Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 1 August 2022
Egypt keeps former powerhouse Muslim Brotherhood out of politics
(Reuters)
Egypt: Mabrouk Attia to stand trial over contempt of religion charges
(Egypt Independent)
Cato lawsuit to discover if Trump lied to SCOTUS about the Muslim Ban
(David J. Bier, Cato Institute)
Ghana: Harmonious religious diversity is a force for good – Dr Bawumia, as he Launches to Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana’s 175th Anniversary
(African Business)
A “revolutionized” Supreme Court term
(Steven K. Green, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Pakistan: Abolishing blasphemy laws in Pakistan will lead to more violence
(Farah Adeed, Acton Institute)
Thailand: Southern museum eyes multiculturalism
(Bangkok Post)
Human trafficking: ‘All-out assault’ on rights, safety and dignity
(Modern Diplomacy)
U.S. judge rejects parts of Boy Scouts' $2.7 billion sex abuse deal
(Dietrich Knauth, Reuters)
Catholic school shielded from counselor's bias claims over same-sex relationship
(Daniel Wiessner, Reuters)
Church Reporter, Vol. 7/7, 28 July 2022 - Newsletter for the English speaking members and friends of the Church Law Society
(Jiří Rajmund Tretera and Záboj Horák, eds., Church Law Society Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro – České Budějovice)
Lao Evangelical church conducts peace building workshop for Christian leaders
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Center for Women, Faith & Leadership hosts fellowship workshop and retreat in Norway
(Institute for Global Engagement)
Hijabi women face discrimination in Germany, Netherlands, Spain
(Daily Sabah)
European countries clash with United Kingdom over women's rights
(Christian Network Europe)
UK: Communion row over same-sex marriage overshadows Lambeth Conference opening
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – July (I)
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 31st July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Reforming the law on employment status (or not)
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
“Call Bethel”: Jehovah’s Witnesses and sexual abuse. 1. A biased investigation
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Scotland: Aberdeen church backs new food bank role as cost of living crisis hits
(The Church of Scotland)
Summer 2022 Issue
(The Revealer, The Center for Religion and Media at NYU)
Saturday, 30 July 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 July 2022 (2PM ET): Global Watch Party: Human Trafficking
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Friday, 29 July 2022
Talk About Law and Religion: Fred Gedicks on Kennedy V. Bremerton School District
(YouTube Video, International Center for Law and Religion Studies (ICLRS), Brigham Young University)
Portugal launches inquiries into alleged Catholic Church sexual abuse
(Catarina Demony, Reuters)
Vietnam religious freedoms group hits out at sentences against Peng Lei members
(Radio Free Asia)
EVENT, 29 July 2022: Power and the Development of International Law: Asian Perspectives (Kathmandu, Nepal)
(Asian Society of International Law)
WEBINAR, 29 July 2022 (12PM EDT): Extraction and Exploitation: The Effects of Mining on Religious Communities
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Weekly Highlight #215: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: COVID-19 vaccination and social assistance efforts; tensions play out in the law
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Afghanistan: The UN must not ignore Afghan religious minorities
(Martin Parsons, The Critic)
Responsiveness to religious inequalities in contexts of displacement: Evidence from providers of humanitarian assistance to Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan
(Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Maryam Kanwer, Jaffer A. Mirza, Institute of Development Studies)
High court allows sex abuse suit against diocese to proceed
(Mark Pratt, Associated Press)
Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough
(Nicole Winfield and Rob Gillies, Associated Press)
God does not want ‘a world governed by religious laws,’ pope tells Canadian clergy
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
ISIS is a problem of yesterday, today and tomorrow
(Sarhang Hamasaeed, The United States Institute of Peace)
Iraq: Followers of cleric enter Iraqi parliament in show of force
(Ali Abdul-Hassan and Samya Kullab, Associated Press)
Seattle Pacific University sues Washington state over probe into LGBTQ exclusion
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Christian university fights Washington state probe into anti-LGBTQ hiring practices
(Alanna Madden, Courthouse News Service)
Christian university sues to stop investigation of LGBTQ discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge tosses lawsuit from Wisconsin church facing land loss after leaving denomination
(Joe Kelly, Courthouse News Service)
Title IX applies to religiously affiliated school that is tax exempt
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
8th Circuit: Christian school lacks standing to challenge HUD memo on sex discrimination in housing
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The new gun control bill is a good thing, faith leaders say. But the country needs more
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Bishops: HHS proposals are ‘violation of religious freedom and bad medicine’
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Spain: Abuse commission investigates thousands of cases from 1970s, 1980s
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service)
Mali: Militants kill 15 soldiers, 3 civilians in two Mali attacks
(Reuters)
Title VI complaint alleges ongoing antisemitism at CUNY
(Richa Karmarkar, Religion News Service)
Proclaim debt amnesty throughout all the land? A biblical solution to a present-day problem
(Eva von Dassow, The Conversation)
Lufthansa will create a position to fight antisemitism after kicking more than 100 Hasidic passengers off a flight
(Andrew Lapin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jews are barred from political positions of power. A potential law could deepen divides.
