Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Big news on New York's child sexual abuse law – buried in 22nd paragraph of Gray Lady's story
(Terry Mattingly, Get Religion)
Protestant believers denied right to assemble in residence
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Danish Jehovah's Witness awaits verdict
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Bulgaria: The Council of Ministers allocates BGN 5 million For the "religion" directorate
(novinite.com)
Drag queens: Reporters can't comprehend why many parents don't want them in kid libraries
(Julia Duin, Get Religion)
Cardinal welcomes UK government inquiry into Christian persecution
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Row between Vatican, Italy over immigration turns personal
(Claire Giangravé, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Academic study of the Bible in a neutral setting in public schools is already allowed
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Condemned inmate says state violating his religious rights
(Kim Chandler, Associated Press)
Dutch church ends 24/7 service after govt policy shift
(Associated Press)
Turkish judge blocks websites of self-proclaimed prophet over complaint by top Islamic body
(Hürriyet Daily News)
Greek court sentences orthodox bishop for anti-gay blog post
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ECHR Rules: Turkey violated freedom of religious assembly
(Missions Box)
Altınkaynak and Others v. Turkey (Turkey defies European Convention on Human Rights by discriminating against Christians)
(ADF International)
Laycock on Religious Liberty
(Law and Religion Forum)
Foundations/trusts and religion in Turkey: Altınkaynak
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Assisted dying and Article 2 ECHR: Mortier
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Royal College of Physicians to poll on assisted dying
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
RCP to poll its members on assisted dying
(Royal College of Physicians (UK))
“Wrongful births” again: ARB v IVF Hammersmith
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
The abyss of hate versus hate
(Andrew Sullivan, New York Intelligencer)
Annual Parochial Church Meetings, GDPR and trustee disqualification
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Good Friday holidays and discrimination: Cresco v Achatzi
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Austrian Good Friday law 'discriminatory,' top EU court rules
(Lewis Sanders IV, Deutsche Welle)
Law and religion round-up – 20th January
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Bishops’ guidance on use of Affirmation of Baptismal Faith in the context of gender transition
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and American civil religion
(Richard A. Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act at 25: How it fosters peaceful pluralism
(The Heritage Foundation)
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Justice and only justice you shall pursue
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)
Taliban say they are not looking to rule Afghanistan alone
(Kathy Gannon, Associated Press)
Bishop says Asia Bibi will live in Canada
(The Tablet)
Asia Bibi free to leave Pakistan and join family in Canada
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Liberty counsel files suit against Maryland for banning gender-confusion counseling
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
U.S. missionary could face genocide charge for entering tribal land
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Virginia Senate propels bill that allows guns in church onto the house
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Over 2,000 clergy urge Church of England to reconsider transgender affirmation guidance
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Ayatollah asks UN to investigate violence against Mosul’s Christians
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
In polarized Washington, a Democrat anchors bipartisan friendships in faith
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News)
Miracle Hill ministries has government-funded religious freedom to refuse non-Christian foster parents
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Twitter erupts to Trump's endorsement of Bible study in schools
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Tulsi Gabbard's connection to Hindu nationalists raises concern
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Philippine Christians stand together against President Duterte tirades
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
Village in India’s Gujarat state bans entry of “Christian outsiders”
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Myanmar pushes back on Beijing-backed dam that could displace thousands of Kachin
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
Blasphemy laws: Pakistan’s Supreme Court upholds Asia Bibi’s acquittal
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Pakistan upholds acquittal of woman in blasphemy case
(Kathy Gannon, Associated Press)
IRF Roundtable in Nigeria releases open letter to presidential candidates
(Religion News Service)
Angola inches closer to recognizing Islam as one of official state religions
(Al Bawaba)
Grieving Christians baffled by Muslim Fulani herdsmen aggression in Nigeria
(Christian Headlines)
Global Citizens' Human Rights Coalition rally in South Korea for religious freedom
(Cheonji News)
China - New temple-shutdown tactic: Suspend permits
(Wang Yichi, Bitter Winter)
The one wall Trump doesn’t like
(Heather L. Weaver, American Civil Liberties Union)
The Council of Europe and sharia: an unsatisfactory Resolution
(Russell Sandberg, Guest Post, Law & Religion UK)
Sharia, the Cairo Declaration and the European Convention on Human Rights
(Resolution 2253 (2019) Provisional version, Partiamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
PACE stresses the need to protect human rights, regardless of religious practices
(The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
Uzbekistan: "Investigations" don't stop police illegal actions
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Poroshenko signs law on changing subordination of religious orgs
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian officials dispute who decides disposition of church property
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Jehovah's Witness to spend two months in jail without trial
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
The grant under Austrian law of a paid public holiday on Good Friday only to employees who are members of certain churches constitutes discrimination on grounds of religion prohibited under EU law
(Court Press Release, Court of Justice of the European Union)
Cresco Investigation GmbH v Markus Achatzi (the "Good Friday" case)
(Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), Court of Justice of the European Union)
Texas conservatives claim LGBTQ equality bill ‘bans the Bible’
(Zack Ford, Think Progress)
Bible literacy or Bible wars?
