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Friday, 11 March 2022

Pakistan Prime Minister endorses Islamization
(International Christian Concern)

Oklahoma Muslims return to state Capitol for day of advocacy
(Carla Hinton, The Oklahoman)

Australian Christian Lobby, religious parties seek to gain influence in SA election
(Rebecca Puddy, ABC News Australia)

Indonesia: Ministry to issue circular on worship in places of worship
(Antara News)

German Bishops: 'Unacceptable to lend religious legitimacy to war'
(Lisa Zengarini, Vatican News)

Germany loosens asylum requirements for Ukrainian Jews amid ongoing war with Russia
(Toby Axelrod, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Graduate Theological Union’s GTUx is launched to spiritually equip ‘nones,’ activists
(Kathryn Post, Religion News Service)

Christians, Jews and Muslims experience workplace discrimination differently, new Rice research shows
(Rice University’s Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP))

Some churches take virtual worship all the way, ditching buildings entirely
(Diana Kruzman, Religion Unplugged)

How Burkina Faso became the epicentre of conflict in the Sahel
(Mucahid Durmaz, Al Jazeera)

The Istanbul Convention: A missed opportunity in mainstreaming cyberviolence against women in human rights law?
(Gizem Guney, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Sri Lanka: Rights body calls for reform of Sri Lankan abortion law
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Nigeria: Catholic priest abducted, parish worker killed in Kaduna
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)

UN report decries “criminalisation” and persecution of Baha’is across MENA region
(Bahá’í International Community)

UN expert raises alarm over serious human rights violations against religious minorities in situations of conflict
(Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations)

Austria: Perpetrators despoil and damage church in Villach
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Italy: Napoli church defaced with graffiti for the second time
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

France: Church tagged with insults against priest
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

France: Tiktok influencers desecrate French church on viral video
(Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe)

Swedish Jewish man denied entry to bus due to Jewish symbol on clothing
(Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post)

Spain: Ombudsman tasked with probing church sex abuse record
(Associated Press)

Portugal: Rabbi tied to inquiry into Roman Abramovich’s Portuguese citizenship arrested: Report
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Sister Dierdre “Dede” Byrne sues Washington, DC, over health worker COVID-19 vaccine mandate
(Thomas More Society)

Thursday, 10 March 2022

EVENT, 10-11 March 2022: 2022 Church History Symposium—Latter-day Saints and Religious Liberty: Historical and Global Perspectives
(BYU Department of Church History and Doctrine and the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

EVENT, 10-12 March 2022: Wellbeing of digitalized societies and work place
(Conference of European Churches)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 8-10 March 2022: Training for Civil Society on Addressing Anti-Christian Hate Crime
(Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

WEBINAR, 10 March 2022 (14:30 UCT/Ghana, 15:30 Nigeria, 16:30 So Africa): ACLARS 2022 Regional Webinar Series - #2: Law, Religion and International Relations in West Africa: The Way Forward
(African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and the West African Regional Centre for Law and Religion Studies (WARCLARS))

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Malawi: Country is still in anguish, warns Catholic bishops
(Catholic Information Service for Africa)

Ethiopian bishops reiterate call for peace in their country
(Fredrick Nzwili, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

WEBINAR, 9 March 2022 (8PM ET): Securing Religious Freedom: The Eruv Litigations: Robert G. Sugarman, Esq. & Yehudah L. Buchweitz, Esq.
(Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 9 March 2022 (10:30 AM in London): APPG special meeting on preventing persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in India
(All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)

Ivory Coast: Abidjan interfaith dialogue: A turning point of religious tolerance in Africa
(Hamisu Kabir Matazu, Daily Trust)

Uganda: Hardline Muslims kill evangelist at open-air event
(Morning Star News)

Perspective: The little-known connection between religious freedom and Putin’s war
(Brian Grim, Deseret News Opinion)

Methodist conservatives to launch breakaway group in May
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)

On March 6, ironically Forgiveness Sunday for the Orthodox, Patriarch Kirill abandoned all caution and blessed the war of aggression against Ukraine and the “false freedom” of democratic countries
(Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

In some ways, this is a religious war
(Jim Geraghty, National Review)

Refugees, reporting and the far right: how the Ukraine crisis reveals brutal ‘everyday racism’ in Europe and beyond
(Bina Fernandez, The Conversation)

How the Ukraine war is dividing Orthodox Christians
(Jonathan L. Zecher, The Conversation)

Resist the risk of a nuclear winter, rally for the global peaceful spring
(Cardinal Charles Bo, Religions for Peace)

Episcopal-Methodist full communion partnership on hold as UMC delays vote on split over LGBTQ+ inclusion
(Melodie Woerman, Episcopal News Service)

Can churches be protectors of public health?
(Andrew Gardner, The Conversation)

In Texas, the nation’s largest children’s hospital is halting gender-affirming care for trans youths
(Anne Branigin, The Washington Post)

Tennessee has a choice: stop adding anti-LGBTQ legislation or continue to cause harm
(R.G. Cravens, The Tennessean)

The affair of the sausages and religious freedom: Five hundred years ago today, some Swiss people ate sausages. This was a major event in the history of Christianity.
(Russell P. Johnson, Sightings - The University of Chicago Divinity School)

Pakistan broaches ‘Hijab Day’ for International Women’s Day
(Lynne O'Donnell, Foreign Policy)

