Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 23 October 2017
When less is more: Modest fashion on the rise
(Sarah Ghanem, World Religion News)
This agnostic former Mormon is going to be the next Prime Minister of New Zealand
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
How Bibles are smuggled into North Korea
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Why does this religion worship forgotten gods?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Why “Jacob the bar mitzvah boy” mattered
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
Religious photos of the week
(Shane Epping, Religion News Service)
Pope sends rare condolence after Malta journalist is slain
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Sunday, 22 October 2017
Law and religion round-up – 22nd October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Saturday, 21 October 2017
Brazilian cardinal supports controversial food policy in São Paulo
(Filipe Domingues, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Gender, religious belief and discrimination in service provision
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Hereford Diocesan Synod Motion – CofE Statement
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Large crowd turns out for flag debate
(Rich Flowers, Athens Daily Review)
Police: We handled haredi draft protesters carefully and cautiously
(Udi Shaham, The Jerusalem Post)
Prayers won’t eradicate Boko Haram, education will, says Nigerian bishop
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Uzbekistan releases another activist, but is optimism misplaced?
(Eurasianet)
Friday, 20 October 2017
Doors continue to close for Myanmar’s Rohingya
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Raqqa liberated: Now what?
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Quebec bans face covering in public
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Quebec enacts 'religious neutrality law' to curb full-face veils in public
(Scott Neuman, NPR)
Quebec, Islam and face-covering: Quebec’s ban on face-coverings risks inflaming inter-communal tensions
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Quebec enacts new religious neutrality law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trudeau on Quebec face-cover ban: not our business to tell women what to wear
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
Georgetown pro-marriage group faces sanctions after students complain
(Catholic News Agency)
North Korean defector shares horrors of living under Kim Jong-un's regime
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Hamas: 'We will wipe out Israel'
(Laura Lacey Johnson, Christian Headlines)
President Trump asks supporters to sign 'stand for the National Anthem' petition
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Colorado Christian baker receives award for 'courage in the face of power'
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
In the same-sex marriage vote, the bishops have soft-pedalled on sin
(David Marr, The Guardian)
Being Boring – How Bureaucrats Determine Religious Freedom
(Helge Årsheim, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
CofE service after same sex marriage?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Trump links UK crime rise to 'spread of Islamic terror'
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)
Meditation on a lack of Conservative morality
(Pam Stainer, The Guardian)
Church of England to debate blessings for same-sex couples
(Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian)
Can Israel be any more "transparent?"
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service)
Travel ban violates Trump Administration’s most sacred principle
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Two tearful faces that make me pray for peace with North Korea
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)
LGBT-affirming Christians are more emboldened than ever
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Family looks for answers after Christian boy beaten to death in Pakistan
(Amel Ghani, Religion News Service)
Learning from the past: The day a 'Christian government' turned on an ecumenical organization
(Anli Serfontein, Ecumenical News)
Israel's religious community faces off against prostitution
(The Jerusalem Post)
Austrian Jews to Israel: Respect our stand on far right Freedom Party
(Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post)
France's Macron says Raqqa fall not end of battle against Islamic State
(Reuters)
Bulgaria Deputy PM wants new laws to stifle radical Islam
(novinite.com)
Tajikistan: One more prisoner of conscience
(Forum 18 News Service)
Jehovah 's Witness in Tajikistan sent to jail for 6 months for refusing to wear army uniform
(Interfax-Religion)
A baker’s toxic recipe for discrimination
(Dorothy Samues, The American Prospect)
G7, Facebook, Google, Twitter agree on plan to counter Islamist terror
(Deutsche Welle)
Afghanistan mosque blasts: Dozens dead in suicide bomb attacks
(Deutsche Welle)
Venezuela bishops ‘deplore’ elections blasted as a fraud by opposition
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
New Mexico judge orders release of clergy sex abuse records
(Associated Press)
Attorney General Sessions offers few answers to questions on new religious liberty guidelines
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Minister may move ahead with "as applied" challenge to disturbing-the-peace ordinance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
No unemployment benefits where religious objections leading to resignation were not disclosed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Freedom to provide religious instruction in Australian schools
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
EVENT, 20 October 2017: "Violence, Social Justice, and Human Rights at the Intersection of Law and Religion," United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, MN
(United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities)
EVENT, 20 October 2017: "Religious Freedom: Liberty, Legislation, & Litigation," Connecticut Law Review, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT
(UConn School of Law)
EVENT, 20 October 2017: "Faith, Money, and Promoting Inclusive Development," Washington, D.C.
