Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 3 November 2017
Dozens killed as Islamist violence erupts again in eastern DRC
(World Watch Monitor)
Iran MPs seek to change law so voters can only vote for candidates from their own religion
(World Watch Monitor)
Eritrean Christians told to remove crosses as schools forced to go public
(World Watch Monitor)
Is Apple a religion?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
President Trump is wrong to include religion with attack on diversity visa
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Archaeologists say rebuilding Jonah’s mosque should wait
(Jacob Wirtschafter and Gilgamesh Nabeel, Religion News Service)
In Brazil, religious gang leaders say they’re waging a holy war
(Robert Muggah, Religion News Service)
Harriet Tubman’s Canadian church seeks help for repairs
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Muslims in NJ city fear another backlash after latest attack
(Wayne Parry, Religion News Service)
Faith leaders must stop acting as if there’s no preventing natural disasters
(Amy Butler and Mike Moskowitz, Religion News Service)
Poland and France come to blows over statue of late Pope
(EURACTIV.com with AFP)
French diocese plays down John Paul II statue controversy
(Bernard Gorce, La Croix International)
EVENT, 3 November 2017: Fletcher Initiative on Religion, Law, & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA
(The Fletcher School)
Roy Moore's sexual misconduct allegations testing white evangelicals tolerance
(Tom Gjelten, NPR)
Thursday, 2 November 2017
Indonesia hosts first conference for Asian religion journalists
(Herald Malaysia)
Islam, the State, and security in post-Soviet Central Asia
(Eurasia Net)
Buddhism and Islam in Asia: A long and complicated history
(The Diplomat)
Evangelicals urge Trump to protect immigrants, families in 'temporary protected status' program
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals increasingly opposed to death penalty
(Heather Beaudoin, The Christian Post)
Hundreds of religious leaders gather in S. Korea to promote peace
(Press Release, Pacific News Center)
Dia De Los Muertos comes to lifes across the Mexican diaspora
(Isabel Dobrin, NPR)
U.S. pastors planning pilgrimage to Holy Land urge Christians to support Israel
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
'Shocking behavior': only 1.5 percent of Syrian Christians accepted into Western nations
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Inquiry rejects press claims about 'Christian' girl fostered by Muslims
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on Israel and Palestine: escape the past
(Editorial, The Guardian)
A century on, the Balfour Declaration still shapes Palestinians’ everyday lives
(Simon Mabon, The Conversation)
Before Balfour: the Reformation helped to create the state of Israel
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Egypt's president Sisi meets with US evangelical leadaers for first times in Cairo
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
London council builds housing with religion-friendly features
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Germany names a train after Anne Frank and social media reacts
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Russian orthodox patriarch visit Romania for the first time in 55 years
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Patriarch Kirill criticizes 'color' revolutions for using quasi-religious rhetoric
(Interfax-Religion)
For what reason was another Ukrainian inter-religious council estabilshed and what did it achieve?
(James Wilson, World Religion News)
Church's showing of film on Israel draws protest
(The Jerusalem Post)
Pakistan should be called country of concern over religious persecution
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Surge in anti-Semitism reported in latest study
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
US bishops’ consultant resigns after penning letter critical of pope
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Satanic Temple billboard protesting corporal punishment rankles Texas town
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)
LDS Church donates $10 million to construct housing for homeless in Salt Lake
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Notre Dame to cut birth control coverage for faculty, students
(Catholic News Agency)
Benin bishops say poverty fuels country’s health care crisis
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
7th Circuit hears arguments in Indiana Christmas pageant case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Orthodox Jewish family wants brain dead son's death certificate rescinded because faith won't accept he's deceased
(Tom Blackwell, National Post)
Orthodox Jews in Canada challenge brain death as end-of-life test
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why the census in Canada showed a steep drop in the number of Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Louisiana governor exceeded authority in expanding non-discrimination protections
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
CA pro-life centers win against forced speech law
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
California pregnancy clinic requirement violates state constitution
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
2nd Circuit: Religious court lacks standing to challenge stay of its proceedings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Rohingya crisis: Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits troubled Rakhine
(BBC News)
Musicians’ Church: announcement
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Social work, controversial views and fitness to practise: Ngole
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Yogi Adityanath govt to toughen laws on use of loudspeakers at religious places
(India TV)
Minister witnesses peace declaration of Merauke interfaith youth
(Kemenko PMK, The Jakarta Post)
Rajasthan HC raises question on woman’s conversion to Islam, interfaith marriage
(Dinesh Bothra, Hindustan Times)
Rajasthan High Court seeks govt answer on Religious Conversion Law
(Sangeeta Sharma, Daily News and Analysis)
Why is the Bladensburg Peace Cross case important? The New York Times spells it out
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Poles launch petition against French plan to axe cross in Breton town
(The Local FR)
Macron defends counterterrorism law at European Court
(Associated Press)
How the Día de Muertos tradition continues, even after losing everything in the 7.1 quake in Mexico
(Kate Linthicum, The Los Angeles Times)
Day of the Dead: A unique understanding of death
(Al Jazeera)
What ancient cultures teach us about grief, mourning and continuity of life
(Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler, The Conversation)
What the history of iconoclasm tells us about the Confederate statue controversy
(Henry Adams, The Conversation)
Basketball coaching hopeful was denied a job. She says it’s because she’s no longer gay.
