Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 28 March 2022
If the big goal is racial reconciliation, pastors may want to start by breaking bread
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Friday, 25 March 2022
Reactionary white Buddhists have joined the fight against critical race theory
(Ann Gleig, Religion Dispatches)
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Canada: Papal meetings will address ‘legacy of suffering’ Indigenous face, Canadian bishops say
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
UK: Rustat memorial: judgment
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Friday, 18 March 2022
Black Catholics in US are a tiny minority increasingly drawing on immigrants: Study
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Black Catholic worship is unique — but majority-Black parishes are rare, survey says
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Study: Black Catholics worship more with other races than solely their own
(Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service)
Americans’ support for LGBTQ rights higher than ever, even as white evangelicals lag
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022
$1.7M is approved for restoration of historic Black church
(Associated Press)
WCC will share regional prayers in lead-up to UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
(World Council of Churches)
Monday, 14 March 2022
The history of lynching is more heartbreaking than you think
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Friday, 11 March 2022
UK: Contested heritage and the Church of England
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Refugees, reporting and the far right: how the Ukraine crisis reveals brutal ‘everyday racism’ in Europe and beyond
(Bina Fernandez, The Conversation)
Black and Asian refugees fleeing Ukraine face additional barriers, discrimination
(Mark Wingfield, Baptist News Global)
Canada: "And yet..." Regarding Canada Bill C-229, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (banning symbols of hate)
(James Christie, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Friday, 4 March 2022
John Lewis missed at Alabama civil rights pilgrimage
(Jay Reeves, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Manufacturing hate: What we need to know about racism and what we can do to combat it
(Milton Allimadi, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Ecological racism and deep-sea mining in the Pacific
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Dylann Roof takes church shooting appeal to US Supreme Court
(Meg Kinnard, Associated Press)
Monday, 28 February 2022
QAnon draws from several faith groups, numbers more than 40 million: Study
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Louisiana city apologizes 60 years after church beating
(Chevel Johnson, Associated Press)
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Legislators fight to control the content of civic education
(Carl Smith, Governing)
From normalizing antisemitism to denying it - opinion
(Asaf Romirowsky, The Jerusalem Post)
Monday, 21 February 2022
Malcolm X on racism, capitalism and Islam
(Al Jazeera)
Advocates call for help for Black migrants from Biden administration
(Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service)
Friday, 18 February 2022
Why Hindus should celebrate Black History Month
(Murali Balaji, Religion News Service)
Black seminary grads, with debt higher than others, cope with money and ministry
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Bystander training is a first step toward stopping hate against Asians, Pacific Islanders
(Pat Mccaughan, Episcopal News Service)
France: Far-right French candidate makes taboo term his mantra
(Elaine Ganley, Associated Press)
Monday, 14 February 2022
How to handle racist demonstrations - opinion
(Kenneth Lasson, The Jerusalem Post)
Racism in the media: Manufacturing hate
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
Friday, 11 February 2022
Study: Clergy feel ill-equipped to help Black and Latino congregants with mental health
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Brazil: Protest in church by Black activists divides Catholics in Brazil
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
S3, Ep. 11: Race and religious freedom (podcast)
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Wednesday, 9 February 2022
Intergenerational trauma–the horrific consequence of residential schools in the U.S. and Canada
(Ja:no’s–Janine Bowen, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
Monday, 7 February 2022
US Jews talk identity, Holocaust after Goldberg’s remarks
(Luis Andres Henao, Peter Smith and David Crary, Associated Press)
Leaning on Jesus to heal America’s racial divide
(Christian Sagers, Deseret News)
Friday, 4 February 2022
Progressive nationalism
(John D. Wilsey, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
White evangelicals less likely to favor amnesty for illegal immigrants, survey finds
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
ABC suspends Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust race remarks
(David Bauder, Associated Press)
Reporting on white Christian nationalists? Try talking with some of these Americans in person
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for Holocaust race comment — but doubles down in saying Jews are not a race
(Shira Hanau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Are Jews a race?
(Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic)
The religion of protest
(Nyle Fort, The Cut)
What it's like to be a Black chef running a halal soul food restaurant
(Anna Rahmanan, The Huffington Post)
Monday, 31 January 2022
Brazil: Black Catholic leaders fear demise of quota law for Brazilian universities
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The Bahá’í response to racial injustice and pursuit of racial unity
(The Bahá’í World)
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
One year later: How the Biden Administration is doing on civil rights and civil liberties
(American Civil Liberties Union)
Canada: B.C. First Nation finds 93 possible burial sites at former school
(Vancouver Sun)
Monday, 24 January 2022
UK: Muslims second ‘least-liked’ group in UK: Survey
(Christopher Hamill-Stewart, Arab News)
Friday, 21 January 2022
UK: Contested heritage – A review of the Church of England guidance
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Thursday, 20 January 2022
WEBINAR, 20 January 2022 (2PM ET): Racism in the Media-Manufacturing Hate
(G20 Interfaith Forum)
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
A Martin Luther King Day reminder: Religion matters in public life
(Mark Rienzi, National Review)
As Congress debates, Black Baptist leader calls denial of voting rights ‘evil’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Black church fund project gets $20M on MLK Day
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Monday, 17 January 2022
President Nelson commemorates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Newsroom: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Statement in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Preaching the Dream: 5 important speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Friday, 14 January 2022
King’s last full year of life: Protest, praise, ire, incarceration
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Black faith leaders’ proud legacy on civil rights should include LGBTQ rights
(Sabrina E. Dent, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
What will be the top religion stories of 2022? Here are a few leading possibilities
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Unplugged)
Monday, 10 January 2022
Hotel built around historic church opens in Indianapolis
(Associated Press)
Friday, 7 January 2022
Black faith and the Black radical tradition (plus six responses)
(Oluwatomisin Oredein, Earle J. Fisher, Stefan Wheelock, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Julia Robinson Moore and Timothy Rainey II, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Canada approved reparations – the US can be next
(Christopher Rhodes, Al Jazeera)
Monday, 3 January 2022
South Africa: ‘Moral compass’: Requiem for South Africa’s Archbishop Tutu
(Andrew Meldrum, Associated Press)
Last parent of a child killed in 1963 church bombing dies
(Associated Press)
Wednesday, 29 December 2021
Painting or icon? That big hole in New York Times report on Catholic University controversy
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Tuesday, 28 December 2021
Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid cleric, dies At 90: How religious and world leaders remembered him
(Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)
Bishop Tutu, God & democracy
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
Tom Gutherz: Rabbi fighting the Far Right
(Arno Rosenfeld, Forward)
Monday, 27 December 2021
UN chief calls Desmond Tutu ‘an inspiration to generations’
(Associated Press)
Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid leader who identified with Jews and criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, dies at 90
(Shira Hanau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Desmond Tutu, peacemaker in creation of a new South Africa, dies, aged 90
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
The Most Rev Desmond Tutu obituary
(Stanley Uys and Dan van der Vat, The Guardian)
South Africa begins week of mourning for Desmond Tutu
(Al Jazeera)
South Africa's Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu has died at 90
(Sarah Al-Arshani and Taylor Ardrey, Insider)
The first word: To be human is to be free (1991)
(Desmond M. Tutu, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
School's anti-racism curriculum challenged as religious discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
All needed at table, including groups like KKK to tackle racism and save planet, says world churches' leader
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Friday, 17 December 2021
New podcast: Baptisms are in the headlines, at the moment, for better and for worse
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Jesus or George Floyd? Controversial icon stolen
(Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed)
Wednesday, 15 December 2021
There are no African American saints. A lay Catholic group seeks to change that.
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Monday, 13 December 2021
The troubling consequences of seeing Muslims as a racial group
(Sanya Mansoor, Time)
Friday, 10 December 2021
Women breaking through to top roles in Black churches
(Adelle M. Banks, Peter Smith, Religion News Service)
Program to Combat Racism launched during apartheid; now churches focus on xenophobia, other issues
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Monday, 6 December 2021
Tennessee pastor shares effort to erect black soldier statue
(Bethany Johnson, Religion Unplugged)
Emerging split inside old mainline: Is U.S. Christianity becoming two different religions?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Friday, 3 December 2021
Mormon Battalion monuments vandalized — again
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Monday, 29 November 2021
Politics in the pews: The relationship among race, religion and political protest
(R. Khari Brown & Ronald Brown, Religion Unplugged)
Friday, 26 November 2021
November 2021 newsletter
(Equality and Human Rights Commission)
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from New York City Hall
(Zachary Evans, National Review)
Hope ‘renewed in a just God’: Faith leaders react to guilty verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery murder
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Friday, 19 November 2021
What Americans hear about social justice at church – and what they do about it
(R. Khari Brown and Ronald Brown, The Conversation)
Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all counts in Kenosha fatal shootings
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Black pastors rally outside trial over Arbery’s killing
(Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press)
Monday, 15 November 2021
Amid Black exodus, young Catholics are pushing the church to address racism
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Friday, 12 November 2021
How 2 Jewish soldiers’ court-martials put a spotlight on antisemitism and racism
(Jeannette Gabriel, The Conversation)
Black Catholics in US dismayed after archbishop calls protests "pseudo-religions"
(Brian Fraga, La Croix International)
Friday, 5 November 2021
Grassroots effort calls on pope to canonize six Black sainthood candidates
(Priscila González de Doran, Catholic News Service)
Top US Catholic bishop calls social justice movements ‘pseudo-religion’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
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