Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Fraught election puts faith leaders through a political test
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
‘Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden’ signers face a fiery blowback
(Mark I. Pinsky, Religion News Service)
Trump, confirmed a Presbyterian, now identifies as ‘non-denominational Christian’
(Jack Jenkins and Maina Mwaura, Religion News Service)
Seeking power in Jesus’ name: Trump sparks a rise of Patriot Churches
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Turkey’s Erdogan sues Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker for insults
(Suzan Fraser, Associated Press)
1,000-plus faith leaders call for ‘free and fair election’
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
The Catholic factor in the 2020 election (Responding to: Catholic faith in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election)
(Gastón Espinosa, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Catholic, Jewish leaders mark 55th anniversary of ‘Nostra Aetate’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
With rising COVID-19 cases inside the Vatican, pressure mounts for Francis to don a mask
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Vatican and China renew their agreement
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
Renewal of Vatican-China deal triggers Taiwan religious freedom concerns
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
China continued religious crackdown during renewal of Vatican deal
(Catholic News Agency)
Facial recognition cameras installed in state-run religious venues
(Yang Luguang, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)
China: Special weekly FoRB newsletter (20-26.10.2020)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Human rights experts call for Canada to speak out about religious persecution in China
(Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)
Pastors in China forced to add communist ideology to Bible stories
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
Dutch cardinal: Euthanasia for children continues ‘slippery slope’
(Simon Caldwell, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
UK bishop calls for ‘meeting of minds’ on asylum after English Channel deaths
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Bishops support bills to protect Title IX sports programs for women, girls
(Julie Asher, Catholic News Service)
Persecuted Christians share their story at international event ‘Stand Together’ in Rome
(New Evangelization Television)
A small but growing number of Orthodox rabbis are officiating same-sex weddings
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Muslim Public Affairs Council: Cuomo’s COVID-19 ‘red zones’ are ‘scapegoating’ Jews
(David Ian Klein, Forward)
Even with Albany bishop’s resignation, diocese’s path toward same-sex marriage remains unclear
(David Paulsen and Egan Millard, Episcopal News Service)
Latter-day Saint leader tells BYU audience to ‘heed our prophet’s call’ to end racism
(Tad Walch, Deseret News)
Across the country, Muslims are fighting voter suppression and intimidation
(Aysha Khan, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
St. Petersburg authorities try to halt Jehovah's Witnesses' internet activity
(RAPSI, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russian Orthodox Church shocked by changes at Istanbul's Chora Monastery recently turned into mosque
(Interfax-Religion)
Kadyrov urges Macron to stop backing publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons
(Interfax-Religion)
Pope Francis' same-sex union media storm opens another front in a Catholic civil war
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
A tale of rival factions: St Mary of Debre Tsion
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Children as religious rights-holders?: Perovy
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
'Franciscan friars administer Syrian Christians in Idlib jihadist zone'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
World churches joins UN in condemning brutal killing of 8 schoolchildren in Cameroon
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Churches, Buddhist group hail ratification of Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Poland's abortion ban is a cynical attempt to exploit religion by a failing leader
(Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz, The Guardian Opinion)
Poland’s leader wants churches defended, condemns protests
(Monika Scislowska, Associated Press)
Poles join strike as protests against abortion ruling expand
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
Poland’s abortion ruling amounts to a ban – but it will not end abortion access
(Sydney Calkin, The Conversation)
Let’s be honest about religion and the courts
(Alan Levinovitz, Foreign Policy)
How Amy Coney Barrett could change the Supreme Court’s balance on religious liberty
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Sudanese Christian, Muslim leaders agree to promote religious freedom
(Michael Atit, Voice of America)
Tax Law, Religion, and Justice: An Exploration of Theological Reflections on Taxation
(Allen Calhoun, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
UK Bishop advises how to support Christians of Holy Land
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Nigerian judge throws out homosexuality case against 47 men
(Al Jazeera)
Nigerian bishops back protest against police
(John Newton, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Churches attacked amid anti-government protests in Nigeria
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
EKBO will reduce emissions to zero by 2050 (German)
(Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz (EKBO))
Religion, law and covid-19 emergency: A brief report from Montenegro
(Nikola B. Šaranović, DiReSom)
Weekly highlight #129: Freedom of religion or belief during coronavirus outbreaks
(Berkley Center, Joint Learning Initiative, WFDD)