(David I. Klein, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Sharif Aly: How Islamic Relief has dealt with disinformation
(Islamic Relief USA)
The Supreme Court says conscience is everything. Or nothing. It depends.
(Len Niehoff, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Italy: The man who could be Pope hopes to shape Italian politics, but will voters listen?
(Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged)
The Parliament of the World’s Religions celebrates the UN recognition of “the right to a healthy environment” as a basic human right
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Indonesia revokes textbook containing 'heretical' Christian teachings
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Jordan: Non-state schools in Jordan call for mandatory Quran teaching
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Australia: Muslim students pray outside to protest inadequate prayer spaces
(About Islam)
Australia: Fatima Payman becomes Australia’s first hijabi senator
(Geo News)
Religious freedom and the Respect for Marriage Act
(Dale Carpenter, The Volokh Conspiracy)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivers keynote address at 2022 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome
(University of Notre Dame Law School)
Belgium: A court has ruled in favour of Jehovah’s Witnesses in alleged sexual abuse cases, La Libre Belgique says
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Churches and marriage
(Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
North Korean persecution of Christians intensifies
(Grayson Jang, Juicy Ecumenism, Institute on Religion and Democracy)
The Supreme Court’s church-state blind spot undermines religious freedom
(Steven M. Freeman, The Hill)
Japan: The LDP’s tangled ties to the Unification Church
(Kosuke Takahashi, The Diplomat)
Interfaith America announces ‘Vote is Sacred’ thought leaders
(Religion News Service)
UK Government conference on religious freedom triggers concern about apostasy hatred in UK
(Pakistan Christian Post)
Senior London rabbi signs letter denouncing secular teaching for Jewish schools
(Jenni Frazer, Jewish News)
Lambeth Conference 2022
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Feds ask judge to toss ACLU-backed lawsuit over grilling of Muslims at border
(Hillel Aron, Courthouse News Service)
Turkish court backs parents’ objection to school religion classes
(Hamdi Firat Buyuk, Balkan Insight)
Hungarian rabbis join critics of Orban speech his own advisor decried as ‘pure Nazi’
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Religious liberty firm goes global with 1,500 international cases
(David Roach, Christianity Today)
Cuba: Leader of one of largest independent religious groups leaves Cuba
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Update from CEC General Secretary | Churches together for hope
(YouTube Video, Conference of European Churches)
Lithuania bans entry to the country of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Russian Church views Patriarch Kirill's ban on entry to Lithuania as abandoning European legal tradition
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens a cultural heritage the two countries share, including Saint Sophia Cathedral
(J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation)
French Constitutional Council validates controversial separatism law
(Christian Network Europe)
15 NGOs+ send letter to Secretary Blinken to throw pro-Russian anticult organization out from United Nations
(Jan Leonid Bornstein, The European Times)
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s words on Christian nationalism are a wake-up call
(Amanda Tyler, CNN)
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Canada: A religiously diverse Edmonton hosts Pope Francis’ visit
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)
Chief Littlechild’s headdress gift to Pope Francis carries heavy significance
(Joy Spearchief-Morris and Willow Fiddler, The Globe and Mail)
An interfaith group in Oregon is behind one of nation’s strictest gun control measures
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
The religious and anti-Chinese roots of “Replacement” theory
(Kathryn Gin Lum, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
How the fight to ban abortion is rooted in the ‘Great Replacement’ theory
(Alex Samuels and Monica Potts, FiveThirtyEight)
Human rights advocacy in a world of interests: why the EU fell short at India’s Raisina Dialogue
(Jonathan de Leyser, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
India: How a ‘love jihad’ case was manufactured in India’s Uttar Pradesh
(Oishika Neogi, Al Jazeera)
Kashmir: Despite disaster, 35 deaths, Hindu religious pilgrimage in Kashmir continues
(Tarushi Aswani, The Diplomat)
Supporting persecuted Christians in Nigeria: An interview with Croatian MP Marijana Petir
(Marco Respinti, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Sino-Vatican deal blamed for church demolition in China
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
The Vatican-China agreement and Pope Francis: To renew or not to renew?
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Is Church Autonomy Jurisdictional?
(Lael Daniel Weinberger, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Forthcoming)
United Nations, Kingdom of Morocco conclude high-level symposium commemorating fifth anniversary of Fez Action Plan adoption
(United Nations)
At Oak Flat, courts and politicians fail tribes
(Anna V. Smith, High Country News)
The Catholic Church can do more to address crimes against Indigenous Peoples
(Emily Riddle, The Washington Post)
After court ruling, activists push prayer into schools
(Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post)
‘Minis’ may return to liquor stores in deeply religious Utah
(Associated Press)
Australia: Some rugby league players in Australia refuse pride jersey
(Associated Press)
Hays board asked to remove satanism reference in dress code
(Associated Press)
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