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Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Could the EU embrace Christian education as part of diversity?
(Evert van Vlastuin, Christian Network Europe)

Biden Education Department’s flawed religious liberty ‘guidance’ flouts court precedent
(Sarah Parshall and Amelia Gradick, The Daily Signal)

Is a new Islamic conservatism on the horizon?
(James M. Dorsey, Fair Observer)

Why you might notice more religious groups at Pride celebrations this year
(Jason DeRose, National Public Radio)

Tuesday, 6 June 2023

HYBRID EVENT, 6 June 2023 (16h00 UTC+2): How can the EU-CELAC Summit contribute to a partnership of equals and promote global justice?
(Latin American Episcopal Council, COMECE, Caritas Latin America and the Caribbean, Caritas Europa)

EVENT, 6 June 2023 (8.00 hrs): Ecumenical Prayer for Peace and Christian unity to be held at the European parliament
(Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the EU (COMECE))

Monday, 5 June 2023

Oklahoma approves first publicly funded Catholic school in US
(Brad Brooks, Reuters)

Oklahoma school board approves what would be the 1st taxpayer-funded religious school in US
(Sean Murphy, Associated Press)

The impact of Israeli judicial reform on freedom of/from religion
(Moshe Jaffe, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

USCIRF calls for immediate release of Baha’is forcibly disappeared by the Houthis in Yemen
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Understanding India’s Manipur conflict and its geopolitical implications
(Binalakshmi Nepram and Brigitta W. Schuchert, The United States Institute of Peace)

UN slashes food rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh camps
(Bill Frelick, Human Rights Watch)

Saudi Arabia executes two Shi’a Bahrainis on terrorism charges
(Leila Saad, Human Rights Watch)

A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves
(Tilda Wilson, NPR)

Abraham Cooper elected as Chair of bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Frederick A. Davie as Vice Chair
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Religious leaders, once mostly spared Haiti’s violence, are now targets
(Widlore Mérancourt and Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post)

Around the web - 5 June 2023
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)

Rehman Chishti | An interview with David Trimble | IRF Summit RFI Profiles
(YouTube Video, Religious Freedom Institute)

Faith ERG Leaders of the Year, 2023
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

IGE publishes new compendium of religious freedom scholarship in Vietnam
(Institute for Global Engagement)

Court refuses to dismiss suit by civil detainee who was forced to attend a christian religious service
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Articles of interest - 5 June 2023
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

New anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ rights and religious expression
(Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation)

Supreme Court’s conservative majority to decide direction of law on race, elections and religious freedom this month
(Ariane de Vogue, CNN)

Cameroon: State and Church share the combat against hate speech
(Emmanuel Patrick Ayuni Tan, La Croix International)

Religions unite against violent extremism in Burkina Faso
(Kamboissoa Samboé, La Croix International)

Two weeks in review, 22 May – 4 June 2023
(Tal Gross, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

2,500 booked for Bangladesh clashes over 'blasphemy'
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Polish Protestant prosecuted over criticism on Catholicism
(Christian Network Europe)

French mayor wants to abolish Christian holidays
(Christian Network Europe)

How Arab autocrats exported repression of Muslim activism to Europe
(Farid Hafez, Middle East Eye)

Religious persecution takes its toll on Catholic faith in Mexico
(Catholic News Agency)

Ted Cruz spars with pastor over Uganda's Anti-gay law
(Andrew Stanton, Newsweek)

Pope Francis sends Cardinal Zuppi to Ukraine to promote a ‘just peace’
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)

In Melitopol, Russians occupied a church to house military equipment
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Transfer of holy icon shows Russian Orthodoxy's new sway under Putin
(Reuters)

Four Crimean Tatars sentenced to long prison terms for ties to Islamic group banned in Russia
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)

Russia: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest May 15-31
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Religious actors work together for peace in the DRC (video in French)
(The United States Institute of Peace)

Religious (un)affiliation and Latinx culture war preferences
(Flavio Rogerio Hickel, PRRI)

Friday, 2 June 2023

Canadian city where Muslim family killed gets funds to fight hate
(Al Jazeera)

Canada: $500K earmarked for anti-hate initiatives in London ahead of truck attack anniversary
(CBC News)

CALL FOR INPUTS, 2 June 2023: Promotion of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief at the national and local level – GA report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish ruling party video
(George Wright, BBC News)

Law and Religion: Essays on the Place of the Law in Israel and Early Christianity
(Barnabas Lindars (editor), James Clarke and Co)

Football coach can proceed on some claims against university after termination for refusing covid vaccine
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Israel’s Netanyahu faces pushback over plan to subsidize ultra-Orthodox schools
(Dov Lieber, The Wall Street Journal)

Israeli protesters fear for the future of their country’s precarious LGBTQ rights revolution
(Orit Avishai, The Conversation)