Religious affiliation of 2020 electorate reviewed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What the 2020 electorate looks like by party, race and ethnicity, age, education and religion
(Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
6th Circuit: Bus ad ban is unconstituitonal
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sixth Circuit strikes down ban on political speech in bus ads
(Kevin Koeninger, Courthouse News Service)
In India, a Catholic priest is healing addicts with yoga
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion Unplugged)
“A Governance Befitting”: BIC launches statement on eve of UN’s 75th anniversary
(Bahá’í World News Service)
Rouhani: ‘Insulting the Prophet is insulting all Muslims’
(Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera)
Int’l community must protect, preserve mass graves: Callamard
(Mia Swart, Al Jazeera)
UK Muslims turn to apps to find love, get married in lockdown
(Aina Khan, Al Jazeera)
US, 31 other countries sign document declaring ‘there is no international right to abortion’
(Ryan Foley, The Christian Post)
For Protestant pastors, the 2020 White House race looks a lot like the one in 2016
(Terry Mattingly, OnReligion)
Monday, 26 October 2020
Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press)
Pakistan's Imran Khan slams French President Macron's views on Islam
(Deutsche Welle)
Dialogue and cooperation between French institutions and religious groups
(Maria Cristina Ivaldi, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
Muslim world condemns Macron, France over treatment of Islam
(Al Jazeera)
Reconciling the protection of public health with religious freedom: theviability of shared responses
(Adelaide Madera, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
In South Korea, draft resisters still go to prison, but now it is a job
(Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times)
From Afghanistan to France: Islamism attacks schools and kills teachers
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
France: The "Law against Separatism" targets "cults" as well as Islam
(Massimo Introvigne, The European Times)
MP calls on interior minister to take action in face of threats to Turkey's Alevi citizens
(Stockholm Center for Freedom)
Iran sentences 5 Bahai women to overall 5 years of prison
(Iran News Wire)
Khamenei’s representatives vow to make streets “unsafe” for Iranian women
(Iran News Wire)
COVID-19: Impediment or opportunity for authoritarian leaders? – OpEd
(Philip Dandolov, Geopolitical Monitor)
WEBINAR, 26 October (5PM ET): Mao vs. God: State Control of Churches in China under Xi
(Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)
The practice of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism at the time of the pandemic
(Marco Gensini, Roberto Minganti, Enza Pellecchia, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
Covid-19 in Africa and Latin America. Certain forms of religious negationism favor the pandemic
(Stefano Picciaredda, DiReSoM: Diritto e Religione nelle Società Multiculturali/ Law and Religion in Multicultural Societies)
US signs multinational women's health declaration that rejects abortion
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and Strengthening the Family (PDF)
(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Articles of interest - 26 October 2020
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Angry women block traffic across Poland over abortion ban
(Monika Scislowska, Associated Press)
Poles protest abortion ban in churches and on streets
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
Black D.C. archbishop’s rise marks a historic moment
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Inside the fight for abortion rights on a Catholic campus
(Melissa Jeltsen, Huffington Post)
Chile’s bishops call on Catholics to participate in drafting new constitution
(Ines San Martin, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Polish bishops decry disruption of Masses over court’s abortion ruling
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
EU taps Chinese technology linked to Muslim internment camps in Xinjiang
(James Franey, Deutsche Welle)
On the relative importance of death: COVID-19 and the hierarchy of goods
(Thomas Joseph White, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
President Trump’s Q&A with Religion News Service
(The White House)
A ‘public enlightenment’: Harvard Divinity School begins new program in religion and public life
(Oliver L. Riskin-Kutz, Cri, The Harvard Crimson)
Religious liberty and discrimination protection: Will SCOTUS tip the scale in 'Fulton'?
(Lori Armstrong Halber and Gavin Carpenter, The Legal Intelligencer)
Will $335 million peace with Israel secure Sudan’s religious freedom?
(Jayson Casper, Christianity Today)
Turkey cancels 28 October exercises in east Mediterranean as Greek-Russian meeting takes place
(Neos Kosmos)
For Trump, conservative Catholics are the new Evangelicals
(National Public Radio)
Almost all American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem, according to a new poll. Half of Americans don’t know what it means.
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
What will Pope’s comments mean for LGBTQ people?
(Samantha Schmidt, Michelle Boorstein, and Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post)
Dennis Christensen again denied early release
(Credo.Press, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Sect leader held in notorious Moscow psychiatric clinic
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Symposium: Coronavirus litigation lurks in the shadows (regarding religious gatherings)
(Stephen Wermiel, SCOTUSblog)
Head of the Church of Cyprus recognizes OCU autocephaly
(Interfax-Religion)
Tikhanovskaya urges religious communities to support the strike
(Interfax-Religion)
Covering Pope Francis and civil unions: The devil is in legal and doctrinal details
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
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