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Monday, 16 November 2020

Communal worship ‘criminalised’ under lockdown, church leaders in England say
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)

Poland’s bishops call for dialogue with protesters
(The Lutheran World Federation)

Sunday, 15 November 2020

CLARIFICATION QUESTION DEADLINE (15 November 2020): ECtHR Moot Court Competition
(European Court of Human Rights)

WEBINAR, 15 November 2020 (2:00 pm AEDT): Abraham Conference 2020, Interfaith on the Frontlines
(Abraham Conference)

VIRTUAL EVENT, 15 November 2020 (5PM EST): Jewish Ritual and Activism for Racial Justice
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Friday, 13 November 2020

EU says fight against terror not directed at religion
(Rabia Iclal Turan, Anadolu Agency)

Attacks spur EU to tighten borders, boost policy agency
(Lorne, Associated Press)

Three things you thought you knew about freedom of religion or belief
(Jason Klocek; Scott Bledsoe, United States Institute of Peace)

He cast his first vote as a U.S. citizen. Now, he’s eager for the ‘Muslim ban’ to go.
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)

Muslim communities in the U.S. are becoming more involved in disaster relief projects
(Aysha Khan, The Washington Post)

Argument: France's Muslims could learn from the African American Muslim experience
(Talib Shareef, Yaya J. Fanusie, Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, Foreign Policy)

Pakistani people must reject politics of hatred like Americans: Durrani
(Daily Times)

Stressed by COVID, online seekers discover Buddhism’s calming practice
(Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Religion News Service)

McCarrick Report: American Catholics urge ‘truth and transparency’
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

New publication: Coercive Human Rights – Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the ECHR
(Laurens Lavrysen, Natasa Mavronicola, Strasbourg Observers)

USCIRF condemns attack on a mosque in Burkina Faso
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Suit challenging Louisiana COVID-19 limits on churches fails
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Rev. Tony Spell loses again in fight against Gov. John Bel Edwards' crowd-size limits
(David J. Mitchell, The Advocate)

Early Supreme Court review sought in church's challenge to Nevada COVID-19 limits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ADF asks US Supreme Court to strike down NV governor’s rule treating churches worse than casinos
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

Statement on the publication of the IICSA report
(Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales)

Repatriating the children of foreign terrorist fighters and the extraterritorial application of human rights
(Marko Milanovic, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

A Secular Age beyond the West. Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (new book)
(Mirjam Künkler Swedish, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar, Cambridge University Press)

Gene editing and planned personhood
(Devorah Goldman, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

An insurgency in Mozambique is gaining ground — and showing a strong allegiance to the Islamic State
(Cris Chinaka, Lesley Wroughton and Joby Warrick, The Washington Post)

Brooklyn diocese asks Supreme Court to enjoin COVID-19 church capacity limits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Brooklyn Catholic diocese asks justices to block limits on attendance at church services
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

7th Circuit hears oral arguments in creche case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Indiana county defends courthouse nativity scene at Seventh Circuit
(David Wells, Courthouse News Service)

Justice Alito: COVID restrictions ‘previously unimaginable’
(Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)

Justice Alito warns of covid-era religious rights infringements
(Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Jordan S. Rubin, Bloomberg Law)

At Federalist Society convention, Alito says religious liberty, gun ownership are under attack
(Kalv, SCOTUSblog)

Alito homes in on gay marriage, gun rights, religious liberty in stern speech to conservatives
(Robert Barnes, The Washington Post)

Kosovo's rival communities reach deal on World Heritage site
(Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini, Associated Press)

EU unveils first plan to address LGBT rights, discrimination
(Associated Press)

Women, Islamists suffer setbacks in election in Jordan
(Omar Akour, Associated Press)

Singapore arrests 21 members of South Korean religious sect
(Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press)

New York Police Department agrees to policy change allowing religious head coverings in mug shots
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Pope and Biden discuss equality, climate change and immigration
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

While many Catholics feel politically 'homeless,' Biden Catholics managed to win in 2020
(Terry Mattingly, OnReligion)

Pope Francis speaks out on fight against sexual abuse after report
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Pope Francis: Prepare to meet the Lord with good deeds inspired by His love
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)

Anti-Christian persecution on the rise in East Africa
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Israeli Knesset members propose giving Diaspora Jews a formal role in Israeli affairs
(Larry Luxner, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

In Nigeria, Igbo synagogues burned and bulldozed amid broader civil unrest
(David Ian Klein, Forward)

