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Friday, 25 May 2018

Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Classroom: How to use religious education in schools to combat violent extremism
(David Conway, Civitas)

Judge: FL city officials broke the law by promoting prayer vigil to fight crime
(Hemant Mehta, Friendly Atheist)

Testing the limits of religious liberty
(Laura E. Adkins, Forward)

France: New terrorism laws may undercut human rights and freedoms, says UN expert
(UN News)

Turning away gay homebuyers isn’t religious liberty, it’s discrimination
(Michelangelo Signorile, Huffington Post Opinion)

Democrat attack on Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(Wesley J. Smith, National Review)

Catholic Church in Bulgaria concerned over new religion law
(Claire Lesegretain, La Croix)

Presbyterians are making their voices heard ahead of Colombia’s presidential election
(Dennis Smith, The Presbyterian Outlook)

Here's what happened after liberal activists shut down Catholic adoption providers in Illinois
(Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal)

Religion and royalty: The difficulties with crowning King Charles III
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Historic building demolished, Ahmadiyya place of worship vandalised in Sialkot
(Imran Sadiq, Dawn)

Russia: 28 new raids, now 20 criminal investigations
(Forum 18 News Service)

Russia is rounding up Jehovah's Witnesses - are other groups next?
(Marc Bennetts, Newsweek)

Jehovah's Witness in Birobidzhan released from two-months detention
(Website of the court of the Jewish autonomous oblast, Russia Religion News)

Third week of Christensen trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Gay man denied marriage license by Kim Davis loses primary bid
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Who would head new Ukrainian Orthodox Church?
(RISU, Russia Religion News)

Leadership of Ukrainian church warns against consequences of autocephaly
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)

Boston cardinal urges action on climate change
(Catholic News Service)

UK cardinal says Church, police together can end trafficking
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Civic virtue & the common good: Forming a Catholic political imagination
(Robert W. McElroy, John T. McGreevy, Cathleen Kaveny, and Matthew Sitman, Commonweal)

The tense history behind Jimmy Carter's Liberty U. commencement address
(John Fea, Religion Dispatches)

The Cadbury Lectures 2018: Global religious and secular dynamics and trends
(University of Birmingham)

Arkansas Ten Commandments monument challenged as unconstitutional
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Gifts from God: How religion is coming to terms with modern fertility methods
(Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post)

Fertility frontier: Washington Post delves into God's work vs. that of modern science
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Waves of transgender news add to difficult agenda confronting religious traditionalists
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

How Christian media is shaping American politics
(Jason C. Bivins, The Conversation)

Justice for Noura, justice for Sudanese women
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Fasting or not, Klopp says footballer Mohamed Salah ‘full of power’
(James Ellingworth, Associated Press)

Judge orders higher-calorie meals for Alaska Muslim inmates
(Becky Bohrer, Associated Press)

Exit polls suggest Irish voters have repealed abortion ban
(Gregory Katz and Renata Brito, Religion News Service)

Ireland abortion referendum: close result expected in historic vote
(Harriet Sherwood, Emma Graham-Harrison, Lisa O'Carroll, The Guardian)

The Latest: Activists welcome Irish returning home to vote
(Associated Press)

Ireland’s abortion referendum – here’s what you need to know
(Claire Pierson, The Conversation)

Ireland referendum could lift strict ban on abortion
(Gregory Katz and Renata Brito, Associated Press)

AP Explains: What to look for in Irish abortion referendum
(Gregory Katz, Associated Press)

Two dozen Jehovah's Witnesses now face charges
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)

China leads world in religious diversity
(Brian J. Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Federal RFRA amendment proposed in U.S. Senate to protect against third-party harms
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Thursday, 24 May 2018

CAP urges Malaysians to avoid commercialisation of religion during Ramadan
(Audrey Dermawan, New Straits Times)

Lessons from religious groups for a ‘Ghana beyond aid’
(James Kwateng-Yeboah, The Conversation)

Democratic senators fuse faith and politics in appeal to mainline preachers
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Religious Freedom v. The Blaine Amendment: Current challenges to a discriminatory remnant of the Nineteenth Century
(Modrall Sperling, Lexology)

Bulgarian PM Borisov will go on a Visit with Pope Francis
(novinite.com)

Uzbekistan: Criminal prosecution follows Easter worship meeting?
(Forum 18 News Service)

Targeting of Jews in the Netherlands hits a 5-year high
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

