Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
(Re-post) Writing on the “graffiti wall of death” – the role of an academic blogSome thoughts on the “Meet the Editors and Bloggers” session at the LARSN Conference
(Posted on 7 May 2016 by David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Disentangling ethics and the law: What's legal isn't necessarily ethical (The American discourse on ethics and law lacks an understanding of how law may be constructed to shield questionable behavior.)
(Karen J. Alter, The National Law Journal (paywall))
USAID trains 8,500 political, religious figures on interfaith dialogue in NIgeria
(The Whistler)
Maulana Salman Nadwi to start inter-faith organization for Ayodhya dispute
(NYOOOZ)
Why these Muslims are now worshiping in a Jewish synagogue
(Cerith Gardiner, Aleteia)
Kuwait advocates tolerance, interfaith peace - official
(Kuwait News Agency (KUNA))
After the niqab: what life is like for French women who remove the veil
(Agnes De Feo, The Conversation)
‘Case is about jurisdiction not about religion’
(Borneo Post)
New general policy guidelines on strengthening equality bodies to combat discrimination and intolerance
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Council of Europe’s Anti-racism Commission publishes conclusions on the implementation of priority recommendations by Greece and Norway
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on San Marino: Anti-racism Commission calls on San Marino to strengthen fight against hate speech and racial discrimination
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on Spain: Spain should create a strong equality body and improve education of Roma and migrants, says Council of Europe Anti-racism body
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Fifth report on Sweden: Racist and xenophobic hate speech on the rise despite considerable preventive efforts
(Press Release, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance)
Sri Lanka shops, mosque damaged in Buddhist-Muslim clash
(Reuters)
Religious orders and democracy in Turkey
(Maya Arakon, Ahval News)
Opinion: Many ways for SCOTUS to slice the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
(Amin Sadri, Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Tajikistan: Conscientious objection appeal to UN Human Rights Committee?
(Forum 18 News Service)
Police misapplying law in arresting Jehovah's Witnesses
(Tatiana Grigoreva, MBKh Media)
Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites
(Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In marches around Philippines, Catholics protest threats to life
(Catholic News Service)
Church “on the side of the suffering” in Chad
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Texas bishop says Catholics are shrinking away from death penalty support
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
BJC’s Hollman: Natural disasters don’t justify government funding
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Polish president visits Jewish center amid Holocaust dispute
(Associated Press)
Christian leaders close Church of Holy Sepulcher in protest of Israeli tax and land policies
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Church of the Holy Sepulchre to reopen after tax spat
(Nebi Qena, Associated Press)
Bill spurred by Nassar scandal concerns Catholic Church
(David Eggert, Associated Press)
Churches, radio station sue De Pere over anti-discrimination ordinance
(Fox 11 News)
Religious organizations challenge city's new anti-discrimination law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IAAB v. Trump Muslim ban plaintiffs file petition with the United States Supreme Court
(Press Release, Muslim Advocates)
‘With respect,’ Justice Breyer blasts immigration ruling in rare oral dissent
(Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal (paywall))
Another 3rd travel ban cert. petition filed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Poland’s Jewish community had rebounded, but now there’s ‘a growing feeling of unease’
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)
The Satanic Temple files discrimination lawsuit against city of Scottsdale
(The Scottsdale Independent)
Satanic Temple sues city over invocation policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court: US anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation
(Larry Neumeister, Associated Press)
2nd Circuit en banc: Title VII covers sexual orientation discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NRA dog whistles? Israeli paper's charges have impacted American Jewish debate on guns
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Students in northern Syria depend on Turkey to complete degrees
(Khaled al-Khateb, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Syria's Eastern Ghouta faces 'another Aleppo'
(Tamar Osman, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Europe wants Egypt to drop death penalty
(Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Egyptian men's rights activist sees oppression in female empowerment
(Hagar Hosny, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
We regret to inform you that you do not mirror the Holy Family
(Patrick Hornbeck, Religion Dispatches)
Will Iraq's Sunnis get own political-religious authority?
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iranian interference in Iraqi election stirs anger among Iraqis
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Clergy christen church relocation from Baghdad to Erbil
(Rudaw)
Bible burning in southern India shows depth of hostility toward Christians
(Morning Star News)
Catholic Church considers married priests to ease Amazon clergy shortage
(Luciana Magalhaes and Francis X. Rocca, The Wall Street Journal)
State interference prevents Armenian church in Turkey from electing new patriarch
(Middle East Concern)
Unconfirmed number of persons killed in Nigera town Muslim-Christian clash
(John Shiklam and George Okoh, This Day)
Christian displays removed from elementary school classroom following atheist complaint
(Heather Clark, Christian News)
GA senate passes bill exempting faith-based adoption agencies from working with gay couples
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration: ‘New ways’ to ensure a ‘srengthened dialogue’?
