Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 19 April 2018
The New Yorker stirs up a storm with analysis of Chick-fil-A evangelism in the Big Apple
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
St. James the Great congregants make joyous return to Newport Beach church
(Deepa Bharath, The Orange County Register)
Dear Orange County Register editors: Some Episcopal stories require a bit of research
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
US warns Turkey of consequences if jailed pastor isn’t freed
(Matthew Lee, Associated Press)
Turkey misses opportunity to release Pastor Andrew Brunson, sets next hearing to May 7
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
American pastor gets initial hearing in Turkish court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Jailed Evangelical Presbyterian pastor in Turkey finally gets full-court press coverage
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Egypt legalises 166 unlicensed churches
(MIddle East Monitor)
Commentary on the Final Copenhagen Declaration
(Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, ECHR Blog)
The Copenhagen Declaration (full text)
(High Level Conference, The Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)
'Haifa is essentially segregated': cracks appear in Israel's capital of coexistence
(Ian Black, The Guardian)
Cuba’s new leader ‘not a reformer’
(Mariusa Reyes, World Watch Monitor)
Synagogue pulls money from JPMorgan to fight climate change
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
(Samantha Baskind, Religion News Service)
5 faith facts about Mike Pompeo: A divisive devotion
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
A new type of Catholic emerges: the conservative dissenter
(Christopher Lamb, Religion News Service)
Victorian Catholic brother sentenced to five years for sexually abusing students
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
EVENT, 19 April 2018: The Travel Ban at the Supreme Court: A Briefing on Trump v. Hawaii
(Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin, Professor Thomas Berg, Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, American Constitution Society Webinar)
EVENT, 19 April 2018: Populist Politics and the Minority Voice: British Muslims, Extremisms and Inclusion
(Muslims in Britain Research Network, King's College London)
Assisted dying in Guernsey
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
LDS launches website to recruit senior missionaries
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Appeals court: State defunding of Planned Parenthood unconstitutional
(Catherine Candisky, The Columbus Dispatch)
6th Circuit: Ohio's cutoff of non-abortion funding to Planned Parenthood is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New report reviews religion and secularism in Kazakhstan
(Amir Khaidar, The Astana Times)
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of Koran?': Guest opinion
(Allen Alley, Oregon Live)
Point-Counterpoint: Piece of cake? Brett Scharffs and Frank Ravitch discuss Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
(Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law)
Will Jordan reclaim sovereignty over controversial land on Israeli border?
(Osama Al Sharif, Al-Monitor: Jordan Pulse)
Congress seeks to exert more control over Middle East wars
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
The emerging crazy Christian trend of grave sucking
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Why Barbara Bush’s death matters
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
How Barbara Bush's faith inspired her amazing life
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Barbara Bush’s old-fashioned religion
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Muslims life in America
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Heeding the sacred call to give sanctuary to the vulnerable
(Traci Blackmon and Jonah Dov Pesner, Religion News Service)
New Bible seeks to connect modern and ancient Israel
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
3 men convicted in Kansas plot to bomb Somali refugees
(Roxana Hegeman, Religion News Service)
App faith: how religions are embracing technology
(Tim Dowling, The Guardian)
Taxpayer dollars can't be used to fix up churches, N.J. Supreme Court rules
(Samantha Marcus, NJ Advance Media)
Movie Maman Colonelle recognized for highlighting human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Syrian mufti plans visit to Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: "Everyone has become much more cautious"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Anti-evangelism law applied to Chinese movement
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo)
Russia still trying to expel Israeli rabbi
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Video of alleged anti-Semitic attack in Berlin sparks outrage
(Jefferson Chase, Deutsche Welle)
Merkel condemns attack on 2 men wearing skullcaps in Germany
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
Chinese Catholics warned by provincial officials not to take children to Mass
(Catholic News Service)
Cardinal, hospital staff urge Illinois legislators to act on gun bill
(Joyce Duriga, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Irish prelate says summit must uphold marriage but not homophobia
(Christopher White and Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Louisiana school boards seek changes in religious expression policy in response to lawsuits
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
New video on being Muslim in U.S.
