Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
In our opinion: Free exercise of religion needs strong protection
(Deseret News Faith)
Can Bosnia's path to peace and environmental protection be replicated in the Middle East?
(Austin Bodetti, The New Arab)
How a teen's death has become a political weapon
(Yascha Mounk, The New Yorker)
Keeping faith: How religion, spirituality sustain Long Islanders as they age
(Cara S. Trager, Newsday)
New research reveals how the marriage equality debate damaged LGBT Australians’ mental health
(Stefano Verrelli, Fiona White, Lauren Harvey, and Michael R. Pulciani, The Conversation)
Les persécutions antichrétiennes en Afrique, un sujet sensible
(Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos, The Conversation)
State-sanctioned bishop says he'll work to adapt religion to Chinese influences
(Courthouse News Service)
Austrian holiday unfairly favors Protestants, EU Court rules
(William Dotinga, Courthouse News Service)
Bible classes in public schools? Why Christian lawmakers are pushing a wave of new bills
(Erin Richards, USA Today)
Pope Francis’s battle against the nation-state
(James P. Pinkerton, The American Conservative)
Reflecting on prayer rugs and presidential tweets, Islamophobia and factual religion reporting ...
(Bobby Ross Jr., Get Religion)
Jewish journalist who covered Belgium’s ritual slaughter ban enters politics to end it
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
New church of Ukraine in contact with SBU, but doesn't coordinate actions – Filaret
(Interfax-Religion)
Could World Youth Day in Panama give the Pope a boost?
(Rosa Flores, CNN)
Poroshenko hopes for growth of new Ukrainian church
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Court takes Jehovah's Witnesses' property in Kostroma oblast
(Website of Prosecutor's Office of Kostroma oblast, Russia Religion News)
Justin Trudeau says BDS is anti-Semitic [Video]
(Aiden Pink, Forward)
Far-right lawmakers walk out of Holocaust tribute in Bavaria
(Associated Press)
Amid wall debate, pope says fear of migration makes us crazy
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Czech lawmakers approve taxation of church restitution plan
(Associated Press)
Bossier School Board, AU reach settlement in religion in schools lawsuit
(Vickie Welborn, KTBS News)
Settlement filed in Louisiana religion in schools case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Arizona Supreme Court hears oral arguments over refusal to design invitations for same-sex wedding
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cert. denied in religious autonomy case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Supreme Court denies Bremerton Coach Kennedy’s prayer case
(My Northwest)
Cert. denied in football coach's firing for on-field prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
A book on the penal system and (religious?) conversion
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
EVENT, 23 January 2019: Religion and Climate Change: A Visual and Scholarly Representation
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline 23 January 2019: Religion and Law in North America
(Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life, University of Alberta)
Trial on the ban to interpret Koran reminds problems with list of extremist materials
(Rustam Djalilov, Caucasian Knot)
Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Bishop says N.Y. abortion bill is ‘Death Star’ that must not become law
(Catholic News Service)
Chinese bishops' chief vows to press ahead with Sinicization
(UCA News)
Rohingya Muslim group fleeing India to Bangladesh stuck on 'zero line'
(Serajul Quadir, Reuters)
Sunni clergymen under “provincial arrest”
(Maryam Dehkordi, Iran Wire)
Saudi cleric detained in crackdown dies: activists
(Reuters)
Turkmenistan: New year, new jailed conscientious objector
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
In India, sacred cows are running amok. So villagers are locking them in schools
(Joanna Slater, The Washington Post)
New video footage shows that Covington Catholic schoolboys did not harass Native American protestors
(Kayla Koslosky, Christian Headlines)
Harvard medical school curriculum getting transgender rewrite
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Supreme Court allows Trump’s transgender military ban to go into effect
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Supreme Court revives transgender ban for military service
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court allows Trump Administration's ban on transgenders in military to take effect
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Facing torture, death in Sudan, convert flees to Egypt... and more death threats
(Christian Headlines)
After Dusit attack, Kenya’s religious leaders urge all faiths to account for youths
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News)
Pakistani court orders government to compensate victims of Asia Bibi protests
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Vietnamese government ignores displaced residents in predominantly Catholic area
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
Iranian judges pressure Christians to renounce their faith
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
India’s home minister calls for national debate on mass conversions
(Olivia Miller, International Christian Concern)
Thailand aims to reform tough refugee policy after Saudi asylum case
(Gary Nguyen, International Christian Concern)
Cross-shaped mosaic to be painted over in central Java over complaints
(Gina Goh, International Christian Concern)
Christian man kidnapped in Sinai
(Claire Evans, International Christian Concern)
Maldives: new president must ward off threats from Islamic extremism, foreign powers and autocratic rivals
(Andreas Johansson, The Conversation)
Why do Muslim women wear a hijab?
