in Christensen case
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Judge protects right of reporters (Christensen trial)
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Saudi Arabia told the world its problem was Islam. It’s actually tyranny
(Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Huffington Post)
The Evangelical fight to win back California
(Elizabeth Dias, The New York Times)
What we lose when we gain the right to die
(Tara Isabella Burton, Vox)
Ed Husain: from Islamist radical … to champion of liberal Muslims
(Nosheen Iqbal, The Guardian)
No link between Muslim immigration and anti-Semitism, German study says
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Rio drug raid yields deadly arsenal — and a Jewish holy book
(Marcus M. Gilban, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
US Vatican envoy calls religious freedom a national security issue
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The complementarity of science and religion
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Truth from one source is harmonious with truth from any other (Responding to: The complementarity of science and religion)
(David M. Barker, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
On science, faith, and the myth of conflict (Responding to: The complementarity of science and religion)
(Patrick Mulcahey, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Thoughtful pedagogy can support science learners grappling with epistemological conflict (Responding to: The complementarity of science and religion)
(Megan Powell Cuzzolino, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans”
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum)
Satanic Temple says Twitter discriminated against it
(Associated Press)
Locked and loaded for the Lord: After the Rev. Moon died in 2012, his church split apart. Two of his sons established a new congregation. Their followers are eagerly awaiting the end times. And they are armed
(Tom Dunkel, The Washington Post)
US Embassy works with Vatican to promote religious liberty for all
(Callista L. Gingrich, Catholic News Service)
Roman Catholics and Evangelicals move apart in their political priorities
(National Public Radio (NPR))
Philippine Congress passes autonomy bill for volatile Muslim region
(Karen Lema, Reuters)
India police officer threatened for saving Muslim man from mob
(BBC News)
Being Christian in Western Europe
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
10 key findings about religion in Western Europe
(Neha Sahgal, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Europe: Not as secular as you think
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
Study: Christians in west Europe less tolerant of immigrants
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
Study shows that a large minority of Germans would not accept Jewish or Muslim family members
(Deutsche Welle)
Western Europe's Christians are as religious as America's 'nones'
(Griffin Paul Jackson, Christianity Today)
Three questions about AP's story on conservative Christian attorneys gaining influence under Trump
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
New American Bible Society policy defends (a) ancient orthodoxy, (b) evangelicalism or (c) both?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Confession & safeguarding: Canterbury diocese guidelines
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – May
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
A California church flirts with an unusual social experiment: to never call police again
(Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times)
Kazakhstan: Legal amendments - no text, no OSCE review
(Forum 18 News Service)
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Vatican hospital issues new charter on rights of 'incurable' children
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Gender theory flourished in an ideological vacuum, cardinal says
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
'The Church is for life', Francis tells Catholic physicians
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Do the Title X changes really threaten women's healthcare access?
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
5 facts about immigration policy separating children from parents, 1,475 missing children
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Why so many Israelis love Trump
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)
Christ at the checkpoint in the age of Trump
(Jayson Casper, Christianity Today)
Challenging Trump’s Christian apologists
(E. J. Dionne Jr., Commonweal)
Without judgment day or karma how does a humanist confront 'Trump funk'?
(Ivan Strenski, Religion Dispatches)
Busting a myth of evangelical glory days... and more in white supremacy quiz
(Evan Derkacz, Religion Dispatches)
Is Saudi Arabia lying to us about extremist Islam?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Valedictorian's speech barred for being too political for Catholic school
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Rift builds between Catholics and Evangelicals over politics
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Algeria: two more Protestant churches closed down by government
(World Watch Monitor)
The book you need to read right now (Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi)
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Islam scholar Bernard Lewis’ legacy of disdain for Muslims
(Hussein Rashid, Religion News Service)
Southern Baptists have more repenting to do
(Brian D. McLaren, Religion News Service)
Employees quit American Bible Society over sex and marriage rules
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Religious youth group asks Culture Minister to delay Argentina match
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
Christians and Muslims walking 'shoulder to shoulder,' imam tells Church of Scotland Assembly
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Faith drives young woman from Malawi in standing up for justice
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Judge has some mercy on Jehovah's Witness
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
European court challenges Russian government over ban of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Portal-Credo.ru, Russia Religion News)
Russian city hounds various nontraditional religions
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Argument: Macron's fake news solution is a problem
(Rim-Sarah Alouane, Foreign Policy)
Pakistan: Officials take part in a new assault on the Ahmadiyya Muslim community
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
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