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
EVENT, 19-20 October 2017: Second Annual Religious Liberty Public Lecture and Conference: Freedom of Belief Freedom of Action
(Lecture by Professor Rex Ahdar, The University of Notre Dame Australia - Sydney School of Law)
There’s a rising global tide of crackdowns on LGBT communities
(Max Bearak, The Washington Post)
Call to challenge decline of religious freedom in Russia
(Eno Adeogun, Premier)
Christians in Azerbaijan face rising persecution from government, ACLJ tells UN
(Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the essence of what it means to be human
(Keymanthri Moodley, The Conversation)
Rosie Costa
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Aung San Suu Kyi was a ‘bright light’ for some Rohingya. That dream is dead.
(Max Bearak, The Washington Post)
Christians who use ‘Allah’ ‘don’t contravene public order law’
(Bede Hong, The Malaysian Insight)
By excluding Hannah Mouncey, the AFL’s inclusion policy has failed a key test
(Catherine Ordway and Allistar Twigg, The Conversation)
The fine line of teaching religion in France's secular schools
(The Local FR)
Burqa bans: Which countries outlaw face coverings?
(Liam Stack, The New York Times)
Roy Green: European Court of Human Rights has twice decided on face covering law
(Roy Green, Global News)
“The reformation is unending,” Adventist leader tells European Parliament
(Victor Hulbert, Adventist News Network)
No opt-out for religious if abortion laws liberalised
(Caroline O'Doherty, Irish Examiner)
Sex, gender, religion: Scholars discuss possible 'reformation'
(Peter Feuerherd, National Catholic Reporter)
Courts rule 'Onionhead' is a religion; Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't
(Allen Smith, Society for Human Resource Management)
LC Panel urges students to shape culture, be the difference makers
(Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message)
Thursday, 19 October 2017
'My love isn't second-class': the struggle for marriage equality in Northern Ireland
(Siobhan Fenton, The Guardian)
Will English church school be forced to ban bible, crosses, and religious assembly?
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Berlin exhibition highlights how the Nazis exploited Martin Luther’s legacy
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Though ISIS is losing ground, war may be lost if Christians can't return home
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Central Americans fleeing violence can't return home yet, bishops warn
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Excluding people with disabilities makes Church 'incomplete'
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
My Week as a Muslim documentary sparks racism row
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Diwali, festival of lights – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Tony Abbott needs to go back to Bible class if he quotes it on climate change
(Geoff Thompson, The Guardian)
Algeria: ‘unjust law’ still denying churches their ‘right to worship’
(World Watch Monitor)
Dalai Lama attacks Trump's America
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Virginia: Pro-life and pro-abortion gov. candidates in close race
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Government must allow abortion for undocumented teenager, judge rules
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Why is everybody so mad at the museum of the Bible?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Life after death -- what Scientology did for me
(Wayne Edward Hanson, World Religion News)
War memorial cross must be torn down according to court ruling
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
‘Peace Cross’ is unconstitutional, court rules
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Across from White House, Muslims and allies protest travel ban
(Chris Mathews, Religion News Service)
Denied admission because he’s black, civil rights leader urges Duke Divinity to confront its past
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
New Mexico judge orders release of clergy sex abuse records
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Church Clarity pressures pastors and churches to disclose views on homosexuality
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS: On Faith & Culture)
EVENT, 19 October 2017: Speaker Robert P. George, Wheatley Institution 10 Year Anniversary Celebration, Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
(The Wheatley Institution)
"Deeply disappointed at this miscarriage of justice" - Catholicos Aram I on ECHR's Sis decision
(Armenpress)
Turkey, Hungary and Poland: The politics of school textbooks
(Dana Alexandra Scherle, Daniel Heinrich, Deutsche Welle)
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