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Monday, 24 October 2022

India at 100 must be a nation without discrimination
(K K Shailaja, The Indian Express)

In 2021 there were 195 attacks on religious freedom in Spain (Spanish)
(Actuall)

Japan Cabinet minister resigns over Unification Church ties
(Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press)

A Christian baker wouldn’t serve a lesbian couple. Here’s why a judge just ruled in her favor
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

Judge rules for California baker over same-sex wedding cake
(Associated Press)

Vatican and China extend their deal on bishop appointments
(Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press)

State's removal of 16-year-old transgender child from parents' home did not violate their free exercise rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Articles of interest - 24 October 2022
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

S4, Ep.03: Lessons learned in 3 years of the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

This school has fought a proposed LGBTQ student club for months. So why did it just launch a new one?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)

Yeshiva University approves Orthodox LGBTQ student group alternative
(Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Italian bishops urge new Prime Minister to work ‘in full harmony’ with Europe
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

The push for women’s rights in Iran is a push for religious freedom too
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)

A state of emergency: Fatal domestic violence in the Muslim community
(Zeba Khan, Muslim Matters)

Russian anti-cult leader: “International religious liberty is a Nazi idea”
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)

Appeal to the World Council of Churches on Russian terroristic attacks on Ukrainian civilians
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Zelensky puts the sanctions against Patriarch Kirill into effect
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Tajikistan: Restrictions continue for Muslims, intrusive questionnaires for non-Muslims
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Best in religion journalism: Religion News Association presents its annual awards
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion Unplugged)

Dignity and belonging in family, church, and state
(Rafael Domingo, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Manresa 2022 International Multireligious Forum
(Manresa 2022)

CAIR calls EU court ruling allowing hijab bans in the workplace a setback for religious freedom
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)

Two weeks in review, 3 October – 23 October
(Tal Gross, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Bangladeshi minorities demand protection of rights
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Fear of Muslims biggest effect of 9/11 in American society: US scholar
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))

Canada: Cambridge city hall Islamic heritage display aims to educate, spread love
(Hala Ghonaim, CBC News)

Dutch police disperse planned Quran burning rally of Islamophobic group Pegida
(Selman Aksünger, Anadolu Agency)

WCC reflects on women’s transformative leadership at international conference on innovation in Africa
(World Council of Churches)

Freedom of religion with regard to religious slaughter (PDF)
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))

Afghanistan: Another terrorist attack reminds us of the Taliban’s failure to protect Afghan citizens
(Ellis Heasley, Sight)

Ghana: Christian nationalism poses a threat to human rights in Ghana
(Jeffrey Haynes, The Conversation)

Israel: Time to change laws on shabbat public transportation is running out
(Or Kashti, Haaretz)

Will Egypt’s sectarian tensions and discrimination against Christians come to an end? 
(Zeina Hanafy, Egyptian Streets)

Kenya's a secular state; we must separate religion, state affairs
(Githieya Kimari, The Standard)

Mexico: ‘We don’t want to live in war,’ says bishop in violence-plagued Mexico
(Catholic News Agency)

Chile: Legal Journal Number 1 (18): October (Spanish)
(Observatorio de Libertad Religiosa de América Latina y El Caribe)

Friday, 21 October 2022

U.S. judge blocks New York from banning guns in church
(Dan Whitcomb, Reuters)

N.Y. law banning gun carrying in churches (including by people authorized by the church) struck down
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

Somali Americans, many who fled war, now seek elected office
(Samantha Hendrickson and David Sharp, Religion News Service)

Ilhan Omar, representation and Muslim political organizing in the West
(Imran Amla, Traversing Tradition)

Reflections on serving as the Dutch Special Envoy on Religion and Belief
(YouTube Video, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Canada: Muslim leaders condemn 'violent and vile Islamophobia' toward mosque in Thornhill, Ont.
(Desmond Brown, CBC News)

Canada: Melissa Lantsman MP statement condemning Islamophobia
(Twitter, National Council of Canadian Muslims)

Photos of the week: Lord of Miracles procession; Brazil elections
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Turkish singer appears in court over religious schools joke
(Associated Press)

Iranian Christians join protests over woman’s beating death: Reports
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)

Why is Iran’s secular shift so hard to believe?
(Dina Nayeri, Intelligencer)

Iran punishes Christians with harsh prison sentences
(Evangelical Focus)

Iran’s Olympic chief claims no punishment coming for climber
(Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press)

Profs sue university for including caste in antidiscrimination policy
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Professors at California State University take legal action against school’s unconstitutional caste policy
(Hindu American Foundation)

