Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 25 February 2023
New York Times takes heat for its latest report on Hasidic schools: 'Misleading and dangerous'
(Yael Halon, Fox News)
With her newsworthy 'firsts,' don't ignore religion angles in Nikki Haley v. Donald Trump
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Minimum age: marriage and civil partnerships (England and Wales)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Amendments to the Treasure Act 1996 – and an ecclesiastical exemption
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Scotland, politicians and personal religious or moral views
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Commission on Racial Justice: Second Biannual Report
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
BIC Brussels: Policies alone not sufficient to address racial prejudice
(Bahá’í World News Service)
The International Dialogue Centre holds first Board of Directors meeting in new host city
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Supreme Court urged to protect employee rights to religious observance, reverse 1977 ruling
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
'You are part of this country:' Muslim community urge SC lawmakers to pass hate crime bill
(Joel Vazquez-Juarbe, ABC 15 News)
Burkina Faso: Bishops decry spate of insecurity, disarray of population in ‘unjust war imposed on country’
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
In the news: Breaking religious freedom stories across the country - 24 February 2023
(First Liberty)
Distorted world picture through media’s secular view: Paul Marshall
(Tiffany Meier, NTD)
Column from Finland: Freedom of religion is also for atheists
(Sari Savela, Christian Network Europe)
India’s secularism needs better interpretation to retain relevance
(Rohan Bedi, Fair Observer)
International Court of Justice orders Azerbaijan to end Nagorno-Karabakh roadblock
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Religious intolerance: The Brazil that exalts is the same that excludes (Portuguese)
(Liliane Rocha, Vogue)
Norway: Why the European Court of Human Rights rejected a complaint from a disfellowshipped former Jehovah’s Witness
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Friday, 24 February 2023
APPLICATIONS OPEN, deadline 24 February 2023: School on Governance, Economics, and Management for an Economy of Life
(World Council of Churches, World Communion of Reformed Churches, Lutheran World Federation, World Methodist Council, and Council for World Mission)
Thursday, 23 February 2023
India: SC to take up Muslim girls’ plea to allow hijab at exams
(Statesman News Service)
India: Growing surveillance and policing of interfaith marriages in Maharashtra
(Yusra Husain, MSN)
EXHIBITION, 10 January – 23 February 2023: After the end of the world: Displaced persons and displaced persons camps
(United Nations Headquarters in New York City, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
WEBINAR, 23 February 2023 (2PM ET): Religicide: Examining Religious, Ethnic, and Racial Violence
(Tanenbaum, URI, G20 Interfaith Forum)
EVENT, 23 February 2023 (5:30PM in Sydney): 9th Annual Religious Liberty Lecture
(Mark Hill KC, The University of Notre Dame Australia)
IRFBA statement on the contribution of the Jewish faith and combating antisemitism
(U.S. Department of State)
Is boycotting Israel a protected right? Justices won't wade in
(Hannah Albarazi, Law360)
Students have worshipped at this school for nearly 2 weeks. Here’s why — and what will happen next
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
The good news for St. Peter's: Religious exemption means pension plan isn't underfunded
(Charles Toutant, Law.com)
Ohio might give students 3 excused absences for religious holidays
(Anna Staver, Columbus Dispatch)
Reforms could change ethos of Australia’s religious schools
(Angela Shanahan, Marcatornet.com)
Australia: Religious schools can still expel LGBTQ kids. That needs to change (opinion)
(Liam Elphick, Sydney Morning Herald)
Australia: Religious schools must be allowed to keep the right to discriminate (opinion)
(Kevin Donnelly, Sydney Morning Herald)
Ghana: Chieftaincy ministry to ensure religious sanity with research and data collection
(Ghana Web)
Take a first look inside Abu Dhabi's interfaith Abrahamic Family House
(Irish Eden Belleza, Gulf News)
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
(Niha Masih, The Washington Post)
Black Americans firmly support gender equality but are split on transgender and nonbinary issues
(Kiana Cox, Pew Research Center)
Seattle becomes first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
(Deepa Bharath, Associated Press)
70% of White evangelical parents say it’s very important that their kids have similar religious beliefs to theirs
(Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center)
Merchant Marine Academy bows to pressure, will move ‘Christ on the Water’ painting
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Update on the Free Inquiry Rule
(U.S. Department of Education)
Dubai-based rabbi has tefilin straps cut by Jordanian airport security
(Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post)
Myanmar junta demands lists of churchgoers in Chin State
(May Yu, Myanmar Now)
Five books to help you understand the state of global freedom
(Matt Hooper, Freedom House)
A quick look at religious freedom bills proposed in Georgia, Texas and South Carolina
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Faith-based group blasts Tanzania’s treatment of indigenous Maasai people
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Tajikistan: Ailing prisoner of conscience again fails in hospital transfer bid
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
World Evangelical Alliance and FaithInvest to work together to grow faith-consistent investing for a just and sustainable world
(Adam Zewe, The European Times)
The Polish Contribution to the Global Legal Culture
(Edited by Franciszek Longchamps de Bérier and Rafael Domingo, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
SASCE presented at United Nations Society of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki
(Conference of European Churches)
Religions for Peace at Munich Security Conference.
