Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 2 May 2022
Thoughts on today’s big #SCOTUS win for religious liberty.
(LoriWindham, Twitter)
Malaysian lawmaker sentenced for criticizing Shariah court system
(International Christian Concern)
California Catholic dioceses ask Supreme Court to hear statute of limitations extension case
(Katie Yoder, Catholic News Agency)
India: Hindu leaders from around the world denounce hate
(Sindh Courier)
India: Assam state leader pushes to replace India's religion-based laws
(Reuters)
Mesut Ozil on India: ‘What is happening to human rights in the so-called largest democracy in the world?’
(Express News)
Bolivia: General consul of Bolivia visits WCC to strengthen collaborative work
(World Council of Churches)
The Court and the culture wars: When “religious freedom” gets complicated.
(Lauren Jackson, The New York Times)
Anglicans at UN call for protection of vulnerable in Ukraine
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Why are we uncomfortable with religion in the public square? (podcast)
(Ricochet)
Israel: The US must support freedom of religion on the Temple Mount
(Farley Weiss, Jewish News Syndicate)
Finland: Päivi Räsänen’s case is not over: Finnish prosecutor appeals
(Evangelical Focus)
Finnish prosecutor will keep prosecuting Christian politician for quoting the Bible
(Joy Pullmann, The Federalist)
Black Satanist candidate faces LA sheriff shakedown
(Joseph Laycock, Religion Dispatches)
Abortion right guaranteed by Roe will be replaced by state power if the Supreme Court adopts the leaked Alito opinion
(Morgan Marietta, The Conversation)
Friday, 29 April 2022
Church Reporter, Vol. 7/4, 23 April 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)
Finnish prosecutor revives ‘Bible Trial’ hate speech charges against Christian politician
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
EVENT, 29 April 2022 (4:30PM ET): Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together
(International Law Society)
WEBINAR, 29 April 2022 (9AM EDT): Listening to the Stories of Local Faith Actors on COVID-19 Responses: A Canvas of Experiences from Around the World
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
For Muslims in Ukraine, war revives questions of faith and belonging
(Hannah Allam, The Washington Post)
The ECtHR and the Russian Foreign Agents’ Law – a devastating case of judicial passivity
(Jessica Gavron, Strasbourg Observers)
Sympathy for the devil: The anti-cult federation FECRIS, China, and Russia. 6. The Russian FECRIS’ support for the invasions of Ukraine
(Luigi Berzano, Boris Falikov, Willy Fautré, Liudmyla Filipovich, Massimo Introvigne, and Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Bitter Winter)
EVENT, 29 April 2022: Religious Liberty on Trial at the Supreme Court
(Faith & Law)
Archdiocese of Seattle settles 2 sex abuse claims for $375K
(Associated Press)
Interfaith Trolley offers tour of religion in America
(Bob Smietana, Associated Press)
Survivors unite to deliver message on Holocaust remembrance
(Luis Andres Henao, Associated Press)
1st Circuit: Employees with religious objection to vaccine mandate not entitled to injunction
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit challenges Maine's ban on Sunday hunting
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Lawsuit contends Maine’s right-to-food amendment allows for Sunday hunting
(Deirdre Fleming, Portland Press Herald)
Parents sue over school's nondisclosure of children's gender identity issues
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Parents’ lawsuit claims school secretly helped kids adopt new gender identities
(Samantha Kamman, The Christian Post)
Police department blurs church/state lines in AHA lawsuit
(Kate Uesugi, The Humanist)
Health-sharing ministry's bankruptcy shows need for good standards, scrutiny, insiders say
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)
City approves church's private school after allegations of stonewalling over religious beliefs
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Diaconal work in Europe is shaped by response to humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
(World Council of Churches)
Colombian human rights advocates engage in strategic talks in the US
(World Council of Churches)
A framework for analyzing a church autonomy defense
(Lael Weinberger, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Timor-Leste president-elect pledges to work with Church
(Ryan Dagur, Union of Catholic Asian News)
India: For Dr. Kezevino Aram, joy comes from serving the most vulnerable
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
In India, religion and neoliberal individualism have converged
(Ajay Gudavarthy, The Leaflet)
Indian prelate denies claims of conversion at Christian school
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Florida city ordered to pay church $250,000 in legal fees over parking lot dispute
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Charles Malik, Christian diplomat
(Habib C. Malik, First Things)
Baylor University charters LGBTQ group
(Carl R. Trueman, First Things)
What will the next chapter of Islam look like?
