Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 27 July 2020
Suit again targets N.C. private school scholarship program
(Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press)
Barbecue Baptist Church delivers meals, a message and a little levity amid pandemic
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Pastor John MacArthur, Grace Community Church defy bans on singing, indoor worship
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)
BJC urges U.S. Senate not to divert public education dollars to private schools in coronavirus relief legislation
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Black Catholics’ history: Will US Catholic schools teach it?
(David Crary, Religion News Service)
Is the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque an Islamic act? (Responding to: Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque)
(Yasir Yılmaz, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Hagia Sophia and Turkish anxiety to lead the Muslim world (Responding to: Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque)
(Ihsan Yilmaz, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Vatican official criticizes ‘senseless politics’ in US and UK surrounding pandemic response
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
Hagia Sophia and Islamist nation-building: Hijacking the conservative architectural imaginary (Responding to: Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque)
(Bülent Batuman, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Erasing history at the Hagia Sophia (Responding to: Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque)
(Esra Akcan, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Beyond conquest narratives: Hagia Sophia, past and present
(Patricia Blessing and Ali Yaycıoğlu, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Will the real Aya Sofia please stand up?
(Muhammad Wajid Akhter, Muslim Matters)
Russian Orthodox Church calls for learning lessons from Hagia Sophia's transformation into mosque, Nantes Cathedral arson
(Interfax-Religion)
The Uluru statement is not a vague idea of ‘being heard’ but deliberate structural reform
(Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation)
The Little Sisters’ win reminds us of what we’ve lost
(Ismail Royer, Religious Freedom Institute)
Where are churches in the Black Lives Matter movement?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Being Muslim in Germany's Bundeswehr means no pastoral care
(Christoph Strack, Deutsche Welle)
World Council of Churches names 2022 date for 11th Assembly in Germany
(Ecumenical News)
Religious liberty puts at risk by Hong Kong security law says Asian cardinal
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Barcelona cardinal holds Mass in defiance of government order
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Bishop says Philippines stained with ‘blood of innocents’ under Duterte
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic charity blames Zimbabwe rape crisis on lack of ‘social safety net’
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Joe Biden, Democrats face tough religious issues in public life that will not go away
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Dutch airline KLM discriminated when it asked woman to move for Orthodox man, watchdog finds
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A spirituality of social justice and peacemaking: Elements from within the Roman Catholic tradition
(Thomas Massaro, Canopy Forum on the Interactions of Law & Religion)
Update on rules for NSW churches under COVID restrictions
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Covid-19 as a threat to international peace and security: The role of the UN Security Council in addressing the pandemic
(Erin Pobjie, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)
Why is the West silent on the Uighurs?
(Matthew Eason, MercatorNet)
Freedom of religion or belief: China – Special Weekly FORB Newsletter (20-26.07.2020)
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Wife of detained Nigerian humanist pleads for 'proof of life'
(Emmanuel Akinwotu, The Guardian)
More Turks disassociate morality and faith in God – study
(Ahval)
Eastern Europeans more likely to believe God is necessary to be moral
(Evangelical Focus Europe)
Greeks most religious in EU, survey shows
(Pavlos Papadopoulos, Ekathimerini)
Russkiy Mir: The role of Russian Orthodox Church in cultural diplomacy
(Bhagya Raj Rathod, Modern Diplomacy)
Faithful return to Mexico City churches with masks, gel
(Maria Verza, Associated Press)
Mexican bishops call for action ahead of Supreme Court abortion ruling
(David Agren, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Dispute in Egypt over control of new Anglican province rooted in yearslong legal challenge
(Egan Millard, Episcopal News Service)
Sissi sets his sights on Al-Azhar, the beating heart of Egypt's religious life
(Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz)
India’s PM to attend temple groundbreaking at disputed site
(Emily Schmall, Associated Press)
Indian archdiocese offers the government its facilities as treatment centers for covid-19
(Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Alexei Lidov: The Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces and the future of the Russian Orthodox Church
(Spotify, Religion Unplugged Podcast)
Friday, 24 July 2020
Religious Freedom in Focus, Volume 87 – July/2020
(U.S. Department of Justice)
House OKs repeal of Trump travel ban decried as anti-Muslim
(Elana Schor and Mariam Fam, Associated Press)
BJC applauds passage of the NO BAN Act in U.S. House
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia opens as a mosque for Muslim prayers
(Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser, Associated Press)
Hagia Sophia: Former Istanbul museum welcomes Muslim worshippers
(BBC News)
Turkey: From today on, the Byzantine Church of Hagia Sophia will be a mosque
(Rosa Die Alcolea, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Erdogan joins thousands to pray for first time at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia
(Ali Kucukgocmen, Daren Butler, Reuters)
Erdogan fulfills cherished goal, opening Hagia Sophia to prayers
