Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Majority of Americans, third of evangelicals say faith in God not necessary to be moral: Pew
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
A growing share of Americans say it’s not necessary to believe in God to be moral
(Gregory A. Smith, Pew Research Center Factank)
Study: Kids who read the Bible more likely to practice faith as adults
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
UK Christians and Jews celebrate 75 years of inter-faith relations
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Most people don’t want women jailed for abortions, says expert who investigated death of Savita Halappanavar
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)
Neil MacGregor on faith, burkinis and blockbuster shows
(Catherine Nixey, The Times)
As a Muslim, I'm proud to support marriage equality
(Mehreen Faruqi, The Guardian)
Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
(Julian Savulescu, The Conversation)
Australia: Churches vandalized by gay marriage supporters ahead of legalization vote
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Hate crime has become the new normal. This is how we tackle it
(Shaista Aziz, The Guardian)
Quebec passes law banning facial coverings in public
(Ashifa Kassam, The Guardian)
Ontario says Quebec law on religious neutrality violates charter rights
(National Post)
Saudi scholars to vet teaching of prophet Muhammad to curb extremism
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Christians on alert as Iraqi forces take over Nineveh Plains
(World Watch Monitor)
‘No country can make progress without granting religious freedom to citizens’
(Pakistan Today)
When Nazis rallied in Manhattan, one working-class Jewish man from Brooklyn took them on
(Philip Bump, The Washington Post)
Jewish neo-Nazi renounces white supremacist past — and comes out as gay
(Mary Hui, The Washington Post)
Da Vinci painting of Jesus being sold for $100 million
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Christian rapper has #1 album in America
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Philadelphia Eagles' football player baptized in hotel swimming pool before game
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
White Evangelicals in Alabama
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
Mormons and the Boy Scouts: Heading down different trails
(Benjamin Park, Religion News Service)
Boy Scouts' exclusion of atheists
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Towering cross-shaped monument on public land is unconstitutional, court rules
(Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
Supreme Court backs push to remove Ten Commandments monument
(Associated Press)
Good without God? More Americans say amen to that
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
A call to national service — for young Jews and non-Jews
(E. Robert Goodkind, Religion News Service)
Prospect High School students among select group to pilot national religious studies program
(Karen Ann Cullotta, The Chicago Tribune)
Judge orders Trump administration to allow abortion for undocumented teen
(Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post)
Conservative movement keeps intermarriage ban
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Who said that — Martin Luther or William Shakespeare?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Wealthy donors working to limit 'inappropriate' religious freedom
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Second judge rules against latest travel ban, saying Trump’s own words show it was aimed at Muslims
(Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post)
Court bars enforcement of most of Trump's third travel ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Contraception mandate litigation: DOJ settles
(Wesley J. Smith, National Review)
California: Jerry Brown vetoes a bill to curtail religious liberty, and the Left reacts
(Margot Cleveland, National Review)
California governor vetoes expanded labor protections for employees of religious organizations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
California Gov. Brown vetoes bill prohibiting faith-based codes of conduct
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Being Muslim in the NBA
(Marc J. Spears, The Undefeated)
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
German Left Party leader calls MP a sneaky Jew
(Benjamin Weinthal, The Jerusalem Post)
Is it Islamophobic to oppose the mosque next door? London Jews debate the question.
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Japan PM Shinzo Abe sends offering to Yasukuni war shrine
(Deutsche Welle)
Greece passes gender identity law amid church protest
(Florian Schmitz, Deutsche Welle)
Pope Francis invites prisoners to lunch, instead they escape
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)
New California law stops local participation in ‘Muslim registry’
(Alberto Luperon, Law Newz)
New California law bars state role in any future "Muslim registry"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The implicationsof China's growing involvement in Latin America
(Jaime Daremblum, Hudson Institute)
Spain and the situation in Catalonia: A conversation with Spanish ambassador Pedro Morenes
(Hudson Institute)
Middle East’s Samaritans link Muslims and Jews
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 17 October 2017: Blasphemy laws: Religious suppression and political authoritarianism
(Newseum: Religious Freedom Center)
EVENT, 17 October 2017: Wise Up: Voice of American Muslims
(Newseum: Religious Freedom Center)
Can the war between faith and science come to an end?
