Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Could an Islamic reformation prevent violent radicalisation in Egypt?
(Georges Fahmi, The Conversation)
New US Islamic institute prioritizes outreach, education
(Jeff Karoub, The Times of Israel)
Indonesia: President invites interfaith figures to Bogor Palace
(Antara News)
Zubair urges religious scholars to promote interfaith harmony
(Pakistan Today)
Freedom of Speech Section 18C - Blasphemy Law by Stealth
(Dr Augusto Zimmermann (WA Law Reform Commissioner), Vision Christian Radio / 20Twenty)
Hinduism and Religious Freedom: A Sourcebook of Scriptural, Theological, and Legal Texts
(Timothy Shah and Sara Singha, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Deputy FM calls on Jews to ascend Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day
(Daniel K. Eisenbud, Jerusalem Post)
Investigators verifying media reports on possible harassment of LGBT community in Chechnya – ombudsman
(Interfax-Religion)
How prisons use cult tactics to brainwash inmates into religion
(Amanda Knox, Vice.com)
A simple act that endeared Trump to Israelis
(Naomi Zeveloff, The Atlantic)
When Trump meets Francis
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
President Trump speaks about terrorism and religion in Saudi Arabia
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Trumps speech in Saudi Arabia on Muslim extremism
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Churches, synagogues openly defy Trump’s immigration crackdown
(Scott Pelley, CBS News)
Trump’s ‘principled realism’ is not very realistic about Islam
(Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review)
Adultery still seen as morally unacceptable. But these other controversial behaviors have gained support
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
8 Panamanians receive Spanish citizenship under law of return for Sephardi Jews
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The dark side of India's self-styled godmen
(Murali Krishnan, Deutsche Welle)
Catholics challenge St. Louis’ ‘abortion sanctuary’ law
(Associated Press)
A complex conversation: LGBT Catholics & the Francis Papacy
(John Gehring, Commonweal)
Texas adoption agency ‘religious refusal’ closer to law
(Associated Press)
Texas legislature passes conscience protections for adoption, foster care, counseling services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Abortion proponents not “protected class” according to lawsuit against St. Louis
(Press Release, Thomas More Society)
Suit challenges ordinance barring discrimination on basis of reproductive health services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What will the Pope tell President Trump?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Trump nominates Callista Gingrich as ambassador to Vatican
(Eric Walsh, Religion News Service)
Geologist sues National Park Service for religious discrimination in refusing research request
(ReligiousLiberty.tv)
Dear Time editors: The Kremlin is not a church. Dear CNN politicos: Churches are not mosques
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Texas adoption agency 'religious refusal' closer to law
(Jim Vertuno, ABC News)
Texas: Abbott signs bill protecting sermons from subpoenas
(Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune)
Free exercise or state intrusion? Houston Chronicle's report on new Texas law ... well, you know
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)
Jehovah’s Witnesses turn to Council of Europe over Russia’s refusal to execute ECHR ruling
(Russian Legal Information Agency)
Monday, 22 May 2017
Kazakhstan: Anti-extremism raid captures Koran
(Forum 18 News Service)
Discrimination against Jehovah's Witnesses worse after ban put in place
(Elise Meyer, World Religion News)
Australian senator pushing greater church/state separation to obtain marriage equality
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Church of Scotland to debate gay marriage: Is it a human right?
(Dylan Brethour, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
Inter-faith dialogue: Muslims, Jews and women in America
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Thousands believers met St. Nicholas relics in the Cathedral pf Christ the Savior
(Interfax-Religion)
Religious believers disrupt gay march in Chisinau
(Interfax-Religion)
S. Africa risks collapsing from systematic siphoning of State assets, churches warn
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
On Islam, Trump is consistently inconsistent
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Jehovah's Witnesses file official appeal of their elimination
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses address European Court in Strasbourg
(RAPSI, Russia Religion News)
Podcast thinking: Do Pokemon Go protesters have a right to crash worship services?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Podcast: Frank Selden on the military, suicide, and faith
(Research on Religion)
Russia's Hearts-and-Minds campaign in Syria is aimed at home
(Amie Ferris-Rotman, Foreign Policy)
Latest report from Theological Forum published
(Church of Scotland)
The Round-Up – who’s on the Rights-side this election?
