Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 3 May 2017
A new rain (reign?) of faith in Europe: Hope for Christianity on the continent
(Eric Metaxas, Roberto Rivera, Christian Headlines)
Fear and faith at war in Israel
(Jim Denison, Christian Headlines)
Russian man faces jail sentence for playing Pokemon Go in church
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Christian bakery under fire for again refusing to bake cake for gay couple
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Neither suicide note, nor dying declaration
(Faizan Mustafa, The Statesman)
Church of Ireland to vote on same-sex marriage proposal
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Can the government discriminate against religion? We're about to find out
(John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera)
Special Report: Islamic State seeks to impose religious rules in Egypt's North Sinai
(Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Lin Noueihed, Reuters Politics Special Reports)
Study: Americans more likely to vote for highly religious candidates. A challenge for Democrats with growing secular base
(David Briggs, The ARDA: Ahead of the Trend)
South Sudan: In midst of genocide, civil war 16,000 seek refuge at church 'where Jesus is'
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Catholic schools and social segregation
(Letters, The Guardian)
Justin Welby: Christians must unite with Jews to halt rise of antisemitism
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
First black female episcopal bishop installed on Saturday
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Rabbi Lazar compares Lenin in mausoleum to keeping dead grandfather in closet
(Interfax-Religion)
The Church does not share an opinion that it is the Kremlin's "pocket" structure
(Interfax-Religion)
4th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue kicks off in Baku
(Novinite Sofia News Agency)
Macron, Le Pen clash on euro, terrorism, in French pre-election TV showdown
(Michel Rose and Ingrid Melander, Reuters)
Kazakhstan: Five year jail, three year ban
(Forum 18 News Service)
Jehovah's Witnesses' appeal to be heard in Supreme Court on June 13
(Supreme Court of the Russian federation, Russia Religion News)
Justice ministry enforces Supreme Court decision in Penza province
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Informant's report leads to fine of Jehovah's Witness
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
The biggest megachurch on Earth and South Korea's ‘crisis of evangelism’
(Matthew Bell, Public Radio International)
Francis and Benedict: Two popes, two divergent approaches to Islam
(Christopher Lamb, Religion News Service)
Argument: Terrorists are not snowflakes
(Simon Cottee, Foreign Policy)
Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Muslim fears and Muslim rights
(Nerina Rustomji, The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public sphere)
Why it’s a big deal that a secular student won Israel’s Bible contest
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Denmark bans six 'hate preachers' from entering the country
(Teis Jensen, Reuters)
What’s a ‘Jewish high chief’ doing at center of political drama in Nigeria?
(Sam Kestenbaum, Forward)
Saudi Arabia rules out rapprochement with Iran, says crown prince
(Deutsche Welle)
Hatch, Feinstein bill would make threats against religions, worshippers federal crime
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News Faith)
Consecration of Bishop of Sheffield
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
URI Africa appoints Goodwill Ambassadors of the Golden Rule
(Amina Alhassan, Daily Trust)
Vatican group talks new ways to help poor, marginalized
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Vatican: Nuclear weapons give “false sense of security”
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vatican Academy head says UN should push “global social change”
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Anti-Catholic video released after soccer brawl in Scotland
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
What are ‘political’ black churches?
(Roger Baumann, OUPblog Religion)
Prince Zeid Raad al-Hussein has emerged as the Middle East's most prominent defender of human rights — both in the region of his birth, and the United States.
