Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 15 June 2017
Catholic groups launch conversation about female deacons
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
British Christians wonder if there is room for them in politics
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Quebec bill targets religious and home schools
(Janice Arnold, Canadian Jewish News)
Israel: Separating religion and state
(Elazar Stern, Jerusalem Post)
Kazakhstan: Five years' jail for Islamic talks
(Forum 18 News Service)
Citizen's snitch trips up Pentecostal group
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Why we need to reject political assumptions based on religion
(Geoffrey A. Mitelman, The Wisdom Daily)
Mormon apostle at Oxford: Lessons learned from Watergate scandal
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Chosen freely, religion helps foster the conditions necessary for a strong and stable society, says Elder Andersen
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News Faith)
As Venezuela crisis spirals, Vatican affirms elections are lone solution
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Cameroon bishops: Bishop “did not commit suicide, he was brutally murdered”
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Why aren’t U.S. bishops more vocal on climate?
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
Fired legislative staffer can move ahead with suit alleging use of state funds to promote church facility
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
President acts to keep immigration order alive
(Lyle Denniston Law News)
Trump extends effective date of travel ban to prevent case from becoming moot
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
6th Circuit en banc hears legislative prayer case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court audio: Peter Bormuth v County of Jackson (Legislative prayer case)
(United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit)
Lawmakers, religious leaders pray for victims of congressional baseball shooting
(Madeleine Buckley, Religion News Service)
Democrats and Republicans unite in prayer after Alexandria shooting
(Danielle Christensen, Deseret News Faith)
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
For many of Iraq's Yazidis, going home is not an option
(Brenda Stoter, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
First-generation Nepali Christian leaders in need of biblical training
(Lyndsey Koh, Mission Network News)
For Christians in Egypt, building a new church can set off violence
(Jane Arraf, NPR)
Human trafficking a global trend
(Loide Jason, Newera)
Philosopher who supports legal abortion joins Vatican pro-life academy
(Catholic News Agency)
Bishops pray for Catholic Congressman shot at baseball practice
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)
High school student forbidden from using name of Jesus in graduation speech
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Terrorism has changed. Blaming Islam is blinding us to the new reality
(Joumanah El Matrah, The Guardian)
Iraq Christians returning home face many hurdles
(World Watch Monitor)
Iraqi senior cleric shown calling for Christians to ‘convert, pay tax or be killed’
(World Watch Monitor)
US Holocaust memorial launches campaign to preserve documented Holocaust accounts
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Southern Baptists grapple with morality, white nationalism in the Trump age
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
The religious left needs a dose of political partisanship
(Mark Silk, RNS: Spiritual Politics)
USCIRF elects new Chair and Vice-Chairs
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
USCIRF elects Daniel Mark as Commission Chairman; Sandra Jolley and Kristina Arriaga as Vice Chairs
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Access for Northern Ireland women to free abortion in England: R (A and B)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Russian Church Abroad calls to support its Bethany school for Arabian girls
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate remains one of the largest religious organizations in Ukraine - Culture Ministry
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia faces Ukraine's resistance in returning St. Alexander representation in Jerusalem
(Interfax-Religion)
Indictment of ultra-orthodox Jew shows threat to Israel's military conscription
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Role of Northern Irish party in UK government causes concern in Ireland
(Michael Kelly, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
A French Jew’s killing provides a test for the new Macron administration
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Semitic messages painted on Romanian synagogue
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Anti-Semitism lives on in Belarus, despite small number of Jews
(Deutsche Welle)
How German actor Lars Eidinger's new film unleashed a scandal in Russia
(Juri Rescheto, Deutsche Welle)
Germany presents racism action plan, invests millions into preventing extremism
(Kate Brady, Deutsche Welle)
White House confirms Jerry Falwell Jr. on education task force
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Mexico still ‘most dangerous country to be a priest’
(World Watch Monitor)
Religion increasingly seen as doing more harm than good in Canada: Ipsos poll
(Rebecca Joseph, Global News)
Ontario Catholic high schools shouldn't press students to study religion: settlement
(Caroline Alphonso, The Globe and Mail)
Southern Baptists reconsider condemning 'alt-right' movement
(Rachel Zoll and Angie Wang, Associated Press)
Norway plans to ban face veils in schools and universities
(Associated Press)
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
(Jeremy F. Walton, The Immanent Frame)
Ex-MK’s soldier son attacked by ultra-Orthodox mob in Jerusalem
(Judah Ari Gross, Times of Israel)
The new Christian Zionists
(Dan Hummel, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Protection of religious freedom through discrimination balancing clauses
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Ramadan 2017: Why are Tunisians protesting for the right not to fast?
