Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 29 July 2022
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)
Biden HHS moves to resurrect LGBTQ bias shield in health care
(Shira Stein, Bloomberg Law)
HHS proposes rule expanding health care nondiscrimination requirements
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religious freedom doesn’t end with Supreme Court protection of Christians
(Allison K. Ralph, Religion News Service)
Angola: Catholic leaders in Angola fear violence ahead of August election
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Court’s ruling on tuition aid puts Blaine Amendment ‘in dustbin of history’
(Jay Nies, Catholic News Service)
Guatemalan bishops warn against political manipulation
(Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service)
Latin-Jewish alliance aims to use star power to combat antisemitism and misinformation in media
(Orge Castellano, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Georgia: Tbilisi’s Jewish community is dwindling. Could an interfaith Peace Cathedral help save it?
(Johanna Ginsberg, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New book: The Economics of the Parables
(Robert Sirico, Regnery Publishing)
The State Service for Ethnic Policy explains the UOC-MP current status
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Russians destroyed 183 religious buildings in Ukraine, the majority of them in the Donetsk region
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Russia's influence in the Balkans: The interplay of religion, politics, and history
(Harun Karčić, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Russian court asked to declare Tajik Islamic Renaissance Party terrorist organization
(Interfax-Religion)
Situation surrounding Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia should not be politicized - Kremlin
(Interfax-Religion)
Tajikistan: Banned from wearing mourning clothes, arrested, tortured
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Uzbekistan: Judge jails Muslim as he "read literature .. spread his beliefs .. met others"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Looking beyond the polls to find Catholic news hooks in stories about 2022 midterms
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
AP visits a small circle of Dominicans in Greece – a lovely story with some missing details
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Tax policy: A sieve separating the genuine pro-lifers from the fakes
(Susan Pace Hamill, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
A National Conservative faith?
(Mark Tooley, Law & Liberty)
Chile: Catholic bishops offer guidance on Chile's new constitution
(La Croix International)
UK: Black and Muslim people bearing the brunt of discrimination – report
(The Voice)
Following outrage, bishops given new option to reject homosexuality vote at Lambeth Conference
(Tola Mbakwe, Premier Christian News)
Principles of Canon Law and the mind of the Anglican Communion
(Mark Hill, Law & Religion UK)
As conflicts continue in South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, Christian groups pray, highlight concerns
(World Council of Churches)
The contrasting visions of the judiciary in Brown and Dobbs
(Michael A. Scaperlanda, First Things)
Kenya: Clerics condemn culture of secrecy in election, urge IEBC to communicate regularly
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Ghana: SECAM plenary to focus on security and migration in Africa, bishop explains
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Asia/Syria - Attack on the inauguration of the church of Saint Sofia, wanted by the Russians
(Agenzia Fides)
What did Christian nationalism have to do with Jan. 6?
(Joel Mathis, The Week)
Sacred and/or secret, confession and other forms of religious secrecy: A scholarly discussion
(Alessandro Amicarelli, Bitter Winter)
Polish party wants to strengthen blasphemy law
(Christian Network Europe)
Sweden: Report shows no problems on Swedish Christian schools, government still wants establishment ban
(Christian Network Europe)
Does Islamophobia pose a threat to cultural Harmony?
(The International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS))
Protection of minorities: Our fruitful work
(Twitter, Muslim World League)
83 groups to Leader McConnell: Stand firm against legislation attacking religious freedom, marriage
(Michael Farris, Alliance Defending Freedom)
Monday, 25 July 2022
Turkey’s Erdogan rails at Greece over Muslim minority rights
(Associated Press)
London Ministerial Innovation Hub: FoRB in the future
(Knox Thames)
RFI contributes to 2022 International Ministerial Conference in London
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Pursuing religious liberty, worldwide - President Dallin H. Oaks
(YouTube Video, Church Newsroom)
President Oaks and Vatican II: A Latter-day Saint apostle praises a late pope and a Catholic document
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Elder Quentin L. Cook participates at United Kingdom Parliament to promote religious freedom, supporting global conference
(Church Newsroom)
Iran: 95-year-old cleric, Jannati, reinstated as head of powerful Guardian Council
(Iran News Wire)
Iran: USCIRF releases new report on Iranian propaganda against religious minorities
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Catholic hospitals’ growth impacts reproductive health care
(Susan Haigh and David Crary, Associated Press)
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