Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 6 October 2017
The case for 'thoughts and prayers'- even if you don't believe in God
(Katelyn Beaty, The Atlantic)
How America changed its approach to political Islam
(Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and William McCants, The Atlantic)
Jeff Sessions issues directive undercutting LGBT protections
(Guardian staff and agencies, The Guardian)
UK pharmacist jailed for showing beheading video to a child
(Josh Halliday, The Guardian)
Church-backed cleaning firm to give staff London living wage and guaranteed hours
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
First Look: Trump talks Israel on Mike Huckabee’s new TBN show
(Jonathan Merritt, Religion News Service)
Controversial religious objection law in Mississippi to go into effect after appeals court declines to rehear
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
AG’s religious objection order undercuts LGBT protections
(Rachel Zoll, Eric Tucker, and Sadie Gurman, Religion News Service)
Religious objection order gives broad leeway to employers to drop birth control coverage
(Jayne O'Donnell, Religion News Service)
Capitalism and the Common Good According to Michael Novak: A Law and Liberty Symposium on First Things
(Michael Matheson Miller, James R. Rogers, Grattan Brown, Michael M. Uhlmann, Jay W. Richards, Library of Law and Liberty)
A Muslim chaplain’s prayer to the U.S. House
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
Progressives, evangelicals, and presidential politics: What love has, and hasn’t, got to do with it
(Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Thursday, 5 October 2017
Review of NT discrimination law
(Alex Deagon, guest blog, Law and Religion Australia)
Baha'is laud 'unprecedented UN resolution' calling halt to Yemen harassment
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Uzbekistan: Extra jail terms, no amnesty
(Forum 18 News Service)
Why researchers and religious leaders in Salt Lake City are concerned about gene editing
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Legal dispute over Fulton Sheen’s body continues in court next week
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tolerance only way to ensure survival of church in China, Jesuit says
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Bishop reiterates call to Pentagon to close Guantanamo Bay prison
(Catholic News Service)
Mali church leader voices alarm over insurgent attacks on parishes
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
African bishops call on continent’s political leaders to do more to end misery
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
In defense of Islam
(Alexandra Prior, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Uncovering Jewish history in Prague
(Amanda Christovich, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
In confirmation hearing, Brownback pledges to maintain religious liberty focus as ambassador
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Think religiously motivated discrimination can’t affect you? Guess again.
(James Esseks, ACLU Blog)
Religion Watch, October 2017, Volume 32 No. 12
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Tent Schools offers hope to children in the Middle East
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Indians protest attacks on Dalits for sporting mustaches
(Ritu Sharma, La Croix International)
“Assisted dying” and Article 8 again – Conway v S of S for Justice
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
New bishop in Austria favors women deacons, married priests
(Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, La Croix International)
Pope Francis advised to use 'healthy realism' with Beijing
(Michael Sainsbury, Dili (Timor-Leste) and ucanews.com reporter, Hong Kong, La Croix International)
Iran, sanctions, and developing a heart for the Farsi-speaking world
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
Erdogan's Iran visit sparks talk of Iraqi Kurdistan as 'new Israel'
(Al Monitor)
Turkey lays out plans for Iraq's Kurds after independence vote
(Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Fourth Nigerian priest kidnapped this year, released when no ransom given
(International Christian Concern)
Sudan: human rights violations, religious persecution abound - US sanctions must stay
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)
Terrible fate awaits North Korean women escapees in China
(International Christian Concern)
The betrayal of Vietnam's forgotten Montagnard Christians
(International Christian Concern)
Global terror groups set to exploit violence in Myanmar
(International Christian Concern)
Rohingya not the only group persecuted in Myanmar, Christian minorities are as well
(International Christian Concern)
Study shows link between abortion and breast cancer in China
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Iraqi Christians are in 'state of fear' after Kurdish Independence Referendum, bishops warn
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Challenge to the law against assisted dying dismissed by High Court
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Claim UK school failed inspection over marriage teaching 'factually inaccurate'
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
The truth about capitalism is out as Marx’s magic cap starts to slip
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
We live in a religious power vacuum
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
More Catholic than the pope
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
North Carolina imam urges Congress to ‘celebrate’ difference
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Testing the proposition that lack of religion leads to violence
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
The Dead Sea Scrolls discovery — still riveting after 70 years
