Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
India: Christians look to Supreme Court for religious freedom
(Eurasia News)
Eastern vs. Western Christianity on church & state
(Gene Veith, Patheos)
World churches body raises awareness about impact of Cyclone Idai on Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Bulgaria postpones visit by Turkish Foreign Minister over religions law row
(Sofia Globe)
Government to legislate for ‘no-fault’ divorce in England & Wales
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Key question: Can American Jews vote in Israel's high-stakes balloting for prime minister?
(Bobby Ross Jr., Get Religion)
Britain's churches and the EU: British Christians are as divided by Brexit as everybody else
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Passover to prevent Jews from voting on April 21 "before star-rise" - Ukraine's chief rabbi
(Interfax-Religion)
Kiev court finds involuntary renaming of canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church to be unlawful
(Interfax-Religion)
Tuesday round-up
(Edith Roberts, SCOTUSblog)
Speaker of Ukrainian legislature challenges court action
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Religious freedom on death row: How a new lawsuit affects a growing debate
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Bishops say no-fault divorce in U.K. undermines marriage from outset
(Catholic News Service)
Pope, Archbishop of Canterbury to host retreat for South Sudan’s leaders
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
BJC’s Tyler: “It feels like we haven’t heard the end” of execution chamber cases
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Tennessee House advances ‘secular humanism’ bill
(Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press)
North Macedonia group complains over Muslim leader’s remarks
(Associated Press)
NYC orders mandatory vaccines for some amid measles outbreak
(Associated Press)
New York wants to ban religious vaccine exemptions to help control the measles outbreak
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Measles: Rockland emergency order halted by state judge; Day commends an uptick in vaccinations
(Robert Brum, Rockland/Westchester Journal New)
Religious objectors to vaccinations denied in Kentucky, New York rulings
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Religious leaders should step up on vaccinations
(Elizabeth Bruenig, The Washington Post)
USCIRF Commissioners adopt American pastor David Lin through the Religious Prisoners of Conscience Project
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Statement from Yale Law School on nondiscrimination
(Yale Law School)
Senate will investigate Yale's application of its non-discrimination policy to public interest stipends
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
NY Senate weighs protections for workplace religious attire
(Associated Press)
Catholics are evangelizing on campus, trying to bring back the ‘nones’
(Katherine Dugan, Religion News Service)
Horse stabbing denied: Police search for satanic documents
(George Block, Otago Times)
After ‘challenging times,’ Moody Bible Institute inaugurates new president
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
The future of Catholicism in America
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
100 investigators probing La. fires that destroyed three black churches
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
What every Democratic presidential candidate needs to know about religious voters
(Shaun Casey and Michael McCurry, Religion News Service)
Philippine Catholic clergy say they've received death threats
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Let the children be Yazidis
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
Sikhs to plant one mission trees to celebrate 550th birthday of Guru Nanak
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Thinking about media polarization, the Democratic primary and the rise of alt-Catholics
(Clemente Lisi, Get Religion)
Hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism
(U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary)
House holds hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In Québec, Christian liberalism becomes the religious authority
(Hannah Dick, Religion News Service)
Monday, 8 April 2019
May the renewed religious left avoid the religious right's mistakes
(Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter)
Indian Christians look to Supreme Court for religious freedom
(UCA News)
Don’t blame Sharia for Islamic extremism – blame colonialism
(Mark Fathi Massoud, conver)
Banishing knotweed from God’s Acre
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 7th April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Islands, churches and partition: The uneasy co-existence of national struggles and conservative clerics
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Beautification works, dismantling of illegally erected crosses underway at Kuropaty
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses charged with crime of financing extremism
(Vremya Birobidzhana, Russia Religion News)
Rights advocates demonstrate for Jehovah's Witnesses
(OVD-Info, Russia Religion News)
Religious free speech after Ruddock
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
So Yale Law School endorses anti-religious bigotry now?