Nashville’s entangled ‘Prayer Trade’ is a warning to the rest of the country
(David Dark, Religion News Service)

Shuttered cannabis church takes fight to reopen to California Supreme Court
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)

Pope urges French politicians to reject euthanasia
(Catholic News Service)

In a first, EU invites Jews and Muslims to stand up for kosher and halal slaughter amid local bans
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Occupied Ukraine: Religious leaders seized, tortured; churches, mosques closed; no news of seized Baptist couple
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

The failed theological-political dream of Orthodoxy
(Benoît Fauchet, La Croix International)

Russia creates the "Muftiate of Muslims of Little Russia" in the occupied territories
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

The Head of the UGCC calls on the academia of the Catholic Church to give a legal assessment of the modern neo-imperial geopolitics of Russia
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Shechita UK chief warns of ‘threats’ to Jewish religious freedoms in Brussels speech
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

UK inquiry calls for mandatory reporting of child abuse, with no exceptions for sacramental confession
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

IICSA, sacramental confession and mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Religion: Relevant to public policy but shielded from critical discussion?
(David A. Hollinger, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Aquinas’s theology of politics
(Theresa MacArt, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

Portugal’s working group brings interreligious dialogue into the limelight
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Nevada nondiscrimination ballot measure alarms religious liberty lawyers
(Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner)

Religious liberty once again under attack by the cultural elites
(Salena Zito, Washington Examiner)

Portugal is a model for the meeting of cultures and the dialogue between religions (Portuguese)
(Aura Miguel, Renascença)

San Francisco pauses program forwarding city workers’ donations to Christian groups
(Steve Rabey, Religion Unplugged)

Faith Action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals Database
(Parliament of the World's Religions)

G20: Ups and (mostly) downs in Washington during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings
(Katherine Marshall, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

Asian bishops urged to push dialogue for peace, reconciliation
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Religious leaders want end to Ghana's illegal mines
(Damian Avevor, Catholic News Service)

In the news: Breaking religious freedom stories across the country
(First Liberty)

WCC consultation in Dominican Republic helps strengthen church involvement in HIV response
(World Council of Churches)

Interreligious dialogue calling for participation and acting together
(Manda Andrian, World Council of Churches)

Pakistan wraps off its 1st Int'l conference on “Islamophobia”, hosts 1st meeting of religious leaders
(Egypt Today)

India secular character must be preserved, country's top court says
(Arpan Chaturvedi, Reuters)

India: Country secular, take suo motu action against hate speeches: SC tells 3 states
(The Indian Express)

UN Chief admonishes India to protect rights of minorities
(Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch)

Indonesia shamelessly abandons Uyghurs
(Yaqiu Wang, Human Rights Watch)

Brazil: Facts First: Lula is wrong about the creation of a law on religious freedom (Portuguese)
(Luana Cataldi, CNN Brasil)

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Pax­ton fights to pro­tect reli­gious free­dom of cou­ple being forced to par­tic­i­pate in wed­ding that vio­lates faith
(Texas Attorney General)

Message from the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue to Hindus on the occasion of the feast of Deepavali 2022, 17.10.2022
(Holy See Press Office)

Urgent conference on religious slaughter to be held by European Commission
(Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post)

How corporate America is becoming faith-friendly
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Iran: Christian convert ​​​​​​​released from prison
(Middle East Concern)

Pakistan: Abducted, married and forced to convert to Islam - this human rights atrocity must be stopped
(Tehmina Arora, Premier Christianity)

Macron visits Paris mosque to mark its 100th anniversary
(Associated Press)

Hijabs in the CJEU again: SCRL
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Federal appeals courts rule on legislative, judicial prayers
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Church pressures Angolan government to regularize undocumented immigrants
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Human rights must remain the guiding light for our work at the UN: UK national statement at Third Committee
(James Kariuki, GOV.UK)

Government poised to drop Schools Bill which aimed to regulate yeshivot
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

Irish soccer player calls on English authorities to tackle anti-Irish, anti-Catholic abuse
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

U.S. Bishops’ Migration Chairman calls for immigration reform that recognizes the ‘inviolable dignity’ of all newcomers
(United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)

Some Jews ‘do not comply’ with New York gun laws to protect their synagogues
(Jacob Henry, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

When curriculum standards and religion collide, students and faith traditions lose
(Neil Blumofe, Yahoo)

Same-sex marriage is a religious freedom
(Steven Paulikas, The New York Times)

Archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in Europe call on Patriarch Kirill to speak out against the war
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

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