Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 10 November 2017
Hamburg supermarket attacker charged with murder
(Deutsche Welle)
Religious freedom critical to empowering women, Relief Society general president says to European Parliament conference
(R Scott Lloyd, Deseret News Faith)
Cardinal says Vatican wants contact with North Korea to ease tensions
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Ahead of papal visit, Myanmar cardinal warns against hate speech by religious leaders
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
UN nuncio: Peace maintained by ‘mutually assured destruction’ is not real peace
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
NY town votes to let Orthodox enclave Kiryas Joel secede
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
NY voters approve Kiryas Joel becoming separate town
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit alleging anti-Semitism at S.F. State stalled while plaintiffs amend complaint
(Rob Gloster, The Jewish News of Northern California)
Judge says suit charging campus anti-Semitism should be refiled with focus on current situation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
School board’s prayer time debated at 9th Circuit
(Nathan Solis, Courthouse News Service)
9th Circuit hears oral arguments in school board invocation case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Opt out of abortion coverage now statewide in Missouri
(Press Release, Thomas More Law Center)
Missouri offers state employees health policies that exclude abortion, contraception, sterilization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Last Sunday, domestic violence came to church
(Nancy Nason-Clark, Religion News Service)
Pence tells grieving town ‘Faith is stronger than evil’
(Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
The particular horror of church shootings
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
The glue that kept Sutherland Springs together before and after the shootings
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Southern Baptists offered to pay for church victim funerals
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
More than $1 million raised to help Texas church shooting victims and families
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Texas church to be demolished, like other mass killing sites before it
(Yonat Shimron and Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
New bill would provide Veterans with better healthcare options
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Texas church where members were massacred may be torn down; survivors don't want to go back
(Leonardo Blair, Christian Post)
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Greece: Bishops urge resistance to new religion courses at school
(ekathimerini.com)
Ga. school system restricts coaches from joining student prayer after complaint
(Christopher Buchanan, WBIR)
Egyptian lawmaker to propose anti-gay bill as part of crackdown
(Reuters)
Grand Imam of Azhar meets Pope to talk peace
(Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent)
‘People don’t realize what we’re going to lose with the loss of religion’
(Jibran Khan, National Review)
It’s Jew vs. Jew as Congress weighs a new definition for anti-Semitism
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New Jewish Democratic group launched in reaction to Trump
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Groups urge passage of law protecting conscientious objection to abortion
(Kurt Jensen, Catholic News Service)
Vietnamese diocese begins rebuilding church ruined in ’67 U.S. air raid
(Catholic News Service)
Amid political crisis, Kenyan bishops plan national dialogue forum
(Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service)
Amid growing U.S. – North Korea tension, Vatican hosts meeting on nuclear weapons
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Christian leaders in Zimbabwe criticize stifling of dissent by Mugabe regime
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
A change to the tax bill makes “even worse” a section undermining protections for houses of worship
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Marked-up house version of tax bill includes expanded, but time-limited, partial repeal of Johnson Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Mitch McConnell calls on Roy Moore to exit Alabama Senate race ‘if these allegations are true’
(Michael Scherer, The Washington Post)
Conservatives defend Roy Moore — invoking Joseph, Mary and the Ten Commandments
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Republican Senators call for Roy Moore to withdraw from Senate race after sex charges
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Italian artist charged with criminal blasphemy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
House holds hearing on campus anti-Semitism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
WA Government seeks legal advice on religious schools’ right to discriminate against LGBTI teachers and students
(Phoebe Wearne, The West Australian)
Same-sex marriage: 'More than a dozen' conservatives prepare alternative bill to protect religious freedoms
(Lucy Barbour, ABC News)
To be really pro-choice, you must protect each doctor's choice to not perform abortions
(Timothy Dolan and Russell Moore, USA Today)
Deus ex Machina (the relationships between religion and science fiction)
(Emanuelle Burton, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Why Muslims of Gujarat are voting for BJP
(Afroz Alam, Wion)
Meet the riders of the Sikh Motorcycle Club of the Northeast
(Teresa Mathew, Buzzfeed)
"Everyone blames me." Barriers to justice and support services for sexual assault survivors in India
(Human Rights Watch)
Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
EVENT, 9 November 2017: Women in Faith: A freedom of religion or belief perspective, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
(European Union Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
The Future of Europe: a value-based and effective Union (The 13th annual high-level meeting with the European institutions)
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Are stunning Saudi corruption arrests about reforms or power? Yes.
(Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor)
Saudi ban: disaster for Yemen
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Saudi Arabia: Journalistic whiplash follows a crown prince's political crackdown
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Amid a Saudi purge, women face the test of a lifetime
(Elizabeth Dickinson, Foreign Policy)
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Papal loyalists become dissidents
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for UN climate talks in Bonn to recognize ‘urgent priority’ of climate change
(Religion News Service)
'Pastor to presidents' Billy Graham honored on his 99th birthday
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Catholic official: Bangladesh should apologize to India for nun’s rape
(Catholic News Service)
Togo’s crisis takes religious and ethnic dimensions; country’s bishops are worried
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tax bill keeps troublesome language weakening the Johnson Amendment
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Despite a key protection in federal law, congregations continue to face costly zoning denials
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Liberty Counsel launches annual Christmas campaign
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
Organization launches annual "Friend or Foe Christmas" campaign
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit challenges Quebec's new anti-niqab law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
CCLA and NCCM launch legal challenge against Quebec’s Bill 62
(Canadian Civil Liberties Association)
6th Circuit dismisses challenge to Michigan procedures for vaccination exemption
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When Americans tried – and failed – to reunite Christianity
(David Mislin, The Conversation)
At BYU, speaker says religious right's ties to Republican party spurred secularization
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Commission met religious leaders on 100th anniversary of Bolshevik revolution
(Georgi Gotev, Euractiv.com)
US to give $500,000 to any NGO that promotes religious freedom in India
(Hindustan Times)
Bar Ilan University takes on Nationality Law
(Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva)
Raskin wants tougher law on campus religious discrimination
(Angela Jacob and Gabriela Martinez, US News & World Report)
Two groups challenging Quebec law on religious neutrality
(RDNewsNow)
Judge to consider forcing FEMA’s hand on aid to Harvey-damaged churches
(Gabrielle Banks, Chron)
People of faith should raise their voices to defend religious liberty, says Elder Quentin L. Cook
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News Faith)
UK bulk spying challenge in European Court of Human Rights
(Natasha Lomas, Techcrunch)
Is begging a human right?
(Julia Crawford, Swissinfo.ch)
Putting faith in focus — and finding middle ground
(Mark Hicks, The Detroit News)
In New York Times, a bizarre story about a fake wedding (yes, there are holy ghosts)
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia – where did it come from?
(Peter Lehr, The Conversation)
Hope for Indigenous Supreme Court justice swells as appointment recommendations loom
(Sean Fine, The Globe and Mail)
Driving ISIS out of Iraq isn't enough, contend survivors
(Persecution)
Eritrea forces Christian schools to close, all schools now public and secular
(Persecution)
Christians in northern Iraq caught between Kurdish and Iraqi forces
(Persecution)
Lives in limbo – Iraqi Christians’ long wait for asylum in Lebanon
(World Watch Monitor)
Karachi university holds conference to promote tolerance and counter extremism in Pakistan
(Persecution)
Christians in Nepal petition government to remove anti-conversion law
(International Christian Concern)
Securing the vote: How 'paper' can protect US elections from foreign invaders
(Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor)
Duterte's zero-tolerance drug policy has resulted in almost 4,000 deaths
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
New book sheds light on conspiracy theories surrounding Pope John Paul I's death
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
For Scientology, history repeats itself in Hungary
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Refugees can fill the skills gap
(Vasantha Gnanadoss, Church Times)
Take the beliefs of the non-religious seriously
(Lois Lee, Church Times)
In places of worship scarred by bullets, long memories and shared pain
(Julie Bosman and Richard Fausset, The New York Times)
Wedgwood Baptist flashback: A clock started ticking on a new era of attacks on religious believers
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Bishops call for national ‘repentance’ after Texas shooting
(Hattie Williams, Church Times)
Prayer shaming and the church shooting
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)
Texas law requires unborn child of shooting victim be counted
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
What American Christians in Wittenberg were thinking on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
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