Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 1 September 2017
Hyperbole, politics, weigh down religious liberty debates
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Religious Liberty Advocate says female genital mutilation is not religious freedom
(Matt Hadro, Catholic Online)
Religious practices are protected only as long as they do not run counter to law: HC
(Mohamed Imranullah S., The Hindu)
New Illinois Human Rights Act amendment on religious accommodations: What does it mean for Illinois employers?
(The National Law Review)
As State Department reorganizes, what will be the fate of religious freedom office?
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Evolution and Islam: Turkey's hot back-to-school story and (let's work it in) the specter of jihad
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
On the Nashville Statement, one national newspaper offers less slanted coverage than another
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Spirituality gone awry in India: what is Dera Sacha Sauda, and who is its jailed leader?
(Swati Parashar, The Conversation)
The European Parliament's watchdog on freedom of religion or belief: Bark or bite?
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
(Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, Religious Freedom Institute)
Making a Case For Religious Freedom and America's National Security
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Prison Credentials: A Reflection for Easter 2017
(Christian Van Gorder, Religious Freedom Institute: Under Caesar's Sword)
The Importance of Building and Sustaining a Culture of Religious Freedom: Lessons from Nigeria and Kenya
(Fr. Robert Dowd, Religious Freedom Institute)
Past and Present Challenges to Religious Freedom in Pakistan
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Thursday, 31 August 2017
Will Christianity Survive in the Middle East? A Christian Perspective
(Kent R. Hill, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy)
Religious education in public schools: joint presentation before the Supreme Court of Argentina
(Migrants, ESCR & Other Rights)
Iraq says Tal Afar ‘fully liberated’ from Islamic State
(Sinan Salaheddein, Associated Press Top News)
Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya sink in Bangladesh; 26 dead
(Tofayel Ahmed and Julhas Alam, Associated Press International News)
Burma: The world’s ‘most friendless people’ are under assault yet again
(Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post)
CHP Justice Assembly serves to undermine FETÖ trials, AK Party says
(Daily Sabah)
India: Religion at state expense
(Faizan Mustafa, Kashmir Monitor)
Pences pray with Hurricane Harvey victims
(Jonathan Easley, The Hill)
Two ISIL members plotting terror attacks in Moscow region on Eid al-Adha
(Interfax-Religion)
Houston mosques open doors to shelter Harvey evacuees
(Doug Criss, CNN)
Masterpiece Cakeshop: Can the State force us to agree with its views?
(Jonathan Scruggs, National Review)
Pork, school lunches and laïcité in Chalon-sur-Saône
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The nuns fighting the pipeline lost their case in court. But they aren’t giving up.
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Study: Katharine Hayhoe is successfully convincing doubtful evangelicals about climate change
(Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian)
European Jewish Congress slams Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Protesters chant about killing Jews at Netherlands rally
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Lithuania uses concentration camp where 5,000 Jews are buried for military training
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Forward)
Spain's Muslims see hatred spike since Barcelona attacks
(Hagar Jobse, Deutsche Welle)
China: Priests, laypeople injured defending church property
(Catholic News Service)
‘Shalom alechem!’ Pope Francis greets rabbis at the Vatican, praises ‘fruitful dialogue’
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Illinois’ new education funding measure includes tax credits for religious school tuition
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Iceland capital's only Baptist pastor doesn't want Down Syndrome eliminated
(Gunnar Ingi Gunnarsson, Christianity Today)
Court rules Congregational church owns historic cemetery
(William F. Galvin, The Cape Cod Chronicle)
Church, not town, owns cemetery
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Americans United and Fairness West Virginia announce settlement for W. Va. same-sex couple harassed by Gilmer County Clerk
(Press Release, Americans United)
West Virginia county settles suit by lesbian couple who were harassed by clerk
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
More than 1.7 million Muslims gather for start of hajj
(Omar Akour and Ahmed Hatem, Associated Press International News)
Technology is changing Hajj
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Hajj pilgrimage entangled in web of Saudi politics
(Ata Batrawy, Religion News Service)
Iraq’s Sunnis wrestle with militants’ religious legacy
(Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press International News)
So few Muslim women wear the burqa in Europe that banning it is a waste of time
(Nilufar Ahmed, The Conversation)
Torched villages, dead civilians, squalid refugee camps: Myanmar’s Rakhine state is caught in a cycle of horrific violence. Here’s why
(Jonathan Kaiman, The Los Angeles Times)
Taj Mahal is Muslim tomb not Hindu temple, Indian court told
(Amrit Dhillon, The Guardian)
Tajikistan: Conscientious objector's military trial imminent
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Evolving interfaith movement faces new challenges
(David Briggs, Association of Religion Data Archives (the ARDA))
