Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 7 July 2017
Vatican, al-Azhar focus on papal trip speeches in latest meeting
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
In the US South, the Catholic Church is in 'growth mode'
(Catholic News Agency)
New bill expands already-liberal abortion laws in Oregon
(Catholic News Agency)
Abortion bill passed in Oregon that requires insurers to cover abortion for any reason
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Author of 10th-century Hebrew biblical text is identified
(Medeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Kenya to add chaplains to public high schools to improve discipline
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Kentucky’s shrewd move to promote a Christian nationalist agenda
(John Fea, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 6-7 July 2017: Introducing the Religious Freedom Annual Review
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
EVENT, 6 July 2017: Advancing Religious Freedom through Business
(Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
EVENT, 6-7 July 2017: Religious Freedom Annual Review [Schedule at-a-glance]
(Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, International Center for Law and Religion Studies)
The clash of traditions
(Mark L. Movsesian, Library of Law and Liberty)
"Trust in Crisis – The Emergence of the Quiet Citizen"
(Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock & Dr Sami Everett; eds. Dr Julian Hargreaves, Asher Kessler & Austin Tiffany, Woolf Institute: Studying Relations between Jews, Christians & Muslims)
"The Missing Muslims – Unlocking British Muslim Potential for the Benefit of All"
(Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation & Public Life)
Religion Watch, July 2017, Volume 32 No. 9
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Reconsidering Religious Radicalism
(Volume 15, 2017, The Review of Faith & International Affairs)
IGE to lead delegatioin to 4th Annual Sino-US Counterterrorism Dialogue
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Indians take to the streets in protest against religious violence
(World Watch Monitor)
Metropolitan Hilarion denies calling for restoration of monarchy
(Interfax-Religion)
Donald Trump visits Poland: Looking for religion (and old-school journalism) in the coverage
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Vatican, al-Azhar focus on papal trip speeches in latest meeting
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)
Faith in the classroom (Editorial)
(The Jerusalem Post)
Frank Wolf – Congressman, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative
(5 Minutes of Religious Freedom: A web series, Newseum Institute: Religious Freedom Center)
Tanabata, the festival of the stars
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
The Maldives: Why does this exotic spot produce a disproportionate number of jihadi fighters?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Copts tired of ‘sacrificing willingly’ for Egypt’s unity
(World Watch Monitor)
Four more Copts killed in ‘most aggressive campaign in history of modern Egypt’
(World Watch Monitor)
Marc Chagall, religious artist
(Maya Balakirsky Katz, OUPblog Religion)
Third Iranian convert given lengthy sentence alongside pastor
(World Watch Monitor)
Amsterdam renames building that honored Nazi collaborator
(JTA, Forward)
A Pope and a President in Poland
(Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
London’s Muslim mayor calls for complete ban on Hezbollah
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Are American Christians 'Gnostics' in disguise? Revisiting an odd old theory
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Sverdlovsk Region Court mitigates sentence for 'Pokemon catcher'
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious Freedom Center working to promote study of religion
(Religious Freedom Center)
Trump actions challenge religious freedom, Sen. Flake says at BYU
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Trump’s policies test religious freedom, GOP senator tells BYU audience
(Benjamin Wood, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Pews vs Chairs: Application of CBC Guidance
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
“Jewish” by consent – or not? Perelman v Germany
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Perelman and Perelman v. Germany
(Fifth Section Decision, European Court of Human Rights)
U.S., European bishops call for a plan to eliminate nuclear weapons
(Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service)
140 Jewish leaders vow to help US reach Paris climate accord goals
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Whose womb is it anyway? NI Court shrinks from abortion law reform
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Church officials upset that Myanmar won’t allow UN fact-finders
(Catholic News Service)
NM town to US Supreme Court: Let Ten Commandments monument stand
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Cert. petition filed in Ten Commandments case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Islamist recruiters in Germany 'go right for young people's hearts'
(Nina Haase and Sumi Somaskanda, Deutsche Welle)
UW–Eau Claire ends discrimination against faith-based community service
(Press Release, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Settlement reached in suit over university service learning credit for religious activity
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tribes sue to stop end of protection for Yellowstone grizzly bears
