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Monday, 14 September 2020

France one-sided Liberalism- a new tide of Islamophobia
(Sojla Sahar, Modern Diplomacy)

Call to ban virginity certificates for Muslim women in France
(Damon Mitchell, EuroWeekly)

Trump announces new Supreme Court justice options in apparent appeal to religious base
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Trump campaign ad shows Biden kneeling in Black church to argue Americans ‘won’t be safe’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

Understanding the American Muslim vote
(Ryan Burge, Religion Unplugged)

The long shadow of Xinjiang: Anger grows in Muslim countries at China’s treatment of the Uighurs
(Nithin Coca, Foreign Affairs)

Pope Francis’ team joins up with star athletes like Ronaldo to say: ‘We all run together’
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)

Islam in schools in Cataluña (Spanish)
(Francesc Valls, El País)

Prayer inscriptions on Hui Muslims' homes banned
(Wang Yichi, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

China’s foreign ministry: Vatican deal has been ‘implemented successfully’
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)

Sunday, 13 September 2020

ZOOM EVENT, 13 September 2020 (1 PM ET): The Courageous Voices of Revs. Richard Allen and Absalom Jones in the American Plague of 1793
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum, with support from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.)

Saturday, 12 September 2020

Religion Photos of the Week - 12 September 2020
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)

For Australia, child protection outweighs religious freedom, ambassador says
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mass return: Wisconsin dioceses lift Sunday dispensation
(Catholic News Agency)

Friday, 11 September 2020

Queensland passes law requiring priests to break confessional seal
(Catholic News Agency)

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivers on promise to protect free inquiry and religious liberty
(U.S. Department of Education)

DOE issues final rule on college free speech and equal treatment of student religious groups
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

DeVos issues final rule aiming to protect faith-based colleges, student groups
(Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Education Drive)

Justice Department files friend-of-the-court brief in Indiana Supreme Court supporting Catholic Archdiocese’s First Amendment rights in former high school teacher’s lawsuit
(U.S. Department of Justice)

DoD issues new document on transgender military service
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Belarus has ambivalent relations with Catholics
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Belarusian foreign minister discusses post-election situation with Vatican rep
(Interfax-Religion)

Iran’s secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
(Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki, The Conversation)

Researchers find Christians in Iran approaching 1 million
(Jayson Casper, Christianity Today)

Iran infuriated as Charlie Hebdo reprints 'sacrilegious' cartoons
(Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)

Bishops preach against racism on feast of St. Peter Claver
(Catholic News Agency)

Pope Francis: Promote the common good to heal wounds of coronavirus crisis
(Catholic News Agency)

Seattle Church Fights State Abortion Mandate: 'No Church Should Be Forced to Cover Abortions'
(CBN News)

'China is an atheist country': Communist nation expands ban on Christian funerals
(Christian Headines)

Chinese officials offer citizens $70 for pictures of illegal underground churches
(Michael Foust, Christian Headines)

Video from priest says Catholics who vote for Democrats will go to hell. One bishop approves this message.
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)

Christians in northern India forced to stop worship, pastor says
(Morning Star News)

Filmmaker says new movie ‘The Trump I Know’ humanizes the president, highlights his faith and family
(Jeannie Law, The Christian Post)

In India, a Baul mystic is singing COVID-19 advice to rural communities
(Priyadarshini Sen, Religion Unplugged)

Attacked Christians in India risk arrest if worship draws more assaults
(Morning Star News)

God is pro-life, Pence says: He 'will fight alongside us' and 'touch hearts and minds'
(Michael Foust, Christian Headines)

Mariners Church, one of America’s largest churches, announces reopening for in-person services
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

More than 2K Christians gather in ‘worship protest’ after they are shut out of Seattle park
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

California ban on indoor religious services upheld
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

1st Circuit hears oral arguments in COVID-19 worship service limitation challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

First Circuit Court of Appeals hears case involving Calvary Chapel
(WABI News)

What comes before freedom of speech?
(David Callaway, Freedom Forum)

Frenchman Alain Cocq accepts palliative care after bid to livestream death
(BBC News)

Armenian opposition MP to place into circulation bill to ban abortion
(News AM)

Tory MP Sloan sponsors e-petition calling for 'moratorium' on gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors
(Rachel Gilmore, CTV News)

Catholic Church in South Korea says 'no' to same-sex marriage
(Park Ji-won, The Korea Times)

Argentine archbishop laments ‘double standard’ as numbers allowed at Mass reduced
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Economic team in Brazil recommends vetoing tax forgiveness of churches, which owe more than R$ 1 billion
(Folha de São Paulo)

