Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 13 November 2017
Poynter think piece proclaims: No need for 'balance' in abortion news reporting
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Religious photos of the Week: 11/03 – 11/09
(Shane Epping, Religious News Service)
'Thoughts and prayers': Yet another fight over whether religious faith is 'real' or not
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Australia: Religious freedom law sought for gay marriage opponents
(Al Jazeera)
European court rules Armenia violated rights of Jehovah's Witnesses
(news.am, Russia Religion News)
Why are three Texas churches suing Uncle Sam over FEMA funding? Glad you asked
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Did The Atlantic solve the Notre Dame contraception puzzle? Not really
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Court hears labor case tied to polygamous group
(Associated Press)
Greece: Muslim clerics convicted after funeral spat
(Associated Press)
Pope's Chile-Peru trip to include focus on indigenous people
(Associated Press)
Justices add anti-abortion counseling to free-speech lineup
(Mark Sherman, Associated Press)
Turkish Jews open doors to confront antisemitism
(Colin Shindler, The Jewish Chronicle Online)
Praying in response to mass shootings
(Scott Simon, NPR)
A week after mass shooting, Texas church to open as a memorial
(Emma Bowman, NPR)
In India, Christian leadership comes from the marketplace
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
Conversations in adoption tax credit’s near-repeal a reminder to the Church
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Iran taking Saudi rhetoric, actions seriously
(Ali Hashem, Al Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Women's 'digital heels' leaving impression in Turkey
(Riada Asimovic Akyol, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Murder of three teens in Mexico led police to a fugitive US polygamist and his dark world
(Luis Chaparro, The Guardian)
What I’m really thinking: the Muslim office worker
(Anonymous, The Guardian)
The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches
(Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian)
Meet the progressives elected after Trump: America’s new political coalition
(Jamiles Lartey, The Guardian)
Why is spirituality correlated with life satisfaction?
(Daniel José Camacho, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on white nationalism: a rising danger
(Editorial, The Guardian)
'Not a problem to us': Texas family who lost eight in shooting find hope in faith
(Guardian Staff, The Guardian)
Hanging on for dear life, hardliners change tack on same-sex marriage
(David Marr, The Guardian)
Boys should be free to wear tutus and tiaras, says Church of England
(Isabel Bennett, The Guardian)
The Daily Mail’s ‘boys in tiaras’ story is designed to manufacture rage
(Suzanne Moore, The Guardian)
'YouTube Islamist' Anwar al-Awlaki videos removed in extremism clampdown
(Alex Hern, The Guardian)
Share your experiences and solutions to gender-based bullying
(Rachel Obordo and Guardian readers, The Guardian)
LGBT campaigners welcome Church of England guidance for schools
(Nadia Khomami, The Guardian)
Meet God's priavte police force in America
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Marine drill instructor receives 10 years for Islamophobic abuse
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
How has the Orthodox church changed in the 21st century?
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Why we need to teach religion in schools
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Let’s give them Alabama evangelicals a break
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
Texas town holds 1st Sunday service since church attack
(Claudia Lauer, Religion News Service)
Pope reaffirms conscience as heresy debate divides church
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
A legal challenge to the European culture of death
(Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary)
EVENT, 13-15 November 2017: Faith-Based Urban Thinkers Campus, Engaging the New Urban Agenda, Singapore
(Urban Shalom Project)
EVENT, 13 November 2017: Masterpiece Cakeshop: A public moot court
(Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
EVENT, 13 November 2017: Religion and Foreign Policy: Exploring the Legacy of "Mixed Blessings", Washington, D.C.