Reactions of Russian religious minorities on the aggression against Ukraine
(Stanislav Panin, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Interview with Tatiana Moon, daughter of the founder of the Unification Church, Reverend Sun Myung Moon
(YouTube Video, Tina Ramirez, Hardwired Global)

How the Moscow patriarchate projects the Kremlin’s world geopolitics: Margin notes to religious issues linked to the Ukrainian war
(Vincenzo Pacillo, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)

Iraq: USCIRF releases new report highlighting religious freedom in Iraq
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Afghanistan: Religious minorities “remain stranded under constant fear of death”
(ADF International)

UK/International: Punish the perpetrators
(Fionn Shiner, Aid to the Church in Need)

Religious diplomacy: How to integrate religious engagement into international relations
(Giancarlo Anello, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)

Lori Joe Brown: Driven 4word (podcast on the American Express Christian employee resource group)
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

Weekly Highlight #196: COVID-19: Exploring faith dimensions: Alliances, Novavax, freedom of religion or belief and burials
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)

India: Dalit woman is youngest mayor of India's fourth largest city, Chennai
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Black and Asian refugees fleeing Ukraine face additional barriers, discrimination
(Mark Wingfield, Baptist News Global)

India’s Hindu nationalist party faces test in state polls
(Krutika Pathi And Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press)

Missouri House OKs guns on buses, in churches
(Associated Press)

Michigan announces 1st charges in Boy Scouts investigation
(David Eggert, Associated Press)

Kansas teacher sues district over preferred pronouns policy
(Margaret Stafford, Associated Press)

US tells China: Give UN rights chief wide access in Xinjiang
(Associated Press)

Israel, Turkey vow to heal rift despite sharp differences
(Burhan Ozbilici and Suzan Fraser, Associated Press)

Religious runner exalts in victory on athletes’ expression
(Patrick Orsagos and Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press)

Moscow patriarch stokes Orthodox tensions with war remarks
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)

Amid abortion rights threat, OB-GYNs more vocal with support
(Travis Loller, Associated Press)

New York governor, clergy and ambassadors join Orthodox leaders to pray for Ukraine
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Top Vatican diplomat has phone call with Russian foreign minister
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin spoke to white nationalists a week after she asked a rabbi if she could help fight antisemitism
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israel to allow 25,000 non-Jewish Ukrainian immigrants to stay
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Is David French a Christian nationalist? Manufacturing Christian nationalism
(Mark David Hill, Providence Mag)

Patriarch Kirill accuses neighbors of Russia, Ukraine of trying to divide countries' people by lies
(Interfax-Religion)

Belarus: Soldiers' mothers detained for prayers for end to war on Ukraine
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Stories about Ukrainian Jews? Try a 1,000-year history, the Pale of Settlement and a global diaspora
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Vatican 'Synod on Synodality': Why the press has largely ignored this big Catholic story
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)

Rabbi Lord Sacks digital archive launched
(Jewish News)

UK: Church leaders in Lancaster and Morecambe among those to sign government letter opposing ‘conversion therapy’ ban
(Gayle Rouncivell, Lancaster Guardian)

UK: Stop Uyghur Genocide group urges community to lobby MPs
(Jenni Frazer, Jewish News)

UK: Citing the Uyghurs, House of Lords says 'no' to commerce with genocidal states
(Ruth Ingram, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

UK: COVID-19: Guidance from the Church in Wales
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Eastern Orthodoxy's estrangement from democracy after the end of communism
(Aristotle Papanikolaou, McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame)

EEOC issues updated guidance regarding religious objections to COVID-19 vaccine requirements
(Aimee Bierman and Tracy Thomas Boland, JD Supra)

Christians and the University of Austin
(John Nunes, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

South Korea: Anti-discrimination law continues to divide South Korea's faith groups
(Nicolas Rocca, La Croix International)

Brazil's bishops denounce mining projects in indigenous areas
(Xavier Le Normand, La Croix International)

Network for Dialogue publishes new policy brief series on refugee integration
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

Paranoid politics and scapegoating Jews and Muslims – OpEd
(Allen S. Maller, Eurasia Review)

The Council of Churches asks international organizations to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, - statement of the AUCCRO
(Religious Information Service of Ukraine (RISU))

Honduras: Christian medical mission Predisan transforms health care for region of Honduras
(Erik Tryggestad, Religion Unplugged)

Statement of the Religions for Peace World Council on International Women’s Day
(Religions for Peace)

Needed: An ecumenical reset
(George Weigel, First Things)

The role of religion in Russia’s war on Ukraine
(John P. Burgess, First Things)

Constitutional convention necessary to reclaim America, Santorum tells Christian broadcasters
(Mark A. Kellner, The Washington Times)

Russia’s recognition of the ‘Separatist Republics’ in Ukraine was manifestly unlawful
(Marc Weller, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Mercenary or combatant? Ukraine’s international legion of territorial defense under international humanitarian law
(Ilya Nuzov, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Volume 12, Number 1, February 2022 Special Issue: Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?
(Global Discourse)

Myanmar: Catholic church damaged in airstrike by Myanmar military
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Canada: Our inner guide: Protecting freedom of conscience
(Cardus)

Canada: Reasonable limits: How far does religious freedom go in Canada?
(Dwight Newman, Cardus)

Canada: Needs improvement: How public schools teach about religion
(Andrew Bennett, Cardus)

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