Law and Religion Headlines

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Friday, 4 September 2020

Court enjoins two portions of Trump administration's new health care anti-discrimination rules
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

USCIRF encourages religious freedom progress on Vietnam National Day
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Nepal protesters defy virus lockdown, clash with riot police
(Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press)

Nevada church resumes court battle over COVID-19 rules
(Scott Sonner, Associated Press)

With mosques closed during the pandemic, Muslim converts navigate their new spiritual path online
(Hira Qureshi, The Washington Post)

Why masks are a religious issue
(Leslie Dorrough Smith, The Conversation)

Should churches like John MacArthur's resist COVID-19 restrictions?
(Paul Marshall, Religion Unplugged)

COVID-19: The essential problem with state-faith relations
(Brie Loskota and Najuma Smith-Pollard, The Hill)

Federal appeals court rejects Illinois Republicans’ challenge to COVID-19 group limits
(Erin Napoleon, Jurist)

7th Circuit: COVID-19 order exempting religious services is valid
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Unconditionality first: Prioritizing family values in social policy (Responding to: Economic justice and universal basic income: ethical and religious perspectives)
(Almaz Zelleke, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Editorial: Religious freedom is not a license to ignore civil-rights laws
(Los Angeles Times)

World Vision convenes yearlong racial justice initiative for church staffers
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Uzbekistan: Prisoner requests meeting with sister "maybe for last time"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

COVID-19 highlights the need for active involvement of religious leaders and religious institutions in society in Iraq
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Reforming wedding law in England & Wales
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Fire devastates Israeli school which brings Jews and Muslims together
(Jewish News)

Bishop says Nigeria a ‘Molotov cocktail’ as it prepares to mark 60th anniversary
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Sri Lankan cardinal says religion should not be used as political tool
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mexican Bishop decries cost of corruption
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

New Zealand Bishops on Social Justice Week 2020: Catholic social teaching
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Is blasphemy punishable by death in Islam? (Opinion)
(Abdulsalam Ajetunmobi, Punch)

Ghana youth assure religious leaders to uphold peace ahead of elections
(Damian Avevor, Modern Ghana)

Pakistan calls for ensuring interfaith harmony at UN
(Radio Pakistan)

Ramaphosa holds virtual meeting with interfaith leaders to fight COVID-19
(Devdiscourse)

King [Tom] Cotton
(William B. Lawrence, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)

The right to peacefully protest needs better supporters
(Lata Nott, Freedom Forum Institute)

Iraq TV station attacked by mob charged with insulting Shiite Muslims
(Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

New York parish anti-racism pledge prompts controversy
(JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)

Charlie Hebdo re-runs prophet Mohammed cartoons to mark terrorist attack trial
(ABC News Australia)

Muslim woman sues after she was forced to remove her hijab
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Woman allegedly forced to remove hijab in jail now suing Genesee County
(NBC25 News)

9th Circuit upholds California school curriculum on Hinduism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Appeals court finds no disparagement of Hinduism in Calif. curricular framework
(Mark Walsh, Education Week)

Canada, Netherlands will assist in case against Myanmar for genocide against Rohingya
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Canada, Netherlands join Gambia's genocide case against Myanmar
(Al Jazeera)

UK public tribunal to probe Uighur genocide allegations
(Sylvia Hui, Associated Press)

Aerosol and droplet generation from singing &c
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Plea in SC to delete certain sections of Special Marriage Act
(Srishti Ojha, India Legal)

No-fault divorce law faces legal challenge in Nebraska
(Grant Schulte, Associated Press)

Georgia church splits from Methodists over LGBT dispute
(Associated Press)

Federal judge: Kentucky photographer can continue to refuse same-sex weddings while she challenges city’s nondiscrimination law
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Cardinal predicts Church, Europe will be ‘weaker’ after pandemic
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Haitian bishop decries ‘bribe’ from government in advance of elections
(Catholic News Service)

How an annual religious pilgrimage created a year-round Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Cancel culture is the wrong response to deep disagreement
(Nathan Berkeley and Phil Rexroth, Real Clear Religion)

Threatening an athletic boycott to protect religious freedom
(Nathan Lewin, Jewish News Syndicate)

ECHR refuses to grant new church of Ukraine request to remain in Crimean building
(Interfax-Religion)

In Church of Sweden female priests outnumber men who get more pay
(Ecumenical News)

“So help him God?: The case of the prayerful juror”
(Matthew P. Cavedon, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: options of monitoring, enforcing and remedy under the future EU legislation
(Olga Martin-Ortega, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

