Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 21 October 2019
Grant offered for creation of artificial wombs to help premature babies
(Mary Farrow, Catholic News Agency)
Three women of faith who changed America
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service Opinion)
Religious violence in Bangladesh leaves 4 dead, dozens injured
(Daily Star, Asia News Network)
ODIHR releases freedom of religion policy guide
(New Europe)
Transgender cyclist wins femal cycling world championship
(Tobias Hoonhout, National Review)
Ayodhya: How Rajiv Gandhi’s plan to use the Ram temple for the Congress party came undone
(Zoya Hasan, Scroll.in India)
With the New Year in Judaism, now is the time to atone for religious discrimination
(Keisha Russell, Real Clear Religion)
What are the biggest threats to religious liberty in the US?
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)
There is no room in Islam for clerics who abuse women—not in Iraq, not anywhere
(Mohammed Al-Hilli, Newsweek Opinion)
Marijuana retailer, church face off over downtown Anchorage pot shop
(Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News)
French veil debate uncovers schism on religious symbols
(Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, Financial Times)
IICSA final hearing – Roman Catholic Church
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Chick-fil-A culture war goes international: What's the real story in plans to close British location?
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Longer jail time asked for Jehovah's Witness in Siberia
(Taiga.info, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Nineteen Jehovah's Witnesses' homes penetrated
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Rights activist points to plan to destroy Jehovah's Witnesses
(Svetlana Kravchenko, Kavkazskii Uzel, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Hong Kong’s spiritual battle: With parishioners split over politics, pastors try to keep churches together.
(Jillian Kay Melchior, The Wall Street Journal (Opinion))
William Barr’s wild misreading of the First Amendment
(Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker)
‘A new movement’: Pray for the country, its leaders, church official urges Latter-day Saints
(Sarah Jane Weaver, Deseret News)
Mexican bishops call for peace, conversion amid growing violence
(David Agren, Catholic News Service)
Lebanon’s Catholic patriarchs support protesters seeking economic reforms
(Catholic News Service)
What should college grads, and high school grads, know about world religions?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Hong Kong leaders apologize for water cannon use at mosque
(Kelvin Chan, Associated Press)
Library removes Sikh memorial after criticism from India
(Associated Press)
Judge OKs $40M settlement with Duluth diocese
(Associated Press)
Video highlights from Constitution Day at The King’s College
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum, St. John's Law School Center for Law & Religion)
When is a Byzantine cross just a tattoo and when is it a reason to ask another question?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Law and religion round-up – 20th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religious freedom and security as mutually reinforcing objectives: Reflections on the new OSCE/ODIHR policy guidance
(Dmytro Vovk, Jeroen Temperman, Mine Yildirim, Asma Uddin, Peter Weiderub, Talk About: Law and Religion (blog of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies))
In U.S., decline of Christianity continues at rapid pace
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Can you protect religious minorities and still withdraw from Syria? A story of life and death
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News)
Pew report: Older US Christians being quickly replaced by young ‘nones’
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Obituary of powerful Congressman Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland haunted by religion ghosts
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Friday Five: Elijah Cummings, Kurdish evangelicals, Tree of Life, viral forgiveness, open marriages/NYT
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Amid rising anti-Semitism, the People of the Book rejoice with the Law
(Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, due NOW! Artificial Intelligence and Religion – AIR2020
(International Conference, 3-5 March 2020, Centre for Religious Studies Centre for Information and Communication Technology Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento)
Separation of state from religion is preferable: Condoleezza Rice
(NDTV)
Pope affirms Catholic Church’s duty to indigenous Amazonians hurt by climate change
(Vincent J. Miller, The Conversation)
Japan funding for imperial ceremonies sparks rare dissent
(Asia One)
Muslim employee claims discrimination by New York DMV over Friday prayers
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Share of Americans with no religious affiliation growing
(David Crary, Associated Press)
World Evangelical Association deeply concerned at suffering of vulnerable, including Christians, on Syria-Turkey border
(Ecumenical News)
Christians, Hindus must show world peace is possible, official says
(Catholic News Service)
Emerging from Isis genocide, Yazidis in Armenia open religion’s biggest ever temple
(Independent)
Pittsburgh abortion clinic buffer zone law upheld
(Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law)
Pa. city can’t stop pro-life activists from counseling women outside abortion clinics, says federal court
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Louisiana court skeptical, but lets challenge to abortion regulations continue
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Abortion legalized in N Ireland, after deadlock in devolved legislature
(Catholic News Agency)