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
Turkey's Hagia Sophia holds first Friday prayers since conversion back to mosque
(Isil Sariyuce, Arwa Damon and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN International)
Why Hagia Sophia remains a potent symbol of spiritual and political authority
(Anna Bigelow, Religion News Service)
Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
As Hagia Sophia opens as mosque, Orthodox observe day of mourning
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Why is Hagia Sophia's (re)conversion into a mosque bad for Muslims? (Responding to: Hagia Sophia: From museum to mosque)
(Ramazan Kilinc, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Why I do not intend to pray in the Hagia Sophia 'mosque' | Opinion
(Mohammed Alsherebi, Newsweek)
Restored as mosque, Hagia Sophia opens up to Islamic prayers
(David Gauthier-Villars, The Wall Street Journal)
Hagia Sophia and places of religious freedom
(Massimo Faggioli, La Croix International)
Lessons from Jerusalem: The Hagia Sophia in Turkey is too disputed to turn back into a mosque
(Theophilos III, Opinion contributor, USA Today Opinion)
Turkey names 3 imams, including professor, for Hagia Sophia
(Associated Press)
Putin, Greek PM discuss situation surrounding Hagia Sofia Cathedral in Istanbul
(Interfax-Religion)
HHS acts to preserve religious freedom at hospitals during pandemic
(Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal)
A normalized sense of hopelessness
(Cynthia G. Lindner, Sightings: The Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School)
Suit challenges South Carolina grants to private school students
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge temporarily blocks McMaster’s $32M spending plan for private school vouchers
(Maayan Schechter, The Island Packet)
Problematic women: What is known about China's forced sterilization of Uighur women
(Virginia Allen, The Daily Signal)
Man accused of running over Sikh man charged with hate crime
(Colleen Slevin, Associated Press)
What’s faith got to do with COVID-19?
(Katherine Marshall and Olivia Wilkinson, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Kidnapped Nigerian priest set free and in ‘good health’
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Bishops, immigrant advocates oppose Trump’s new census memo
(Carol Zimmermann, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Vatican foreign minister: Religious freedom must be protected
(Simon Caldwell, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The Bible teaches that all humans are flawed. What does that mean for today’s statue debates?
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
German abbess faces possible landmark trial on church asylum
(Catholic News Service)
Yom Kippur synagogue attacker goes on trial in Germany
(Kirsten Grieshaber and Volkmar Kienoel, Associated Press)
Former SS Nazi guard convicted in Germany's 'last' Holocaust trial
(Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle)
Representative body of German Jews celebrates 70th anniversary
(Jewish News)
The next pope and Vatican diplomacy
(George Weigel, First Things)
Russia's first trial on FGM restarts after coronavirus lockdown
(Emily Sherwin, Deutsche Welle)
FSB detains over 20 Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorists in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory
(Interfax-Religion)
Uzbekistan: Agents provocateurs, arrests, torture, criminal cases
(Mushfig Bayram, Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Mark Hemingway: Campus free-speech fights almost always include religion landmines
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
More insights and information about future conflicts between religious and LGBTQ rights
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Poll: Americans don’t want government telling Christian schools who they can hire
(Caleb Lyman, The Federalist)
European Recovery Fund: Congratulations of the Commission of the Episcopates of the European Union
(Rosa Die Alcolea, Zenit: The World Seen from Rome)
Religious education employers see two significant jurisdictional decisions in Summer 2020
(Amber K. Dodds, Amy Karff Halevy, James H. Kizziar Jr., The National Law Review)
Insight: conservative religious law rejects the death penalty
(Joshua Holo, Joel Thal Simonds, Bloomberg Law)
South African priest highlights religious freedom in Cuba
(Prensa Latina)
With Trump’s failure to protect religious minorities, Afghan Hindus and Sikhs face an uncertain future in India
(Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal, Religion Dispatches)
Standing in solidarity for what matters: IGE at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
(Institute for Global Engagement)
IGE shares religious freedom work with Kazakhstan government officials
(Institute for Global Engagement)
The attempted shutdown of China’s Christians
(Nina Shea, National Review)
In Haiti, more LGBT-friendly penal code prompts outcry from pulpit
(Sandra Lemaire, Renan Toussaint, Yves Manuel, Matiado Vilme, Voice of America)
Mexican Supreme Court case could open door to legalized abortion throughout Mexico
(Nancy Flanders, Live Action)
Wedding services company challenges public accommodation non-discrimination ordinance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ohio minister challenges law forcing her to officiate, write for same-sex weddings
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
New suit charges former Cardinal McCarrick with sexual abuse and dioceses with negligence
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New accuser of Theodore McCarrick alleges the ex-cardinal orchestrated abuse involving other clerics
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)
Protests decry Polish gov’t plan to leave anti-violence deal
(Associated Press)
Christian abortion critics urge Dems to change platform
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Taliban say ready for talks with Kabul after Eid holiday
(Kathy Gannon, Associated Press)
Ukraine proposes to introduce fine for promoting homosexuality
(Interfax-Religion)
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