(Kim Ghattas, Foreign Policy)
A Hungarian priest offers refugees shelter, and a town takes notice
(Brian Dooley, Religion News Service)
By whose authority? Women bloggers and the evangelical church (COMMENTARY)
(Hannah Anderson, Religion News Service)
Bible Belt state with nation’s highest execution rate considers death penalty flaws
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)
Senate committee holds hearing on religious hate crimes
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When blasphemy runs amok
(Paull Marshall, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy)
Blasphemy isn’t just a problem in the Muslim world
(Steve Pinkerton, The Conversation)
Responses to the increase in religious hate crimes
(Judiciary Committee, United States Senate)
Meet the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Oklahoma author awarded ownership of microfilm lunar Bibles
(Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press)
Suit over ownership of astronauts' Bibles is settled
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court rules religious workers are 'employees'
(Werner Menges, The Namibian)
Namibian court says members of Jehovah's Witness order are "employees"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Gay man sues funeral home that refused husband's body
(WCYB News)
Lambda Legal sues Mississippi funeral home for refusing to transport and cremate body of gay man
(Press Release, Lambda Legal)
Suit challenges funeral home's LGBT discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Defamation suit against minister not necessarily barred by ecclesiastical abstention doctrine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EVENT, 3 May 2017: Violence, Faith, and Policing in Baltimore
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
EPRID shares best practices at EP Conference on “How religious and belief communities reach out to each other in words and deeds”
(European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination)
Dozens of lawmakers press Trump for religious freedom protection
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Trump Administration asks court for time to reconsider enjoined HHS ruling on transgender rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Arms export prank appeals to German CDU's Christian roots
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)
Trump Administration reverses course on Obamacare’s civil rights protections
(Christine Grimaldi, Rewire)
Church in Bangladesh, India in anti-trafficking partnership
(UCA News)
History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain”
(Garikai Chengu, Global Research)
LDS Church donates $1.5 million to Red Cross
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News Faith)
Tuesday, 2 May 2017
2017 Jakarta Election Alternative View: Beyond Religion
(Chaula Rininta Anindya, RSIS Commentary)
Kazakh Baptists raided, fined on Easter Sunday as ‘illegal’
(World Watch Monitor)
Why it might be too soon to lift the sanctions on Sudan
(Catholic News Agency)
Part of church compound in Sudan illegally occupied
(World Watch Monitor)
Hungry, scared South Sudanese stay in cathedral compound for protection
(Paul Jeffrey, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Sikh education campaign aims to counter ignorance, hate, discrimination
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Sikh Americans hope to reduce hate crimes with ad campaign
(Robert Siegel, NPR)
ADL head urges creation of hate crime task force in testimony to Senate committee
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
U.S. Senators held a hearing about religious hate crimes that didn't include Muslims
(Rowaida Abdelaziz, Huffington Post)
New spring in Europe?
(Martin Maier, SJ, JESC, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Protests shutdown Islamic schools near Yangon
(John Zaw, UCA News)
China convicts rights lawyer in secret
(UCA News)
Building ‘Affectio Societatis’
(Jérôme Vignon, Honorary President of Semaines sociales de France, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
A first step in the fight against conflict minerals
(Emmanuelle Devuyst, JESC, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Saudi mosque funding concerns Bangladeshi minorities
(UCA News)
Which defence strategy for Europe?
(Caimin Keogh, EU Military Stafv, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Fostering resilience for sustainable peace
(Marek Mišák,COMECE, Europe Infos: Christian Perspectives on the EU)
Nagmetov v. Russia: opening up Pandora’s Box on Article 41?
(Dr. Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Strasbourg Observers)
Erdogan rejoins AKP party after referendum win
(Deutsche Welle)
Religious brothers push back on euthanasia directive for Catholic hospitals
(Catholic News Agency)
The stubborn facts on eurocentrism and the Russian national identity discourse
(Emanuel L. Paparella, Modern Diplomacy)
What Catholics like and dislike in the new spending bill
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)
Post-referendum, what’s next for Turkey’s EU bid?
(Semih Idiz, Al Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
How can Iraq address child abuse, torture?
(Sara al-Qaher, translated by Sahar Ghoussoub, Al Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Global religious right asks 'how far can we get?'; and more in the global LGBT recap
(Peter Montgomery, Religion Dispatches)
Kansas City archdiocese cutting ties with Girl Scouts over 'troubling trends'
(Merrit Kennedy, NPR)
Archbishop drops the Girl Scouts amid alarmist rhetoric and fake accusations
(Patricia Miller, Religion Dispatches)
Why white evangelicals are 'splintering' politically
(Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR)
Vigilantes in India: Protecting sacred cows, promoting a Hindu way of life
(Julie McCarthy, NPR)
Proposed spending bill would increase abstinence sex education funding by 50 percent
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
ISIS' slaughter of Christians 'the first step' to unraveling Egypt
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Christians fight for freedom of conscience in Indiana
(Peter Heck, The Christian Post)
Iran is seeking 'to control Islamic world', says Saudi Arabian prince
(The Guardian)
Pope Francis in Egypt: “Violence is the denial of every true religion”
(World Watch Monitor)
A dubious proposal to reform the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Worshipping the patron saint of drug traffickers in Mexico
(Jair Cabrera Torres, Religion News Service)
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