Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 12 February 2018
Nigerian bishops accuse government of failing to protect citizens from ‘terrorist’ herdsmen
(World Watch Monitor)
Nigeria: 9 churches burnt down and Christian students attacked as violence continues
(World Watch Monitor)
Macy's creates controversy with launch of Muslim clothing line
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Modern funeral trends will change religion
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
TSA agents mistake Native American religious symbols for contraband
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
How do I become a Baha'i
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Chinese scholar says fight the state on religion
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
‘Purpose over politics’ at the National Prayer Breakfast
(Jerry Pattengale, Religion News Service)
Catholic school may bar girl over Planned Parenthood sticker
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Man accused in priest attack believed girlfriend was raped
(Blake Nicholson, Religion News Service)
Bishop declares French Catholic nun’s cure a Lourdes miracle
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Climate change brings scientists and religious leaders together in Massachusetts
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Poland and the Jews — it’s complicated
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
Bart Ehrman’s latest: How Christianity took over the Western world
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Catholic Church expert: #Metoo, Chile bishop scandal a wake-up call
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
‘I feel trapped’: Violence fuels fear among Myanmar Muslims
(Foster Klug, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 12 February 2018: Religion, Secularism and Democracy in Duterte's Philippines
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Speaking grace to political power
(Don Hutchinson, Convivium)
Calling for true pluralislm
(Raymond J. De Souza with Andrew Bennett, Don Hutchinson, Convivium)
UN denies complicity in Central African Republic massacres, but questions remain
(World Watch Monitor)
Sunday, 11 February 2018
Germany: Officials recorded nearly 100 anti-Christian attacks in 2017
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
When the monks met the Muslims
(Johan Elverskog, Tricycle Magazine)
Saturday, 10 February 2018
On Rob Porter, Mormonism, and siding with the abuser
(Jana Riess, RNS Column: On Flunking Sainthood)
Protect journalists with the same laws that protect all of us
(Gene Policinski, Newseum Institute: Inside the First Amendment)
Evangelical leaders join forces to urge protection for dreamers and refugees
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffpost Religion)
Israel strikes Syria, downs Iranian drone, as F-16 crashes
(Aron Heller and Srah el Deeb, Associated Press Top News)
The Latest: Netanyahu speaks to Russia’s Putin about Iran
(Associated Press Top News)
Abbas tells India PM he seeks multi-country peace mediation
(Mohammed Daragmeh, Associated Press)
Church (House) and State
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Bulgaria: Council of Religious Communities and Socialists against ‘Lukov March’
(The Sofia Globe)
Agatha’s ambivalence: When saintly commemorations turn sour
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Church School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies obtained state accreditation in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian Security Service initiates a case against UOC priest for a post with St. Georgy ribbon in Facebook
(Interfax-Religion)
Rob Porter, and Mormonism's #MeToo Moment
(Daniel Burke and MJ Lee, CNN)
Identity of subjects of criminal case confirmed: Evidence against Jehovah's Witnesses in Kemerovo collected
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
17 Jewish groups call on White House to fire adviser Stephen Miller
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Francis, Estonian Prime Minister meet ahead of possible papal visit
(Hannah Brockhaus, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Influx of Cameroon refugees into Nigeria worries Catholic Church
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
No more nukes? Am exchange
(Michael C. Desch and Gerard F. Powers, Commonweal)
Lawsuit alleges church-state violations in another Louisiana school district
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Creationist’s speech canceled at university in Oklahoma
(Adam Kealoha Causey, Associated Press)
Bombings at mosque in Libya’s Benghazi kill 2, injure 75
(Rami Musa, Associated Press)
Catholic school may bar girl over Planned Parenthood sticker
(Associated Press)
Notre Dame announces another change in contraceptive coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Hopi's religious concerns give them standing to challenge Snowbowl water use
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge rules magistrates can’t be targeted for beliefs on marriage
(Press Release, Becket)
Former magistrate receives damages in settlement over refusal to perform same-sex marriages
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump speaks to National Prayer Breakfast
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Jeff Sessions providing watchdogs for the religious right within the DOJ, warns Center for Inquiry
(Press Release, Center for Inquiry)