(Charles C. Haynes, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable is planning a 'season' of activities designed to highlight different faith communities
(Trent Toone, Deseret News Faith)
Six DRC bishops recognize election of Tshisekedi as president
(Catholic News Agency)
Conservative David French defends religious liberty while opposing Trump
(Clemente Lisi, The Media Project)
Malaysia bars Israeli para-athletes, loses major swim competition and major media ignored it
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion)
Religious leaders condemn Philippines cathedral attack
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Filipino leader’s visit to bomb site captures love/hate dynamic with Church
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
While President Trump cheers Bible classes, BJC’s Tyler urges caution
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Amin Saikal on Iran (Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic)
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum)
In Arab nation, Christians, Buddhists and Jews emerge to worship
(Asa Fitch, The Wall Street Journal)
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
How will generations that didn’t experience the Holocaust remember it?
(Timothy Langille, The Conversation)
2019 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration
(US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Bigotry is 'moving at lightning speed' UN chief warns, marking the Holocaust
(Ecumenical News)
Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
(Vanessa Gera, Religion News)
Holocaust education is key in tackling global anti-Semitism
(Douglas Schoen and Arielle Confino, The Hill)
'We have succeeded in surviving': An interview with exiled Tajik Islamic party leader Muhiddin Kabiri
(Bruce Pannier, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty)
Christian convert’s jail sentence reduced on appeal
(Article Eighteen)
Egypt’s sectarian committee to combat sectarianism
(Timothy E. Kaldas, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy)
NY easing statute of limitations for molestation
(Associated Press)
New York extends statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Pakistan, Blasphemy, Islam, and A Way Forward Jennifer S. Bryson
(Guest Post by Muhammad Akram, Arc of the Universe)
Catholics want New York's Gov. Cuomo to be excommunicated for his abortion policy
(JD Flynn, The Washington Post)
Gov. Cuomo shrugs off bishops’ calls for his excommunication
(David Klepper, Associated Press)
USCIRF welcomes U.S. State Department announcement of second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
"Muslim Unity" claims torture of its supporters in Azerbaijani jails
(Faik Medzhid, Caucasian Knot)
Ahok criticised on social media by Muslims over planned marriage
(Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Straits Times)
Texas Democrats seek to ban Christianity using so-called anti-discrimination laws
(James Wesolek, The Federalist)
Monday, 28 January 2019
Rejecting toxic masculinity isn't an attack on men
(Serena Sigillito, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Sex matters: Mona Charen’s takedown of contemporary feminism
(Serena Sigillito, Public Discourse: The Journal of the Witherspoon Institute)
Pessimistic view of case of Danish Jehovah's Witness
(Maksim Kliagin, Orlevskie Novosti)
Why Sikhs don’t throw Muslims under the bus
(Simran Jeet Singh, Religion News Service)
Expressing religious views is risky in the Maldives
(Meenakshi Ganguly, Human Rights Watch)
Bung Moktar: Child marriage cannot be condoned, even if religion does
(Yiswaree Palansamy, Malay Mail)
Prosecutions against religious groups double in Crimea
(Evangelical Focus)
Rwanda: Church and state signal a new relationship
(Joseph Rwagatare, The New Times)
A wave of anti-Semitism is bringing secular UK Jews closer to their roots
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
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