(Al Jazeera)
Southern Baptist Convention sexual abuse investigation tops $1.7 million
(Anne Stych, Religion Unplugged)
Russians set up a recreation area at the Muslim cemetery in Bakhchisarai, - Denisova
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Putin targets Jehovah’s Witnesses because he assumes few will come to their defense
(Paul Goble, Eurasia Review)
Serbia’s Pedro Arrupe Integration House — providing unaccompanied refugee children the childhood they deserve
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)
Marjorie Taylor Greene showed that the most brutal anti-Catholicism can come from Catholics
(Bill McCormick, America: The Jesuit Review)
Marjorie Taylor Greene feuds with conservative Catholics over ‘Satan’ remarks
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
30 years after Rodney King unrest, one faith leader’s vision still inspires LA
(Richard Flory, Najuma Smith-Pollard, Religion News Service)
Jewish, Muslim groups voice concerns over Musk Twitter takeover
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
China seeks stricter control of religious groups' finances
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
China: USCIRF: Religious liberty situation worse, not better, in China
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Statement from Rahima Mahmut on #YomHashoah
(Twitter, Stop Uyghur Genocide)
Interview: China has more tools than ever to target Uyghurs abroad
(Reid Standish, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
China: Persecution of Christians in China growing under Xi Jinping
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Supreme Court can save religious liberty for football coaches, and for all Americans
(Mike Pence, Fox News)
The Supreme Court has an opportunity to affirm the religious liberty of our founding
(Mike Pompeo, American Center for Law and Justice)
See which national leaders have toured the Washington D.C. Temple, from the Supreme Court to Congress
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Perspective: The dark side of AI (Artificial intelligence holds promise, but also potential risks for religious freedom)
(Bonnie Glick and Kennedy Lee, Deseret News)
The decline of church-state separation
(Eric C. Miller, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
Debate over sanctions against Moscow patriarchate
(RISU, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Kazakhstan president greets bishops at first plenary meeting
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Kazakhstan: Six months after UN decision, no releases from sentences, no compensation
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
What is religion's role if powerful social media trends are endangering America?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Liberal integralism: Liberals, not conservatives, have truly melded church and state.
(Casey Chalk, The American Conservative)
Ramadan series tackle women’s issues and religion
(Eman Alhussein, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington)
The Christian’s call to civil disobedience?
(Jennifer Gray Woods, Adventist Review)
Egypt: 239 churches and places of worship legalised by government committee
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Egypt: End restrictions on religious rituals
(Human Rights Watch)
How race and religion have always played a role in who gets refuge in the US
(Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen Hooge Michalka, Luis A. Romero, The Conversation)
The decline of Catholicism in Latin America
(Marina E. Franco, Axios)
Religious liberty, government regulation, and the public square (podcast)
(Jennifer Mascott, Riocochet)
Strictly Legal: Satanic Temple loses defamation claim
(Jack Greiner, cincinnati.com)
Webinar: The ongoing assault on freedom of religion in Cuba: Update from CSW & Cuban faith leaders
(YouTube Video, Outreach Aid to the Americas)
More context needed in student's suit over right to wear shirt with anti-gay bible verse
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Free exercise challenge to Washington vaccine mandate is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
11th Circuit hears oral arguments in city prayer vigil case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A Proclamation on Jewish American Heritage Month, 2022
(Joseph R. Biden Jr., The White House)
S3, Ep. 15: The coach is the loudspeaker and the field is his classroom: Recapping the arguments in Kennedy v. Bremerton
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
What Russia’s crimes in Ukraine reveal about the secular culture’s ethics
(Charles C. Camosy, RNS Column: Purple Catholicism)
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff touts ‘critical’ interfaith collaboration
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Ukraine, the Vatican, and Vatican II: The war in Ukraine presents challenges for the Church.
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
Hispanic Catholic leaders emphasize bipartisanship in immigration reform
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mexico's bishops decry prevailing violence, impunity in the country
(David Ramos, Catholic News Agency)
Mexican Church leaders blame State for violence against women
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Harvard Crimson endorses BDS movement, while rejecting antisemitism, in potent symbol of campus sentiment about Israel
(Andrew Lapin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Russian Foreign Ministry advised Washington to take care of religious freedoms in the United States
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Orthodox Church indicates interest in achievement of lasting peace in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Podcast: AP fails to connect religion dots in latest surge in homeschooling statistics
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
US support of global religious freedom must go beyond rhetoric
(Lena Abboud, The Hill)
Facing apocalypse: Climate, democracy and other last chances
(Catherine Keller, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
The spiritual quest of identity politics (podcast)
(With Joshua Mitchell, hosted by Richard M. Reinsch II, Law & Liberty)
Morocco: Ramadan: 80 Moroccans arrested for publicly eating in Casablanca
(Oumaima Latrech, Morocco World News)
Fighting anti-Catholicism is what we do – OpEd
(William Donohue, Eurasia Review)
Belize: For popular Belize resort destination Islam is a family affair
(Joseph Hammond, Religion Unplugged)
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