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Wednesday, 17 May 2017

More tragedy for CAR’s peacekeeping cleric as son and grandson killed in latest violence
(World Watch Monitor)

Religious freedom and Islamic terrorism
(Ambassador Francis Rooney, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pope Francis must support Venezuela opposition, or lose credibility
(Father Raymond J. de Souza, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Signs that Egypt may have been a papal trip that mattered
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Egypt: small signs challenging religious intolerance
(World Watch Monitor)

'The Holy Spirit told me': Transcript of juror's removal released
(Anne Schindler, FirstCoast News)

Juror removed for religious satement made in deliberations
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Chabad wins animal rights case on Kapparot in federal court
(Jewish Press)

On gender issues, many in Orthodox Christian countries have conservative views
(Ariana Monique Salazar and Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center Fact tank)

Judge rules to protect millennia-old orthodox Jewish ceremony
(First Liberty Institute)

Court dismisses California law challenge to Chabad's Kapparot ceremony
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Can cannabis and Christ coexist? These devout Southern Christians think so
(Alyson Martin, BuzzFeed News)

FLDS town evictions set up a sad spectacle
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)

After a century, polygamists are leaving their home on the Utah-Arizona line
(Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune)

Ex-child bride seeks to collect millions from Utah polygamist leader
(Ben Winslow, Fox 13 Salt Lake City)

Verdict expected in Bountiful, B.C.'s protracted polygamy saga
(The Canadian Press)

Knights of Columbus, cash cow of the Catholic right
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)

Pope says doubts Medjugorje apparitions are authentic
(Philip Pullella, Reuters)

Former chief rabbi of Israel guilty in fake credentials scheme
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel appoints first female judge to Sharia Court
(Melanie Lidman, Times of Israel)

India: rise in vigilantism threatens minorities
(World Watch Monitor)

Pakistan: Christian boy, 16, accused of Facebook blasphemy again refused bail
(World Watch Monitor)

Religion in schools breeds good morals, high court told
(Jeanelle Greyling, News 24)

Erdogan’s guards clash with protesters outside Turkish ambassador’s D.C. residence
(Peter Hermann and Perry Stein, The Washington Post)

‘Brutal attack’ on anti-Erdogan demonstrators injures 9, police say
(Nicholas Fandos and Christopher Mele, The New York Times)

Romania: Anticorruption prosecutors want Romanian Archbishop placed under house arrest
(Irina Popescu, Romania-Insider)

A decalogue of moments in America’s history with the Ten Commandments
(Tyler Simnick, OUPblog Religion)

When the Latter-day Saints dump the Boy Scouts, might there be a back story here?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Eritrea protest vigil 2017
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Christian prayers in the military: Commodore Royal Bahamas Defence Force
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Scattering Ian Brady’s ashes
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Italian Supreme Court bans Sikh migrants from carrying kirpan
(DNA Local)

What does Macron believe about laicity?
(Evangelical Focus)

EVENT, 17 May 2017: The State of International Religious Freedom: USCIRF’s 2017 Annual Report
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 17 May 2017: "Not Another Year" – A call for religious liberty on the ninth anniversary of the imprisonment of the seven Bahá'í leaders in Iran
(The Australian Bahá'í Community and the University of Notre Dame School of Law Sydney)

More on the objection to an episcopal election in the Anglican Church of Canada
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Ukraine: Parliament fails to consider church-related bills
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine)

Objection to episcopal election in the Anglican Church of Canada
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Sweden gives Bible tests to Christian asylum seekers
(Narjas Zatat, The Independent)

Record few Americans believe Bible is literal word of God
(Lydia Saad, Gallup)

Competing worldviews influence today’s Christians
(Barna Research)

Muslims and Jews break bread, and build bonds
(Sharon Otterman, The New York Times)

Latino Muslims embrace heritage and faith amid Islamophobia, ethnic fears in Trump's America
(Elizabeth Elizalde, New York Daily News)

To ease fears, U.S. Muslim schools reach out to neighbors
(Laila Kearney, Reuters)

On the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, remembering Martin Luther’s contribution to literacy
(Richard Richard Gunderman, Religion News Service)

Printing T-shirts and religious freedom
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)

Indiana: The promise and peril of school vouchers
(Cory Turner, Eric Weddle, and Peter Balonon-Rosen, NPR)

In-depth NPR analysis of Indiana voucher program mostly gets education, but not religion
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

World opinion favors Jehovah's Witnesses versus Russian state
(FTimes, Russia Religion News)

Official Statement regarding misinformation on the activity of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Russian Federation
(M.F. Kaminsky, O.Yu. Goncharov, Adventist News Network)

