Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Catholic bishops end synod with controversy and compromise
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Dawn-to-dusk hunger strike by BJP over arrest of Sabarimala protesters in Kerala
(Opindia)
Girls in West Africa offered into sexual slavery as ‘wives of gods’
(Wisdom Mensah, The Conversation)
Annual International Day Commemorating the Victims and Survivors of Religious Persecution
(Early day motion 1478: Primary Sponsor, Fiona Bruce, UK Parliament)
Kazakhstan: Ever harsher jailings for religious talks
(Forum 18 News Service)
What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments
(Ingrid Anderson, The Conversation)
Monday, 29 October 2018
IICSA: Further hearings into Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Religion in Europe: Blasphemy bans are struck out in Ireland and reinforced in Austria
(The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Austria: Subjugating free speech to blasphemy laws? (ECHR upholds ruling that ciminalizes Islam-critique)
(Press Release, Forum for Religious Freedom Europe)
Irish voters approve elimination of Blasphemy as a crime
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Irish vote to scrap offence of blasphemy
(BBC News)
Ireland votes to oust ‘medieval’ blasphemy law
(Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian)
How a comedian pushed Ireland into a referendum on blasphemy
(Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic)
Monday Mix: Pittsburgh shooting, hate that kills, Sutherland Springs, white nationalism, 'double lives'
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
The Pittsburgh attack affects Jews worldwide – we need more than your silent support
(Michael Segalov, The Guardian)
Israeli PM, chief rabbi at odds over Pittsburgh synagogue
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
A broken Jewish community
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting shakes the city’s iconic Jewish neighborhood
(Ben Sales, Religion News Service)
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Portraits of the 11 victims
(Emil Shapiro, ABC News)
Thousands attend vigil to support, foster healing after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
(Jason Cato, Trib Live)
After synagogue shooting, Bishop Zubik pleads for prayer, end to anti-Jewish bigotry
(Catholic News Agency)
US Muslims raise more than $120,000 for families of Pittsburgh shooting victims
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Religious leaders respond to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Pope Francis condemns ‘inhuman’ attack on Pittsburgh synagogue
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Police: Synagogue gunman said he wanted all Jews to die
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Why Pittsburgh matters
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Conway links Pittsburgh shooting to 'anti-religious' trend
(Justin Wise, The Hill)
Trump calls Pittsburgh synagogue attack ‘evil’ anti-Semitism
(Catherine Lucey, Associated Press)
Christian Identity — the hate that still kills
(Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Clarion Ledger)
Violence prompts churches to weigh security vs. welcoming
(Adam Beam and Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press)
Pittsburgh horror marks the start of what could become a new atrocity – synagogue shootings
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Charges filed against accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
India: Religion no bar for entering Sabarimala, says HC
(The Hindu)
Protesters burn Hindu religious center in southern India
(Associated Press)
57 Chibok girls known to have been in two Cameroon towns
(Nathan Johnson, Persecution: International Christian Concern)
Over 20 detained for sharing the gospel in China
(Gina Goh, Persecution: International Christian Concern)
What's known about Robert Bowers, the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
(Shannon Van Sant, National Public Radio)
Pope, church leaders grieve after Pittsburgh synagogue carnage
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Outspoken Anglican rector Rod Bower announces bid for Senate seat
(Melissa Davey, The Guardian)
Don't bring back religious education, union warns Victorian opposition
(Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian)
Magick 'saved my life': the former death row inmate turned warlock
(Carey Dunne, The Guardian)
None of us should enjoy the right to have our beliefs shielded from abuse
(Kenan Malik, The Guardian)
Stark east-west divide in attitudes towards minorities in Europe
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Wheaton college's Billy Graham center recieves $1 million dollar grant
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Pagan religion Ásatru grows in Iceland while national state church wanes
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Christians and Muslims upset over crucified Jesus organ donor ad
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Jeff Sessions speech interrupted by Methodist, Baptist clergy
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Freedom from Religion group files another complaint over Auburn football chaplain
(AL.com)
Mandated sex ed courses in Ugandan schools draw outrage
(Doreen Ajiambo, National Catholic Register)
Why authoritarian personalities love to use religion
(Syafiqah Jaaffar, Sojourners)
Eastern and Western Europeans differ on importance of religion, views of minorities, and key social issues
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Religion and politics should be complementary, not rivals
(The New Times)