Majority support for minority rights in Pakistan
(Muhammad Akram, Religious Freedom Institute)
Pakistan verdict on Bhutto assassination angers supporters
(Munir Ahmed, Associated Press International News)
China is urging women to quit their jobs, focus on family
(Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch)
Child in fostering row 'should live with non-practising Muslim' grandmother
(Kevin Rawlinson, Jamie Grierson and Graham Ruddick, The Guardian)
Kay Goldsworthy to be Australia's first female Anglican archbishop
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Churches offer sanctuary to asylum seekers left homeless by Coalition cuts
(Ben Doherty, The Guardian)
Why the rise of the robots could allow humans to flourish again
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Church plans interfaith alliance
(The Times of India)
John Howard says religious freedom should be protected before marriage equality survey
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Same-sex marriage: John Howard wants more detail on religious exemptions ahead of same-sex marriage survey
(Sabra Lane and Stephanie Dalzell, ABC Online)
The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom
(Robert Joustra, Arc of the Universe: Ethics and Global Justice)
Revealed: who supports marriage equality in Australia – and who doesn’t
(Francisco Perales and Alice Campbell, The Conversation)
England is now more pro-immigrant – but it’s more Islamophobic too
(Phil McDuff, The Guardian)
After 500 years, Europe’s Reformation scars have all but healed, study finds
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Catholic school who removed statues says 'controversy' was made up
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Religious groups responding to Hurricane Harvey
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
My PhD in hate: Scientologist Bodhi Elfman stands against bigotry
(Bodhi Elfman, World Religion News)
Sean Spicer finally gets to meet the pope
(Jill Colvin and Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Pope asks world leaders to listen to ‘cry of the Earth’
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
How Houston’s rain became ‘biblical’
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Nigerian clergy demand compensation for churches destroyed by Boko Haram
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Evangelical leaders try to hold the line on gender
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Tajik youth organization ready to combat alien morals and customs
(Interfax-Religion)
Attorneys: West Virginia clerk apologizes to lesbian couple
(Michael Virtanen, Associated Press - U.S. News)
More than 150 evangelical religious leaders sign 'Christian manifesto' on human sexuality
(Holly Meyer, USA Today)
What is the Nashville Statement and why are people talking about it?
(Holly Meyer, USA Today Network - Tennessee)
The oft forgotten story of religion's influence on families and society
(Janet Erickson, The Wheatley Institution)
Explainer: what is antifa, and where did it come from?
(Troy Whitford, The Conversation)
Why so many Indians support men like the recently convicted guru
(Swati Gupta and Vidhi Doshi, The Washington Post)
Pope will put ‘soul’ into Colombia’s peace process
(Inés San Martín, The Tablet)
U.S. Muslims are religiously observant, but open to multiple interpretations of Islam
(Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
As artificial intelligence advances, what are its religious implications?
(Ellen Duffer, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Pagans demand return of church buildings 'stolen' 1,300 years ago
(Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph)
Islamic theology in Germany: Spanning the divide
(Arnfrid Schenk, Qantara.de)
Burkas are political symbols not Islamic ones, Muslim scholar says
(Siobhan Hegarty, Religion and Ethics Report)
Vatican and Moscow are closing up as they are afraid of Europe's Islamization
(Interfax-Religion)
UN committee criticizes Russia for rights violations
(Portal-Credo.Ru, Russia Religion News)
Violence involving Myanmar's Rohingya on the rise again in northern Rakhine
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Members of unidentified religion reject medical aid for daughter
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Protestant church fined because of inadequate signs
(Religiia i Pravo, Russia Religion News)
Peter Henne on religion-state relations and counterterrorism (podcast)
(Research on Religion)
Ukraine readies for record pilgrimage of 40,000 Jews to Uman
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jews help rebuild Florida mosque burned in hate crime attack
(Daniel J. Solomon, Forward)
Catholic Benefits Association presses Trump to end contraceptive mandate
(Kurt Jensen, Catholic News Service)
Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew to issue joint environmental statement
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mass returns to Mosul, after the Iraqi city is liberated from the Islamic State
(Catholic News Agency)
El Paso bishop joins Catholic educators in fighting to save DACA
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Streamlined State Dept will retain anti-Semitism office, expand religious freedom ambassador’s role
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on military service by transgender individuals
(Press Release, U.S. Department of Defense)
Mattis will take time implementing Trump's policy on transgenders in military
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Transgender ban frozen as Mattis moves forward with new review of options
(Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post)
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