Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 25 April 2018
On trial for terrorism and espionage in a Turkish court
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
‘Giving freedom to women is something remarkable’ – Egypt’s Protestant head
(World Watch Monitor)
Religious group's billboard says guns are idols and need to be eliminated
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Is gun violence caused by a lack of prayer?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Cremation plan for late Kenyan politician stirs debate on faith and culture
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
US Assemblies of God elects first woman executive in more than a century
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Who owns “never again”?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
The lesson of the loaves and fishes — lost on the House Agriculture Committee
(James H. Willis, Religion News Service)
A new American phase for Francis
(Massimo Faggioli, Religion News Service)
Accused of new anti-Semitism, French Muslims speak out
(Associated Press)
In northern Myanmar, forgotten Kachin conflict intensifies
(Todd Pitman and Esther Htusan, Associated Press)
Pope to focus on fate of Christians in Middle East on July 7
(Associated Press)
British Jewish groups call meeting with Labour leader ‘a disappointing missed opportunity’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Viral photo prompts Indonesian government moves toward banning child marriage
(Beh Lih Yi, Reuter)
New Judge in Respect of Montenegro
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
Maine Democrats quash bill to criminalize FGM
(Meira Svirsky, Clarion Project)
Academic freedom won’t survive carnival act universities
(Greg Weiner, Law & Liberty Blog)
Religious disputes escalate over upcoming Iraqi elections
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Solidarity, prayers and action for the missing bishops of Aleppo
(Press Release No: 18/58, Conference of European Churches)
Abortion and fatal foetal abnormality in Northern Ireland
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights rejected the complaint by the Government of R. Macedonia, thus making the verdict for the registration of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric final
(Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric)
The Government has been defeated on the EU Charter of Rights: Here’s why this matters
(Jem Collins, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
EVENT, 25 April 2018: “Religious Liberty or Unjust Discrimination? How Students Can Make a Difference in the Culture Wars”
(ToleranceMeans Dialogue, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa)
EVENT, 23-25 April 2018, 25th Anniversary Academic Conference & Interfaith Forum, Chicago, IL
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Tragic event in Pakistan: Adventist Church President offers condolences, asks for prayer
(Ted N.C. Wilson, Adventist News Network)
UK judge rejects bid to take sick toddler Alfie Evans abroad
(Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Associated Press)
Alfie Evans case: Parents lose appeal to take their ailing son to Vatican hospital
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Extraordinary actions by pope and Italy draw little USA ink, with the Alfie Evans story (updated)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Parents of sick toddler Alfie Evans make new court challenge
(Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka, Associated Press)
Parents of sick toddler Alfie Evans lose UK court appeal
(Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka, Religion News Service)
Father: Sick UK child surviving after life support withdrawn
(Danica Kirka, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 23-25 April 2018: Digitalisation and the future of work and social relations (conference in Berlin)
(CEC and CALL in cooperation with the Church of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden)
German state orders crosses mounted at government buildings
(Associated Press)
German Muslim leader says anti-Semitism is a sin
(Deutsche Welle)
Don’t wear kippahs in public, top German Jewish leader says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Thousands of Germans join 'kippa marches' to reject anti-Semitism
(Madeline Chambers and Michael Nienaber, Reuters)
Germans don Jewish skullcaps to protest anti-Semitism
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
Black Americans are more likely than overall public to be Christian, Protestant
(David Masci, Besheer Mohamed, and Gregory A. Smith, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
When Americans say they believe in God, what do they mean?
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Most Americans believe, but not always in the God of the Bible
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 24 April 2018
BDS resolution passes at George Washington University
(Haley Cohen, Forward)
Jewish students: A blacklist of BDS supporters is hurting our efforts to defend Israel on campus
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Barnard students rage over president’s rejection of landslide BDS vote
(Aiden Pink, Forward)
India's death penalty for rapists of young girls could push them to kill
(Rituparna Chatterjee, The Guardian)
Editorial: Preserving churches and preserving the constitution
(North Jersey)
FFRF fights to end clergy housing tax-break
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
“Religious harmony” principle backfires in Indonesia
(Andreas Harsono, Human Rights Watch)
Court hears appeal: Do Phoenix wedding invitation designers have to serve gay couples?
