Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Where Americans and Europeans agree – and differ – in the values they see as important
(Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Meeting of Russian presidential advisors concerning religion
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Court vacates Obama-era rule mandating gender transition and abortion procedures
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Witch season provides a deep look into the millennial mindset
(Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service)
ECtHR engages in dangerous “triple pirouette” to find criminal prosecution for media coverage of PKK statements did not violate Article 10
(Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof, Strasbourg Observers)
The OSCE produces guidance on freedom of religion or belief and security
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Cultivate common ground regarding faith in public life
(Melissa Rogers, Religion News Service)
Albania gets religion: Resurgence of faith in the formerly communist country is raising fears of foreign influence.
(Krithika Varagur, Politico)
The Forest Service ignored Apache religion in its review of Oak Flat Copper Mine
(Elizabeth Whitman, Phoenix New Times)
State Department website promotes Mike Pompeo speech on 'Being a Christian Leader'
(Savannah Behrmann, USA Today)
Restrictions on cremation ashes for jewellery – II
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
RFI president speaks about freedom of conscience at Newman canonization event in Rome
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Why are cathedrals in England hosting helter-skelters and golf courses?
(Duncan Leatherdale, BBC News)
Deja vu all over again: BBC does another fun cathedrals story that skips somber facts (again)
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Uzbekistan: Muslim bloggers' sentences imminent?
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Traditional moral values, democracy can coexist - Patriarch Kirill
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin's advisors point out flaws in treatment of religion
(Natalia Bashlykova, Izvestiia, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Religious News worth reading, week ending Oct 12th 2019
(World Religion News)
Southeast Asia in the crosshairs of 'Islamic State'
(Rodion Ebbighausen, Deutsche Welle)
Attorney General William P. Barr delivers remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Religious liberty, nondiscrimination, and the left
(Peter Kirsanow, National Review)
Czech top court dismisses taxation of church restitution
(Associated Press)
Tunisia: Conservative law professor wins presidential race
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
Catholic church urges Angola to declare a drought emergency
(Associated Press)
German security services want more powers to fight extremism
(Frank Jordans, Associated Press)
Ethiopian Prime Minister awarded Nobel Peace Prize, more work needed
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Boko Haram leader ends silence with vow to continue violence
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Authorities set to close two Algerian churches
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Saudi Arabia sees little progress on religious freedom despite claims of reform
(International Christian Concern)
Religious discrimination bill will not override laws to ban gay conversion therapy, Porter claims
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Coalition's religious discrimination bill condemned by state and territory commissions
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Bishops join Extinction Rebellion protesters in London
(Joe Ware, The Guardian)
Dean Hall calls for state-funded Muslim schools
(Hattie Williams, The Church Times)
Meditation apps proliferate, even if what they provide is not enlightenment
(Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Religion News Service)
Synod appears to be moving toward ordination for married men in Amazon
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
American bishop says Amazon synod will enrich the church — and our lives
(Thomas Reese, Religion News Service)
Sunnis support protests in Iraq, yet fear involvement
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
US announces full withdrawal from northern Syria as Turkish forces advance
(Amberin Zaman and Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
School declines free Chick-fil-A Food ‘out of respect’ to LGBT staff
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
California expands statute of limitations for childhood sex abuse
(Catholic News Agency)
Historic Marian shrine in Florida elevated to national shrine
(Catholic News Agency)
Newman, the newest Catholic saint, is a model of making reason our path to God
(Grazie Poso Christie, Religion News Service)
'Our rights come from God almighty:' President Trump reassures Christians at Values Voter Summit
(Mikaela Mathews, Christian Headlines)
Facing crises, Team Trump takes aim at the church-state line
(Steve Benen, MSNBC)
BOOK LAUNCH, 15 October 2019: Religious Freedom in Australia – a new Terra Nullius?