Abortion law – Northern Ireland
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
NI politicians receive ‘highest-level of correspondence’ on a single issue ever from constituents demanding extreme abortion regime is rejected
(Right to Life)
Northern Ireland prepares for momentous abortion, same-sex marriage changes
(Reuters, Amanda Ferguson, National Post)
Calls grow for Northern Ireland politicians to lay aside differences, stop abortion law
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
China demolishes 3,000-seat megachurch during worship service
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
New Yorker riffs on Doug Pagitt counseling Democrats on how to reach out to evangelicals
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Sunday, 20 October 2019
Coptic Christians in Egypt fear martyrs are being forgotten
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Hindu exremists, police shut down worship services in Uttat Pradesh, India
(Morningstar News)
Hong Kong court rules against same-sex unions
(Tiffany May and Gerry Mullany, The New York Times)
Melbourne Anglicans find regional same-sex blessings move ‘profoundly disappointing'
(SBS News)
Swiss doctor sentenced for helping healthy woman to die
(swissinfo.ch)
Decision time begins for Amazon bishops as synod enters final week
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Study: Religious attendance flatlining, but giving remains strong
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Syria crisis tests Trump’s global religious freedom vows
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Some US forces to remain in northeastern Syria, SDF sources say
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Bishop warns of mass exodus of Christians in Syria
(Heather Preston, Premier)
Majority of Hispanics in U.S. no longer Catholic, new study finds
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
More than 1 billion people celebrate on Diwali. What does it mean to them?
(Simran Jeet Singh, RNS Column: Articles of Faith)
The limits of religious freedom: America must come to grips with when faith groups limit personal liberty
(Torah Bontrager, New York Daily News)
Accusing SBC of ‘caving,’ John MacArthur says of Beth Moore: ‘Go home’
(Bob Smietana, Religion News Service)
Sex trafficking survivors fight bill to decriminalize prostitution in nation's capital
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Pastors of larger churches more likely to prioritize counseling and discipleship, new study says
(LifeWay Research)
Muslim-majority UAE commits to rebuilding 2 churches destroyed by ISIS in Iraq
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Spike in violence, profanity on TV shows rated OK for kids: PTC warns
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Florida church opens coffee shop run by young adults with autism
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Scottish clergy warn against proposed changes to UK surrogacy laws
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
Nine Iranian Christians sentenced to five year imprisonment
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
I, Pastafari: we all have something to learn from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
(Tony Meacham, The Conversation)
The myth of the Secular: Religion, war, and politics in the twentieth century
(Walter A. McDougall, Foreign Policy Research Institute)
On World Mission Day, pope urges Catholics to share Christ's love with all
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
Christian leaders in Pakistan express concern over increased violence
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Americans are turning away from church as population of Christians decline, Pew study claims
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Who are the Kurdish people in Syria being attacked by Turkey?
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Live updates: Syria Kurds begin withdrawing from Turkish border
(Haaretz, DPA, The Associated Press and Reuters, Haaretz)
LGBT teaching row: School exclusion zone decision put off
(BBC News)
African students excluded from China’s churches
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Saturday, 19 October 2019
Another hijab furor hits France, over a mother on a school trip
(Aurelien Breeden, The New York Times)
Exhumation without church or MoJ approval… but still perfectly legal
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Post-Beto podcast: Yes, it's time for reporters to ask about 'freedom of worship' (again)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Latter-day Saint leaders lend support in humanitarian effort and meet government leaders in Texas and Arizona
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
Adult illiteracy is holding back progress in Madagascar, Catholic charity says
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Millions march in Iraq in annual Arbaeen Shiite pilgrimage
(Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Hadi Mizban, Associated Press)
Architect of UN’s first anti-Semitism report says it is ‘long overdue’ (Podcast)
(Times of Israel)
Federal judge blocks Trump's new immigration rule
(Will Maule, Christian Headlines)
UK judge orders woman with mental disability to abort her child against her will
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
Christian tourists warned to not display Bibles in Saudi Arabia
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
School administrator suspended for questioning why school introduced LGBT agenda
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
'Sad day' in Algeria as officials seal buildings of country's largest churches
(Christian Headlines)
Franklin Graham says he won’t second guess Trump on Syria
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
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