Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
MIT faces backlash over invited speaker’s anti-Muslim comments
(Aysha Khan, Religion News)
‘Walk of Faith’ tour tells tale of Hollywood’s Christian beginnings
(Heather Adams, Religion News Service)
George Washington’s faith under scrutiny after sale of ‘God letter’
(Mark A. Kellner, Religion News Service)
A flourishing United Methodist church considers a way out
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
What was the new atheism?
(Jacob Hamburger, The Point)
Report: ‘No evidence’ of racist statements by Covington Catholic students
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Why some young Muslim women are leaning into arranged marriages
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Nigerian bishops beseech voters to pray for fair election
(La Croix International)
Religious tolerance in Bahrain
(Abdullah Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, The Washington Times)
Chick-fil-A lands in Air Force Academy religion debate
(Pam Zubeck, The Colorado Springs Independent)
A clash of the sacred and the secular (In response to: Islam, blasphemy, and the East-West divide)
(Nader Hashemi, Law & Liberty)
Launch of new resources to help companies embrace religious diversity
(Religion News Service)
Greece: Dialogue on church-state agreement to continue next week
(The National Herald)
The worrying return of anti-Semitism
(Bernard Gorce, La Croix International)
Macron denounces 'unacceptable increase' in anti-Semitic acts
(France 24)
'Spreading like poison': flurry of antisemitic acts alarms France
(Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian)
Anti-Semitism: Germany sees '10% jump in offences' in 2018
(BBC News)
Germany continues payments to churches a century after deciding to stop
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
Germany: Church sued over Nazi bells in Thuringia
(Deutsche Welle)
50 Ahmadiyyas injured in co-ordinated attack on the community in Pachagarh
(Sazzadur Rahman Sazzad, Dhaka Tribune)
“Situation for India’s religious minorities is at tipping point” – report
(World Watch Monitor)
4th Circuit rules ethnic bias gives rise to RLUIPA claim
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)
May a faith-based nursery school sack a teacher for cohabitation? De Groen in the EAT
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Gay students clashing with Christian clubs: Inside Higher Ed needs more balanced coverage
(Julia Duin, Get Religion)
The historic chapel at the heart of a legal fight over the border wall
(Lulu Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio)
Opposition delegation says Vatican supports new elections in Venezuela
(Junno Arocho Esteves, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Colombian cardinal encourages humanitarian aid for Venezuelan people
(Catholic News Agency)
Pope warns Maduro that talks to end Venezuelan crisis must be serious
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church in Rwanda has ‘never stopped weeping’ since genocide, archbishop says
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Alabama legislature joins states considering Bible courses
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Gay Muslim comic gone from Instagram after Indonesia warning
(Stephen Wright, Associated Press)
Cert filed in Puerto Rico Catholic school pension case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
EVENT, 13 February 2019: Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal, Provo, Utah
(Tisa Wenger, Associate Professor of American Religious History, American Studies, and Religious Studies, Yale University Divinity School, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University)
EVENT, 13 February 2019: Religion, Governments, and Preventing Violent Extremism: What Have We Learned?
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
EVENT, 13 February 2019: Black Pearl Sings
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - James Madison Building, Washington DC)
EVENT, 13 February 2019: Business success in a religiously diverse world: corporate religious diversity and inclusion training
(Religious Freedom Center, Washington DC)
Foreign Jews accused of illegal missionary activity
(Katerina Ivanova, Komsomolskaia Pravda)
Russian courts' ban on Jehovah's Witnesses founded - Justice Ministry
(Interfax-Religion)
Greek Priests to remain on civil service payroll
(Greek City Times)
Lack of central authority poses challenges for Southern Baptists amid abuse scandal
(Catholic News Agency)
New Mexico legislators seek to repeal state abortion ban
(Catholic News Agency)
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Abuse of faith (20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms)
(Robert Downen, Lise Olsen, and John Tedesco, Multimedia by Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle)
'We should have listened': Southern Baptists apologize for sex abuse
(La Croix International)
Southern Baptist president says abuses its leaders and volunteers are accused of are 'pure evil'
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Revision of Jehovah's Witnesses case possible in event of ECHR's decision - Lebedev
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses not persecuted for belief, penalized for illegal activity - Lebedev
(Interfax-Religion)
Opinion: Russia cannot have freedom of religion
(Alexander Soldatov, Novaia Gazeta)
A walled-in religion (Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban launches his European campaign for the defense of what he calls 'our Christian heritage')
(Guillaume Goubert, La Croix International)
Religious freedom is for Muslims too
(Christian Post)
Kagan's scathing death row dissent highlights central voice on religion
(Marcia Coyle, Law.com)
GDPR and the Church Electoral Roll – yet another update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Believing in Darwin: Many people still reject Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Jehovah's Witnesses' situation stirs Supreme Court's attention
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Religious freedom > Trade wars
(Dan Granfield, The Bulwark)
A court case in Iowa shows the reality of religious discrimination in America
(David French, National Review)
Jewish Democrat Max Rose calls out both Omar and GOP
(Aiden Pink, Fast Forward)
Trump calls on Ilhan Omar to resign from Congress for ‘anti-Semitism’
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
UN committee blasts Italy for complicity in Church’s abuse scandals
(Claire Giangravé, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
4th Circuit affirms dismissal of Christian parents’ claims against world religion course
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
US strikes IS-held mosque as Syria battle intensifies
(Bassem Mroue, Associated Press)
French Senate questions Catholic official on abuse by clergy
(Thomas Adamson, Associated Press)
Curriculum on Muslim world does not violate 1st Amendment
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What does it mean to be an institution devoted to the “academic study of religion”?