Ombudsman submits Novaya Gazeta's info on persecution of gays in Chechnya to Investigative Committee
(Interfax-Religion)

State Duma to set up council on culture, religion, interethnic relations
(Interfax-Religion)

Schismatics disrupted the divine service in a canonical church and broke up the altar entry in Western Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Romanian Parliament to initiate 36th Israel Allies Caucus
(Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post)

Spitting, harassment a matter of course in Beit Shemesh neighborhood
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)

How Britain's Telegraph twisted itself into pretzel over yoga-rejecting Christian parish
(Mark Kellner, GetReligion)

New video by Boko Haram claims some Chibok schoolgirls chose not to be rescued
(World Watch Monitor)

What difference does a special envoy on freedom of religion or belief make?
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Christians, in an epochal shift, are leaving the Middle East
(Maria Abi-Habib, The Wall Street Journal)

A powerful, important read: Wall Street Journal on the 'epochal shift' of Christians from the Middle East
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

ACN appeals to the international community for a “Marshall Plan” for Nineveh Plains
(Ninevah Reconstruction Committee, Aid to the Church in Need)

Supreme Court's decision about "extremism" threatens right of conscientious objection
(Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

'Open marriage?' The New York Times Magazine hopes, hopes, hopes that it's a trend
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

South Korea experiences cultural shift with new leader
(Reagan Hoezee, Mission Network News)

Olive peace trees planted at Lahore fort
(Pakistan Christian Post)

Azerbaijani parliament amends law on religious freedom
(APA)

Li Heping's release - A moment to celebrate or a continuing case of concern?
(FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Where does Hamas' policy document leave Islamic Jihad?
(Ahmad Melham, translated by Joelle El-Khoury, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Statues and words tell story of Syrian women's plight
(Florence Massena, Al Monitor: Lebanon Pulse)

Condemnation of Bishop's arrest in Philippines
(Anglican Communion News Service)

Statistics show for every Christian convert in UK, 26 believers abandon their faith
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)

Francis and the new sultan: Trump, the Vatican and US Catholics
(Massimo Faggioli, La Croix International)

Indian Americans reckon with reality of hate crimes
(Arun Venugopal, National Public Radio)

Religion and mental illness form a complex relationship
(Katherine Burgess, The Wichita Eagle)

For better or worse: The rise of the professional wedding celebrant
(Carlos Wilton, Religion Dispatches)

More problems with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
(James Zogby, The World Post)

Paris rabbinical court dissolves marriage of women waiting 29 years for religious divorce
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Questions raised about $650K Florida security grant to Jewish schools
(Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward)

UN forces retake areas from Christian rebels in Central African Republic
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Saudi king touts Trump’s Islamic summit as “new partnership”
(Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)

In ‘pivotal’ election, UK Catholic voters face challenge of applying bishops’ criteria
(Austen Ivereigh, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Trump to expand funding ban tied to abortion overseas
(Gardiner Harris and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times)

State Department expands pro-life policy
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)

State Department implements expanded "Mexico City Policy"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Ninth Circuit hears oral argument on Trump travel ban
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

9th Circuit hears oral arguments on second Trump travel ban Executive Order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

3 judges weigh Trump’s revised travel ban, but keep their poker faces
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)

ISIS reportedly on brink of defeat in Mosul
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)

Islam in American education: How some cities are reacting to Muslims in Trumps America
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

John Safran: 'In Australia we don't get religion'
(James Robert Douglas, The Guardian)

Myanmar arrests Buddhist nationalists accused of stoking tensions with Muslims
(Wa Lone, Religion News Service)

As Catholic influence in Ireland wanes, some hope abortion will be legalized
(Karen Huber, Religion News Service)

EVENT, 16 May 2017: Live! Interview Series with Rachel Bayani of the Bahá'í International Community
((3:30 pm Brussels time, Hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - European Union Office, Brussels)

EVENT, 16 May 2017: Religion, Politics, and Violence
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Indonesia: USCIRF denounces the recent conviction and sentencing of Jakarta’s governor for blasphemy
(Press Release, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 16 May 2017: Religious Pluralism, Christ and the Cosmos: On Not Believing in the Social Trinity
(Keith Ward, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Monday, 15 May 2017

Russian Church opens three new churches a day
(Interfax-Religion)

Pro-Palestinian groups slam 'Jewish Taliban' sect as Zionist colonialists
(Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz)

Protecting religious freedom is a foreign-policy priority of the Trump administration
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Losing my religion? Secular Brits now outnumber Christians, but Islam & Hinduism growing
(RT)

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