Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 9 October 2017
Reviving the churches of rural America
(Eric Metaxas, The Christian Post)
Tens of thousands gather for controversial prayer event in Poland
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
Church of England's equality law exemptions allow for 'abuse, homophobia and sexism' says bishop
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
For global 'peripheries,' poverty can lead to online exploitation
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Why this young woman spoke up against 'Men for Choice'
(Adelaide Mena, Catholic News Agency)
Apostasy review – faith and fellowship in potent account of hidden world of Jehovah's Witnesses
(Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
Shalom, Canvey! Welcome to the promised land
(Joanne O'Connor, The Guardian)
Rape and slavery was lure for UK Isis recruits with history of sexual violence
(Mark Townsend, The Guardian)
Taking on bigotry, the Air Force got it right this time
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
Two Sundays, two mass shootings: Why do bad things happen to good people?
(Holly Meyer, Religion News Service)
How Gal Gadot became queen of the Jews
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS: Martini Judaism)
Holy spirits: Closed churches find second life as breweries
(Dake Kang, Religion News Service)
On the eighth day, man created beer- breweries popping up in old churches
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
In Las Vegas as before, spontaneous shrines bring healing after horror
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Sermon on the Strip: ‘Where is God?’
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
For Native Americans, a river is more than a ‘person,’ it is also a sacred place
(Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation)
Buddhist nationalists and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar part 1: an introduction to the current crisis
(Michael Jerryson, Abby Kulisz, and Sarah Seniuk, OUPblog Religion)
How Buddhism is being used to justify violence in Myanmar
(Matthew Wills, JSTOR)
Myanmar cardinal defends country’s embattled leader
(Catholic News Service)
Segregation fans fears in Myanmar's Rakhine
(Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters)
Satanist wins transfer of her abortion rights case to the Missouri Supreme Court
(Max Londberg, Kansas City Star)
Christianity and secular politics in Liberia
(Daily Observer)
LHC’s verdict on Christian Divorce Act challenged
(Hassaan Ahmed, Pakistan Today)
Khatm-e-Nabuwwat oath: Fazl claims credit for defending religious law
(The Express Tribune)
Kansas acting as ‘religious police’ in mandating vaccine for grandson, couple argue
(Tomy Rizzo, Kansas City Star)
Pune students ‘draft law to protect inter-caste, inter-religious marriages’
(Alifiya Khan, The Indian Express)
The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
(Denis Muller, The Conversation)
After generations in the shadows, the intersex rights movement has a message for the world
(Nora Caplan-Bricker, The Washington Post)
Souls and the guns of America
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Preaching about guns? Get political!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Trump reverses Obama rule on birth control
(Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic)
Of all the contraceptive mandate stories out there, very few quoted religious folks
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
BBC and The New York Times: Who listened to Catholics who prayed at Poland's borders?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is the United States one of seven countries that ‘allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy?’
(Michelle Ye Hee Lee, The Washington Post)
A Spanish mosque's ties to terror
(Lauren Frayer, National Public Radio)
Radicalization in Belgium: 'It will take years to fix'
(Doris Pundy, Deutsche Welle)
Chabad feuds with Jewish leaders over cozy ties to Eastern European autocrats
(Lili Bayer and Larry Cohler-Esses, Forward)
Islam most common State religion, but many governments give Christianity privileges: Pew
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Catholics jointly with Orthodox believers will restore Orthodox churches in Syria
(Interfax-Religion)
October 8: Sessions issues memo on religious freedom, “thoughts and prayers” for Las Vegas [and more]
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
What's missing from our 'evil' debate
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Ogden church converted into drug, alcohol rehab center
(Associated Press)
Jerusalem cancels ‘Space Week’ events after Ultra-Orthodox pressure
(Aiden Pink, Forward)
Religious liberty or discrimination?
(Matt Ford, The Atlantic)
After Mexico’s earthquakes, ‘faith opens doors to psychological care’
(Melissa Vida, Catholic News Service)
Brothers of Charity euthanasia controversy could have far-reaching implications
(Andrea Gagliarducci, Catholic News Agency)
FFRF wins major housing allowance challenge (again)
(Press Release, Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Claim of fraudulent luring into conversion to Christianity dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court dismisses challenge to "In God We Trust" on currency
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 8 October 2017
Exponential growth pushes the Amish into new places like Licking, Mo.