(Kevin Wandra, Christian News Wire)
Respect, don't just tolerate other religions, Vatican officials say
(Matthew Fowler, Catholic News Service)
US bishops call for health care protection for the most vulnerable
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Hawaii judge blocks Trump's latest travel ban
(Ariane de Vogue, CNN)
Department of Justice announces settlement in HHS mandate suits
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
College wins permanent protection from HHS contraceptive mandate
(Press Release, Thomas Aquinas College)
Government settles 13 contraceptive mandate cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Christian school's zoning exclusion did not violate RLUIPA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
How 'evil' became a conservative buzzword
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
How American politics became so exhuasting
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Senate confirms Callista Gingrich as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See
(Catholic News Service)
Callista Gingrich confirmed as Ambassador to the Vatican
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
#MeToo: Beth Moore, Kay Warren and other Christians share abuse stories after Harvey Weinstein scandal
(Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Today)
Christian-killing Al-Shabaab is behind Somalia's worst ever bombing
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Man's act of self-sacrifice in California fires illustrates something more than heroism
(Leah Hickman, Christian Headlines)
California becomes first state to recognize 'non-binary' gender
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Does Mike Pence really want to "hang the gays"?
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Donald Trump: It's time to say 'Merry Christmas' again
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Labour leader urges Twitter and Facebook to tackle religious hatred
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Labor rules out extra religious freedoms in same-sex marriage bill
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
New poll says most Australians think religion does more harm than good
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Business cards become new battleground over religious freedom
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Former bishop of Chester investigated over abuse allegations
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Iraqi-Kurdish violence could push Christians who survived IS ‘to flee for good’
(World Watch Monitor)
Pope wants to change Catholic Church's position on the death penalty
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Catholic church denies communion over girl's pantsuit
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
I don’t like niqabs and burqas — but they should be legal
(John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Religion News Service)
New film on Mark Twain highlights his religious doubts
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Capital murder charges filed in Muslim teen’s death
(Matthew Barakat, Religion News Service)
United Nations intercedes for Jehovah's Witness prisoner in Kazakhstan
(Radio Azattyk, Russia Religion News)
14 European countries criticize Russian treatment of religious minorities
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Patriarch Kirill pays attention of the participants in the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly to attempts of infringing canonical church in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Has the new museum of the bible left Jesus out?
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Monday, 16 October 2017
Russian churches begin new youth programs
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
The Russian Orthodox Church: Putin ally or independent force?
(Gregory L. Freeze, Religion and Politics Fit for Society)
Patriarch Kirill urges to base legislation on law of morals
(Interfax-Religion)
Sneak peek: D.C.’s huge new Museum of the Bible includes lots of tech — but not a lot of Jesus
(Michelle Boorstein, Julie Zauzmer, and Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Inside the sprawling, controversial $500m Museum of the Bible
(David Smith, The Guardian)
Global launch to teach the Bible academically in every English-speaking school with partners in the United States, Australia, United Kingdom and the Philippines
(Press Release, Religion News Service)
Prayers of the persecuted around the world
(James Estrin, The New York Times)
October 15: Trump speaks to Values Voters, Christian Hogwarts profiled [and more]
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Trump to values voters: In America 'we don't worship government, we worship God'
(Jessica Taylor, NPR)
President Trump discusses religious liberty accomplishments, goals in values voter speech
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Trump's marriage to the religious right reeks of hypocrisy on both sides
(Daniel Jose Camacho, The Guardian)
Trump, unlikely religious favorite, hails Christian values
(Jonathan Lemire and Ken Thomas, Religion News Service)
What is "Judeo-Christian," anyway?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
From Numa Pompililus to Donald Trump
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
On Halloween, remember: Voodoo isn't black magic
(Leah Donnella, NPR)
Islam and Belgium: In Belgium, arguments about Islam grow louder
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
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