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Monday, 26 February 2018

Refugees, Christianity and Europe: Christian responses to the migrant crisis have been radical and traditional
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Without Christianity, we wouldn’t debate conflicts between church and state
(Joy Pullmann, The Federalist)

Tajikistan: Almost 2,000 mosques closed in 2017
(Forum 18 News Service)

Pentecostal pastor tries to collect damages from prosecutor's office
(Vladimir Ozolin, Religiia i Pravo)

Malaysia still on the wrong path on women’s rights
(David Hutt, The Diplomat)

Is the Church fundamentally political – or spiritual?
(Nicholas Senz, The Catholic Thing)

In Donald Trump, Evangelicals have found their president
(David Brody, The New York Times)

This Jewish grandmother was sentenced to death in Iran. Holland won’t grant her asylum
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Iraq court sentences 16 Turkish women to death for joining ISIS
(Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters)

Israeli rabbinic group challenges Chief Rabbinate’s kosher monopoly
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

In France, Caritas helps asylum seekers sleeping in Calais woods
(Melissa Vida, Catholic News Service)

Congo’s bishops: Two killed during protests against ‘dictatorship’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Euthanasia in hospices ‘a serious error,’ says Vancouver archbishop
(Catholic News Service)

After genocide: Searching for reconciliation in the Balkans
(Thomas Albert Howard, Commonweal)

Tens of thousands at Jerusalem funeral of influential rabbi
(Associated Press)

Polish Holocaust rescuers call for Polish-Israeli dialogue
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)

Catholic bishops cut ties with Texas anti-abortion group
(Associated Press)

Judge rejects scrapping law barring cemetery headstone sales
(Associated Press)

New Jersey limit on activities of religious cemeteries is upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Church officials: Holy Sepulchre to remain closed
(Josef Federman, Associated Press)

Jerusalem church leaders shut Holy Sepulchre church to protest Israeli move
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Appeals court upholds ruling against B&B owner who refused room to gay couple
(Jobeth Devera, Hawaii News Now)

State appeals court rejects religious defense by B&B that rejected lesbian couple
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Wheaton College wins five-year battle against HHS mandate
(Press Release, Becket Law)

Wheaton College's courageous stance leads to religious liberty victory
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)

Court says enforcing contraceptive mandate against Christian college violates RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Seriously sick child and distraught parents – where to draw the line
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Civil Rights Act protects gay workers, appeals court rules
(Benjamin Weiser and Alan Feuer, The New York Times)

New York: US anti-discrimination law covers sexual orientation
(Larry Neumeister, Associated Press)

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will be allowed to reign forever
(The Economist)

Persecution to continue as China nixes leader term limits
(UCANews)

Law and religion round-up – 25th February
(Frank Cranmer)

The UN, CEDAW and abortion law in Northern Ireland
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal to consider same-sex marriage challenge
(Martin Downs, UK Human Rights Blog)

Nearly 50,000 baptisms registered in China in 2017, says Vatican agency
(Herald Malaysia)

Six Pakistani Christians charged with blasphemy for allegedly insulting Islamic poetry
(William Stark, Persecution: International Christian Concern)

Peace deal after Pakistani Christians flee blasphemy mob
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)

EU says Christian woman's release will determine future trade with Pakistan
(Cara Bentley, Premier)

Boko Haram kidnaps 110 schoolgirls; Nigerian president declares 'national disaster"
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

In an age of anger and cynicism, let me make the case for worthiness
(Claire Armitstead, The Guardian)

Who in Scotland will now defend the virtues of religious observance?
(Kevin McKenna, The Guardian)

Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church closes in tax protest
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)

The Guardian view on the common good: more Hobbes than Calvin
(Editorial, The Guardian)

Jerusalem: thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend rabbi's funeral
(Associated Press in Jerusalem, The Guardian)

Lathmar Holi festival: colour and beating with sticks – in pictures
(Arnel Hecimovic, The Guardian)

The fight for the right to be a Muslim in America – podcast
(Written by Andrew Rice, read by Christopher Ragland, produced by Simon Barnard, The Guardian)

Amnesty: ‘Discrimination rife in all regions of the world … with deadly consequences’
(World Watch Monitor)

Hate groups targeting religious minorities on the rise in the US
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Indonesia: Ahok’s appeal ‘last chance’ to clear name
(World Watch Monitor)

