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Thursday, 7 March 2019

Pastor tells how surrendering to God led to 40,000 praying for all Nashville residents by name
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Missouri discrimination cases could have far-reaching implications
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)

New bill could mean more scholarships for Catholic schools nationwide
(Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency)

Has Islamic State returned to Iraq?
(Mustafa Saadoun, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Iraqi Kurdistan takes aim at gun control
(Dana Taib Menmy, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)

Islamic State roots run deep in Middle East discontent
(Metin Gurcan, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)

Age verification to access online porn arriving in UK next month
(Perry West, Catholic News Agency)

Belgian court finds Nemmouche guilty of Jewish museum attack
(Lorne Cook, Associated Press)

Hundreds of Jordanians march toward capital demanding jobs
(Osama Al Sharif, Al-Monitor: Jordan Pulse)

Dissent among Dems postpones action on anti-Semitism measure
(Laurie Kellman and Lisa Mascaro, Religion News Service)

French court convicts cardinal of not reporting child abuse
(Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Religion News Service)

Anti-Semitism versus legitimate criticism of the state of Israel
(Mae Elise Cannon, Religion News Service)

Anti-Semitism is on the rise in France
(Jax Jacobsen, Religion News Service)

The ’Splainer: What happened at the United Methodist General Conference?
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

Should Trump worry about white Catholic and mainline Protestant votes?
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)

14 members of UK's conservative party suspended for anti-Muslim comments on social media
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

'Buddhism under threat': Thai election gives platform to radicals
(Panu Wongcha-um, Reuters)

Demographics and destiny: Big story brewing if many religious colleges are destined to die
(Richard Ostling, Get Religion)

Krasnodar Territorial Court upholds deportation of 2 U.S. religious missionaries from Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

Mixed signals: The Supreme Court and two current church-state cases
(Richard Foltin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitic tropes focus debate
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Ilhan Omar anti-Semitism controversy, explained
(Zack Beauchamp, Vox)

Text of House Resolution on anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim bias
(Associated Press)

Ilhan Omar just made it harder to have a nuanced debate about Israel
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

God and the earth: Evangelical take on climate change
(Shay Meinecke, Deutsche Welle)

New York General Assembly passes workplace religious freedom bill
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Costa Rica authorities raid Catholic Church offices
(Associated Press)

Bill requiring school elective Bible course OK’d in House
(Curt Anderson, Associated Press)

Challenge to Florida city's conversion therapy ban may move forward
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Third Circuit considers sex-segregated swimming and the Fair Housing Act
(Alexandra Jones, Courthouse News Service)

3rd Circuit hears oral arguments in Fair Housing Act challenge to sex-segregated pool hours
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Deaths from suicide, drugs and alcohol reach highest level ever
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

Russia detains, plans to deport American Mormons over visas
(Associated Press)

New Zealand: 'Archaic' blasphemous libel law repealed in Parliament
(Jamie Ensor, Newshub)

U.S. Mormons to be deported from Russia for illegal teaching
(Interfax-Religion)

One of 2 U.S. Mormons detained in southern Russia to be deported
(Interfax-Religion)

22 states sue Trump rule stripping Planned Parenthood of Title X funding
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Omar’s Israel remarks expose Democrats’ simmering divisions
(Laurie Kellman, Religion News Service)

Democrats’ anti-Semitism resolution tied to Ilhan Omar will now also condemn Islamophobia and white supremacy
(Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Americans prosecuted for participating in church service
(Nezavisimaia Gazeta—Religii, Russia Religion News)

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Dissent among Dems postpones action on anti-Semitism measure
(Laurie Kellman and Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press)

State Department aware Russian police detaining 2 Latter-day Saint volunteers
(Dennis Romboy, Deseret News Faith)

Peskov couldn't confirm media reports on detention of 2 Mormons in southern Russia
(Interfax-Religion)

India bans Kashmir religious group amid sweeping crackdown
(Aijaz Hussein, Associated Press)

The Supreme Court is quietly changing the status of religion in American life
(Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker)

New York bishops castigate plans to legalize marijuana in NY state
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Lent 2019: 5 interesting facts about the 40 days religious observance
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)

More answers to readers’ queries and comments – February and March
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

Birmingham, Islam and sex education: Battles over LGBT education reach a messy stalemate
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])

Wednesday round-up
(Edith Roberts, SCOTUSblog)

