Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 12 March 2018
Condo board accused of fair housing act violation for ban on religious meetings
(Lidia Dinkova, Law.com)
A 'listening' Jesuit to head Europe’s bishops
(Céline Schoen, La Croix International)
Faith and a future: every child free to learn
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Another year, another state contemplating the idea of getting out of the marriage license business
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
When Boko Haram strikes again, the religious distinctions get blurry in news coverage
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Pope Francis is fashioning a new generation of Catholics
(Marie Malzac, La Croix International)
Down and out in Catholic Ireland
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Religious institutions are key to ending gender inequality
(World Council of Churches)
Missional formation plenary encourages discipleship
(World Council of Churches)
Tveit: Cardinal Lehmann worked tirelessly for unity
(World Council of Churches)
Jews agree that Farrakhan is anti-Semitic. After that, it gets complicated
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Perceived biases, attacks erode trust in the press
(Lata Nott, The Mercury Columns)
In isolated world of pastors, churches mum on troubling clergy suicides
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
A right to privacy – proposal 22 strikes a huge blow for democracy in Florida
(Brian Scarnecchia, The Christian Post)
Mississippi lawmakers pass 15-week abortion ban with exceptions for emergency cases
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Why blacks are really leaving white evangelical churches
(Van Moody, The Christian Post)
What does battling witchcraft in some of the most remote areas of the world look like?
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
You can ban all the symbols but without God there wouldn't be a classroom
(J. Warner Wallace, The Christian Post)
Rabbis seek to break monopoly on Israeli kosher certification
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Will France hand over Chinese religious refugees to their persecutors? Appeal to President Macron
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Syrian rebels shell Christian town in northwest Hama with rockets, Russian warplanes respond with incendiary bombs
(Andrew Illingworth, AMN)
Wayne State University reverses decision to de-recognize InterVarsity group for requiring its leaders to be Christian
(Heather Clark, Christian News)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Philippines arrests militant who guarded US hostages
(Channel News Asia)
How Trump is remaking evangelicalism
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Tony Perkins: Religious freedom restoration under Trump will end if evangelicals don't vote Republican
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
'Work actively' to oppose abortion reform, Irish Catholics urged
(Henry McDonald, The Guardian)
My family after the Holocaust: ‘The urge to draw a line under the past is strong’
(Kate Figes, The Guardian)
Police investigate possible hate crime over anti-Islam letters
(Press Association, The Guardian)
Star gazing: why millennials are turning to astrology
(Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian)
Merton hall faces partial demolition to make way for evangelical church
(Robert Booth, The Guardian)
Oxfordshire vicar who spiritually abused boy banned from ministry
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Church of Scientology to launch TV network
(Guardian Staff, The Guardian)
Scientology launches its own TV network today – just like regular television, only more terrifying
(The Guardian)
Five years on, Pope Francis has failed to deliver on his promises
(Catherine Pepinster, The Guardian)
Algeria government denies church closures are discrimination
(World Watch Monitor)
Iran: Christian retreat centre ordered to close by March 10th
(World Watch Monitor)
Millennials give up all possessions to become Jain monks
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Chile cardinal seeks to deflect criticism for pope’s trip
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Coronado's historic church directory sign to be removed amid 1st Amendment concerns
(Gustavo Solis, Los Angeles Times)
Most municipal workers quit in Utah polygamous sect town
(Brady McCombs, Religion News Service)
Mennonite investigator will testify in death penalty case
(Colleen Slevin, Religion News Service)
Jailed Mennonite woman will testify in death penalty case after refusing on religious grounds
(Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post)
A point of principle: Why a Mennonite woman has refused to testify in a death-penalty case
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ellsworth Kelly may have been an atheist, but his chapel is undeniably spiritual
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Revd Timothy Davis: Tribunal and penalty
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 11th March
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
EVENT, 12 March 2018: The Heritage of Minority Faith Buildings in the 20th Century
(Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, Picadilly)
EVENT, 12 March 2018: Special Event Lecture on Freedom of Religion or Belief
(Brett G. Scharffs, Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies, The Saint Pius X Institute of Canon Law of Venice, in collaboration with the Union of Catholic Jurists of Venice)
Should you love your NRA neighbor?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
A Month of Islam and multiculturalism in Britain: February 2018
(Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute)
Saturday, 10 March 2018
