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Monday, 20 April 2020

Meet Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisers
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor)

Lebanon bank attacked with explosive amid economic crisis
(Al-Monitor)

Growth in the LDS Church is slowing -- but not for reasons you might suspect
(Emma Penrod, Religion Unplugged)

Sunday, 19 April 2020

Advocates lament exclusion of those with criminal records from business loan program
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)

Saturday, 18 April 2020

What do countries with the best coronavirus responses have in common? Women leaders
(Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes)

Women leaders are doing a disproportionately great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them?
(Leta Hong Fincher, CNN)

Women are leading Canada's
(Victoria Forster, Forbes)

What religious leaders can do: Imams, clerics, and pastors can play a crucial role in the fight against Covid-19
(Samia Huq, Dhaka Tribune)

Preference to the Poor: Priority Ethics for Development Leaders
(Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

PODCAST: The case for interfaith America with Eboo Patel
(Bob Smietana with Eboo Patel, Religion News Service)

When religion and culture kill: COVID-19 in the Somali diaspora communities in Sweden
(Anne Speckhard, Othman Mahamud and Molly Ellenberg, GTSC Homeland Secuity Today)

Trump consults faith leaders on phased-in reopening
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)

Update on religious liberty cases before the U.S. Supreme Court
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

U.S. seeks release of religious minorities imprisoned in other nations
(Mark Pattison, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Putin won't attend Easter vigil at Christ the Savior Cathedral
(Interfax-Religion)

It's a fact that the Holy Fire in Jerusalem is a hoax? Associated Press appears to assume that
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Israel to help Christians share 'holy fire' amid outbreak
(Josef Feder, Associated Press)

The last Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan plead for U.S. help
(Jessica Donati and Ehsanullah Amiri, The Wall Street Journal)

Height of discrimination in India
(Zamir Ahmed Awan, Modern Diplomacy)

China: Police arrest Christians participating in Zoom Easter worship service
(Christian Daily)

India, Pakistan, Turkey are going back to religion. There is a better way
(Khaled Ahmed, The Indian Express)

Domestic abuse killings 'more than double' amid Covid-19 lockdown
(Jamie Grierson, The Guardian)

Vatican congregation to send ventilators to Syria and Holy Land
(Catholic News Agency)

How a megachurch adapted to social distancing
(Casey Cep, The New Yorker)

Friday, 17 April 2020

LIVE VIDEO CLE, 17 April 2020: Coronavirus/Covid-19 Business Disruption and Contract and Insurance Claims
(Federal Bar Association)

Interreligious Council of PERU provides essential supplies to Venezuelan refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants
(Religions for Peace)

Working with religion or working for faith?
(Prof. Dr. Azza Karam, Secretary General, Religions for Peace)

Faith leaders strongly echo the UN Secretary-General's call for a ceasefire
(Religions for Peace)

Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: Environmental health
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Coronavirus is also a threat to democratic constitutions
(Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings (originally in Financial Times))

Statement of solidarity from religious leaders on the COVID-19 pandemic
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Faith, freedom in action in troubled times – like now
(Blair Forlaw, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Are COVID-19 restrictions inflaming religious tensions?
(Geneive Abdo and Anna L. Jacobs, Brookings)

Eight rules for teaching during COVID-19
(Jennifer Snodgrass, OUPblog)

Will COVID-19 cause a religious recession?
(Brian Hollar, Religion & Diplomacy: A Resource of the Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy)

Lessons learnt from Coronavirus and global environmental challenges
(Amandine Orsini, OUPblog)

COVID-19 can augment violence to Mexican women
(Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings)

Coronavirus outbreak highlights need to address threats to ecosystems and wildlife
(UN Environment Programme)

"HOVID": Hunger, COVID-19, and Religious Response
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

COVID-19 is a test of multilateralism - OpEd
(Dr. Esmira Jafarova, Geopolitical Monitor)

World Bank, IMF push to consolidate patchwork approach to coronavirus cases
(Josh Zumbrun and David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal)

A foreign policy for the climate: How American leadership can avert catastrophe
(John Podesta and Todd Stern, Foreign Policy)

The pandemic won't make China the world’s leader: Few countries are buying the model or the message from Beijing
(Michael Green and Evan S. Medeiros, Foreign Policy)

What to do about China?
(Samuel Gregg, Law & Liberty)

Diplomacy seen in Mormons' first temple in China
(UCA News)

China's war against the soul
(Benedict Rogers, UCA News)

Jordan’s unique coronavirus challenge
(Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

Saudi Arabia wants out of Yemen
(Bruce Riedel, Brookings)

Extending soldiers’ assignments may help the military maintain readiness: Defense during COVID-19
(Thomas Burke, Brookings)

A tale of two Koreas in the age of coronavirus
(Jung H. Pak, Brookings)