Siberian Jehovah's Witnesses continue to draw news media attention
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)

Samoa prime minister calls for prayers for priests after Pell conviction
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Utah hate-crimes law passes Senate, moves to House
(Joseph Gedeon, Associated Press)

No flights or internet during Bali’s sacred Day of Silence
(Associated Press)

Chinese official insists no love for Dalai Lama in Tibet
(Associated Press)

Muslim convert jailed for plot to attack London’s Oxford St
(Associated Press)

Israeli panel won’t bar Jewish radicals from election
(Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press)

Poland considers exhumations at pogrom site and Jews object
(Vanessa Gera, Associated Press)

Catholic school rejects same-sex couple’s kindergartner
(Associated Press)

Firefighter sues, says he grew beard as born-again Christian
(Associated Press)

Superior Court green-lights suit regarding alleged sexual abuse among Jehovah's Witnesses
(Caroline St-Pierre, The Canadian Press)

Canadian court certifies class in sex abuse suit against Jehovah's Witnesses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Justice Department secures denaturalization of convicted war criminal who fraudulently obtained refugee status and U.S. citizenship
(U.S. Department of Justice)

Convicted war criminal stripped of U.S. naturalized citizenship
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Juror’s ‘passion’ over Hindu doctor not placing hand on Bible during swearing-in gets verdict tossed
(Noah Cohen, NJ.com)

New trial ordered after juror questions defendant's taking of oath
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

State of Colorado and Masterpiece Cakeshop agree to end all litigation
(Colorado Attorney General)

Another Masterpiece Cakeshop chapter closes, with a bland AP report that skips hot details
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)

Colorado, baker end legal spat over transgender woman’s cake
(Kathleen Foody, Religion News Service)

Christian baker wins again as state drops transgender cake case
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)

Colorado and Masterpiece Cakeshop agree to end their litigation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Victory for Jack Phillips as overwhelming evidence of govt hostility emerges
(Alliance Defending Freedom)

Victory for Jack Phillips as evidence of govt hostility emerges
(Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet)

Argument: The West needs to take the politics of women in ISIS seriously
(Kanisha D. Bond, Kate Cronin-Furman, Meredith Loken, Milli Lake, Sarah E. Parkinson, and Anna Zelenz, Foreign Policy)

The European Court of Justice: Do all roads lead to Luxembourg?
(Judge Allan Rosas, CEPS)

Most churches are losing members fast — but not the Mormons. Here’s why
(Daniel Cox, Vox)

LDS continues push to drop use of the word "Mormon"
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Tories suspend 14 members over alleged Islamophobia
(Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian)

Iraq’s Patriarch Sako proposes national covenant
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)

Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters
(Jon Gambrell, Associated Press)

Alaska mayor vetoes equal rights ordinance
(Catholic News Agency)

Pell lawyer will remain on legal team, despite report he would quit
(Catholic News Agency)

Bishop objects to death sentence for Filipino woman in Saudi Arabia
(Catholic News Agency)

Nicaraguan bishops not mediating latest round of peace talks
(Catholic News Agency)

New York bishops blaze against legalization in joint marijuana statement
(Catholic News Agency)

UK school program promoting LGBT lifestyle to 4-y-o kids shut down after Muslim parents protest
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)

Justice Kavanaugh raises concern over NJ Supreme Court decision excluding churches from preservation grants
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh calls New Jersey law ‘religious discrimination’
(Sarah Martin, Christian Headlines)

Brett Kavanaugh shows how eager he is to tear down the wall between church and state
(Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)

Gay UMC pastor to conduct same-sex weddings despite Traditional Plan passage
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

What to know about the monetary theory favored by US socialist politicians
(Gordon Boronow, The Christian Post)

New global religious freedom mov’t underway: 'We can’t just keep talking about it'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

A short history of babies born alive during an abortion
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)

Pastor abducted by militant Buddhists in Myanmar, second to be captured in 2 months
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Rastafarianism is rising in popularity among Britain's military
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

Anti-Muslim display angers West Virginia delegates at state capitol
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)

Indonesia’s largest Islamic group calls for end to ‘infidel’ usage
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)

Report shows 57 percent jump in aggression against Christians in India
(Morning Star News)

Boko Haram IS faction replaces figure head
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)

Kachin Baptist convention pressured to support Myitsone dam
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)

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