Marian feast becomes a political football in Cuba
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Rebels release missionary sisters captured in Mozambique
(Catholic News Service)

Global COVID-19 parables: What responsibility do faith groups have to the larger society?
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Character formation, ethical education, and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies
(Michael Welker and John Witte, Jr., Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

10 key findings about the religious lives of U.S. teens and their parents
(Jeff Diamant and Elizabeth Podrebarac Sciupac, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)

Trump’s overtures struggle to register with religious voters
(Gabby Orr, Politico)

Religious liberty has nothing to do with the Satanic Temple’s campaign to tear down pro-life laws
(Jordan Lorence, The Federalist)

Judge grants injunction barring John MacArthur, Grace Community Church from meeting indoors
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)

EU Commission ‘committed to defend freedom of religion or belief’
(Yossi Lempkowicz, European Jewish Press)

European magistrate backs ritual slaughter for halal and kosher meat
(Cain Burdeau, Courthouse News Service)

ACN interview with Ján Figel’, former EU Special Envoy for Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief Outside EU
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Norway: Interfaith advocacy for climate justice and peace
(The Lutheran World Federation)

Rabbi David Rosen explores the interfaith context of the Israel-UAE deal
(J-Wire)

U.S. teens take after their parents religiously, attend services together and enjoy family rituals
(Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life)

Religious freedom scholars say Little Sisters case creates new front in divisive culture war
(William C. Duncan, Sutherland Institute)

Order to stay away from Basilica did not violate RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Religious education companies face no threat under Indiana cities' anti-discrimination law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why pastors in Uganda are eyeing next year’s general election
(John Semakula, Religion Unplugged)

Spain imprisons ex-colonel for Jesuits slain in El Salvador
(Associated Press)

Suicide bomber kills 2, wounds 6 outside mosque in Somalia
(Abdi Guled, Associated Press)

Indiana court denies challenge to religious objection limits
(Tom Davies, Associated Press)

Leave it to the laity: ‘Catholic Social Teaching’
(Bernard G. Prusak, Commonweal)

Venezuelan Church leaders condemn raid on NGO giving out medical supplies
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

3 Vermont families sue for tuition for religious schools
(Lisa Rathke, Associated Press)

Don’t write off sharia’s forgiveness option just because of the Khashoggi case
(Matthew P. Cavedon, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

The continuing fight for religious liberty in the age of COVID-19
(Jeremy Dys, Courier Journal)

Turkmenistan: 24th conscientious objector jailed since 2018
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)

Independent Case Review published – Oxford Diocese
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Sudan government hesitates after declaration separating religion and state
(Mohammed Amin, Middle East Eye)

Government of Sudan agrees to separate church and state, establish national commission for religious freedom
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

New Zealand’s euthanasia bill called ‘dangerous and flawed’ ahead of vote
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Euthanasia referendum in NZ: Cruel to offer the option or deny the choice?
(Ellen O'Dwyer, Stuff.co.nz)

Asia Bibi appeals to Pakistani Prime Minister to help free Christian girls kidnapped for forced marriages
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Pakistan: Journalist Bilal Farooqi arrested over posts criticizing army (and spreading religious hatred)
(Deutsche Welle)

Another Christian sentenced to death in Pakistan on weak blasphemy charges
(Morning Star News)

LGBTQ+ group threatens to burn down UK church after pastor says homosexuality is a sin
(Milton Quintanilla, Christian Headines)

NGOs and faith leaders speak up about the situation of the Uighurs
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)

Indonesia: Investigate police raid on ‘gay party’
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Switzerland: Somali Prof. Ahmed, a victim of blasphemy laws, urgently needs a humanitarian visa
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Eritrea: 27 Christian prisoners released
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

The Concordat and the privileges of the Catholic Church (Portuguese)
(P. Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada, Observador)

Thursday, 10 September 2020

WEBINAR, 10 September 2020 (10am EDT): Dueling Pandemics: Faith, HIV, and COVID-19
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Online Conference on 70 Years ECHR
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)

News from the CCME (Churches' Commission for Migrants in Europe)

Church of England: Places of worship and new restrictions
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Clergy Discipline Measure 2003: Ecclesiastical Law Society working party interim report
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

“Worship” unaffected by new restrictions in England
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Jewish leaders welcome TikTok’s ‘belated’ joining of EU code against hate speech
(Jewish News)

More than 100 UK lawmakers condemn China over Uighurs abuse
(Associated Press)

Disney criticized for filming ‘Mulan’ in China’s Xinjiang
(Juwon Park, Associated Press)

Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China
(Stephen Wade, Associated Press)

Banned religious groups' members 'transformed' in Xinjiang camps
(Chang Xin, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

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