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
Christians and Yazidis in Iraq stand on the brink of extinction
(Chris Smith, Religion News Service)
Back from Puerto Rico, the Rev. Gabriel Salguero shares ways to help
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Here he stood: Lutheran pilgrims travel to Germany on Reformation anniversary
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 5 October 2017: Interfaith Prayer Service for Peace, with Bishop Robert Kasun, CSB
(St. Philip Parish, Toronto, Cardus: Faith in Canada 150)
EVENT, 5 October 2017: The Business Case for Religious Freedom
(Washington, D.C., Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
EVENT, 5-6 October 2017: Religion(s) and Power(s)
(Lithuanian Society for the Study of Religions, Latvian Society for the Study of Religions, Estonian Society for the Study of Religions, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)
Fall religion reading: Heavy-duty edition
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Many countries favor specific religions, officially or unofficially (Islam is the most common state religion, but many governments give privileges to Christianity)
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Age Limit Guidance
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
The SEC, same sex marriage, and the Primate’s Meeting
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Sexual identity, UK: 2016
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Kara bangles at school – again
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
CofE Statement on initial IICSA
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Religious leaders' dialogue promotes peaceful Karabakh settlement - head of Muslim Board of Caucasus
(Interfax-Religion)
Priest is not allowed to Russian pilot Yaroshenko in American prison
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkmenistan: Pressure in schools, sackings, haj restrictions
(Forum 18 News Service)
Turkmenistan: Raids, fines, torture, detentions, threats
(Forum 18 News Service)
French Prime Minister promises fresh fight against country's antisemitism
(Eytan Halon, The Jerusalem Post)
Pope Francis wants to see 'fake news' confronted
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church hosts delegation from World Council of Churches
(Ecumenical News)
Disputes within Russian Orthodox activist community
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
How to discuss religion without arguing
(David Gregory, The Wall Street Journal)
Jewish reporter says she faced anti-Semitic harassment at Australian TV station
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Teacher at London Orthodox nursery says she was fired for living with boyfriend
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Why was Taj Mahal excluded from Indian tourism brochure?
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
Some think interfaith dialogue goes nowhere. A veteran rabbi begs to differ
(Michelle Chabin, Deseret News Faith)
U.S. House passes bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Churches in Vietnam, Japan agree to jointly care for migrants
(Catholic News Service)
Bishop urges U.S. to remain party to Iran nuclear deal
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Dozens of Catholic institutions mark St. Francis feast by defunding fossil fuels
(Austen Ivereigh, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Priest creates appearance of Mass as cover for Catalan independence vote
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Experts say online child abuse pervasive, growing, and needs coordinated response
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Florida county’s exclusion of atheists as invocation speakers struck down by federal judge
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Religious challenge to Missouri informed consent abortion law goes to state high court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
6th Circuit hears oral arguments in RFRA defense to transgender discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Street preacher's suit against arresting officer is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Who is a Jew?' can now be answered by genetic testing
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)
Israel's Chief Rabbinate urged to allow DNA evidence to prove Jewish descent in some cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New report on official and favored state religions
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit challenges new version of Trump's travel ban as Establishment Clause violation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Parents slam transgender push to remove gender-specific terms in school sex ed
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
In Indonesia, a Mosque and a church foster friendship amid religious tensions
(Joe Cochrane, The New York Times)
Christian persecution reports increase out of Pakistan
(Beth Stolicker, Mission Network News)
Christians under ‘the squeeze’ in Iran, but creative partnerships advance Christ
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
Catholic School promises to use 'preferred pronoun' and 'preferred name' of transgender pupils
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
Egyptian Church ravaged by sectarian violence in 2013 finally reopens
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
(Assisted) death, where is thy sting?
(Traver Stammers, Christian Today)
Texas church will not hold weddings until same-sex union is allowed
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Unity between churches is most vibrant at local level, report finds
(Florence Gildea, Christian Today)
Religion given government benefits in nearly half of countries - new poll
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)
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