Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 2 December 2024
Teaching religions in public education (Spanish)
(Fishel Szlajen, Infobae)
Does politics belong in the church? Does the church belong in politics? (1984)
(Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
Saturday, 30 November 2024
Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents
(Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press)
Religious freedom in Ukraine: Can we move on from misleading election narratives?
(Dmytro Vovk and Elizabeth A. Clark, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Brazilian Supreme Court unanimously rejects attempt to ban religious symbols from public buildings
(ADF International)
Brazil: STF forms majority to allow religious symbols in public buildings (Portuguese)
(Agencia o Globo)
There is intolerance and discrimination in religious practices in Portuguese-speaking countries (Portuguese)
(Notícias Em Direto)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 November 2024: From the Margins to Mainstream: Building a Mass Movement for FoRB
(Global Youth Summit)
Compassion beyond borders: Faith communities addressing the refugee crisis
(Aminah Koshul, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
PM holds urgent meeting with communal leaders to discuss ‘abhorrent rise of antisemitism’
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)
Balancing consent, religious beliefs, and human rights in posthumous embryo use: EF
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religious voices must not be excluded from UK’s assisted suicide debate
(Jerry Li, Religious Freedom Institute)
Vietnam's jailing of Khmer monks violated religious freedom, rights group says
(Reuters)
Congress passes resolution supporting minorities in Iraq after 10 years of ISIS
(YouTube Video, EWTN)
Bangladeshi court denies bail to Hindu leader who led rallies for minority protection
(Julhas Alam, Associated Press)
Texas AG sues church-run homeless center alleging it has become a public nuisance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Denial of historic preservation grants to churches violates 1st Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oregon youth ministry fights for funding in federal appeals court
(Liz Lykins, World)
Northern African Bishops warn against using the Bible to legitimize violence
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nicaragua: Radical changes to Nicaraguan Constitution are a blow to Catholic Church
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Irish Church objects to temporary closure of Catholic chapel in Dublin
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Uzbekistan: Religious communities blocked from using own buildings, registering
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
CEC contributed to European Parliament discussion on combating hate speech
(Conference of European Churches)
KAICIID making a difference in the global call to eliminate violence against women and girls
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
ACN report: North Koreans in contact with Christians are sent to prison
(Catholic News Agency)
South Africa: The battle in South Africa over religion and animal sacrifice
(Vicky Abraham, Religion Unplugged)
The role of Ethiopian Orthodox priests in promoting vaccines
(Calvin Manika, Religion Unplugged)
Cultural revitalization and indigenization
(JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
35 years after the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the best interests of the child remain a contentious issue: A case study on the repatriation of children from ISIS
(Andreas Sauermoser, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Iran: Religious issues and persecution – Monthly Digest November
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Dániel Karsai v. Hungary: Further clarification of state obligations in the context of assisted dying
(Stevie Martin, Strasbourg Observers)
CNE’s podcast: Abortion in the German election campaign; polarisation between Jews and Muslims in Denmark; and an EU ban on conversion therapy
(Christian Network Europe)
After Vatican visit, Blinken praises Pope Francis's work on LGBTQ rights
(Reuters)
Pakistan: Christian man wins right to correct religion on ID card after being victim of falsified conversion to Islam
(The Christian Post)
India: Rajasthan set to implement stringent anti-conversion law
(Devdiscourse)
India: Why Muslims in India are opposing changes to a property law
(Meryl Sebastian & Neyaz Farooquee, BBC)
India: Christians banned from eight villages in Chhattisgarh State
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Pope: Lack of respect for religious values leads to intolerance
(Edoardo Giribaldi, Vatican News)
The younger generations’ fight for religious freedom
(Hanna Seariac, Deseret News)
The world’s red zones for Christians just got worse (Portuguese)
(Antonio Rodrigues, Publico)
Court rejects "Jewish, Zionist" teachers' and parents' lawsuit over allegedly anti-capitalist and anti-Zionist school curriculum
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Christopher Brown sentenced in thwarted attack on Jewish community
(Manhattan District Attorney's Office)
Jewish-American perspectives on U.S. foreign policy
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
The G20 Interfaith Forum: Moving from dialogue to encounter and impact
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
A lack of moral grandeur and spiritual audacity
(Abraham Skorka, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
G20 Interfaith Forum brings moral urgency to the G20 Social Summit
(Marianna Richardson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Global policy agendas: Encounter and engagement
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Resist normalization of the extreme
(Sturla Stålsett, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Acceptance and curiosity: An interview with LSE’s Muslim chaplain
(Flora Rustamova, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)
The G20 Interfaith Forum: Connecting dialogue with impact in the G20 process
(Cole Durham, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Vol. 17 No. 2 (2024): Children, youth and FoRB
(International Journal for Religious Freedom)
The interfaith challenge: Moving from dialogue to impact
(Thomas Banchoff, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Political views vs philosophical beliefs: Fairbanks
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
KAICIID and Arigatou International renew commitment to interfaith ethics education at the 6th GNRC Forum in Abu Dhabi
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
IF20 at the G20 Social Summit
(JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum)
Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on granting asylum to Afghan women an implication of qualification of gender apartheid in Afghanistan?
