Law and Religion Headlines
Friday, 25 January 2019
Suit alleging religious coercion of students settled
(Kevin McGill, Associated Press)
Oklahoma judge dismisses case over Muslim woman’s headscarf
(Associated Press)
Mormon church says it’s not opposed to hate-crime bill
(Lindsay Whitehurst and Brady McCombs, Associated Press)
2 militia members admit role in attack on Minnesota mosque
(Amy Forliti, Associated Press)
Psychotherapist challenges NYC’s censorship of private conversations with adult patients
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
New York City's conversion therapy ban for adults challenged
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
South Carolina foster care group can reject gays, Jews. What does it mean for Philly?
(Julia Terruso, Philadelphia Inquirer)
HHS exempts South Carolina foster care from religious anti-discrimination rule
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Crimea: Four years' jail for mosque meetings
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Ignatieff’s book on what global virtues might be
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
USCIRF welcomes release of jailed Jakarta Governor; denounces Indonesia’s blasphemy law
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Thursday, 24 January 2019
Will Roe go? Supreme Court lawyer talks overturning landmark abortion case
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
‘This is progressive?’ New York bishops react to new abortion law
(Catholic News Agency)
NY legalizes abortion up to moment of birth, defines person as someone ‘who has been born’
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Language games: How we debate abortion
(Paul Baumann, Commonweal)
Abortion kills 42 million in 2018
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Abortion is the No. 1 cause of death in the world — and it's (almost) 100 percent preventable
(Ronnie Floyd, The Christian Post)
Ohio governor says he will sign fetal heartbeat abortion restriction into effect
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Appeals court upholds La. law regulating abortion clinics
(Catholic News Agency)
Abortion is at 'tipping point' in society and gov't, pro-life leaders say at March for Life
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
New York reveals where fight against abortion is headed
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
Iowa judge rules that the state's fetal heartbeat abortion law is unconstitutional
(Lauretta Brown, Townhall)
Iowa judge rules ‘heartbeat’ abortion law unconstitutional
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Pakistan's top court to decide Asia Bibi's fate as Muslim extremists demand her death
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
Trump administration grants waiver to agency that works only with Christian families
(Laura Meckler, The Washington Post)
Malaysia: religious freedom in chaos
(Ruth K'lama, Mission Network News)
Black Muslims account for a fifth of all U.S. Muslims, and about half are converts to Islam
(Besheer Mohamed and Jeff Diamant, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
Mainstream media have some explaining to do about Black Hebrew Israelites. Also: It's complicated
(Bobby Ross Jr., Get Religion)
Who are the Black Israelites at the center of the viral standoff at the Lincoln Memorial?
(Sam Kestenbaum, The Washington Post)
Discrimination based on religious grounds: employee's refusal to shake hands with women
(Lexology)
A warning from India for European liberals on how to manage relations with Muslim minorities
(Joerg Friedrichs, The Conversation)
Nepal’s menstrual huts: what can be done about this practice of confining women to cow sheds?
(Sara Parker and Kay Standing, The Conversation)
Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust
(Jennifer Rich, The Conversation)
A less religious America will be a less generous America
(Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe)
Valley Sikh building bonds through music
(The Tribune India)
Trump's transgender military ban and lessons from a lifetime of gender-policing
(Masha Gessen, The New Yorker)
Sierra Leone’s laws to protect women have unintended consequences
(Luisa T. Schneider, The Conversation)
Palestinian PM amends controversial regulation to exclude Jerusalemites
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Israel uses Qatari grant to pressure Hamas
(Ahmad Abu Amer, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Conflict erupts over properties surrounding Samarra shrine
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraqi politicians see 'fake news' in controversial Israeli tweet
(Adnan Abu Zeed, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
US allies try to dilute anti-Iran agenda for Warsaw summit
(Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor)
Tunisia’s democracy on life support as politicians squabble
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor)
Trump and Pence give surprise addresses at antiabortion March for Life
(Julie Zauzmer, Michelle Boorstein, Marisa Iati, The Washington Post)
U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from former high school football coach fired for praying after football games
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
School district won't change trans policy allowing girl to undress in boys' locker room
(Leah MarieAnn Klett, The Christian Post)
Christians-only foster care agency gets waiver from Trump administration
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
'Induced' deaths rise in Netherlands, sparking concerns from doctors, ethicists
(Catholic News Agency)
World Youth Day kicks off with message: 'Have the courage to be saints'