(Poppy Riminton-Pounder, UK Human Rights Blog)
Anti-Chinese and anti-Christian sentiment is not new in Indonesia
(Olivia Tasevski, The Conversation)
U.S. religious freedom commission adds Russia to its 2017 List of Countries of Particular Concern
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Berlin squabbles over cross on City Palace reconstruction
(Jefferson Chase, Deutsche Welle)
Preachers of prosperity: faith as business
(Aarni Kuoppamäki, Deutsche Welle)
President Trump’s Speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit
(Office of the Press Secretary, The White House)
Full transcript of President Trump's speech to leaders of Muslim nations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Trump summons Muslim nations to confront ‘Islamic terror of all kinds’
(Karen DeYoung and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post)
Melania Trump to visit Vatican-owned children’s hospital in Rome
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Despite pleas from bishops, immigration arrests soar in 2017
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Immigration, religious liberty and synod on agenda for bishops’ meeting
(Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service)
After clashes, Central African cardinal urges more efforts toward peace
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service)
Compassion International’s hue and cry seeks freedom from penalty, not freedom of religion (Responding to Indian NGO access to foreign funds)
(Suhag Shukla, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Duke divinity professor calls diversity training 'a waste,' faces discipline
(Jane Stancill, The News and Observer)
El Salvador judge reopens case of Archbishop's 1980 murder
(Associated Press)
In Vancouver, Christian recovery programs respond to opioid crisis
(Alicia Ambrosio, Religion News Service)
Finnish school system facing lack of qualified teachers of Islam
(Yle.fi)
Dutch MPs oppose headscarf proposal for Amsterdam police
(AFP, Arutz Sheva 7)
A State of suspicion: Counter-radicalization in Norway
(Sindre Bangstad, The Immanent Frame)
Why Iranian Christians are pinning hopes on ‘moderate’ Rouhani, despite human rights failures
(World Watch Monitor)
Lutherans celebrate Reformation where Germany committed genocide
(Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, Christianity Today)
Abbott signs bill to protect sermons, delivers one himself
(Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle)
Texas governor signs bill protecting sermons from subpoena by government
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit by cannabis church to enjoin prosecution is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects challenge to driver's license photo
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
‘Clock boy’ loses discrimination lawsuit, fails to prove religious and ethnic bias
(Gene Wexler, WDBO News)
Civil rights suit by student alarm-clock maker dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Germany's federal government wants to take religion up on its promise
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
The Guardian view on irreligion in the US: a rising tide
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Church of England made stunning 17% return on investments in 2016
(Simon Goodly, The Guardian)
Protest in Nay Pyi Taw over Religious Affairs Minister
(Min Min Soe and Min Latt, Eleven Myanmar)
Indiana courts reject 'religious freedom' as excuse for tax scofflaws
(Dan Carden, NWI.com)
Turkmenistan’s secret additions to already restrictive Religion Law
(World Watch Monitor)
On interfaith mission to Greece, rabbis and Muslims bear witness to refugee pain
(Rob Gloster, Jweekly.com)
UN religious freedom expert hails Albania interfaith harmony
(Altoona Mirror)
Teen combats islamophobia by inviting strangers to dine with her Islamic family
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
The humble power of interfaith soccer in Jerusalem's Old City
(Ariela Piattelli, Worldcrunch)
Religious leaders, US CG tour worship places for interfaith tolerance
(The International News)
CAIR: US Muslims urged to hold 'Fast Forward' interfaith iftars during Ramadan
(CAIR, PR Newswire)
The relationship between religion and mental health
(World Religion News)
Muslims persist after far-right death threats shut down mosques and public prayer in Germany
(Chris Riotta, Newsweek)
Din Syamsuddin heads interfaith delegation meeting Chinese figure
(Netralnews.com)
Pakistan deeply committed to Muslim world's unity: PM
(Geo News)
The controversy over Puerto Rico's religious freedom house bill, explained
(Darmy Cortes, Pasquines)
Lawyers to cite religious freedom in genital mutilation case
(Rick Moran, American Thinker)
Promoting the traditional family is ‘not charitable,’ NZ group told
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)
Strasbourg grapples with international surrogacy and the concept of “family”
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)
Law and religion round-up – 21st May
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Observatory reports 191 hate crimes to OSCE
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
EVENT, 22 May 2017: Cyber attacks & the Just War Theory
(Tom Gallagher (RNS) moderator; panelists Bryan Hehir, Simone Petrella, BrigGen David G. Reist, USMC (Ret.), National Press Club, Washington, DC)
Saturday, 20 May 2017
How human rights are vital to fight homophobic laws
(Jack Satchell, Rights Info: Human Rights News, Views & Info)
Jehovah's Witnesses ban in Russia helps protect its members’ rights
(Sputnik International)
EVENT, 20 May 2017: NZ Christian Lawyers Conference
(Manukau City Baptist Church, Auckland)
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