(Jessica Boehm, AZ Central)
Dialogue between reason and religion an antidote to populism
(Philip McDonagh, Irish Times)
Will new conversion bill help 400,000 Israelis of ‘no religion’? Not likely
(Amanda Borschel-Dan, Times of Israel)
African student found guilty of illegal evangelism
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Trial of Danish Jehovah's Witness resumes
(NewsOrel.ru, Russia Religion News)
Politics of the Ukrainian venture
(Andrei Melnikov, Nezavisimaia Gazeta)
Ukrainian president challenges Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Saying ‘never again’ means saying ‘no Muslim ban’
(Albert Fox Cahn, Forward)
Former nanny files suit against ‘buffer zone’ around U.K. abortion clinic
(Simon Caldwell, Catholic News Service)
New York assisted suicide bill draws fire from disability rights group
(Catholic News Agency)
Brazil bishops worry about the impact of media polarization
(Filipe Domingues, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Egyptian mosque bill could pit government against top religious body
(Ahmed Fouad, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Chad bishops oppose constitutional reforms which would increase president’s power
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Gunmen kill 15 at Nigeria church, including 2 priests
(Associated Press)
Judge tosses lawsuit by Utah imam involving no-fly listing
(Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press)
Italy grants Alfie Evans citizenship in hopes of transfer to Rome
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Supreme Court: Foreign corporations cannot be ATS defendants
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
State Department releases 2017 country reports on human rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Falun Gong is a religion under FACE Act
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New CAIR report: Trump's Muslim bans increased anti-Muslim discrimination, violence
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)
Report finds increase in anti-Muslim bias incidents
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A 'yeah, right!' story? Try Macron wanting French Muslims to change their faith, on his terms
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Could a California bill ban Christian teaching on homosexuality?
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
California considers bill that would make traditional views on sexuality illegal
(Monica Burke, The Daily Signal)
New York assisted suicide bill draws fire from disability rights group
(Catholic News Agency)
Israel, Palestinians return to conflicting narratives
(Uri Savir, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Wafd Party elections raise issue of female empowerment in Egypt
(N.A. Hussein, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Is Israel-Iran clash imminent?
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Atheist protesters looking to impose $1B taxes on churches as pastors warn of devastating impact
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Nepali Christians traversing mountains to share the Gospel
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Cuba gets a new president
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
The problem of statelessness in Lebanon
(Anna Deckert, Mission Network News)
Turkish President renews hostage swap demand in American pastor’s case
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Myanmar churches shelter fleeing civilians in Kachin
(John Zaw, UCANews)
An Indian politician claimed ancient Hindus invented the internet
(Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic)
Christian missionaries a ‘threat’ to India’s unity, says MP
(World Watch Monitor)
Algeria: church-run nursery ordered to close
(World Watch Monitor)
"The Exorcist" director's new documentary on real-life exorcisms
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
What Comey learned from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr about ethical leadership
(Christopher Beem, Religion News Service)
How Yo-Yo Ma became God
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
EVENT, 24 April 2018: The Future of Political Islam: Trends and Prospects
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Natalie Portman touches a nerve in Israel with prize snub
(Mazal Mualem, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Natalie Portman skips "Jewish Nobel Prize" over recent events in Israel
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
US Human Rights Report whitewashes Israel’s abuses against Palestinians
(Elisa Epstein, Human Rights Watch)
Monday, 23 April 2018
Egypt: Looming humanitarian crisis in Sinai
(Human Rights Watch)
France tightens immigration law, sparking division
(euobserver)
Parabéns! Portugal votes to respect the rights of trans and intersex people
(IGLA Europe)
On Earth Day, Christians remember that 'this is my Father's world'
(Richard Mouw, Christian Headlines)
U.S. Diplomats Celebrate Earth Day 2018
(DIPNote (U.S. Department of State Official Blog))
Earth Day, Exodus and Martin Luther King
(Robert F. Murphy, Religion News Service)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
April 22: New Jersey church repair unconstitutional, Nebraska nuns lose Medicaid, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
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