20 years after Suharto, Indonesia's democracy faces renewed challenges
(Ayu Purwaningsih, Deutsche Welle)

Italy’s bishops vow to be ‘critical conscience’ of new government
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar
(Engy Abdelkader, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Religious leaders in Myanmar call for investigation of crimes in Rakhine State
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Vatican diplomat expresses hope for peace on Korean peninsula
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Vatican-sponsored anti-trafficking group is given ‘Path to Peace’ award
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

After latest Christian deaths, Nigeria’s bishops warn ‘clock is ticking’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pakistani mob demolishes mosque belonging to minority sect
(Associated Press)

No discrimination against anyone on basis of religion: Rajnath
(The Times of India)

2018 Canterbury Medalist: Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik
(Becket)

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Korean churches plan prayer vigils ahead of Trump-Kim June summit
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Week two of trial of Danish Jehovah's Witness Dennis Christensen
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Christensen trial recessed until next week
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Judge prejudiced in Christensen trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Mystery witness scheduled to testify in Christensen case
(Orlovskie Novosti, Russia Religion News)

The State of Israel confronts anti-Semitism. But what is it?
(Armin Rosen, Tablet)

‘Buhari must wake up’ Nigeria’s bishops say after church attack
(Katrin Gänsler, Deutsche Welle)

U.S. military find faith, spiritual boost in pilgrimage to Lourdes
(Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Catholic News Service)

Top Italian bishop says it’s time to get back in the political game
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Arizona educators consider altering evolution references
(Associated Press)

Cardinal: Nicaragua talks at impasse, suspended indefinitely
(Associated Press)

First Liberty Institute prepared to support Attorney General Rutledge in Ten Commandments monument suit
(First Liberty Institute)

Wisconsin high court backs Ho-Chunk, protects burial sites
(Todd Richmond, Associated Press)

Wisconsin Supreme Court, splitting equally, upholds protection of Indian graves
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Equal at last? Michigan Civil Rights Commission bans LGBTQ discrimination
(Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press)

Michigan Civil Rights Commission says existing law covers LGBT discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

LGBT nondiscrimination protections: popular but not widely adopted
(Daniel Cox, PhD and Molly Fisch-Friedman, PRRI)

12 years without an execution: Is Zimbabwe ready to abolish the death penalty?
(Mai Sato, The Conversation)

The Palestinian struggle transcends religion
(Abdallah Fayyad, The Atlantic)

What good is religion? International development has focused on material goods, but religion has an important role to play in human flourishing
(Manini Sheker, Aeon)

Nick in the AM: West Prairie schools wrong to ban religion from grad’s speech, lawyer says
(Nick Vlahos, Journal Star)

Religiously, nonwhite Democrats are more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats
(Jeff Diamant and Gregory A. Smith, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Towards a Europe of hope
(Mgr Antoine Hérouard, Auxiliary Bishop of Lille, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)

European memories: integrating our common past
(Jan Tombinski - Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Union to the Holy See, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)

Muslim inmates sue Alaska corrections officials over policy
(Becky Bohrer, Associated Press)

The new divide in American politics
(Mark Movsesian, First Things)

Is religion making a comeback in the United States?
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Respecting fundamental rights online and the fight against terrorism
(Mari Sol Pérez Guevara, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)

Chaldean Patriarch congratulates surprise Iraqi election winner
(World Watch Monitor)

Protestant churches in Algeria call on government to treat them fairly
(World Watch Monitor)

Francis cardinals make up almost half of electors of next pope
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)

The challenge to Catholicism’s consistent ethic of economic life
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

Jewish group questions sainthood for WWII-era cardinal
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)

Paige Patterson removed as head of Southern Baptist seminary in #MeToo shake-up
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Paige Patterson to step down as president of seminary following spousal abuse comments
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has been relieved of his duties
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

Paige Patterson has resigned. Imagine if he were Tim Cook
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith & Culture)

Lawsuits seek removal of Arkansas Ten Commandments display
(Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press)

Arkansas: Lawsuits filed declaring Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional
(KATV)

Suffer the little children: Philadelphia sacrifices Catholic foster services to identity politics.
(Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal)

The New England Watch and Ward Society
(P.C. Kemeny, OUPblog | Religion)

Court: Ohio prison's grooming rules violate Rastafarian's religious liberty rights
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

Dubai's Sikh community hosts inter-faith Iftar
(MENAFN)

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