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Why progressivism and religion don’t go together
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Islamic State loses Mosul
(Alex Anhalt, Mission Network News)
Muslims and Jews in Europe hammer out strategies for blocking bans on ritual slaughter, circumcision
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Religious folks opposed Oregon's ultra-liberal new abortion law, but who were they?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Oregon approves measure requiring insurers to cover abortion
(Associated Press)
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Michael Broyde writes about religious arbitration in WashPost
(Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Shechitah banned in two out of three Belgian regions
(Rafael Hoffman, Homodia: The Daily Newspaper of Torah Jewry)
Flanders bans religious slaughter
(Tamara Zieve, Jerusalem Post)
What a Mormon doing Buddhist meditation has to do with the future of faith
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Mormon missionaries from U.S. return to Botswana after four-year absence
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Native Americans say grizzly bear decision violates religion
(Matt Volz, Religion News Service)
Turkey’s oldest indigenous culture fears extinction
(Ayla Jean Yackley, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
The other side of Bible distribution in China
(Julie Bourdon, Mission Network News)
'How to be a Muslim' author on being a spokesperson for his faith
(Terry Gross, NPR)
Objects of devotion: tracing religion in early America
(Noel King, 1A)
Believers defy persecution to minister in Sudan
(Alex Anhalt, Mission Network News)
Hamas turns to Iran
(Shlomi Eldar, translated by Sandy Bloom, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Netanyahu offers friendship to those ignoring Palestinians
(Akiva Eldar, translated by Ruti Sinai, Al Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Anger over allowing Muslim prayer rooms in Ontario schools
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Malaysian Muslim group joins Indonesian call for Starbucks boycott over LGBT stand
(reporting by Ebrahim Harris in Kuala Lumpu and Yuddy Cahya in Jakarta; writing by Rozanna Latiff; editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait, Reuters)
Top theologian is out in Pope Francis' move to be more inclusive
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Jefferson's lesson for democrats
(David Leonhardt, The New York Times)
In the UK, exorcisms are becoming commonplace
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
'Spiritual abuse': Christian thinktank warns of sharp rise in UK exorcisms
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Security not only concern for Syrians returning home
(World Watch Monitor)
Iran sentences four more Christians to 10 years in jail for ‘missionary activities’
(World Watch Monitor)
Indian women wear cow masks to ask: are sacred cattle safer than us?
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
The Farm Belt führer: the making of a neo-Nazi
(Carson Vaughan, The Guardian)
Clerical abuse survivors step up call for accountability
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
I applaud British Islam’s refusal to bow to the establishment
(Giles Fraser, The Guardian)
Vatican acknowledges past problems at ‘pope’s hospital’
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News Service)
Auschwitz officials chastise US Rep. Clay Higgins for gas chamber video
(John Bacon, Religion News Service)
Can Facebook replace church?
(Andrea Syverson, Religion News Service)
In Myanmar, one girl’s plight epitomizes Rohingya struggle
(Todd Pitman, Religion News Service)
Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with DOJ
(Dan Whitcomb, Religion News Service)
Hobby Lobby returns 'priceless' artifacts smuggled from Iraq
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)
After DOJ sues, Hobby Lobby agrees to forfeit smuggled Iraqi artifacts
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Experts say Hobby Lobby must have known it was illegally importing artifacts
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)
What the Catholic Church can learn from IBM
(Chris Lowney, Religion News Service)
Reformed churches endorse Catholic-Lutheran accord on key Reformation dispute
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
Attending church is good for your health. Now what?
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Mennonite Church to divest in protest of Israeli policies
(AP staff, Religion News Service)
The Round-Up – free abortions, no adoption for Sikh couple, and school uniform headscarves
(Poppy Riminton-Pounder, UK Human Rights Blog)
Investigative Committee has not registered persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya yet – Moskalkova
(Interfax-Religion)
Four suspected religious extremists detained in Kyrgyzstan
(Interfax-Religion)
Turkey says it cancelled decision to seize Assyrian churches and monasteries
(Assyrian International News Agency)
Moskalkova asks Turkish ombudsman to help exempt baptized children who live in Turkey from Islam lessons
(Interfax-Religion)
Azerbaijan: fined for home religious meetings, picnic
(Forum 18 News Service)
Russia replies to ECHR regarding appeal of Russian Evangelical
(Natalia Demchenko, RBK)
Religious freedom is for non-Christians too
(Russell Moore, The Gospel Coalition)
India has a religion problem
(Jeff Cimmino, National Review)
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