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Friday, 14 August 2020

Tel Aviv City Hall lit up with UAE flag to celebrate peace accord
(Mathilde Frot, Jewish News)

On returning to campus: What might we learn from Christian ethics?
(Paul Lewis, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

German church leads crowd funding to buy vessel to aid stranded Mediterranean migrants
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Queensland becomes first Australian state to outlaw gay conversion therapy
(Seb Starcevic, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

Who decides on the How and Why of a funeral?: an Australian argument
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Coronavirus-related legislation: Cytûn’s briefing for churches in Wales
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

National Board of Catholic Women in England and Wales publishes practical booklet on domestic abuse
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

UK government must make registration of sharia marriages mandatory, report says
(Camilla Tominey, The Telegraph)

Suit challenges California COVID-19 limits on worship services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church sue State of California
(Thomas More Society)

Minnesota’s teacher-turned-governor flunks religious liberties
(Thomas More Society)

Churches challenge Minnesota covid-19 limits on worship services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

John MacArthur sues California to defend religious liberty
(Capstone Report)

City tells local church to stop in-person worship services
(Andre Coleman, Pasadena Now)

Turks in Greece still being denied their rights
(Anadolu Agency)

Turkey's Religious Affairs Ministry, authority over Hagia Sophia Mosque and 2,000 mosques around the world, Part III – Statements and actions on religious minorities, secularism, homosexuality, and alcohol
(The Middle East Media Research Institute)

Thursday, 13 August 2020

SUMMER SCHOOL & INTERRELIGIOUS TRAINING SEMINAR, 2-13 August 2020: Religion in Times of Crisis. Live from Jerusalem
(Elijah Interfaith Institute)

Wednesday, 12 August 2020

115 million American adults turn to prayer during coronavirus
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

11th Circuit: Ecclesiastical Abstention doctrine covers church leadership dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Tribe says border wall construction is trashing burial sites
(Bianca Bruno, Courthouse News Service)

Viewpoints: An introduction to the G20 Interfaith Forum Blog
(Marianna Richardson, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

The chess game of the G20 Interfaith Forum global strategy
(Jonatas Machado, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Faith and debt: Challenging the G20
(Katherine Marshall, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Freedom of Religion (blogpost based on an Interview with Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt
(Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Respecting others as world citizens
(Sofia Caseiro, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Understanding the different perspectives of religious groups
(Mufti Nedzad Grabus, Viewpoints: A blog of the G20 Interfaith Forum)

Collective effort needed to fight sectarianism: Noor-ul-Haq Qadri
(Radio Pakistan)

Desecrated Harrisburg synagogue receives outpouring of support and solidarity; interfaith vigil planned
(Ivey DeJesus, Penn Live)

Interfaith Council extends time for religious gatherings, relaxes age restrictions
(Tracy Mutinda, The Star Kenya)

State dept. commission cites religious freedom as ‘foremost’ among rights
(Lauretta Brown, National Catholic Register)

USCIRF condemns death sentence for Yahaya Sharif-Aminu on blasphemy charges
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Conversation: Digitalization of religion in times of COVID-19
(Marco Ventura, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Prisoners of an image secularization as an epidemic
(Paolo Costa, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Digitalizing the Church? Different contexts, similar theological challenges in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
(Regina Elsner, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Pagan communities in the time of pandemic
(Stanislav Panin, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Global church and home church in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(Jennifer C. Lane, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

The Second Oxford Statement on International Law Protections of the Healthcare Sector During COVID-19: Safeguarding Vaccine Research
(Dapo Akande, Antonio Coco, Talita de Souza Dias, Duncan Hollis, Harold Hongju Koh, James O'Brien and Tsvetelina van Benthem, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Boris Johnson visits Catholic schools in London to push for re-starting in-person classes
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Nigerian bishops: ‘The killings must stop’
(Peter Ajayi Dada, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Jehovah's Witnesses indicted in extreme far east of Russia
(UssurBator, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

No longer a clump of cells? Mainstream press stories on unborn use 'baby' language
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

European Deputy asks action on crisis in far north of Mozambique.
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Giving up on God: The global decline of religion
(Ronald F. Inglehart, Foreign Affairs)

Iranian regime: Male gods and oppressed women
(Elchin Hatami, Modern Diplomacy)

HRW calls on Lao government to release dissidents
(Union of Catholic Asian News)

Co-option of religion by Saudi’s MBS spells disaster
(Nasim Ahmed, Middle East Monitor)

Vatican’s China deal may protect Chinese Catholics, keep Pope Francis silent
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: The Free Exercise clause prevails
(Martha McCarthy, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Why the U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights should not ignore abortion
(Stefano Gennarini, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)

Church in Uganda razed overnight despite COVID-19 ban on evictions
(John Semakula, Religion Unplugged)