(Rick Maese, The Washington Post)
Why the law against female genital mutilation should be scrapped
(Lynne Townley and Susan Bewley, The Conversation)
Church of England bishops to remain in reformed House of Lords
(Anglican Communion News Service)
The 100-year-old letter that still divides the Middle East
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
Dispatch: For Uzbeks, radicalization often begins abroad
(Amie Ferris-Rotman, Foreign Policy)
What draws ‘lone wolves’ to the Islamic State?
(James L. Gelvin, The Conversation)
US shouldn’t give up benefits of ‘green card lottery’ over low risk of terrorism
(Ethan Lewis, The Conversation)
Old friends from Argentina reunited in New York. Five died together in a terrorist attack.
(Max Radwin, Anthony Faiola, Samantha Schmidt, and Amy B. Wang, The Washington Post)
New York truck attack suspect charged with terrorism offense as Trump calls for a death sentence
(Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, and Mark Berman, The Washington Post)
Lawsuit targets Trump’s rollback of birth-control rule
(David Crary, Associated Press)
5 facts about Muslim Millennials in the U.S.
(Jeff Diamant and Claire Gecewicz, Pew Research Center Factank)
Germany marks 500th anniversary of church’s Reformation
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Reformation turns 500: Authors explain 'what remains at stake' between Catholics, Protestants
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Germany marks 500th anniversary of Protestant Reformation
(Deutsche Welle)
Reformation commemoration a 'powerful symbol of hope' says German Protestant bishop
(Ecumenical News)
On Reformation anniversary, Lutherans bridge divides with other faiths
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The rights of infidels in a new world (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(David Lantigua, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christianity and liberty: Closer friends than you think (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Daniel Philpott, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christianity’s growth in China and its contributions to freedoms (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Fenggang Yang, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christianity and freedom: Peril and promise (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Allen Hertzke, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religious freedom's roots and fruits, from antiquity to the present day (Conscience, Reformation, and Religious Freedom Across the Centuries)
(Timothy Shah, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Merkel preaches tolerance, religious freedom at Reformation ceremony
(Reuters)
Don't celebrate Reformation day until you know these 10 things
(Bethany Blankley, Christian Headlines)
Wittenberg in the spotlight: Luther rules, 500 years after Reformation
(Brian Melican, The Guardian)
Catholic and Protestant leaders unite to mark start of Reformation
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Martin Luther's children: the top 10 Protestants in fiction
(Peter Stanford, The Guardian)
Quick facts about Protestantism on its 500th anniversary
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
Why the ecumenical movement is a historical event on par with the Reformation
(Thomas Reese, RNS column: Signs of the Times)
The Guardian view on the Reformation: justification through faith
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Is the Reformation over?
(Chris Castaldo, Religion News Service)
Recipes for reformation: A menu to mark Martin Luther
(Jason Derose, NPR)
What came after: The Counter-Reformation art of Carlo Dolci
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Martin Luther: The Monk who stood against an empire and changed the world
(Bethany Blankley, Christian Headlines)
Wednesday, 1 November 2017
#Reformation500: Washington Post tackles the modern Protestant Reformation happening in Brazil
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Saudi crown prince rattles Turkish Islamists
(Semih Idiz, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Spanish bishops call for peaceful resolution to Catalan independence crisis
(Catholic News Agency)
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