WCC and Vatican appeal for greater solidarity with other faiths
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Church Times)

Vatican official: Human fraternity is the Christian response to identity politics
(Catholic News Agency)

CCP cracks down on inner Mongolia protests, 2 dead, hundreds wanted
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

New evidence of China’s concentration camps shows its hardening resolve to wipe out the Uighurs
(Editoral Board, The Washington Post - Opinions)

Pope Francis calls for a day of fasting and prayer for Lebanon
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)

Pope Francis calls for solidarity at first audience with pilgrims after lockdown
(Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency)

Pope Francis: science and faith together can protect environment
(Catholic News Agency)

Church politics in Belarus
(Dmitry Gorevoi, Nastoiashchee Vremia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Barred Belarusian archbishop says he has gotten legal advice about reentry
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Catholic influence in Belarus is growing
(Alexander Soldatov, Novaia Gazeta, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Cardinal Parolin in Lebanon: The Church, Pope Francis are with you after Beirut explosion
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)

Kamala Harris quizzed judicial nominees over Christian adoption and faith values
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Black Americans and abortion
(Frank Newport, Gallup)

Tennessee abortion providers challenge medication abortion reversal law
(Daniel Jackson, Courthouse News Service)

Thursday, 3 September 2020

Suit challenges Tennessee's abortion reversal disclosure requirement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Christian women are fighting immigrant family separations on Zoom
(Micah Danney, Religion Unplugged)

A Hindu-American lawyer’s quest
(Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Charlie Hebdo trial opens in Paris court — will justice bring relief?
(Lisa Louis, Deutsche Welle)

Charlie Hebdo reprints offensive Prophet Muhammad caricatures
(Al Jazeera)

Lukashenko explains entry refusal of head of Catholic Church
(Belta, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Lukashenko accuses Belarusian Catholic churches of spreading antigovernment propaganda
(Interfax-Religion)

Belarus: Catholic Church "cannot exist without its leader"
(Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)

Pompeo calls on Minsk to let head of Belarusian Catholic Church into country
(Interfax-Religion)

Catholic Church being pressured in Belarus - Church representative
(Interfax-Religion)

Churches criticize protesters for storming steps of German parliament
(Catholic News Service)

How a German church is posthumously reinstating a gay clergyman
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)

Freedom in the Muslim World
(Mustafa Akyol, CATO Institute)

Church Reporter, Vol. 5, 31 August 2020 - Newsletter for the English speaking members and friends of the Church Law Society
(Jiří Rajmund Tretera and Záboj Horák, eds., Church Law Society Prague – Brno – Olomouc – Stříbro)

7th Circuit: Ministerial Exception does not cover hostile work environment claims, absent tangible employment action
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Kentucky AG says closing religious schools in COVID pandemic is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Human rights groups urge Ramaphosa to sign bill ensuring officers don’t refuse to officiate same-sex marriages
(Lesego Makgatho, IOL News)

Assisted suicide bill to be reintroduced for consideration by Irish government
(Kerry O'Shea, Irish Central)

Pelosi says ban on federal abortion funding will be dropped next year
(Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency)

Troubles brew on Lampedusa as island bears brunt of migrant arrivals
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Puerto Rico’s archbishop calls corruption ‘social, political and economic scourge’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Day of Prayer for Creation draws attention to how climate change will hit Africa
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

US vetoes UN Security Council on foreign Islamic State fighters
(Deutsche Welle)

‘This will completely change Jewish life in Austria’: Thousands of Jews around the world expected to apply for Austrian citizenship through new rules
(Toby Axelrod, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

How women made the moral case for suffrage
(Erika Bachiochi, First Things)

Dozens of 'missionary activity' convictions in Russia in first half of 2020
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Bishops denounce uncontrollable violence in Haiti
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

The perils of constitutional theology
(Nathan B. Oman, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Franklin Graham warns socialist left will 'close the Church down': 'The storm is coming'
(Ryan Foley, The Christian Post)

Why the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ is still pushed by anti-Semites more than a century after hoax first circulated
(Stephen Whitfield, The Conversation)

Orthodox Church year begins with call to take action for creation
(Season of Creation)

Inner Mongolia protests against cultural genocide gain momentum
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

Is it news when a U.S. senator claims Catholics are under attack?
(Clemente Lisi, Religion Unplugged Opinion)

Business success stories - Templeton Religious Trust
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

India opens pellet fire on Muslim procession for first time
(Zaffar Iqbal, Religion Unplugged)

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