(Jesse Bogan, St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Poles pray en masse at border; some see anti-Muslim agenda
(Vanessa Gera and Karel Janicek, Associated Press)
Polish Catholics gather at border for vast rosary prayer event
(Joanna Berendt and Megan Specia, The New York Times)
HB1523: Business as usual as controversial religious freedom law is enacted
(Isabelle Altman, The Dispatch)
Can publicly traded companies have religious beliefs?
(Wesley J. Smith, National Review)
Catholic leader says Egypt needs to fight fundamentalism
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church in Bangladesh working with other faith communities to welcome pope
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Can publicly held corporations have religion but not morals?
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump Administration expands contraceptive mandate exemptions for religious and moral objectors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Attorney General issues guidance on protection of religious liberty
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Defense Department drops training material references to Southern Poverty Law Center
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
DOJ says Title VII does not cover transgender discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Saturday, 7 October 2017
Entombed' British man loses legal bid to end his own life
(Stuff.co.nz)
H.R. 390: Senate Foreign Relations Committee passes genocide bill
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Friday, 6 October 2017
Christian baker Supreme Court hearings set for December
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Primates’ Meeting – Communiqué
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Supreme Court to hear Colorado same-sex wedding cake case in December
(Associated Press)
There should be no religious test for judicial nominees
(Jeff Flake, The Daily Signal)
Memorandum on the HRCommittee General Comment on the right to life [English translation forthcoming]
(Grégor Puppinck, European Centre for Law and Justice)
Defending freedom against the gender ideology
(Priscille Kulczyk, European Centre for Law and Justice)
Political Islam vs a secular state: Struggle for European autochthonous identity – OpEd
(Sadri Ramabaja, Eurasia Review)
Philippines: Church denies trying to undermine Duterte
(Joe Torres, Eurasia Review)
Religious exemption for HHS Mandate – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Christian principal stopping community from buying goods from our members: Hindu Mahasabha, Bajrang Dal complain
(Prashant Pandey, Indian Express)
CSI pushes for gender-equal society in India
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Senate panel backs nominee questioned on her religion
(Associated Press)
Global church body to intervene in Ethiopia – Eritrea border dispute
(Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban, Africa News)
Greek Holy Synod warns SYRIZA against separation of church and state
(Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter)
Full nuclear ban is aim of Nobel prize-winner ICAN
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Turkey, Malaysia and Islam: A Turkish writer’s detention sends a sombre message about Islam
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Godless society will not conquer extremism - Vatican representative in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian parliament gets bill to protect atheists' rights
(RBK, Russia Religion News)
Historical perspective on Orthodox activists
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
HHS curtails Obama Administration’s persecution of religious employers
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Trump eviscerates health insurance birth control mandate
(Sarah N. Lynch, Caroline Humer, Reuters)
Ukraine arrests 3 alleged terrorists accused of targeting Jews in Uman
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Top Vatican official says ‘tragic experience’ on sex abuse helps Church lead
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Attorney General Sessions issues guidance on federal law protections for religious liberty
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Justice)
Trump administration lays out principles for protecting religious freedom
(Catholic News Agency)
A win for freedom of conscience
(National Review)
New religious freedom protections draw praise from experts
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
DOJ memo on religious liberty law oversimplifies some complicated issues
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Iraq after the Kurdistan referendum: What's next?
(Hudson Institute)
Christian funeral home defends right to fire transgender employee in appeals court
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
A cultural Goliah that keeps Christians cowering
(Nathaniel Jeanson, The Christian Post)
Religious freedom cases stacking up
(John Stonestreet, The Christian Post)
How the US can protect human rights in China
(Catholic News Agency)
Religious, secular experts unite in call to protect child safety online
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis: 'painful' failures help Church lead in protecting minors
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis warns against blurring gender differences: It's 'not right'
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Why ‘thoughts and prayers’ is starting to sound so profane
(Kirsten Powers, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
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