DOJ imposes more oversight on US Attorneys in religious liberty cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
SACRALS Meet 2018 - "Religio-Legal Parameters for Social Harmony"
(South Asia Consortium for Religion and Law Studies, Amity Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (SACRALS), Interfaith Foundation India, New Delhi)
Friday, 9 February 2018
Martin Marty, the great notice-er
(Kenneth L. Woodward, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Marty, teacher
(Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Biblical translation leads to tussles, clashes
(Matin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
“Cross”-examining the biblical witness in war for the Planet of the Apes (on religion in science fiction, part 1)
(Audrey D. Thompson, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Deus ex machina (on religion in science fiction, part 2)
(Emanuelle Burton, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Parable of the times (on relition in science fiction, part 3)
(Rebecca Raphael, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Muslims of Ukraine sign Social Concept
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Bill on recognition of Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide submitted to Israeli Knesset
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
The fight for the right to be a Muslim in America
(Andrew Rice, The Guardian)
How Iran uses a compulsory hijab law to control its citizens – and why they are protesting
(Moujan Mirdamadi, The Conversation)
Hijab protests expose Iran's core divide
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
Women need not wear religious robe known as abaya, senior Saudi Muslim cleric says
(Daniel Khalili-Tari, Independent Online)
UNESCO: Yemen war threatens history
(Al-Jazeera)
How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remote village
(Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe OO, Simon Lewis, and Antoni Slodkowski, Reuters)
Hong Kong cardinal warns against Vatican-China deal
(Kelvin Chan, Associated Press)
Cardinal: Rohingya faced elements of ethnic cleansing
(Associated Press)
Bombings at mosque in Libya’s Benghazi kill 2, injure 75
(Rami Musa, Associated Press)
King Hamad’s Global Centre for Interfaith Dialogue highlighted
(Bahrain News Agency)
Rastafarians misunderstood, discriminated in Malawi — Galawanda
(Wanga Gwede, Nyasa Times)
UIPM welcomes King Abdullah’s visit to Pakistan
(The International News)
The Church of England and the Methodist Church
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
South Africa: Support for SARS probe into abuse within religious sector
(Eyewitness News)
The unorthodox nuns who taught Meghan Markle
(Charles A. Coulombe, Catholic Herald)
Cornrows, school uniform and discrimination
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Spanish man fined €480 for photoshopping his face into an image of Christ
(Cristina Abellan Matamoros, Euronews)
Op-Ed: A secular state is a religious imperative
(Yasser Latif Hamdani, Daily Times)
UCO student group rescinds invitation to Christian speaker Ken Ham
(Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman)
Beyond sex carnivals and drag queens: Facts appreciated in furor over disinvited campus speaker
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Congress holds hearing on preventing mass atrocities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Mass Atrocities Prevention I
(Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. House of Representatives)
A word on the comparative approach of International Law and a proposed direction for Chinese textbooks of International Law
(Bing Bing Jia, EJIL: Talk!)
Is International Law International? Continuing the conversation
(Anthea Roberts, EJIL: Talk!)
Catholics have a messaging problem in China
(Caroline Kitchener, The Atlantic)
Unreality and incoherence reign at the Vatican
(Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty)
China-Vatican deal shocks Chinese Catholics
(UCANews)
A Vatican-based bishop extols China
(George Weigel)
Weigel corrects Bishop Sorondo's strange statements on China and CST
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
CCCC’s Recommendation in Response to Government Rejections of CSJ Applications
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Intersection)
Native church’s lawsuit spurs training for airport screeners
(Felicia Fonseca, Religion News Service)
Cupich speaks: the Church must learn from the faithful about married life
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Holy Land pilgrimages on the rise, despite political tensions
(Perry West, Catholic News Agency)
The return home: Syriac Christians celebrate Eucharistic liturgy in ravaged church
(Catholic News Agency)
Canadian Catholics won’t be bullied into supporting abortion, bishop says
(Catholic News Agency)
Archbishop Chaput: blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples is not permitted
(Catholic News Agency)
What New York’s non-discrimination order could mean for religious liberty
(Catholic News Agency)
The dark consequences of Poland's new holocaust law
(Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic)
Polish Holocaust law turns into political battleground in Israel
(Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Europe's war on free speech
(Mike Gonzalez, The Daily Signal: Commentary)
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