(Twitter, Religions for Peace)
How does the financial sector relate to the European Commission’s proposal for a corporate sustainability due diligence directive?
(Begum Kilimcioğlu, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Targeted destruction of Ukraine’s culture must stop: UN experts
(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)
Ukraine revokes citizenship for five UOC clergy
(Christian Network Europe)
One year of war in Ukraine | EU Bishops: “stop this madness of war”!
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
Sri Lankan Church dares govt to face people in local polls
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Religious freedom bill advances in West Virginia committee
(John Raby, Associated Press)
SNP leadership: The perils of mixing politics and faith
(James Cook, BBC News)
Report on FORB following visit to Pakistan
(Twitter, Fleur Anderson MP)
Church leaders speak out against religious freedom bill
(Claire Simms, Fox 5 Atlanta)
Jimmy Carter was America’s Evangelical-in-Chief
(Randall Balmer, Foreign Policy)
The middle-aged secular (Portuguese)
(Joana Amaral Dias, Diário de Notícias)
Portuguese colonialism still “persecutes” Afro-Brazilian religions (Portuguese)
(Ana Marques Maia, P3)
Brazil: The right to religious freedom is also an important part of the right to the city (Portuguese)
(Rafael Passos, Carta Capital)
Wednesday, 22 February 2023
Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Kate Forbes defiant despite backlash over equal marriage views
(Libby Brooks, The Guardian)
Moderator army visit provides first-hand opportunity to understand chaplains’ role
(The Church of Scotland)
Law and religion round-up – 19th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
It takes a village: two shuls and a church support new home for Muslim community centre
(Michelle Rosenberg, Jewish News)
British sharia councils & women
(Susanna Lukács, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
Human rights and religious minorities in Sudan
(Timothy Robinson and Louisa Brooke-Holland, House of Commons Library)
EVENT, 21 February 2023 (12:30PM EST in Washington, DC): Do Religion and Religious Freedom Impede or Enhance Security?
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Harvard, National Council of Churches, Reform Jews seeking reparations blueprint
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Extensive antisemitic prejudice nearly doubled since 2019
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Kenya: Address injustices in Lamu before it gets out of hand
(Twitter, Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI))
Satanic Temple’s disgusting ‘Sam Alito’ abortion facility isn’t a legitimate ‘exercise of religion’
(Jordan Lorence, Fox News)
Around the web - 20 February 2023
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Germany: Devastating damage to Baroque church by arson and vandalism
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Italy’s government following through on promise to aid persecuted Christians
(Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register)
Italy: Church vandalised multiple times in Catanzaro
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)
Uganda: Renewed efforts to keep institution Janani Luwum studied from open
(Denis Opoka, Uganda Christian News)
St. Vartan and the Armenian Christian identity, then and now
(Mark Movsesian, The Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America)
Photos of the week: Earthquake aftermath; Shiite pilgrims
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
In search of religious freedom and social harmony
(Dennis R. Hoover, London School of Economics Religion and Global Society Blog)
10 spiritual principles for climate repentance
(The Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders, Elijah Interfaith Institute)
More than 20 men advocate for gender justice in Malawi
(International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
The issue of religion and war is extremely important for Crimean Tatars, - Mufti Rustemov
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Ukraine trades 'collaborator' clergy for POWs in swaps with Russia
(reuMax Hunder, Reuters)
All of Ukraine will fast and pray on February 24 for victory and peace
(Institute for Religious Freedom, Ukraine)
Former monarch joins campaign to reinstate Nepal as ‘Hindu State’
(Yubaraj Ghimire, The Indian Express)
Calls for change in Iran reach even Shiite heartland of Qom
(Associated Press)
Bahrain charges religious reformers with questioning Islam
(Associated Press)
5th Circuit rejects pastor's jurisdictional theory of religion clauses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Articles of interest - 20 February 2023
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Biden-Harris Administration celebrates the second anniversary of the reestablishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
(The White House)
Appellate division rules that a court cannot compel arbitration on get issue absent agreement
(Eliana Baer, JD Supra)
Seattle considers historic law barring caste discrimination
(Deepa Bharath, Religion News Service)
The international community must support the bravery of the Cuban people
(in ful, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
Sweden police refuse permission for new Quran-burning protest, citing security fears
(David Mac Dougall, Euronews)
We can’t understand Islamophobia without recognizing its roots in imperialism
(Deepa Kumar, Jacobin)
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