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Case of Dead Sea Scrolls, online aliases ends with probation
(Yeshiva World)
Defendant in Dead Sea Scrolls debate avoids jail
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Schlereth, “An Age of Infidels” (new book)
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum)
Michigan prison violating pregnant Muslim's religious rights, lawyers say
(Tom Perkins, Detroit Metro Times)
Poland: Religion teachers as form teachers?
(Liberties)
How do evangelical colleges keep the faith?
(Eric C. Miller, Religion and Politics Fit for Society)
Religious leaders say media need to dig deeper on matters of faith
(Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune)
Ducey signs abortion questionnaire, English-only contracts bills into law
(Dustin Gardiner, AZCentral.com)
Commentary: Physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii is an attack on all of us
(Monica Burke, The Daily Signal)
Tensions in Labour erupt over rising abuse of Jews
(Henry Zeffman, The Times)
Arizona State Capitol event highlights Azerbaijan’s multiculturalism and interfaith tolerance
(Azertac)
The challenges of religious diversity in a university context
(Noa Yadidi, Washington University in St. Louis: The Source)
Activists defend faith-based adoption agencies from assault by left
(Chrissy Clark, The Daily Signal)
Tennessee stops sending tax dollars to abortion providers
(Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal)
Parliament votes to disband Tunisia's truth commission
(Amel al-Hilali, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope
(Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor)
Gunmen kill Shiite shopkeeper in Pakistan
(Associated Press)
India is a ‘republic of fear’. The UK must keep the pressure on Modi
(Amrit Wilson, The Guardian)
Hate speech skyrockets nearly 500% under BJP government in India
(Nimisha Jaiswal, Sreenivasan Jain, and Manas Pratap Singh, NDTV)
Pastor suspects arson in Pakistan church fire
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)
Jewish men attacked in Berlin, 1 whipped with belt
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
What is hell?
(Joanne Pierce, The Conversation)
An imprisoned pastor is showing Turkey’s true colors on human rights
(Life Site)
Silence broken as family hear from imprisoned Iranian Christian
(Eno Adeogun, Premier)
Two Kachin Baptist pastors released from prison after 16 months following amnesty
(Asia News)
Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile
(Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press)
Democrats don't need white working class to beat Trump, experts say
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Strong cases for and against Sunday cinemas – archive, 1932
(The Guardian)
The requirement of religious affiliation for a post within the Church must be amenable to effective judicial review
(Press Release, Egenberger judgment (PDF), Court of Justice of the European Union)
Top EU court rules church job ads open to discrimination scrutiny
(Deutsche Welle)
Creating a new Syria: Property, dispossession, and regime survival
(Erwin van Veen, Syria Comment)
Syria, deterrence of chemical weapons and U.S. policy in the Middle East
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)
Peak fragility: Why the Middle East is doomed
(Ehsani, Syria Comment)
EVENT, 18 April: “Law and Religion: Cooperation or Conflict?”
(Professor Michael Quinlan, The Western Australian Legal Theory Association)
EVENT, 18 April 2018: USCIRF Summit on International Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
EVENT, 18 April 2018: A Generation of Peace: Northern Ireland, Then and Now, Washington, D.C.
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
ACS webinar on travel-ban case
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)
EVENT, 17-18 April 2018: Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)
(An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge)
Stormy Daniels will donate $130,000 to Planned Parenthood if she wins lawsuit
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
How indigenous women who survived Guatemala’s conflict are fighting for justice
(Juliette Doman, The Conversation)
European churches to deepen relations with churches in the Middle East
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Egypt’s mufti issues fatwa against buying Facebook ‘likes’
(Associated Press)
Family research council subpoenaed in lawsuit against Trump over transgender military ban
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
State Dept. convinced Andrew Bunson is innocent, says Turkey lacks 'credible evidence'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Pennsylvania House passes prohibition on Down Syndrome abortions
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
The New Yorker calls Chick Fil A's presence in New York City 'creepy'
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
Labour leader accused of lacking moral clarity on antisemitism
(Pippa Crerar and Anne Perkins, The Guardian)
Is it time to start making churches pay taxes?
(J. M., World Religion News)
Your tax return is a sacred document
(Joshua Hammerman, Religion News Service)
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