(Center for Strategic & International Studies)
EVENT, 13 November 2017: Islamic law and human rights
(Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
Sunday, 12 November 2017
EVENT, 12-13 November 2017: Re-acknowledging the shared space of religion and human rights, Vienna, Austria
(European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights)
Saturday, 11 November 2017
Recent queries and comments – 11th November
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
After 'avalanche' of emails, Canada MPs vote to save Criminal Code section protecting religious services
(Brian Platt, National Post)
Wall accuses Governor General of mocking faith
(D.C. Fraser, Regina Leader-Post)
Courts have no business reviewing religious decisions
(Barry W. Bussey, The National Post)
CCCC makes oral argument at Wall case
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Churches)
Wall v Judicial Committee of the Highwood Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses (religious autonomy case)
(Court ot Appeal of Alberta)
Obstructing worship and the Canadian Criminal Code
(Alan Perry, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
Canada: Faith leaders push to keep law protecting religious groups
(Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News)
Friday, 10 November 2017
Indonesia Constitutional Court declares discriminatory religion law unconstitutional
(Jurist)
Indonesian Constitutional Court requires recognition of indigenous religions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Top Indonesia court overturns discriminatory religious law
(Niniek Karmini, Associated Press)
Indonesian law requiring citizens to identify with 1 of 6 religions is overturned
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Indonesia Court ruling on Recognition of Native Religions (decision in Indonesian)
(Constitutional Court of Indonesia)
European Court of Justice tells German churches to respect EU discrimination law
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)
Religion, employment and the Genuine Occupational Requirement: Egenberger
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Vera Egenberger v Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung e.V. [2017] ECJ C-414/16.
(Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev, Court of Justice of the European Union)
Witnessing for Christ: through the eyes of a persecuted pastor in Sudan
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Israeli women chime in on #MeToo campaign
(Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Why some religious Israelis are saying women are weakening the army
(Andrew Tobin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
How Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas Party lost its way
(Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Tennessee Church may lose voting rights in state Baptist convention because it hired female pastor
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
5 Christian families flee Pakistani village after teen falsely accused of blasphemy
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Considering our options: Deepening religious freedom, witness, and argument in the public square
(Margaret Harper McCarthy, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
4 in 10 Americans say gender is not determined at birth: survey
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Why Christians will still attend church Sunday
(Laura Lacey Johnson, Christian Headlines)
Christian human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng escaped, recaptured
(International Christian Concern, Christian Headlines)
‘It will help future generations’: Muslim schools in north India set to modernise
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)
It’s not all anxiety and division in America
(Maurice Bates, Bruce Paley, Anthony Sweeney, The Guardian)
‘My daughters have no future in the Middle East’
(World Watch Monitor)
Pakistani Christian sent to prison for ‘insulting Islam’ despite mental ill-health
(World Watch Monitor)
First Sikh mayor of New Jersey elected
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Christians deported from China after helping North Korean refugees
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Poland attacks European Union for censoring Christian traditions
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Congressman Jared Huffman: Too much religion in politics
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Holy smoke! Vatican to stop selling cigarettes
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
New book alleges gay sex in Vatican dorm, shady banking
(The Associated Press)
Who decides when we as a country pray and when we act?
(Chloe Breyer, Religion News Service)
5 things Netflix’s ‘One of Us’ won’t teach you about Hasidic Jews
(Menachem Wecker, Religion News Service)
More than 13 million gather in Karbala for Arbaeen
(The Associated Press, The Religion News Service)
A funeral director says many churches (unknowingly) promote a ‘death negative’ narrative
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)
Roy Moore and the wages of hypocrisy
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Tensions over Muslim street prayers north of Paris
(AFP)
Life without religion
(Alex Izza, The World Weekly)
Pakistan’s religious parties announce revival of MMA after a deacde
(The Hindu)
NGO seeks leave to appeal spanking judgment
(IOL)
Nepalese Christian leaders demand repeal of law criminalizing evangelism and conversions
(Jardine Malado, The Christian Times)
Pakistan blocks off roads into capital as blasphemy law supporters stage sit-in
(Saad Sayeed, Reuters)
Do Indonesia’s anti-pornography laws protect morals or encourage discrimination and abuse?
(Max Walden, South China Morning Post)
Communism and the eradication of religion
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
After Communism, in the shadow of materialism (and not just in Russia)
(Peter Kopa, MercatorNet)
Religious freedom doesn't let you break our laws, town tells Orthodox Jewish group
(Sara Jerde, NJ Advance Media)
Huffman: I’m a nonreligious humanist
(Will Houston, Eureka Times-Standard)
Cathedral donation prompts debate over separation of church and state
(KCAW)
Muslim World League leader tells World Council of Churches, 'we must combat extremists'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Jewish life in Berlin is flourishing
(Andrew Bennett, Forward)
The Orthodox should know better than to embrace hatred of Muslims
(Peter Beinart, Forward)
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