Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
India: Thousands protest ‘bulldozer justice’ against Indian Muslims
(Biswajeet Banerjee, Associated Press)
Study: Facebook fails to catch East Africa extremist content
(Cara Anna, Associated Press)
"It is strange that church leaders in Germany and other countries do not condemn Kirill for supporting Russian aggression," the President of Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
German federal court rejects bid to remove antisemitic relic
(Geir Moulson, Associated Press)
10th Circuit affirms dismissal of church's complaint regarding sending of material to inmates
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
How people of faith can offer comfort — and fight for change — after mass shootings
(Addison Whitmer, Deseret News)
How Judeo-Christian is the US Constitution?
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Philippine clergy welcome assurances from president-elect
(Catholic News Service)
Judge orders Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ organization
(Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began
(Peter Smith and Holly Meyer, Associated Press)
The fight to make sure yeshiva schools provide a secular education, too
(Errol Louis, Intelligencer)
Azerbaijan: Treason case against Imam Sardar Babayev "clearly fabricated"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
What responsibility do journalists have when covering incendiary wars about religion and culture?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)
Nowhere to hide: Los Angeles Times hit job focuses on one side of Biola University tensions
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
The dangerous 303 Creative Case
(Andrew Koppelman, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Apocalypse is now!
(David Cook, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Lutheran Church Charities 'Comfort Dogs' travel to sites of pain and horror
(Steve Rabey, Religion Unplugged)
NZ: Hindu group says New Zealand’s plan to tax cow burps could add to their maltreatment
(Eurasia Review)
Bangladesh: Decoding the narrative ‘there will be no Hindus left in Bangladesh in next 30 years’ – OpEd
(Samina Akhter, Eurasia Review)
Indonesian police arrest alleged propagandist amid crackdown on pro-caliphate group
(Dandy Koswaraputra, Benar News)
Anglican theological educators from Central and South America consult on migration crisis
(Anglican Communion News Service)
“Promises must be fulfilled” – governments urged to honour climate change commitments
(Anglican Communion News Service)
Algeria: Release members of Ahmadi religious minority
(Amnesty International)
FECRIS should lose its consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC
(Bitter Winter)
China: Freedom of religion or belief : Special bimonthly FORB (1-15.06.2022)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Pakistan: Ahmadis once again under attack in Pakistan
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Multi-religious humanitarian fund supports interfaith rehabilitation programme in Ukraine
(Religions for Peace)
Vatican foreign minister emphasizes respecting Ukraine’s territorial integrity
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Orthodox scholar cites role of Moscow patriarch in Russian aggression
(Religiina Pravda, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
"Logic of 'appeasement' does not lead to peace, but only increases aggressor's appetite," Head of the OCU said in Berlin
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
CEC to French EU Presidency: Engage churches to bring peace in Ukraine
(Conference of European Churches)
How to talk about Christian ethics
(Andrew Walker, First Things)
Southern Baptist churches must be ‘dangerous places’ for sexual predators, new president says
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Parliament Trustees pass resolution on the human right to a healthy environment
(Parliament of the World's Religions)
Sri Lankan activists say clergy were not behind May riots
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Religious motive among strongest, most vital motivators of humanitarian action: MWL chief
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Lithuania: Jehovah’s Witnesses and conscientious objection: The ECHR condemns Lithuania
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Ethiopia: Sacred forests: The dialogue between religion and environmental preservation in Ethiopian churches
(ArchDaily)
Iran: I plant secret house churches because I was saved into one
(Nathan Rostampour, Christianity Today)
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
EVENT, 13-14 June 2022: 7th Annual National Muslim Advocacy Day (Washington, DC)
(US Council of Muslim Organizations)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 14 June 2022 (12PM ET): Crisis on the Temple Mount: Religious Freedom & International Law (PDF)
(Featuring Professors Brett Scharffs and Eugene Kontorovich, Center for the Middle East and International Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University)
Monday, 13 June 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT, 13-15 June 2022: ECEN Assembly 2022: Challenges we are living in
(European Christian Environmental Network)
Robin Hadaway, SBC presidential candidate, favors balance in handling abuse claims
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Pakistani filmmakers take top honors in 2022 Religious Freedom & Business Foundation Film Competition
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
New book: The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History
(Michael Rosen, Harvard University Press)
Around the web - 13 June 2022
(Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
In Nigeria, faith is flourishing in the face of the deadly persecution of Catholics
(Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register)
Turkey: "Continuously shrinking space” for freedom in Turkey, warns EU
(ADF International)
Turkey’s ‘culture war’: Anger grows as string of events cancelled