(Samuel Adkisson, USA Today)
Just war vs. responsibility to protect: The ethics of military intervention
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Missouri House approves bill authorizing public school Bible classes
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Dozens protest in London against Brunei’s anti-gay laws
(Associated Press)
CAIR warns of increasing Islamophobia after New York arrests
(Associated Press)
India’s leader rallies his base with Hindu mega projects
(Emily Schmall, Associated Press)
Ardern names judge to head royal inquiry into mosque attack
(Associated Press)
State of emergency to combat measles ended by court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Clearing a courtroom OK'd for testimony by Muslim woman with uncovered face
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
No state action in denial of club leadership position to Mormon high schooler
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Stanford Religious Liberty Clinic joins legal team in death-penalty chaplaincy case
(Stanfod Law School)
Inmate's suit seeks imam in execution chamber
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Christians combat depression and suicide too; pastors and ministers share how they get through
(Jeannie Law, The Christian Post)
Howard University president says ‘safe space’ activism can be counterproductive
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
The Equality Act vs. religious freedom: Equality for me, but not for thee
(John Stonestreet and David Carlson, The Christian Post)
Ted Cruz threatens Yale Law School with lawsuit over blacklisting of Christian groups
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
After Supreme Court ruling, Texas bans all chaplains from execution rooms
(Catholic News Agency)
Pope’s Via Crucis to highlight suffering of trafficked people
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
L'Arche: Failures are 'systemic' in NHS treatment of the disabled
(Catholic News Agency)
Catholic University students vote to block porn
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Appeals court upholds Kentucky ultrasound abortion law
(Catholic News Agency)
US bishops, CRS urge administration to grant Venezuelans protected status
(Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis: Conversion requires a resolve to sin no more
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)
French Catholic university encourages African bishops in self-reflection
(Catholic News Agency)
Cattle paid to South Sudan families after girls died in Catholic school fire
(Catholic News Agency)
‘No backdoors, no end-runs’: Pompeo vows total end to foreign aid for abortion
(Kate Scanlon, Catholic News Agency)
The last Irish priest in Wyoming
(Kevin Jones, Catholic News Agency)
Comments about ‘Whiteness’ prompt controversy at Sparrow Women conference
(Nicola A. Menzie, Religion News Service)
‘Only God can do that’: How Nebraskans are reconciling faith and flooding
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Michigan health center accused of stopping senior citizens from telling children about Christmas
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
Christian activist fined $55,000 for calling transgender woman a biological male
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Three historical black churches in Louisiana set ablaze, FBI and ATF investigate
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Hamas leader says 'Israel will suffer' if war breaks out in the Gaza strip
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Abortionists could face up to 99 years in prison under proposed Alabama law
(Mikaela Matthews, Christian Headlines)
Court upholds pro-life law that lets women see ultrasound before abortion
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Police responsible for disappearance of pastor in Malaysia, Rights Commission concludes
(Christian Headlines)
Atheist group threatens suit over Mississippi ‘in God we trust’ license plates
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Future of decades-old CBS religion documentary program in doubt
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
'All I could see was somebody's son or daughter': Gynecologist who performed 1,200 abortions becomes pro-life activist
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Emails show Planned Parenthood behind California rule to make churches pay for abortions
(Catholic News Agency)
Quebec's new law forbids religious symbols to be worn by public workers
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Sunday, 7 April 2019
When Polish judges become human rights defenders
(Barbora Cernusakova, euronews)
Friday, 5 April 2019
HRWF FoRB and Blasphemy Prisoners Database - updated 1 April 2019
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
No anti-Muslim bias at Supreme Court: Constitution, argued properly, protects all religions
(Luke Goodrich, The Hill)
Iraq's atheists go underground as Sunni, Shiite hard-liners dominate
(F. Brinley Bruton, NBC News)
The Sultan of Brunei: Opulence, power and hard-line Islam
(Alan Yuhas, The New York Times)
More answers to readers’ queries and comments – early April
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Friday Five: New D.C. archbishop, United Methodist left, Pete Buttigieg, LDS shift, Ed Stetzer's tweet
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
The uses and abuses of the e-word: Authoritarians worldwide define religions they don’t like as extremist
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Moscow Pentecostals win appeal against meeting ban
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
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