Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 1 April 2022
UK: London judge jails husband who withheld Jewish divorce from his wife
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
UK: Property firm owner jailed after failing to grant wife Jewish religious divorce
(Luke O'Reilly, Jewish News)
UK: Ecclesiastical court judgments – March 2022
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
France presents project A/HRC/49/L.2 on Freedom of Religion or Belief, on behalf of the EU, and gets adopted by the HRC
(The European Times)
France: La Flotte-en-Ré: The case of the Virgin Mary Statue goes on
(Pierluigi Zoccatelli, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
France: Catholics for Zemmour
(Harrison Stetler, Commonweal)
Spain: Madrid takes to the streets against abortion and euthanasia
(Benito Rodríguez, Aleteia)
Malta: Facing declining Mass attendance, Malta’s Catholics hope papal visit will revitalize the faith
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)
Latvia: Prosecutor General threatens to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses based on false media reports
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Latvia, following Russia, threatens to “liquidate” the Jehovah’s Witnesses
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Hungary: More Orban or a party with a neo-Nazi record? Hungary’s Jews don’t like their choices in this week’s election.
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
CEC General Secretary meets the Ecumenical Patriarch
(Conference of European Churches)
Kosovo Muslims want ban on religious dress in schools lifted
(Xhorxhina Bami and Egzon Dahsyla, Balkan Insight)
Azerbaijan’s churches explain their evangelism
(Jayson Casper, Christianity Today)
Thursday, 31 March 2022
NOMINATIONS FOR AWARD, due 31 March 2022: Jinnah Award for Religious Tolerance
(APPG for Pakistani Minorities)
WEBINAR, 31 March 2022 (11AM ET): The Ongoing Assault on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Cuba: An Update from CSW and Cuban Faith Leaders
(Outreach Aid to the Americas and CSW: Everyone Free to Believe)
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Duke University divided over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians — and antisemitism
(Mark I. Pinsky, Religion News Service)
Indonesian Islamists told to respect non-Muslims at Ramadan
(Konradus Epa, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Israel defense chief, Jordan’s king discuss Ramadan calm
(Associated Press)
Gulf states plan Yemen talks without Houthi rebels present
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition to halt military offensive
(Deutsche Welle)
EVENT, 29-30 March 2022: Rev. Dr. Jay Augustine to deliver 2022 Shurden Lectures on the campuses of Mercer University
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
EVENT, 30 March 2022 (7:30PM Dublin): 'Taking Stock: assessing the last two years and the road ahead'
(The Iona Institute)
VIRTUAL EVENT, 30 March 2022 (8AM MST): International Law and the War in Ukraine (with Marko Milanovic)
(Athens Public International Law Center)
Daniel Krotov and Yannick Schoog
(Strasbourg Observers)
Tracking new action on abortion legislation across the states
(Caroline Kitchener, Kevin Schaul, and Daniela Santamarina, The Washington Post)
Supreme Court says death row inmate entitled to pastor’s touch at execution
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)
More houses of worship are reopening, but attendance is flat, new survey shows
(Yonat Shimron, The Washington Post)
Indigenous peoples across the globe are uniquely equipped to deal with the climate crisis - so why are we being left out of these conversations?
(Janine Mohamed, Pat Anderson, and Veronica Matthews, The Conversation)
Jehovah’s Witnesses to resume in-person meetings April 1
(Mark Kellner, The Washington Times)
Churches reopen, but congregants are missing, new study reveals
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
Two Orthodox Christian countries at war – here’s an explanation of the faith tradition shared by Russia and Ukraine
(J. Eugene Clay, The Conversation)
Why aren't Muslims' religious freedoms equally protected? Rutgers professor explains | Opinion
(Hannah Adely, North)
The Patriarch who's in lockstep with Putin
(Stephen Minas, EUobserver)
Putin recruits ‘Muslims’ for his war in Ukraine
(Willy Fautré, The European Times)
A spiritual defense of the war in Ukraine? Putin’s patriarch is trying
(Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times)
India: Unhappy with her interfaith relationship, girl's family tries to kidnap her from court premises
(Sonali Mishra, The Times of India)
India: Christians accused of religious conversion in India
(Bijay Kumar Minj, Union of Catholic Asian News)
India: Two pastors jailed in central India
(International Christian Concern)
India: Justice Thomas speaks on freedom of religion
(India Education Diary)
Education for assimilation: The lasting consequences of Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States
(JoAnne Wadsworth, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)
The Australia School and politico-theological inquiry: Joel Harrison responds
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
Tradition and compelling interests in religion cases
(Mark Movsesian, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Afghanistan: Taliban reversal on girls' education ignites world's anger
(Lynne O'Donnell, Foreign Policy)
Afghanistan: The Taliban is holding girls’ education hostage in Afghanistan – the question is, why?
(Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam, The Conversation)
Afghanistan: A holistic response to forced migration
(Lizzi Joyner, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
China’s Afghan ambitions on show at multinational meetings
(Associated Press)
Texas to review prayer, touch requests in executions by case
(Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press)
Navy barred from acting against religious vaccine refusers
(Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)
Orthodox patriarch denounces ‘atrocious invasion’ of Ukraine
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
Pope Francis pleads for world to erase war before it erases human history
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)
TX Court grants Navy class certification protection from shot mandate
(Liberty Counsel)
With ‘Christian cannabis,’ a pastor is promoting the spiritual side of marijuana
(Diana Kruzman, Religion News Service)
Senate committee advances Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism monitor
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The worst Ginni Thomas text wasn’t from Ginni Thomas: Mark Meadows and the dangerous religious zeal of “Stop the Steal”
(David French, The Atlantic)
Interfaith rally supports Ketanji Brown Jackson in front of Supreme Court
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Turn on the news: Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s faith doesn’t matter (but Amy Coney Barrett’s did)
(Daniel Schultz, Religion Dispatches)
The head of the North Caucasus' Muslims considers negotiations with Ukraine pointless
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian church reacts to bill in Ukrainian parliament
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
28 communities have left the UOC-MP to join the OCU since the beginning of the war
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
The Russian Christians boldly issuing anti-war appeals
(April L. French and Mark R. Elliott, Religion Unplugged)
Jordan king: Israel must respect Muslim rights at Al-Aqsa
(Al Jazeera)
The time is ripe for a clergy abuse inquiry in Latin America
(Adalberto Méndez López, Al Jazeera)
Russia and the European human rights system: Doing the right thing … but for the right legal reason?
(Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Philippines: Church help sought for volcano evacuees in Philippines
(Joseph Peter Calleja, Union of Catholic Asian News)
Taiwan: Belgian priests get Taiwanese citizenship for supporting poor
(Union of Catholic Asian News)
Ghana: Continental plenary of Bishops to discuss insecurity in Africa
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Burundi: Country’s reconciliation dominate president’s talk with Pope Francis
(Arnold Neliba, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Egypt: Pope mourns Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria of Copts
(Paschal Norbert, Catholic Information Service for Africa)
Adventist mission sends emergency funds to Ukraine
(Andrew McChesney, Adventist News Network)
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
(Matthew Harris, The Immanent Frame)
Palestinian gunman kills 5 in 3rd attack in Israel in a week
(Ilan Ben Zion, Religion News Service)
The road to decriminalization of psychoactive drugs runs through religion
(Brad Stoddard, Religion Dispatches)
Bride trafficking along the China-Pakistan economic corridor
(Madiha Afzal, Brookings Institution)
Higher religious adherence may be associated with lower mortality
(Avneesh Bhangu and Nicholas Ng Fat Hing, 2 minute medicine)
Polish churches receive training to ensure strong and safe communities
(Conference of European Churches)
Ethiopia’s war in Tigray risks wiping out centuries of the world’s history
(Hagos Abrha Abay, The Conversation)
With all eyes on Ukraine, Latin American dictators attack religious freedom
(Teo Babún, Washington Examiner)
NGOs call on US Senators to hold gross violators of human rights accountable
(ADF International)
Russian-controlled Crimea orders law to ban Ukrainian Orthodox Church
(The Jerusalem Post)
Cuba: ‘A new front’ in the pursuit of justice in Cuba
(Anna Lee Stangl, FoRB in Full: A blog by CSW)
“Ordinary workers” — Some thoughts sparked by a Marketplace Ministry for Microsoft (MMFM)’s March wisdom meeting
(Kent Johnson, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
Russia sentences two Crimean Tatars to 17 and 13 years for talking about their faith
(Halya Coynash, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group)
Iran bans women from stadiums, again
(Asia News)
Ban on proselytizing at city farmers market violates free speech rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Religion and nationalism in global perspective (plus responses)
(Nora Fisher Onar, Mona Oraby, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Candace Lukasik, Philip W. Barker, Michael J. Walsh, Scott W. Hibbard, Shaunna Rodrigues, Katherine Kelaidis, Brian Haggard, Landon Schnabel, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Two stories of emergent agency from faith groups in COVID-19
(Olivia Wilkinson, Katherine Marshall, James Huff, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Perspective: Why African Americans hold fast to their faith
(Theresa Dear, Deseret News)
Sephardic citizenship bids at risk amid ‘implosion’ of New Mexico’s Jewish community leadership
(Asaf Shalev, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Orthodox women sue airlines after being grounded on flight home to New York
(Julia Gergely, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Getting ‘more Christians into politics’ is the wrong Christian goal
(David French, Dispatch: The French Press)
Muslim women in hijab get the brunt of discrimination. I asked them what that’s like.
(Nura Sediqe, The Washington Post)
On kinship, collective memory, and Ukraine: The developing, collective memory of Ukraine’s recent history, with the short stories and images that encapsulate and promote it, is unlikely to be suppressed or soon forgotten.
(Doren Snoek, Sightings - The University of Chicago Divinity School)
Russian Defense Ministry accuses Ukrainian troops of attempt to stash ammo in Uman synagogue
(Interfax-Religion)
Intra-faith standoff possible in Ukraine if bill banning Russian-based religious organizations adopted - Russian Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Moscow extremely negatively views Ukrainian bill banning activities of Russian Orthodox Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Guiding Christians to the best conciliation process and preparing them to participate well in it
(Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
The Russian Orthodox Church’s empire of media
(Jacob Lassin, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Orthodox leaders in Ukraine shifting allegiance from Moscow to Kyiv lest they appear ‘collaborators and agents of Russia’
(Paul Goble, Eurasia Review)
FEET executive committee statement against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))
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