Parents sue trans son to stop hormone therapy
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

In world report Sri Lanka listed among countries unsafe for Muslims
(Colombo Gazette)

UK ultra-Orthodox Jews refuse to teach the "lie" that earth is 4.5 billion years old
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)

New Jersey's first Sikh mayor target of discrimination
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

I don't think "thoughts and prayers" means what you think it means: A counterargument
(Daniel Schultz, Religion Dispatches)

After mass shooting, Florida votes to put "in God we trust" signs in schools
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)

Christians shutter famous Jerusalem church to protest taxes
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Remarks upon the signing of a bilateral agreement on Libyan cultural property
(I. Steven Goldstein, US Department of State)

As religious practice declines, religious charities scramble for resources. Here's what that means
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)

U.S. Supreme Court sets April date for travel ban hearing
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

USCIRF concerned by denial of Lautenberg refugees from Iran
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Nissim Baruch Black: the rapper who gave up bling for Jewish redemption
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Is Chance the Rapper the biggest Christian musician today?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Admirers line streets as Billy Graham’s body arrives in Charlotte
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)

Saturday, 24 February 2018

Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): Pakistan's lion-hearted human rights champion
(Farahnaz Ispahani, Religious Freedom Institute Blog)

Faith and Welcoming: Do the religious feel differently about immigration and immigrants?
(Wing Chan, Harry Drake, Lucy Moor, Tom Owton, Silvia Sim and Siobhan McAndrew, Public Spirit)

Salah, Pogba, Özil … the Muslim heroes of English football
(Nabila Ramdani, The Guardian)

The EU remembers Asia Bibi
(European Union Cooperation in Pakistan)

Update on the Canada Summer Jobs Program: positives & negatives, and lawyers will be Involved
(Reflections by Winnipeg Free Press Faith Page columnist John Longhurst, On Faith Canada)

Women are free, and armed, in Kurdish controlled northern Syria
(Rod Nordland, The New York Times)

Billy Graham’s new home, by Franklin Graham
(Franklin Graham, Religion News Service)

Graham biographer: Many ‘little Billy Grahams’ succeed evangelist
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Benjamin Netanyahu extends condolences to Billy Graham's granddaughter at meeting in Israel
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Billy Graham, an evangelistic ‘Lion in Winter’
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)

How Billy Graham changed religion in America
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

Billy Graham made sure his integrity was never in question
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

America, Russia and Christianity: Why Billy Graham went to Russia
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Billy Graham and the gospel of American nationalistic Christianity
(Anthea Butler, Religion Dispatches)

Because of Billy Graham, the world will never be the same
(A. Larry Ross, Religion News Service)

Billy Graham: evangelical media pioneer
(Ted Parks, Religion News Service)

Where Billy Graham led, the Kardashian clan has happily followed
(Barbara Ellen, The Guardian)

Why Billy Graham was determined to globalize evangelicalism
(Melani McAlister, The Atlantic)

Billy Graham, the Great Uniter, leaves behind a divided Evangelicalism
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Billy Graham never lived in Texas but belonged to a Dallas church for 54 years
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)

Where did Billy Graham preach?
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Offstage and on, Billy Graham’s ministry was a team effort
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Billy Graham, reaching the last person in the last row
(Ken Garfield, Religion News Service)

I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)

More about the Reverend Billy Graham

Russian media note passing of Billy Graham
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Ruth Graham: The silent rock behind a famous evangelist
(Benedicta Cipolla, Religion News Service)

Private funeral and weeklong events planned for Billy Graham
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Friday, 23 February 2018

Heraldic memorials in churches
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Religious Freedom Ambassador Sam Brownback's record of bipartisanship in support of human rights
(Religious Freedom Institute Blog)

Scientology is adding mega-churches two at a time
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

German bishops discuss intercommunion of Lutheran, Catholic spouses
(Anian Christoph Wimmer, Catholic News Agency)

Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to a mass shooting
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

'Secular' is a French word for 'anti-Muslim'
(Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Bloomberg)

Churches challenge Wisconsin city’s LGBT ordinance
(Emily Zantow, Courthouse News Service)

Zimbabawe pastor Evan Mawarire has fears military-installed president may rig elections
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Danish Jehovah's Witness faces more than year in prison with no crime proved
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

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