Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 22 July 2022
What the history of ‘Judeo-Christian’ can teach us about fighting Christian nationalism
(Eboo Patel, Robert P. Jones, Religion News Service)
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
‘This is an issue of equality’: Maryland law to allow religious garments in college sports
(Amy Li, CNN)
Rome: Notre Dame Religious Liberty Initiative
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Statement on Notre Dame Religious Freedom Summit in Rome
(Instagram, Dallin H. Oaks)
In Rome, President Oaks continues Latter-day Saint effort to champion religious liberty worldwide
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Offering a historic address in Rome, Italy, President Oaks calls for a global effort to ‘defend and advance’ religious freedom
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Church News)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 20 July 2022 (5AM ET): Countering Hate Speech: Guidance for civil society and activists
(Minority Rights Group International)
House passes protection for same-sex, interracial marriages with bipartisan support
(Marianna Sotomayor, Leigh Ann Caldwell and Paul Kane, The Washington Post)
House passes marriage equality bill in post-Dobbs push
(Law360)
What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it’s a matter of sexual strategies
(Jaimie Arona Krems and Martie Haselton, The Conversation)
Religious liberty has a long and messy history – and there is a reason Americans feel strongly about it
(James Hudnut-Beumler and James P. Byrd, The Conversation)
Nigeria: Religious freedom takeaways on the ground in Nigeria
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Nigeria: Making sense of Christian persecution in Nigeria
(Mathew Otieno, MercatorNet)
Anglophone Islam: A New Conceptual Category
(Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Springer Link)
Memphis pastor is second UMC clergy killed this year
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
Uganda: Villas to villages: Uganda's religious networks fight corruption at all levels
(International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
How interreligious collaboration can bring peace: An interview with Dr. Azza Karam
(Tracy Marshall, Development Guild DDI)
Western Sahara: Christian/Muslim dialogue in refugee camps
(YouTube Video, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global)
Weekly Highlight #214: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: COVID-19 and religion on global and local agendas
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Indonesian Catholics ‘watchful’ after hardline Islamist released
(Katharina R. Lestari, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Indonesia: Persecution watchdog concerned over strengthening of Indonesia’s anti-blasphemy laws
(Tola Mbakwe, Premier Christian News)
Egypt: Mobs attack Christians’ homes, businesses after church's legal recognition
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Afghanistan: UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban
(Rahim Faiez, Associated Press)
Indian Catholics seek withdrawal of ‘misleading’ lesson on Hagia Sophia
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
India’s top court orders release of jailed Muslim journalist
(Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press)
Greek Church protests baptism for celebrity same-sex parents
(Derek Gatopoulos, Associated Press)
Vatican imposes new investment policy amid financial scandal
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Right-wing think tank Family Research Council is now a church in eyes of the IRS
(Andrea Suozzo, Pro Publica)
Pope tells religious orders to report abuse, protect others
(Associated Press)
In an unprecedented food crisis, Buddhist anti-hunger fund meets its moment
(Haley Barker, Religion News Service)
Philippines: ‘Red-tagging’ threat fails to frighten Filipino religious superiors
(Catholic News Service)
Democrats’ ‘contraception’ bill overrides religious-freedom law and protects abortion
(John McCormack, National Review)
The uselessness of “Christian Nationalism”
(Miles Smith, Mere Orthodoxy)
Kazakhstan: Seven years' jail for online Muslim posts
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
The Supreme Court expands the rights of prisoners facing execution
(Peter Wosnik, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Free Exercise as a social good
(Kody W. Cooper, Law & Liberty)
Albania: God and the ghosts of Communism
(Thomas Albert Howard, Law & Liberty)
Children across Africa and Asia celebrate Nelson Mandela Day
(Vicky Abraham, Religion Unplugged)
Israeli journalist sneaks into Mecca triggering online backlash
(Al Jazeera)
Ivory Coast’s controversial polygamy bill: All you need to know
(Hannane Ferdjani, Al Jazeera)
Elementary school logo evokes Nazi image, critics claim; district halts rollout
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Tolerance and multiculturalism: Regional and religious perspectives
(JoAnne Wadsworth, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)
Myanmar bishop urges respect for human dignity, property
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Community network survey results reveal Muslims in NYC dealing with racism, threats at early ages
(CBS New York)
WCC listens to Christian organizations in Holy Land ahead of WCC 11th Assembly
(World Council of Churches)
COMECE 2021 Annual Report now online
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
COMECE welcomes launch of EU accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia
(The Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE))
National survivor survey to inform Church's safeguarding work
(The Church of England)
UK: Wedding laws need biggest shake-up since 19th Century - report
(Harry Farley, BBC News)
UK Labour leader Starmer defends showing Berlin Holocaust memorial in election video
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
