Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 14 July 2017
American doctor to travel to UK in Charlie Gard case
(Caroline Spiezo and Danica Kirka, Associated Press International News)
Charlie Gard: who is best placed to decide his fate?
(Nicholas Clapham, The Conversation)
How U.S. conservatives have changed the fight for Charlie Gard's future
(Kate Samuelson, Time World)
EVENT, 14 July 2017: How to stabilize Iraq after ISIS—and why it matters
(Nancy Lindborg, Ambassador Ekkehard Brose, Joseph Pennington, Sarhang Hamasaeed, United States Institute of Peace)
Liberation from militants leaves devastation in Mosul
(Susannah George, Associated Press International News)
Thursday, 13 July 2017
Intersex athletes: A showdown for rights — but for whom?
(Doug Robinson, Deseret News Sports)
Concert benefits Mormon-Muslim effort to help refugees escape lure of extremism
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
European Union (Withdrawal) Bill published
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Historic England’s advice on metal theft and its aftermath
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Vatican-approved article criticizes conservative Catholic support of U.S. evangelical political agenda
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Interfaith leaders find common ground promoting Internet freedom
(Brian Pellot, Religion News Service)
Christian refugees landing in America over the previous decades are now targets for deportation
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
'Justice for all' in Turkey must include Kurds
(Pinar Tremblay, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Bishop lauds bill to fight human trafficking
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Resolving Article 140: Settling the issue of Iraq’s disputed territories ahead of an independence referendum for Kurdistan
(Megan Connelly and Matthew Barber, Syria Comment: Syrian Politics, History, and Religion)
How to gauge China’s development in its ethnic minority regions? Watch it light up from space
(Enze Han, The Conversation)
'This is not a good place for religion': China's Uighur Muslims struggle under 'police state'
(FirstPost)
China’s religious revival fuels environmental activism
(Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times)
Muslim refugees to US are declining as Christians overtake them
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Are Chinese Christians persecuted? Not exactly
(Richard Mouw, RNS Column: Civil Evangelicalism)
US Rights Commission holds hearing on religious freedom in Tibet
(Molly Lortie, The Tibet Post International)
Saudi Arabia boosting extremism in Europe, says former ambassador
(Patrick Wintour, The Guardian)
Luther’s Revolution: The Reformation did a lot more than transform Christianity.
(Elizabeth Bruenig, The Nation)
Trump meets with supportive evangelical leaders
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump touts support from evangelicals, Putin friendship in Robertson interview
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Why Trump puts his faith in evangelicals
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Anti-Semitism abroad serves Netanyahu's plan
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Eugene Peterson backtracks on same-sex marriage
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith and Culture)
Prayer app raises $2 million in funding
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
The latest company being boycotted: Starbucks
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Mexico a ‘case study in government inaction’ as third priest killed this year
(World Watch Monitor)
Terrorist threat forces Egyptian Christians to cancel summer activities
(Jayson Casper, World Watch Monitor)
Sudan sanctions extended for three months
(World Watch Monitor)
The ’Splainer: What is Transcendentalism?
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Christian movie studio donates $25,000 to rebuild Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Notable Christians who’ve had a change of heart on LGBT issues
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Clergy arrested outside McConnell’s office while protesting healthcare bill
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Northeast cities rate most secular
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Faith and the cosmos: An astrophysicist fields the big questions
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
Confidant of Pope Francis condemns US religious right
(Rachel Zoll, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis allies accuse Trump White House of 'apocalyptic geopolitics'
(Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian)
Indonesia’s president signs decree banning radical groups
(Associated Press, South China Morning Post)
Rash of sentences ‘shows government’s fear of growth of Christianity in Iran’
(World Watch Monitor)
CTD ties rise in extremism to proliferation of radical madrasas
(Salis bin Perwaiz, The News)
Jailed Algerian Christian receives partial presidential pardon
(World Watch Monitor)
Murder of fifth Copt in six weeks creating ‘state of fear and terror’ among Egypt’s Christians
(World Watch Monitor)
Kazakhstan: Another jail term, another trial imminent
(Forum 18 News Service)
Not a single instance of harassment against gays reported in Chechnya – Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Investigative Committee fully rules out religious motive in Nemtsov murder case, only motive is financial gain
(Interfax-Religion)
Survey of Russians shows popular agreement with Supreme Court's decision
(Andrei Dubrovsky, Novaya Gazeta)
Conscientious objectors win right to perform civilian service
(Toliatti.Ru, Russia Religion News)
Police told not to arrest Orthodox Jews having shops open Sundays
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Cuban Jewish leaders call on US Jewish community to strengthen ties
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
How Catholic health care is fighting against the campaign for physician-assisted suicide
(Michael J. O'Loughlin, American Magazine)
Muslim ID proposal sparks anger in Philippines Marawi
(Ana P. Santos, Deutsche Welle)
Funding for abortion to become mandatory for Oregon insurers
(Catholic News Agency)
Vatican indicts two ex-officials of children’s hospital for financial crimes
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Venezuelan bishops: End the ‘inhuman repression’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Yemen’s foreign minister says kidnapped Salesian is still alive
(Catholic News Service)
The Democrats’ religion problem
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
Priest's defamation suit against diocese survives ecclesiastical abstention claim
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Press briefing by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, 7/12/2017
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Court bars removal of Iraqi Christians and Shiites until they get judicial hearing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge: Federal district court has jurisdiction in Iraqi immigrants case
(Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
Hey, kids! What's missing from Los Angeles news reports about Buddha statue's vandalism?