(Joshua Feigelson, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
After years of silence, Turkey rebukes China for mass detention of Muslim Uighurs
(Gerry Shih, The Washington Post)
She fled China's camps--but she's still not free
(Reid Standish, Foreign Policy)
For Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses and China's Uighur Muslims, politics trump religious freedom
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion)
Orthodox Jewish EMT service faces fight from L.A. fire department, and a powerful fire union
(Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times)
Amid a shifting legal landscape on abortion, both parties seek political advantage
(Juliet Eilperin and Michael Scherer, The Washington Post)
Catholic schools tomorrow
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
The sick double standard In the Ilhan Omar controversy
(Peter Beinhart, The Forward Opinion)
Opinion: Ilhan Omar’s tweets were appalling. What happened next was inspiring.
(Dana Milbank, The Washington Post)
AJC Hosts Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony
(Jewish Exponent)
Thomas Brown elected 10th bishop of Maine in historic vote: Massachusetts priest is first married gay priest elected to lead a diocese
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
What these Muslim ativists found at the Women’s March
(Monique Parsons, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
EVENT, 12 February 2019: What was, What what is, and what will be: a cross-genre look at Afrofuturism
(African American History Month, Library of Congress - James Madison Building, Washington DC)
EVENT, 12 February 2019: The Summit on Religious Freedom, An Interfaith Invitation
(Central Florida Commission on Religious Freedom, Orlando)
EVENT, 12 February 2019: The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs: Book Launch and Panel Discussion
(Religious Freedom Center, Washington DC)
What the U.S. Catholic Church gets wrong about Native dispossession
(Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher, Religion & Politics: Fit for Polite Company)
In Malaysia, Lunar New Year keeps ethnic Chinese in touch with ancient customs
(Alexandra Radu, Religion News Service)
Year of the Pig: Is it really a problem for Muslims?
(BBC News)
Year of the Pig: in Muslim Malaysia, brands tread carefully for Chinese New Year
(Tashny Sukumaran, SCMP.com)
'Standard for equality': Congressional Democrats push for huge expansion to 1964 Civil Rights Act
(Christopher Vondracek, The Washington Times)
Monday, 11 February 2019
Pagans vs. Christians in the modern world
(Rachel Lu on book by Steven Smith, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Woman acquitted of blasphemy still can’t leave Pakistan
(Kathy Gannon, Associated Press)
The Government publishes its Integrated Communities Action Plan
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 10th February
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Housing Association can discriminate on religious grounds. Plus fracking and indefinite detention: The Round Up
(Conor Monighan, UK Human Rights Blog)
Pakistani authorities stopping Asia Bibi from leaving country, despite asylum offer
(Will Maule, CBNNews.com)
Asia Bibi unable to leave Pakistan after Supreme Court upheld acquittal
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Religious liberty for some: Why did the Supreme Court deny a Muslim’s plea for an imam at his execution?
(The Economist)
Conservative Christians denounce Alabama, Supreme Court for denying imam to executed Muslim
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
The religious-liberty claim the justices didn’t want to hear
(Wajahat Ali, The Atlantic)
BBC new show 'Year of Beliefs" explores the complexities of religion in the UK
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Is religious freedom for Christians only?
(The New York Times)
Anti-discrimination or religious freedom? The Masterpiece question is back in Arizona, Colorado courts
(Allison Sherry and Will Stone, Colorado Public Radio)
Must reads: The Atlantic offers a blunt pair of think pieces on hot late-term abortion debates
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Trump sees an opening with voters on late-term abortion
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Challenged by racism in white churches, black churches endure but with competition
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)
Judge rules in favor of Christian club kicked off Iowa campus
(Catholic News Agency)
Assisted suicide bill advances in New Jersey
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
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