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Monday, 25 October 2021

Facebook failing to check hate speech, fake news in India: Report
(Al Jazeera)

India: Christians submit memorandum against move to conduct survey of churches
(The Hindu)

Conversion law: UP says community interest over individual’s
(Asad Rehman, The Indian Express)

Afghan Muslims are asking questions. These Christians are ready to answer.
(Stefani McDade, Christianity Today)

Nurturing and sustaining facilitator networks: Key considerations for support organizations
(Ruben Grangaard and Carlisle Levine, United States Institute for Peace)

2021 Women Building Peace Award recipient: Josephine Ekiru
(United States Institute for Peace)

Canada: O'Toole's campaign chair Walied Soliman wins $500K defamation award against 'alt-right' commentator
(Brian Platt, National Post)

What Arizona governor, friends of other faiths are saying about the Mesa Arizona Temple
(Trent Toone, Deseret News)

Orthodox patriarch praises Biden after meeting
(Peter Smith, Associated Press)

Facebook's language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism
(Isabel Debre and Fares Akram, Associated Press)

Honolulu city workers cite religion for vaccine exemptions
(Associated Press)

6 candidates for US Senate in Ohio vie for evangelical votes
(Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press)

Pope: Don’t send migrants back to Libya and ‘inhumane’ camps
(Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press)

AP photos: Sufi religious order in Morocco finally able to gather again
(Mosa'Ab Elshamy, Associated Press)

Photos of the Week: Sama dancers and Prophet Muhammad’s birthday
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

Biden to meet Pope Francis amid some rifts with US bishops
(David Crary and Holly Meyer, Associated Press)

COVID takes a bite from Bazoulé’s cult of sacred crocodiles
(Joseph Hammond, Religion News Service)

Poles protest on anniversary of ruling restricting abortion
(Associated Press)

U.S. returns as member of U.N. Human Rights Council
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Articles and books of interest - 25 October 2021
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

At the height of the pandemic, the Archdiocese of Bucharest provided temples to be used as morgues
(The European Times)

How ethnic and religious divides in Afghanistan are contributing to violence against minorities
(Abdulkader Sinno, Religion News Service)

German court jails IS bride for crimes against humanity
(Deutsche Welle)

U.S. admitted zero Uyghur refugees in Fiscal 2021
(Harvest Prude and Haley Byrd Wilt, The Dispatch)

Online furor over a student’s hijab engulfs a liberal town
(Tracey Tully, The New York Times)

Empty pews are an American public health crisis
(Tyler J. Vanderweele and Brendan Case, Christianity Today)

Supreme speed: The court puts abortion on the rocket docket
(Marc Ziegler, SCOTUSblog)

National Council of Churches, USA, elects all-female officers for first time
(Ecumenical News)

Shrinking space for religious minorities in Sri Lanka
(Knox Thames, The Diplomat)

Why Sheikh Hasina govt is unlikely to restore Bangladesh’s ‘secular’ 1972 constitution
(Nayanima Basu , The Print)

Evangelical group sues University of Houston over registration
(Mark A. Kellner, Washington Times)

Winning over the sceptics: Religious beliefs, fear, false information and suspicion are stopping many people from getting the Covid-19 jab
(Zukiswa Pikoli, The Daily Maverick)

Law and religion round-up – 24th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

People in the West aren't losing their faith--they're redirecting it
(Antony Funnell, Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Europe strategy on antisemitism welcomed by Jewish groups
(Jewish News)

Rabbi Sacks’ remarkable achievements mean he will always remain with us
(Ephraim Mirvis, Jewish News)

Jihadism down, but far from out, 20 years after September 11
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Has the golden age of religious architecture ended?
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

The “marriage crisis” of single American Muslim women
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Latin American charismatics adapting and adopting Jewish practices in diverse ways
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Catholic Church loses influence, allies in post-pandemic Italy
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Sabbatical year roils farmers and authorities in Israel once again
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Turkish women activists fighting discrimination in mosques
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)

Friday, 22 October 2021

Annual Human Rights Lecture
(YouTube Video, Institute for Human Ecology, The Catholic University of America)

KAICIID places spotlight on dialogue and development at the Parliament of World Religions
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

DC Circuit: USCIS denial of religious worker visa violated RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious leaders and policymakers unite against hate speech targeting refugees and migrants
(KAICIID Dialogue Centre)

WEBINAR, 22 October 2021 (4PM EDT): The Call of Creation: Responding to “A Joint Message for the Protection of Creation"
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

EVENT, 22 October 2021: Apache Stronghold Spiritual Convoy to the 9th Circuit Court (PDF)
(Apache Stronghold)