(Paul Benjamin Osterlund, Al Jazeera)
Turkey: Erdogan escalates rhetoric against Greece and mobilizes imams in his re-election bid
(Sofia News Agency)
Right-wing extremists amp up anti-LGBTQ rhetoric online
(Rebecca Boone, Associated Press)
Germany: Study uncovers widespread sexual abuse in Münster diocese
(Deutsche Welle)
Germany: Report finds 196 clerics abused minors in German diocese
(Associated Press)
War and Peace episode 2: The War and the Churches. What can the Churches do? [German]
(YouTube Video, Glaube & Gesellschaft im Gespräch)
Bachelet won’t seek 2nd term as UN human rights chief
(Jamey Keaten, Associated Press)
Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest
(Associated Press)
Italy: Renaissance synagogues being restored in Venice’s ghetto
(Chris Warde-Jones, Associated Press)
Articles of interest - 13 June 2022
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
11th Circuit: Jail's procedure for Passover participation is upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Defining the gap between the worlds of faith and mental health
(Rebecca Olds, Deseret News)
There is no one ‘religious view’ on abortion: A scholar explains
(Samira Mehta, Religion News Service)
Cuba: Fears for health of imprisoned Yoruba religious leader
(CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop Lori decry attacks on pro-life centers
(Catholic News Service)
Myanmar bishops demand that human life, places of worship be respected
(Catholic News Service)
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she feels a ‘special calling’ to protect Jews
(Jacob Kornbluh, Forward)
Transphobic and anti-abortion policies are a direct threat to my religious freedom
(Susan Frederick-Gray, Religion Dispatches)
As Roe clock ticks, press avoids news about another big story – attacks on Catholic churches
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
Plug-In: Faith groups continue to debate solutions to blitz of mass shootings in America
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
UN Human Rights Council 50: UK statement on Eritrea
(Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, GOV.UK)
2022 Ministerial Conference on FoRB: London – Is there a meaningful role for civil society?
(Juan Sanchez Gil, The European Times)
UK: Law and religion round-up – 12th June
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Ten Years of Law and Religion UK
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
L&RUK milestones
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
UK and US charities supporting refugees and asylum seekers to merge
(Stephen Oryszczuk, Jewish News)
UK: Rabbi says ‘there’s no right not to be religiously offended’ in Islam film row
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)
Jehovah’s Witnesses and religious persecution: Do signed declarations help?
(George D. Chryssides, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Secretary Blinken: The rights of religious minorities are under threat in communities around the world
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Religion Unplugged)
India police crack down on protests against Prophet remarks
(Zafar Aafaq, Al Jazeera)
India activist Afreen Fatima says her house bulldozed ‘illegally’
(Zafar Aafaq, Al Jazeera)
Muslims in India stage protests over Prophet comments
(Al Jazeera)
Asia/India - Violence against churches and Christians increase: United Christian Forum appeals to authorities
(Agenzia Fides)
The loneliness of the model minority: Muslim belonging in Malerkotla, Punjab
(Anna Bigelow, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
America/Brazil - Peace and tolerance in elections: cooperation agreement signed by religious confessions
(Agenzia Fides)
Peru: Bishops intervene to save "our common home" amid indiscriminate mining in Peru
(La Croix International)
Malaysia’s Islamists take on the Sultan of Selangor – analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Malaysia: Power struggle between Wahhabi-Salafism and Muslim Brotherhood – analysis
(Murray Hunter, Eurasia Review)
Two sacred spaces and two loving embracers: The Jerusalem Temple and its older brother: The Ka’ba
(Allen S. Maller, Eurasia Review)
Catholic bishops appeal for peace as attacks on pro-life groups, churches rise
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Chinese religious groups pledge to follow communist regulations
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Thailand: Call for deeper ties between Thai Catholics and Muslims
(Tanya Leekamnerdthai, Union of Catholic Asian News)
World Assembly of Islamic Awakening condemns Israeli regime’s recent criminal acts
(International Quran News Agency (IQNA))
Equality slippery slopes
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Labyrinthine zoning rules restricted homeless shelters during the pandemic
(Christian Britschgi, The Volokh Conspiracy)
World: Intolerance and discrimination against Christians, a new report
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Russia: A pacifist Orthodox priest defrocked, arrested and facing 10 years in prison
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Crimean bishoprics directly subordinated to Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
"The ROC and Patriarch Kirill must be held liable for the crime of blessing the murder of peaceful Ukrainians," - Head of OCU
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
"The Russian religious and state machine is doomed" - Cyril Hovorun
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
Ukrainian prosecution of ICC statute crimes: Fair, independent and impartial?
(Kai Ambos, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Tanzania: Religious leaders should work with the government
(Daily News)
Email Subscription
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies maintains a Law and Religion Headlines service covering news about freedom of religion or belief internationally. All interested may subscribe to this service, free of charge, using the link below.
Subscribe