(Caitlin Killian, The Conversation)
What's in a (religious) name?
(Cynthia G. Lindner, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
This just in: Not all Christians agree on marriage and sex! This schism even affects their schools!
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Tennessee bishop recruits neighboring colleague to implement same-sex marriage rites
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
The countries where it's most dangerous to be a Christian in 2019
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
Viral standoff between a tribal elder and a high schooler is more complicated than it first seemed
(Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post)
Russian religious regression creates opportunity for Protestant churches
(Katey Hearth, Mission Network News)
Support Cubans who demand that freedom of religion be part of island’s new constitution (Op-Ed)
(Miami Herald)
‘Thaipusam shows Malaysians enjoy freedom of religion’
(The Star)
Scores of Afghan troops killed in suicide bombing claimed by Taliban
(Pamela Constable and Sharif Hassan, The Washington Post)
The Economist: Stuck in a time warp, misses real news about Global South missionaries
(Ira Rifkin, Get Religion)
Camel, meet needle: Missionaries from the global south try to save the godless West
(The Economist)
Magufuli has steadily tightened the noose on media freedom. Here’s how`
(George Ogola, The Conversation)
Religion, Greece and Macedonia: Why clerical rage over the “Macedonian question” has modern roots
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Group of Ukrainian parliamentarians challenges constitutionality of law obliging Ukrainian Orthodox Church to change its name
(Interfax-Religion)
Criticism of changes in Ukrainian law on church jurisdiction: Religious liberty under threat
(Institute of Religious Liberty, Russia Religion News)
Philippines: Muslim autonomy referendum 'not a silver bullet' for peace
(Srinivas Mazumdaru (Interview), Deutsche Welle)
Vatican and Muslim experts unite to defend palliative healthcare
(Claire Giangravé, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Nicaragua bishops keep cajoling Ortega to dialogue with opposition
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Can public schools send students on a field trip to a creationist theme park?
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Supreme Court to mull Phoenix’s discrimination ordinance
(Associated Press)
Michael Cohen’s prison of choice: Well-known to Jewish offenders
(Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times)
Federal prison with special accommodations for Jewish inmates
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
State Department will host second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Egyptian TV host sentenced to one year in prison for interviewing gay man
(Emily Jacobs, New York Post)
Egyptian TV host sentenced for program featuring gay sex worker
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ohio Christian school takes its zoning discrimination case to US Supreme Court
(Alliance Defending Freedom)
Cert petition filed in RLUIPA suit by Christian school
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sundance features documentary on Satanic Temple
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Alarm bells against discrimination
(Christof Sauer, Christian Examiner)
Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank: contemporaries with a common legacy
(Nancy Churnin, Religion News)
How writings in the Quran supported Martin Luther King, Jr.'s equality movement
(Anila Sadiq, World Religion News)
Monday, 21 January 2019
A confluence of religion and politics at the Kumbh
(Omar Rashid, The Hindu)
It’s nonsensical to deceive Nigerians with ethnicity, religion, Buhari fumes
(Nwafor Sunday, Vanguard)
Religion not in conflict with IR theory: Prof. Askari
(MEHR News Agency)
Church groups claim victory over battle with Canadian govt
(Joseph Sinasac, La Croix)
Religion and economy will take center stage as Indonesia’s president seeks re-election, experts say
(Shirley Tay, CNBC)
The separation of church and state is an impossible fiction
(Sethu A. Iyer, The Federalist)
Lax news: Catholic teens, plus Native elder, plus Hebrew Israelites equals volatile video mess
(Julia Duin, Get Religion)
Friday Five: March for Life, Protestant prodigals, dementia and faith, Tiffany Rivers' child No. 9
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration Etc.) Bill: update
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Catholics are losing faith in their church. D.C.'s Cardinal Wuerl isn't helping
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Ukrainian president calls out Moscow churches
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian parliament prescribes how parishes may change affiliation
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Almost two-year-long trial of Jehovah's Witness nears end
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
The Coming Test Acts will challenge religious freedom
(Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review)
Conservative Evangelicals attempt to disentangle their faith from Trumpism
(Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker)
Hindu ascetics lead millions of Indians in holy bath, but politics weigh
(Alasdair Pal, Reuters)
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