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
It would appear first UK 'same-sex Muslim wedding' featured nice clothes and that's that
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Backlash over plans to curtail role of churches in Scottish education
(Daniel Sanderson, The Times)
On land or ship, port chaplains offer comfort to seafarers of the world
(Wendy Cadge, The Conversation)
Death as a social privilege? How aid-in-dying laws may be revealing a new health care divide
(Jill D. Weinberg, The Conversation)
Anglicans OK casual-dress liturgical option: Did The Guardian know this is part of an old war?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Islamic State and the appropriation of the Crusades – a medieval historian’s take
(Jason T. Roche, The Conversation)
Love your enemies: Moral absurdity or genius?
(Audrey D. Thompson, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Respecting humanity ingrained in our religion: JKLF on condemning yatri killings
(Greater Kashmir)
Global Baptists address religious freedom issues in Russia and the USA
(Evangelical Focus)
White House condemns attack on religious pilgrims in India
(Associated Press, US News & World Report)
Ten commandment monuments continue to generate controversy
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Alabama among states allowing faith-based foster care agencies to restrict child placement
(The Alabama Baptist)
Journal: Strip religious garb, fundamentalist tones from U.S. political power
(Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service)
Prioritise peacebuilding and reconciliation instead of the militarisation of the EU
(Press Release No: 17/30, Conference of European Churches)
ECtHR Factsheet (updated June 2017): Freedom of religion
(European Court of Human Rights)
ECtHR Factsheet (updated June 2017): Religious symbols and clothing
(European Court of Human Rights)
Churches, NGOs take Canada to court over refugee pact with U.S.
(Michael Swan, Catholic News Service)
Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Statue of Scopes Trial lawyer sparks debate in Tennessee
(Michael Miller, NPR)
Thousands of Christians to take part in national prayer event this Sunday
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Still going strong after 225 years: Our love-hate relationship with the First Amendment
(Lata Nott, Newseum Institute)
Ethics & Religion Talk: Blasphemy is a spiritual matter, not a legal one
(Michigan Live)
ABA committee to consider gender identity protections, additional school locations
(The Indiana Lawyer)
Diocese of Palm Beach loses fight to toss priest’s defamation suit
(Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post)
Jeff Sessions addresses 'anti-LGBT hate group,' but DOJ won't release his remarks
(Pete Madden and Erin Galloway, ABC News)
Religious freedom protection in Australia- 2017 update
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
(Alila Pramiyanti and Emma Baulch, The Conversation)
Modi’s polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
(Irfan Ahmad, The Conversation)
India Supreme Court suspends cattle slaughter ban
(BBC News)
Suit seeking U.S. edit of Qur'an dismissed as frivolous
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Apopka: Pro-business or anti-religion? (Opinion)
(Greg Jackson, The Apopka Voice)
July brings new laws on religion in public schools in Kentucky, Florida
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Israel seeking Saudi flight deal to bring pilgrims to Mecca
(Jonathan Ferziger and Yaacov Benmeleh, BloombergPolitics)
Divine credentials: The never-ending argument over what is “real Islam”
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ethnic minorities troubled by Malaysian state introducing public cainings for sharia crimes
(Rozanna Latiff, Reuters)
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