USCIRF releases new report about religious freedom in Sri Lanka
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Christian leaders in India oppose enactment of new anti-conversion law
(International Christian Concern)

Military targets churches in conflict-torn Myanmar
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

UN experts to Pakistan: Release man charged with blasphemy
(Munir Ahmed, Associated Press)

Forced conversion law rejected in Pakistan: Democracy’s Bitter Winter
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)

Benin’s parliament votes to legalise abortion
(Al Jazeera)

US protesters demand release and repatriation of Aafia Siddiqui
(Al Jazeera)

Xinjiang’s ‘architecture of repression’ targets Muslim Uighurs
(Al Jazeera)

43 countries criticize China at UN for repression of Uyghurs
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)

The alarming human rights ruling on freedom of speech
(Andrew Tettenborn, The Spectator)

European Court says tabloid coverage of deceased priest violated privacy rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

EU Bishops to discuss the contribution of the Catholic Church to the Conference on the Future of Europe
(The European Times)

S3, Ep. 01: The fondness of magistrates: Is religion really winning at the Supreme Court?
(Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Cameroon bishops warn of increasing violence in separatist campaign
(Catholic News Service)

Capital punishment on the wane in Africa
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Vatican cardinal says Europe now becoming a ‘mission territory’
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Balancing the tensions of our Latter-day Saint and LGBTQ conversations
(Ty R. Mansfield, Deseret News)

Greece students arrested for protesting against ‘Beijing 2022’ Olympics
(Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe)

North America has a Hindu nationalist problem, and scholars are on the frontlines of these right-wing attacks
(Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, and Audrey Truschke, Religion Dispatches)

Abductions have increased in Haiti, but religious aid groups are still going there
(Laurel Wamsley, National Public Radio)

Putin asking Western civilization 'to steer clear of our home'
(Interfax-Religion)

Russian Supreme Court reports decline in application of anti-evangelism law
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Belarus treats Jehovah's Witnesses better than does Russia
(Novaya Gazeta, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Russia: "Unjustified, unmotivated cruelty against peaceful, unresisting believers"
(Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 News Service)

The new prison ministry lies in Bible education
(Michael Hallett and Byron R. Johnson, Christianity Today)

UK faith leaders take joint stand against assisted suicide legislation
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Study: antisemitic myth that Jews benefited from pandemic is widespread
(Lee Harpin, Jewish News)

UK cardinal joins religious leaders in urging House of Lords to reject assisted suicide
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

When it comes to Shechita, Brexit actually does mean Brexit
(Shimon Cohen, Jewish News)

Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion receives gift from The MirYam Institute for ethics, leadership development
(Emory University)

Why did the Supreme Court stop this particular execution?
(Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times)

U.S. Senate should quickly affirm Texan Rashad Hussain as religious freedom ambassador
(Bob Roberts and Chris Seiple, The Dallas Morning News)

Whip: No plan to remove Bangladesh state religion
(Dhaka Tribune)

Black adults in the U.S. South more likely than those in other regions to attend a Black congregation
(Jeff Diamant and Besheer Mohamed, Pew Research Center)

Worth the price: Colonial Catholics, religious tolerance, and the post-liberal right
(James M. Patterson, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America
(Michael D. Breidenbach, Harvard University Press)

Chile: Religious leaders ask that new Constitution guarantee religious freedom
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Diocesan offices set on fire during mass protests in Chile
(La Croix International)

Francis has shifted teaching on just war theory, US military instructors say
(Brian Fraga, La Croix International)

Ambassador Akram discusses growing Islamophobia with UN rights expert
(Daily Times)

Lebanon: Patriarch-Christians will be extinct if West does nothing
(Fionn Shiner, Aid to the Church in Need)

Catherine Lhamon confirmed by Senate to head DOE's Office for Civil Rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Manitoba Chief Justice rules Public Health Officials shouldn’t be “second guessed”
(Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms)

Orthodox Church’s top patriarch to visit US, meet with Biden
(Peter Smith, Religion News Service)

Tehran holds first public Friday Prayers in almost 2 years
(Associated Press)

Italian parliament poised to move on euthanasia, homophobia
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Brazilian legislator causes outrage for calling Pope Francis a ‘bum’
(Eduardo Campos Lima, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Adventures in navigating an interfaith marriage
(Mya Jaradat, Deseret News)

New podcast: Are 'parental rights' references (inside scare quotes) the new 'religious liberty'
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Court of Justice of the EU allows prohibition of religious symbols in the workplace
(Tehreem Sultan, UK Human Rights Blog)

At interfaith conference, Iran overlooks its religious freedom violations
(International Christian Concern)

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