Islamic State's ‘Beatles’ could finally face justice for alleged role in beheading Americans
(Elizabeth Hagedorn, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Christian leaders debate Zimbabwe’s reparations for white farmers
(Tawanda Karombo, Religion Unplugged)

Hate speech as rersecution: Tackling the Gordian Knot
(Radhika Kapoor and Sharngan Aravindakshan, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Is Israel ready for a religious prime minister?
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Israeli women excluded from decision-making on coronavirus
(Rina Bassist, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Religious news from around the web August 10, 2020
(World Religion News)

Biblical Christianity promotes religious freedom
(Dr. Sharon James, The Christian Institute)

Students at Christian schools can’t be banned from Vt. dual enrollment program: appeals court
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Why we need evangelicals to speak out (again) against family separation
(Matthew Soerens, The Christian Post)

NY court condemns religious discrimination
(Overton County News)

International leaders, institutions condemn arrest of Shincheonji church leaders
(The Nation)

Trump, Biden seek Latter-day Saint voters in battleground states
(Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune)

How interfaith activism helped Saadia Faruqi change the face of children’s books
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)

USCIRF releases Iran factsheet highlighting senior sanctioned officials responsible for egregious religious freedom violations
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Face masks in Strasbourg
(Rosalind English, UK Human Rights Blog)

Challenge to anti-discrimination exemptions for foster care agencies moves ahead
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Judge allows lawsuit over evangelical adoption agency's exemption to HHS rule to proceed
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Ganges River flows with history and prophecy for India (in photos)
(Altaf Qadri, Associated Press)

UK Catholic group says migrants crossing Channel because ‘lives under threat’
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

India’s Christians mark 70th anniversary of decree denying them rights
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Religious leaders endorse reconstruction plan for Cameroon’s English-speaking regions
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

First COVID-19 case among residents reported in Syrian IS camp
(Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)

Classic American doctrine (Responding to: University Bookman symposium “John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths, 1960 and Today.”)
(Richard M. Reinsch II, Law & Liberty)

Catholic news outlets reporting on church vandalism when mainstream media won’t
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)

May a Christian fostering agency discriminate on grounds of sexuality? Cornerstone
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

For Italy’s Muslims, few places to pray and fewer places to bury COVID-19 dead
(Lorenzo Bagnoli, Religion News Service)

The attack on religion in the military continues
(Wesley Smith, American Center for Law and Justice)

The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD): "We are sending a ship" (in German)
(Evangelical Church in Germany)

The Hagia Sophia—What’s law got to do with It?
(Mine Yildirim, Talk About: Law and Religion - Blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies)

Stop Uyghur genocide: An appeal by religious leaders in support of the Uyghurs
(Bitter Winter: A Magazine on Religious Liberty and Human Rights in China)

Two cardinals among 80 faith leaders demanding justice for Uyghurs and other persecuted groups in China
(Independent Catholic News)

The power competition between Liberals and Conservatives in Pakistan
(Ali Abbas, Modern Diplomacy)

Christian murdered for living in a Muslim suburb in Pakistan
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)

Bolivia’s bishops offer to mediate destabilizing political crisis as pandemic worsens
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Belarus: "Why should we pay the state .. to pray in our own church?"
(Olga Glace, Forum 18 News Service)

Belarusian Orthodox Church head to discuss with authorities possible peaceful resolution to protests
(Interfax-Religion)

Orthodox clergy divided over electoral victory of Belarus president
(Nezavisimaia Gazeta, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))

Patriarch Kirill congratulates Lukashenko on winning Belarusian presidential election
(Interfax-Religion)

After election in Belarus, Catholic leaders urge restraint, dialogue
(Jonathan Luxmoore, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

5 faith facts about Biden’s VP choice Kamala Harris — a Black Baptist with Hindu family
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Harris brings Baptist, interfaith roots to Democratic ticket
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)

Kamala Harris is more than her gender and race. She is also the future of American religion
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

‘Losing religion:’ Black Lives Matter, the sacred, and the secular
(Ari Colston, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)

Instead of painting over Black Lives Matter graffiti, this church memorialized the message
(Brittany Wong, Huff Post)

Church defies judge's order not to meet inside; pastor says church is 'essential'
(Deborah Bunting, CBN News)

Churches continue to challenge governors' attacks
(Michael F. Haverluck, One News Now)

Judge won't order sheriff to enforce restraining order at Newbury Park church
(Kathleen Wilson, Ventura County Star)

COVID tips for Christian colleges: Wear masks, social distance, pray — and watch out for tornadoes
(Jamie Aten and Kent Annan, Religion News Service)

Church conflict during COVID-19 growing worry for pastors, says LifeWay Research
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Suit claims mask requirement at church services violates Free Exercise protections
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

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