International Women's Day 2018 (highlighting women's organisations around the world)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
More women are in charge of Jewish groups in the former Soviet Union, thanks to a communist legacy
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Ecclesia in Europe
(Cardinal Reinhard Marx, President of COMECE, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
The European Year of Cultural Heritage and the church
(Martin Maier SJ, JESC, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
The Bulgarian EU Presidency
(Christo Proykov Apostolic Exarch of Sofia and President of the Inter-ritual Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bulgaria, EuropeInfos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Appeals court says Mennonite woman must remain in jail until she will answer prosecution's questions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Jailed Mennonite investigator to appeal to Colorado's Supreme Court
(Allison Sherry, Colorado Public Radio)
What Is a "refugee"? The Jews from Morocco versus the Palestinians from Israel
(Gatestone Institute)
NGO statement on freedom of religion in Malaysia
(Jubilee Campaign, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, ADF International, World Evangelical Alliance, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention)
Iran dismisses Saudi talk of 'triangle of evil' as 'childish'
(Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Moscow patriarch promotes Russian propaganda against Europe
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)
Foreign missionary (from South Korea) convicted for illegal evangelism
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Tajikistan’s Islamist extremists concentrated in big cities at home and in Russia
(Paul Goble, Eurasia Daily Monitor)
Dutch Muslim party won’t join Amsterdam coalition against anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The ACLU fights a Michigan law protecting faith-based adoption agencies
(Elizabeth Kirk, National Review)
Religious Freedom Center founding director Charles Haynes to host Shurden Lectures
(Newseum Institute Religious Freedom Center)
New head of EU bishops’ commission sets out priorities
(Catholic News Service)
Iceland bishop voices concern over proposed circumcision ban
(Catholic News Agency)
Bishops urge bipartisan support of Conscience Protection Act
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Argentina’s abortion row raises doubts on pope/president bond
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vatican: Pope to visit the 3 Baltic nations, Sept. 22-25
(Associated Press)
Brazilian prosecutors sue to shut church over forced labor
(Peter Prengaman, Sarah DiLorenzo and Mitch Weiss, Associated Press)
State lawmaker Bible study touts president’s ‘righteousness’
(Associated Press)
Judge rejects polygamy law challenge in Canada
(Associated Press)
Indigenous, environmental leaders protest Canada pipeline
(Phuong Le, Associated Press)
Calm returning to Muslim neighborhoods in Sri Lanka
(Bharatha Mallawarachi, Associated Press)
Rwandan government closes over 700 churches
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious exception shields hospital from bias suit
(Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Service)
Hospital can assert ministerial exception defense to suit by chaplain
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Love Has No Borders, Religious Freedom & Business Film Competition Gold Medal
(by Deborah Paul and Christy Anastas, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
“Olympic Truce” Welcomed at 2018 Global Business & Peace Symposium
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
"Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls”
(CSW62 Press Release, Commission of the Status of Women)
Friday, 9 March 2018
A quiet exodus: Why black worshipers are leaving white evangelical churches
(Campbell Robertson, The New York Times)
Recent queries and comments – early-March
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Hindu nationalists rewrite history as they assert dominance over India
(Rupam Jain and Tom Lasseter, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Is Greece about to Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital?
(Maria Polizoidou, Gatestone Institute)
Slew of anti-Palestinian bills points to impending Israeli elections
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iraq's Shi'ite militias formally inducted into security forces
(Reuters)
Chaldean Assyrian patriarch nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
(Assyrian International News Agency)
Turkish women take to the streets to demand equality
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Report: abortion providers get more taxpayer money than you may think
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican confirms papal visit to Baltic nations in September
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Nondenominational vs. Southern Baptist: Is there a difference?
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Adopted children fight to keep religious agencies open as LGBT lawsuit seeks to shut them down
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Atheist group forces removal of "God's Laws" plaque from Minnesota courthouse
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Talkin' Aramaic in New Jersey: The strength of an ancient faith
(Eric Metaxas, Roberto Rivera, The Christian Post)
Expert: Christian colleges must 'remain anchored in spiritual heritage' to survive in society
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
Sweden is refusing to investigate Muslims' attacks on Christian refugees, Persecution Watchdogs say
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
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