(Iain T. Benson, Michael Quinlan and A. Keith Thompson, The Sdyney School of Law, The University of Notre Dame Australia)
New York will get statue of Mother Cabrini
(Catholic News Agency)
Pakistan: The weaponization of blasphemy – analysis
(Tushar Ranjan Mohanty, South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP))
US policy changes leave Israel alone against Iran
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Gas trade: stand-alone win-win for US-Turkey relations
(Olgu Okumuş, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
U.N. nuncio praises nations for recognizing rights of indigenous peoples
(Catholic News Service)
Pope Francis appoints new head of Vatican security
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
New California law forces colleges to carry abortion pills so students can ‘stay on track’
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Calif. governor signs state college campus abortion pill mandate into law
(Catholic News Agency)
UK court authorizes forced abortion for disabled woman in new case
(Catholic News Agency)
Ohio down syndrome abortion ban remains blocked after court ruling
(Catholic News Agency)
China: Authorities forcibly demolish 'illegal' church; elderly congregants injured
(Leah MarieAnn Kleet, The Christian Post)
Monday, 14 October 2019
Troubling Q&A on tax exemption for churches during presidential candidate town hall
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Beto O’Rourke wants anti-gay churches to lose their tax exemptions. He’s wrong
(Hemant Mehta, Patheos Blog: Friendly Atheist)
Warren joins Buttigieg in nixing threat to church tax status
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Meet the imam building a ‘Muslim Village’ in the heart of Vegas
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
At Amazon synod, women insist that equality should mean the right to vote
(Claire Giangravé, Religion News Service)
At LGBTQ forum, Democratic candidates talk God — a lot
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
(David A. Hollinger, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (June 11, 2019))
Rise in same-sex couples adopting as charity says they are more willing to care for 'harder to place' children
(Gabriella Swerling, The Telegraph)
Inventing transgender children and young people
(Heather Brunskell Evans ISocial Theorist and Philosopher), Blog)
UK: Study claiming ‘religious children are mean’ is retracted
(The Christian Institute)
Tens of thousands march in Paris for children’s right to a father
(The Christian Institute)
Month old church demolished by Indian authorities
(Premier)
ICLRS International Law & Religion Symposium recordings of keynote and plenary sessions
(International Center for Law and Religion Studies, Brigham Young University)
Law and religion round-up – 13th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Muslim professor devotes his life to bringing Jews, Muslims together to find common ground
(Lara Hansen, Duke Chronicle)
Suppressing Jehovah’s Witnesses to prevent espionage”
(Li Mingxuan, Bitter Winter)
No god but God: a breathtaking exhibition bringing Islamic art out of the shadows
(ana Silkatcheva, The Conversation)
A terrorist attack on Yom Kippur in Halle, Germany
(Elisabeth Zerofsky, The New Yorker)
FoRB on the frontlines (Colombia): “We left the city and did not return”
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
FoRB on the frontlines (Venezuela): “A rival to the government”
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
The US Naval Academy will host Satanic services, according to The Satanic Temple
(Lucien Greaves, Patheos Blog: Friendly Atheist)
Keston Center for Religion, Politics and Society to commemorate 50 years of Keston Institute, celebrate book
(Baylor University)
William Barr speaks at Notre Dame about ‘militant’ forces of secularism, religious liberty in America
(Kelli Smith, The Observer)
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg says churches shouldn't be punished for being anti-LGBTQ
(Jason Lemon, Newsweek)
Buttigieg pushes back on O'Rourke threat to strip religious institutions of tax-exempt status
(Justin Wise, The Hill)
Queerness and religion in conversation
(Nadia Krige, University of Cape Town News)
Charter values are not Charter rights by another name
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Intersection)
Disqualifying a church pastor from charity trusteeship: Phelps
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Correction: There were two crucial Iowa religious liberty rulings linked to higher ed
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Kurdish evangelicals: Amidst the current war, here's one angle the media isn't getting
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
New Syrian constitution must guarantee interests of all ethnic, religious groups - Putin
(Interfax-Religion)
Why ending the secrecy of ‘confession’ is so controversial for the Catholic Church
(Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation)
Granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder chronicles leaving in 'Unfollow'
(Kate Tuttle, National Public Radio)
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church (new book)
(Megan Phelps-Roper, Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Religious right sticks by Trump as political heat rises
(Elana Schor, Associated Press)
Pompeo talks religious freedom in Nashville speech
(Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press)
Secy. Pompeo speaks to Christian conference
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Being a Christian leader
(Michael R. Pompeo, U.S. Department of State)
AG seeks to halt adoption ruling, denies anti-Catholic bias
(Associated Press)
Gunman opens fire at church wedding ceremony in New Hampshire, 2 people shot
(Associated Press)
Tunisia polls suggest conservative professor wins election
(Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press)
Thousands in Berlin protest against anti-Semitism
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
Conservatives dominate Polish vote, capitalize on spending
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)
Democrats are going to regret Beto’s stance on conservative churches
(John Inazu, The Atlantic)
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