(Lize R. Glas, Guest Blogger, Strasbourg Observers)
Blog Seminar: The Draft Copenhagen Declaration – Food for Thought
(Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, Strasbourg Observers)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration – Process-based review and subsidiarity
(Leonie Huijbers, Guest Blogger, Strasbourg Observers)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration - Comment Series II
(Antoine Buyse / Lize R. Glas, ECHR Blog)
The draft Copenhagen Declaration: Comment series I
(Antoine Buyse / Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, ECHR Blog)
McCrudden, “Litigating Religions”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, Center for Law & Religion, St. John's University)
Let's talk about Christians and politics
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)
WA state bill would force religious employers to pay for drugs that could cause an abortion
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
University of Sydney says it is powerless to stop violent hazing of students
(Naaman Zhou, The Guardian)
Four far-right plots thwarted last year, says counter-terrorism chief
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)
Women should not have to dress modestly
(Pipa Monjardino and Jill Rooney, The Guardian)
Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up for Met’s spring exhibit
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Gucci's turban at Milan fashion week angers Sikhs for cultural appropriation
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Holy alliance: the Catholic church’s best fashion moments
(Lauren Cochrane, The Guardian)
What the movie 'Black Panther' teaches us about religion
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Colosseum lit up red to honor religious persecuted Christians
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Billy Graham set a record on Gallup’s ‘Most Admired Man’ list
(Yogita Patel, Religion News Service)
Opinion: Billy Graham should not lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Billy Graham was more like white America's surrogate savior than "America's pastor"
(Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches)
#MeToo and the problem with 'The Billy Graham Rule'
(Sara J. Moslener, Religion Dispatches)
Report: Anti-Semitic incidents soar by 57 percent in 2017
(Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press)
Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America’s fastest-growing cities
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)
Cultural disintegration
(Martin E. Marty, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
The right of appeal against refusal of a residence card: where are we up to?
(Jonathan Metzer, UK Human Rights Blog)
Female execs and filmmakers advancing interfaith understanding & peace gather in Seoul, South Korea
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
EVENT, 27-28 February 2018: (Conference on Gene Editing) Playing GOD? - the science, theology, and societal issues on gene-editing
((held in Paris), Conference of European Churches)
Monday, 26 February 2018
Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre shut in land policy protest
(Y Net News)
Iranian women said 'at risk of long jail terms' for protesting hijab
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Supreme Court blocks Trump administration's effort to end DACA in March
(Rhina Guidos, National Catholic Reporter)
German bishops’ head urges greater transparency in diocesan finances
(Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, La Croix International)
Has Pakistan's top judge failed Asia Bibi?
(Zahid Hussain, La Croix International)
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31
(Documents and Articles in the case, SCOTUSblog)
Janus v. AFSCME and Catholic Social Teaching
(Michael Moreland, Mirror of Justice blog)
Oral arguments (and more) in the Janus case
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
What makes Chief Justice Roberts lose his cool?
(Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal (paywall))
Supreme Court hears fiery arguments in case that could gut public sector unions
(Nina Totenberg, NPR)
Don't let 'Janus' case axe root of American labor
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter)
Empty USCCB amicus brief in public-sector union dues case
(Ed Whelan, National Review)
Opinion: Ed Whelan uncertain about facts of labor union case
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter)
Chaput on "Things to Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World"
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
Things to come: Faith, state and society in a new world
(Archbishop Charles Chaput, Catholic Philly)
February 25: Sexual orientation discrimination suits, the Olympics, Billy Graham and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Indonesian Muslims protest against Islamist extremism: The Ansor Declaration on Humanitarian Islam
(Kent Hill, Religious Freedom Institute Blog)
Hong Kong Catholics condemn China-Vatican deal
(Suzanne Sataline, Voice of America)
Atheist group wants Bible verse mural scrubbed from Ohio city hall
(Caleb Parke, Fox News)
Why LGBT rights groups are worried about Georgia’s Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act
(Kashmira Gander, Newsweek)
Israel is the world's only democracy with religious law so instilled in its military
(Haaretz)
Arizona Senate passes bill to allow teachers to post 'God enriches' in classrooms
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
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