From “Western education is forbidden” to the world’s deadliest terrorist group: Education and Boko Haram in Nigeria
(Madiha Afzal, Brookings)

Reorganisation of the courts of the Vatican City
(Neil Addison, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)

In Sweden, there's no COVID-19 lockdown. Here are 4 things to know
(Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal)

Brexit – Apportioning the blame
(Joseph Weiler, EJIL: Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law)

Uzbekistan: Despite coronavirus lockdown officials continue literature raids
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

The coronavirus erases our living memory of the Holocaust and gives fresh life to old traumas
(Armin Rosen, Tablet)

Italian Jews battle COVID-19—and isolation
(Natan Greppi, Tablet)

Understanding India’s citizenship controversy
(Rudabeh Shahid and Champa Patel, Atlantic Council)

Some California churches call in-person services essential despite pandemic
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)

As Ramadan nears, prisons urged to accommodate faith needs during pandemic
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)

Does the pandemic have a purpose? Only if we give it one. The coronavirus is neither good nor bad. It wants only to reproduce
(Stephen T. Asma, The New York Times Opinion)

LDS Church joins fight against Covid-19, with members sewing 5 million face masks
(Jana Riess, RNS Column: Flunking Sainthood)

Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection
(Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service)

New podcast: Who-da thunk it? Drive-in churches are First Amendment battlegrounds
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Cardinal Pell, moral outrage, and the rule of law
(Theodore Dalrymple, Law & Liberty)

In India, pandemic turns political opposition group into COVID-19 help line
(Adam Willems, Religion News Service)

Suit challenges Chattanooga's ban on drive-in church services
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ADF files suit to challenge Chattanooga ban on drive-in church services
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

USCIRF welcomes release of hundreds of imprisoned Rohingya in Burma, calls for more to be released
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

Justice Department backs church objections to discriminatory COVID-19 bans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Litigation delay refused in suit over Christian school's compliance with nondiscrimination requirements
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Churches sue challenging Kansas stay-at-home order
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

ADF sues KS governor over COVID-19 order that allows numerous gatherings, except churches
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

U.S. state of Idaho sued over trans birth certificate and sport laws
(Matthew Lavietes, Thomson Reuters Foundation News)

German diocese transfers black priest after death threat
(Associated Press)

Italian bishops make proposal to government for restarting liturgical life
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Cardinal fears coronavirus could be end of European Union
(Elise Ann Allen, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

German bishops criticize decision to maintain church service ban
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Guatemalan bishops: Deporting people during pandemic lacks humanity
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)

Shutdown of religious services in pandemic prompts varied responses
(Carol Zimmermann, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Russia's devout push back against coronavirus church closures
(Emily Sherwin, Deutsche Welle)

Will COVID-19 increase support for religious freedom?
(Stephen Enada, The Christian Post)

Collective prayers in mosques temporarily banned in Tajikistan due to coronavirus situation
(Interfax-Religion)

Holy Land Christians put their faith in the Resurrection during pandemic
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

‘World’s biggest lockdown’ enters critical phase amid starvation fears, says Gospel for Asia
(RNS Press Release Distribution Service)

The persecution of Christians in Muslim countries
(Rami Dabbas, The Algemeiner)

Can religious symbols in India be registered as trademarks?
(Kanika Handa https://www.livelaw.in/know-the-law/trademark-and-religion-symbols-155363, Live Law (India))

The coronavirus crisis in Latin America: Increased presidential power without solid foundations – Analysis
(Carlos Malamud and Rogelio Núñez, Elcano Royal Institute via Eurasia Review)

Cutting the funding: The WHO, Trump, and the coronavirus wars — OpEd
(Binoy Kampmark, Eurasia Review Opinion)

Is there a clash of civilization between the West and Islam? – Analysis
(Sinduja Umandi Wickramasinghe Jayaratne, Eurasia Review)

How New York hassidic communities have been beaten by coronavirus
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

Iran’s Health Minister defends coronavirus “management” despite 30,700 deaths
(Adena Nima, Iran News Wire)

Special Covid-19 care sought for Bhopal disaster survivors
(UCA News)

Prominent Kosovo Serb journalist says intimidation worsening with COVID-19
(Milica Stojanovic, Balkan Insight)

Week in Review: Pandemics and Politics in the Balkans
(Milos Damnjanovic, Balkan Insight)

Bosnia takes first step to regulate same-sex partnerships
(Rasid Krupalija, Balkan Insight)

Oxford professor arrested over theft of ancient papyrus
(The Jerusalem Post)

COIVD-19's worst victims will be the persecuted Christians of Africa
(Jim Shannon MP, All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief)

Thursday, 16 April 2020

Religion and COVID-19: Four Lessons from the Ebola experience
(Katherine Marshall, Olivia Wilkinson and Dave Robinson, From Poverty to Power)

Consultation on COVID-19: Exploring Faith Dimensions: Brief
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

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