(Catholic News Agency)
Venezuelan bishops back opposition marches, after calling Maduro 'illegitimate'
(Catholic News Agency)
World Youth Day pilgrims receive warm welcome in Panama
(Jonah McKeown, Catholic News Agency)
Pope Francis says Panama to be 'a hub of hope' during World Youth Day
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
Religious leader forum in Abuja warns against violent election season
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)
Turkey builds first new church on Christian graveyard
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
Landmark church project stirs mixed sentiments in Turkey
(Sibel Hurtas, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Turkey rejects attempt to investigate dink murder
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
New government to withdraw “false cases” against Muslims and Christians in India
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Pakistan Supreme Court sets date to review petition against Asia Bibi acquittal
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Threatened with an end to Shariah divorce, Egypt’s imams work to save marriages
(Jacob Wirtschafter and AMr El-Tohamy, Religion News)
Amid wall debate, pope says fear of migration makes us crazy
(Nicole Winfield, Religion News)
Faith-based organizations Lutheran World Relief and IMA World Health join forces
(Religion News)
With new ‘affirmation’ policy, American Bible Society loses LGBT staffers
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News)
Seeing each other in the public square: The lessons of Covington Catholic
(William Muller, Religion News)
Government allows S.C. foster care group to keep Protestants-only policy
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News)
On human rights and religious liberty in China. A conversation with journalist Marco Respinti
(Martin Banks, International Policy Digest)
Muslim groups condemn detention of Iranian broadcaster
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
European Parliament: 'All religions in China are persecuted'. The case of Catholics
(Bernardo Cervellera, Asia News)
Vote against laws restricting religious clothing in public office divides Geneva
(Le News)
As school choice programs grow, we must debunk myths about how choice works
(Tim Keller, U.S. Department of Education)
Legislating ‘In God We Trust’: using the state to do the Church’s work
(Bill Leonard, Baptist News Global)
Thirty years after: Tiananmen and religion
(Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter)
Faith Counts awarded major grant from Templeton Religion Trust
(Religion News Service)
Municipal cemetery regulations and the High Court: Ul Haq
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Church statements on Bishop George Bell
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Closing arguments in trial of Danish Jehovah's Witness
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
No one expects the secular inquisition
(Ben Shapiro, National Review)
Justice Alito pens a bizarre love letter to Christian right
(Ian Millhiser, Think Progress)
Trump Administration grants waiver to Christian foster agency
(Laura Meckler, The Washington Post)
The last god-king
(William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson, Deseret News Faith)
Trump administration moves to protect faith-based foster care agencies that don't serve LGBT couples
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News Faith)
Italian bishops’ immigration push could lead to new political party
(Claire Giangravé, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
HHS issues “troubling” waiver to allow foster care services to discriminate based on religion
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Governor convicted of blasphemy freed from Indonesian prison
(Stephen Wright and Niniek Karmini, Associated Press)
Belgium's top court hears arguments on kosher/ halal slaughter ban
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit dismissed: Judge says Muslim woman didn't show that her constitutional rights were violated
(Curtis Killman, Tulsa World)
Suit over forced removal of hijab to enter courthouse is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Governor Ron DeSantis announces actions to affirm Florida’s support of Israel
(Florida State Government)
Florida governor acts in response to Airbnb Israel West Bank boycott
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" abortion law held unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
European Court: Austria's law giving Good Friday off only for Christians violates EU directive
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Belgian High Court hears shechitah ban case
(Rafael Hoffman, Hamodia)
Dozens of underground human rights reporters arrested in #China
(Marco Respinti, EU Reporter)
High school football prayer case declined by US Supreme Court
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Najaf Shiites launch solidarity initiative with Sunni areas
(Ali Mamouri, Al-Monitor)
Conservative Muslim cleric emerges as a force in Indonesia’s elections
(Ben Otto, The Wall Street Journal)
Sabarimala: India woman who defied temple ban 'abandoned' by family
(BBC News)
‘Today feels like a miracle’ for same-sex couples in two Dallas parishes
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
Three Holocaust survivors open up about the rising tide of anti-semitism
(The Times)
Northern Ireland bomb is a warning we can’t ignore
(Naomi O'Leary, Politico)
I joined the GOP because it stood for religious freedom. It still does
(Shahid Shafi, The Washington Post)
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