Russian news media give national attention to alleged investment scam by Pentecostals
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Crimea: Ten months in Russian "prison within a prison"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Crimea: "My husband does not admit any guilt"
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Archbishop of Canterbury: safeguarding update
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Archbishop Caccia speaks in anticipation of Fourth World Day of Poor
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Bishop backs bill criminalizing child marriage in Philippines
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Religious peacebuilding in Fratelli tutti
(Montserrat Gas-Aixendri, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Pompeo to visit Mideast with focus on religion, Israel ties
(William Mauldin and David Gauthier-Villars, The Wall Street Journal)

What the Christian evangelical grip on America means for China and the world
(Peter T. C. Chang, South China Morning Post)

One attack per day on Christians in India
(ADF International)

India’s festive mood raises fears of surge of coronavirus
(Ashok Sharma and Shonal Ganguly, Associated Press)

Pakistani cleric faces arrest for marriage of Christian girl
(Zahid Hussain, Union of Catholic Asian News)

Christians denied religious freedom in more countries than other groups
(Magnús Sannleikur, Aleteia)

U.S. election divides Kenyan Christians
(Tom Osanjo, Religion Unplugged)

President says there's no place for religious intolerance in South Africa
(SA People News)

Europe's Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders
(Shada Islam, The Guardian)

US criticism of religious freedom in Turkey stirs debate
(Arab News)

Florida church’s free parking for beachgoers is now a federal religious freedom case
(Hans Holznagel, United Church of Christ)

Expanded medical assistance in dying ignores mainstream concerns
(Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)

Canadian bishops say expanding euthanasia is ‘morally pernicious’
(John Lavenburg, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Pennsylvania church tells followers to be ready to die for Trump in 'a gun fight with police'
(Timothy Nerozzi, Religion Unplugged)

American democracy’s moral and cultural foundations
(George Weigel, Law & Liberty)

Colorado marijuana ban may be applied to cannabis ministry
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pope Francis congratulates Biden on election victory in phone call
(Catholic News Agency)

Religious freedom becoming 'second tier right' warns Supreme Court Justice
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

Delaware agrees to treat church services neutrally in settlement over COVID restrictions
(Catholic News Agency)

China’s five-year plan proposal stresses eugenics in birth policy, says expert
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)

Brooklyn diocese appeals to Supreme Court over COVID church closures
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

World Youth Day 2023 organizers urge youth to join ‘great national movement’
(Catholic News Agency)

Biden to open US to refugees with increase in resettlements
(Catholic News Agency)

Pope Francis: Care for refugees fleeing ‘viruses of injustice, violence and war’
(Catholic News Agency)

Armenia’s ambassador to Vatican stresses threat of Syrian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)

Christian advocates call for U.S. to condemn aggression against Armenians
(Catholic News Agency)

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Opportunities of challenging times
(W. Cole Durham, Jr., G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

Conversation: 2020 ICLRS Symposium: Brett Scharffs’s introductory remarks
(Brett G. Scharffs, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Weekly highlight #131: Focus on the Philippines, a maskless Pope, and the United States election
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)

Religious Responses to COVID-19: What we can learn, what we can predict
(Olivia Wilkinson, G20 Interfaith Forum Blog)

One more Ahmadi target-killed in KPK in the recent series of such murders (PDF)
(Ahmadiyya Foreign Missions Office)

Across America, Muslims are becoming a fixture on the disaster relief landscape
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)

Pint-sized powerhouse: Becket recognized on 2020 Hot List for Top Firms
(Becket: Press Release)

Militants descrate church in Argentine Patagonia
(Catholic News Agency)

India Love Project: The Instagram account telling tales of 'forbidden' love
(BBC News)

Another chapter in challenge to Navy chaplain selection procedures
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Certiorari denied in challenge to "So help me God" in citizenship oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

2nd Circuit denies injunction pending appeal of NY governor's cluster zone limits on houses of worship
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Appellate court denies injunction requests by Agudah and Brooklyn Diocese
(Reuvain Borchardt, Hamodia)

Suit in Nigeria challenges Arabic on currency as violating secular status of Country
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

CBN opposes suit to remove Arabic inscriptions from banknotes
(Davidson Iriekpen, This Day)

NYPD settles suit over religious head coverings in mug shots
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

NYPD agrees to allow religious head coverings in mugshots
(Anagha Srikanth, The Hill)

Vatican report exposes failures that allowed former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to rise through the ranks despite sexual abuse allegations
(CBS)

Vatican publishes lengthy report on its handling of abuse accusations against former Cardinal McCarrick
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

McCarrick Report: What to know before it's released - A CNA Explainer
(JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)

Australian anti-graft agency dismisses Vatican speculation
(Rod McGuirk, Associated Press)

Pakistan Church set for legal battle over conversion of minors
(Zahid Hussain, Union of Catholic Asian News)

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