UK: Law Commission final report on reforming weddings law in England & Wales
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Sudan: Four Christians face execution as Sudan reverts to Islamist law
(Lela Gilbert, Hudson Institute)
South Africa: Religion and state need to be in balance to protect democracy in South Africa
(Dion Forster, The Conversation)
Switzerland: Lake Geneva baptism ban infuriates evangelical churches
(Al Arabiya News)
Unlikely alliance blooming between religious rights, abortion rights movements
(Mary Julia Koch, New York Sun)
China: Statement on the 23rd anniversary of the persecution of the Falun Gong
(Twitter, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China)
China & Central Asia: Xi seeks to “sinicize” Islam in Xinjiang
(Eurasianet)
Iran cracks down on house churches
(International Christian Concern)
Russia’ Security Council: New law needed to “neutralize” “cults” and “foreign” religions
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Russian court nullifies acquittal of Jehovah's Witness
(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
UGCC Patriarch meets with the US ambassador to Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Metropolitan Onufriy meets with the US Ambassador to Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
US rabbi reviving Jewish roots in her family’s Italian town
(Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press)
Exhibit recalls Catholic journalists’ courage in Lithuania under Soviets
(Christina Lee Knauss, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Monday, 18 July 2022
Justice Department files religious discrimination suit against the City of Lansing, Michigan
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Statement on Bethlehem and the Church of the Nativity
(Twitter, Joseph R. Biden Jr.)
High-level attention to freedom of religion and belief and its linkage to sustainable development
(International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD))
Morocco: King Mohammed VI recognizes Jewish community as part of Moroccan culture
(Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post)
SUMMER SCHOOL COURSE, 18-23 July 2022: Theology of the Other under the Pressure of the Empire
(The Eastern European Institute of Theology)
When a company’s public positions are in tension with employees beliefs
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Pakistan: The right to have rights: The intense hatred towards a religious community
(Raza Habib Raja, The Express Tribune)
Pakistani Christian mechanic sentenced to death for blasphemy
(Kevin Zeller, Mission Network News)
Religion Watch, Volume 37 No. 8
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Around the web - 18 July 2022
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
New book: Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
(John T McGreevy, W. W. Norton & Company)
U.S. houses of worship increase security after shootings
(Deepa Bharath and Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)
Lebanon LGBTQ community suffers setback amid wider clampdown
(Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press)
Articles of interest - 18 July 2022
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The activist behind opposition to the separation of church and state
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
More than 100 Florida churches file lawsuit to leave United Methodist Church
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Top Italian prelate urges unity amid latest political crisis
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nigerian prelate sees attacks on Christians as part of broader government failures
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Antisemitism scandal roils international art exhibition Documenta 15, held in Germany
(Toby Axelrod, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
France: Marking 80 years since deportation of French Jews, Macron vows to oppose antisemitism today
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Pew gap in blue America? David French and Ryan Burge offer much to think about
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Switzerland is particularly concerned about the increasing number of hate crimes (FoRB Ministerial)
(The European Times)
Revista Derecho y Religión (2022): “Eutanasia y Laicidad”
(Santiago Cañamares Arribas, Salvador Pérez Álvarez, Marcos González Sánchez, Instituto Metodológico de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado (IMDEE))
'War on Women' needs forceful response, not glib statements
(Shada Islam, EUobserver)
China: Freedom of religion or belief: Bimonthly FORB newsletter (01-15.07.2022)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Photos of the week: Shinzo Abe assassination; Eid al-Adha commemorations
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Japan: Abe’s assassination: An anti-cult hate crime?
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Japan: Shinto religion has long been entangled with Japan’s politics – and Shinzo Abe was associated with many of its groups
(Kaitlyn Ugoretz, The Conversation)
Patriarch Theophilos III relays Christians’ concerns to US President Joe Biden
(World Council of Churches)
Two Weeks in Review, 4 July – 17 July
(Tal Gross, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Iran: Book discussing compatibility of Islam with democracy published in Iran
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Canada: Alberta's human rights commission chief under fire for Islamophobic book review
(Mrinali Anchan, CBC News)
Sri Lankan bishops want tainted politicians away from power
(Quintus Colombage, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Korean religious groups call for abolition of death penalty
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Bishops renew peace calls for Africa's Great Lakes Region
(Prisca Materanya, La Croix International)
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