Chaplains: Indispensable members of the military
(Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Nicaragua arrests priest for treason, freezes Church accounts
(La Croix International)

CAIR urges Biden Administration to act on Ethiopia mosque demolitions
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)

From deadness to life: how today’s conservative Protestants recovered and adapted the Protestant ethic
(Andrew Lynn, OUPblog: Religion)

France's highest court confirms universal jurisdiction
(Juliette Rémond Tiedrez, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

More protection than recognition for same-sex couples in Buhuceanu and Others v Romania
(Giulio Fedele, Strasbourg Observers)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum alarmed by pattern of attacks on Holocaust scholarship in Poland
(United States Holoaust Memorial Musuem)

Türkiye to Sweden: Fulfill anti-terrorism commitments to join NATO
(Daily Sabah)

South Korea: Yoon meets with religious leaders, seeks advice on state affairs
(The Korea Times)

A pop-up restaurant in Kabul is run by women for women. The Taliban is watching
(Maija Liuhto, NPR)

Iran: Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest May
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

China: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest May 15-31
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Pakistan: Forced marriages and forced conversions, and the European Union
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Hurt feelings, conscience, and freedom – Part 2
(Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)

Nina Shea's 2023 Bradley Prizes acceptance speech
(YouTube Video, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation)

French churches fall victim to vandalism
(Christian Network Europe)

Rastafari gain sacramental rights to marijuana in Antigua and Barbuda, celebrate freedom of worship
(Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)

America’s religious leaders sharply divided over abortion, a year after Roe v Wade’s reversal
(David Crary, Associated Press)

Italian bishops roll out ad campaign to reverse declines in taxpayer contributions
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Lobbyists united in corporate America
(Matteo Corsalini, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

A judge rules observant Sikhs can wear beards, turbans and serve in the US Marines
(Joseph Hammond, Religion Unplugged)

India: Bishops seek end to Christian persecution in Indian state
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Church and civil society organisations welcome the EP’s adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))

Taiwan: China’s infiltration strategy into Taiwan’s religious organizations
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Reflections on justice and religious liberty
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Minnesota law keeps faith-based colleges out of dual enrollment program
(Ryan Foley, The Christian Post)

Defending human rights as a threat to national security? The perverse consequences of ignoring the legitimate aim question in Kogan and Others v. Russia
(Tobias Mortier, Strasbourg Observers)

Ukrainian religious scholars provide advice to British experts collecting evidence of Russian crimes for trial in The Hague
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

There are Christian Uyghurs, too: New organization launched in London
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter)

Humanism and religious education in schools: the landmark case of Bowen
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Ecclesiastical court judgments – May
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

UK-based Islamic charities donate $24.4bn a year to good causes
(Arab News)

University of Glasgow students visit World Council of Churches as they consider careers upholding human rights
(World Council of Churches)

Ukrainian Parliament called for actions against Russian presence in the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Russia: "Would Jesus Christ have gone to kill in Ukraine?"
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

Ukraine: conscientious objector freed, new trial ordered
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Online religious services appeal to many Americans, but going in person remains more popular
(Michelle Faverio, Justin Nortley, Jeff Diamant, and Gregory A. Smith, Pew Research Center)

Thursday, 1 June 2023

EVENT, 1 June 2023 (6:30PM EDT): Religious Liberty and Human Dignity: The Promise of American Pluralism (Charlotte, NC)
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS) and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Yunnan protest: Mosque closure sees clashes with security forces
(Nicholas Yong, BBC News)

Crowd in China clashes with police over plans to demolish mosque
(Associated Press)

Members of religious minority held at Turkish-Bulgarian border face prison, execution if deported
(The Sofia Globe)

Turkey: 2 ISIL terrorists arrested over planning attack on election day
(Hurriyet Daily News)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS, deadline 31 May 2023: Contract Opportunities (Examination of Anti-Muslim Bias in Europe, Implementation of Expedited Removal Recommendations, and Enhancing IRFA’s CPC Designation Tool, 25 Years On)
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 31 May 2023 (5:30PM in Boston): 2023 Shurden Lecture: The Myth of American ‘Chosenness’
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Canada: NCCM and CCLA launch joint challenge to Quebec governments ban on prayers in public schools
(Harini Sivalangam, Canadian Civil Liberties Association)

Canada: York Catholic school board votes against flying Pride flag at education centre
(CBC News)

A new anti-gay law in Uganda calls for life in prison for those who are convicted
(Jackie Northam and Halima Athumani, NPR)

After a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, can a community heal?
(Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News)

Native American sues school for barring sacred eagle feather at graduation
(Nadine Yousif, BBC News)

Iran tries female journalists who reported on Mahsa Amini's death
(David Gritten, BBC News)

Apology for Ghana textbook critical of missionaries
(BBC News)

Another hitch in Malawi preacher extradition case
(Peter Jegwa, BBC News)

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