(Conor Gaffey, Newsweek)
Hate crimes in Canada up in 2015
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Police-reported hate crimes, 2015
(Statistics Canada)
Church wins free speech claim over zoning ordinance and $1,354,595 in damages
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA Defense)
Parish Music Guidance: employment issues
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
SEC model for same-sex marriage for Church of Ireland?
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
June 11: Marches against Sharia, Supreme Court upholds pension exception for religious hospitals
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Tuesday, 13 June 2017
How have your politics and religion mixed in unexpected ways?
(The New York Times)
What a leader of the religious left admires about the religious right
(Laurie Goodstein, New York Times)
This dinner party invites people of all faiths to break bread together
(Deena Prichep, NPR)
LGBT activism and gun control one year after the Pulse shooting
(NPR)
World Deaf Day of Prayer: A time to pray for the Gospel among the Deaf
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Believers in Iran sacrifice safety to hear the Gospel
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)
Syrian war has reshaped Ramadan for many
(Asaad Hanna, translated by Sami-Joe Abboud, Al Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Atheists threaten lawsuit over Alabama school's Christian graduation service
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
'Roughly half' of Iraqi, Syrian Christians have fled Middle East since 2011, report says
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
The strange harmony between secular left and radical Islam
(Paul De Vries, The Christian Post)
Terrorism: Western values are Christian values
(Greg Laurie, The Christian Post)
Christian girls in India being pressured by parents to become 'religious prostitutes' to Hindu Gods
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Tri-faith initiative: Christian, Jewish, Muslim congregations to share worship home in Nebraska
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
John Piper celebrates interracial marriage as Biblical, laments rise of 'angry white supremacy'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
5 reactions to Bernie Sanders rejecting Trump nominee for Christian beliefs
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
African-American history museum sued for restricting pro-life display
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Political correctness handcuffs us in the war against Islamic Jihad
(Jerry Newcombe, The Christian Post)
Religious left just now getting political, NYT claims; religious conservatives incredulous
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Vast Majority of non-Orthodox Rabbis Are Democrats, in Contrast to Other Clergy
(Haaretz)
Jerusalem notebook: The U.S. embassy- to move or not to move?
(Lela Gilbert, Hudson Institute)
Sri Lanka: over 20 attacks on Christians this year
(World Watch Monitor)
Islamic law protests across the US; Ahmadiyya Muslim community hosts Iftars
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Can an evangelical, progressive Democrat succeed in Florida?
(Mark I. Pinsky, Religion News Service)
Mark’s Gospel provides a legal loophole for providing sanctuary. Will Christians use it?
(Roger Vermalen Karban, Religion News Service)
Sri Lanka arrests five over anti-religious violence
(Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis shakes up Vatican bioethics board
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)
Faced with declining numbers, Southern Baptists focus on evangelism
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Islamic countries can resolve all of their disagreements peacefully – Aliyev
(Interfax-Religion)
New army church consecrated in Kyrgyz airbase
(Interfax-Religion)
Clergy are more partisan than their parishioners
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
US prepares to deport hundreds of Iraqi Christians
(Griffin Paul Jackson, Christianity Today)
Iraqi Christian immigrants may face death if U.S. deports them
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Jewish paramedic sues ambulance service for firing related to his faith
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Judaism requires us to pursue the goals of the Paris climate accords
(David Kraemer, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
First Amendment lawyer will defend neo-Nazi in Montana case
(Sam Kestenbaum, Forward)
Trial begins for EU official who allegedly shouted anti-Semitic hate speech
(Marcy Oster, Forward)
Turkey's Erdogan calls Qatar embargo 'un-Islamic'
(Deutsche Welle)
South African Council of Churches calls for dissolution of parliament
(Bronwen Dachs, Catholic News Service)
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