(Shima Esmailian, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Rwanda: Letter on government church closings from the Primate of Rwanda
(Laurent Mbanda, Anglican Ink)
Malaysian man to be publicly caned at mosque for Islamic crime of close proximity
(Reuters)
Religion boosts interest in life extension for Black but not white Americans, suggests Rice research
(Amy McCaig, Rice News)
Pragmatist Instrumentalism as a Paradigm of Intercultural Legal Semiotics
(Annette Langner-Pitschmann, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion)
Recording available: Where are we now? Faith in the public square
(Paul McNulty, Faith & Law)
Should clergy get 'political'?
(Jeffrey Salkin, Religion News Service)
Portugal invited to join KAICIID Council of Parties in historic meeting
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
WCC urges peaceful end to division of Cyprus
(World Council of Churches)
New preaching ban makes schools in Norway anxious to break the law
(Joe-Lize Kruijsse-Brugge, Christian Network Europe)
Mitsotakis meets Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Athens
(ekathimerini)
More states are testing the limits around religion in public schools
(Brooke Schultz, Education Week)
How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans
(Michael Carrafiello, The Conversation)
Supreme Court asked to protect right of religious organizations to operate without government interference
(First Liberty)
Federal judge blocks law requiring Ten Commandments displays in Louisiana classrooms
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Trump and religious freedom, revisited
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Catholic bishops say they will defend migrants if Trump violates rights
(Aleja Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service)
Bhutan: Residents in Bhutan’s Samtse residents want unsolicited religious pamphlets investigated
(Asia News Network)
Assisted dying bill would create the worst thought-out legal framework anywhere in the world – legal expert
(Adam McCann, The Conversation)
For BYU runners, it’s faith and family over everything
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Transgender activitists question the movement's confrontational approach
(Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times)
It is now illegal in New York to forcibly remove someone’s kippah
(Luke Tress, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
AstraZeneca loses Covid-shot religious job accommodation lawsuit
(Patrick Dorrian, Bloomberg Law)
UK: How would the assisted dying bill work and what issues might it create?
(Kevin De Sabbata, Abigail Pearson, and Dunja Begovic, The Conversation)
The vast majority of Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, but their traditions and activities vary widely
(John Gramlich, Michael Rotolo, and Laura Silver, Pew Research Center)
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
WEBINAR, 26 November 2024 (12PM ET): The New Governance of Religious Diversity
(Tariq Modood and Thomas Sealy, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Monday, 25 November 2024
Faith leaders join to oppose Bill to legalise assisted suicide
(The Church of England)
The assisted dying bill: safeguards are essential to prevent suicide
(The Guardian)
Assisted dying: how to understand the increasingly angry debate between MPs over this controversial bill
(Daniel Gover, The Conversation)
Father allowed to proceed with embryo surrogate treatment after death of mother: Court of Protection
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Law and religion roundup – 24th November
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Canada: “Practitioners of Peace”: Ontario youth conference strengthens movement for social progress
(Bahá’í World News Service)
Canada: Justin Trudeau condemns antisemitism after Montreal pro-Palestinian protest where Netanyahu is burned in effigy
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Canada: Uniting against hate: Jewish-Hindu coalition confronts university extremism
(Devdiscourse)
Canada: Activism on foot: When Indigenous activists walk the land to honor their past and reshape their future
(Meaghan Weatherdon, The Conversation)
EVENT, 25 November 2024 (17:00 GMT +1): Religion and Belief Discrimination: Where Next? (Cambridge, UK)
(Sarah Fraser Butlin, Woolf Institute)
Austria's commitment to freedom of religion and belief: from Red Wednesday to international alliances
(Vindobona)
Austria – Red Wednesday: Raising awareness for religious freedom in church and state
(Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
In religion-averse Japan, a religion-backed party remains pivotal
(Levi McLaughlin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Unification Church ad Jehovah's Witnesses: Why is Japan not accepting a UN visit?
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A magazine on religious liberty and human rights)
US House passes measure that could punish nonprofits Treasury Department decides are ‘terrorist’
(Beth Gazley, The Conversation)
With House passage of "Stop Terror-Financing Bill,' charities fear being targeted
(Alex Daniels, The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Nonprofit leaders lament House passage of ‘unconstitutional’ bill
(Jeff Brumley, Baptist News Global)
House passes resolutions to combat Jew-hatred, strip funding from terror-linked nonprofits
(Andrew Bernard, Jewish News Syndicate)
UK faith leaders oppose assisted dying bill
(AFP News, The News International)
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