Russian diplomats to keep countering anti-Semitism, nationalism, other forms of racial, religious intolerance – Lavrov
(Interfax-Religion)
Law and religion round-up – 28th October
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Crimean Muslims congress supports nationalization of property of Mejlis banned in Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
There are no violent manifestations of anti-Semitism in Russia - RJC head
(Interfax-Religion)
Russian Orthodox Church satisfied with pope's attitude to events in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)
Ukrainian parliament member urges calm
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian leader rejects violence in disposition of monasteries
(RISU, Russia Religion News)
Kristen Farrington named executive director of Freedom Forum Institute’s Religious Freedom Center
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Nigerian bishops urge child protection at education conference
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Argentine government abandons bill critics see as ‘gender ideology’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Christianity and the alt-right in America
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Religion and reactionary white politics (Responding to: Christianity and the alt-right in America)
(Damon Berry, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The alt-right in the ongoing saga of American Protestantism (Responding to: Christianity and the alt-right in America)
(Connor Grubaugh, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Survey data indicates a complicated relationship between religion and racial attitudes (Responding to: Christianity and the alt-right in America)
(George Hawley, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Christianity is America’s most effective antidote to the alt-right (Responding to: Christianity and the alt-right in America)
(Kate Arenchild, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The future of alt-right Christianity (Responding to: Christianity and the alt-right in America)
(Dan DeCarlo, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
7th Circuit hears arguments in challenge to clergy housing exemption
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Feds seeking approval to pursue death penalty
(Associated Press)
Newport congregation takes Touro Synagogue ownership case to U.S. Supreme Court
(Katie Mulvaney, Providence Journal)
Cert. filed in Touro Synagogue ownership dispute
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
11th Amendment dismissal avoids ruling on Free Exercise challenge to Medicaid rule
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
USCIRF calls on Yemen to release persecuted Baha’is
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Ken Woodward, former Newsweek scribe: The 'double lives' elephant in the Catholic sex crisis
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Time for next wave of election ink: So it's time to look for the elusive Catholic vote – again
(Clemente Lisi, GetReligion)
This community is tearing itself apart over non-Christians owning houses
(Trevor Bach, Vice)
Post-Trump rise of religious left: Real trend or wishful thinking? We'll find out soon
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Keeping up: Transgender challenges ahead for news media and 'mainline' Protestants
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Was it Kavanaugh's guilty conscience, or his karma?
(Jonathan C. Gold, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
Archbishop Óscar Romero becomes a saint, but his death still haunts El Salvador
(Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker)
Moving on up: The UN Human Rights Council agenda items explained
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Prosecution of a publisher for ‘denigration’ of Turkey violated Article 10
(Ronan Ó Fathaigh, Strasbourg Observers)
Turkish-Israeli relations back to square one again
(Yasar Yakis, Arab News)
EVENT, 29 October 2018: Religion in public service
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
EVENT, 29 October 2018: Race, religious freedom and the politics of belonging
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
How to reverse the global decline in fertility rates
(Asma I. Abdulmalik, Arab News)
The Tree of Life massacre
(Editorial, The New York Sun)
The Pittsburgh massacre was about refugees
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Pittsburgh suspect’s hatred of Jews, HIAS part of larger anti-immigrant surge
(Yonat Shimron and Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Ben Uri Gallery to be reinvented to promote immigrant artists
(Mark Brown, The Guardian)
House Democrats promise action on LGBTQ rights bill
(Juliet Linderman, Associated Press)
Number of Americans who say they are witches is on the rise
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Prison cannot limit participation in Native American religious ceremonies to ethnic Native Americans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Sunday, 28 October 2018
28 Oct: DOJ investigates Catholic church, contraceptive mandate rollback, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
London: Two convicted of running illegal school (Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre)
(BBC News)
Does poverty cause terrorism?
(Todd Sandler, OUPblog)
Saturday, 27 October 2018
Belgium: Citizenship deprivation against dual nationals recruiting young Muslims to fight in Syria, an efficient measure?
(Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Fouad Belkacem: Belgian Islamist leader loses citizenship
(BBC News)
Photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
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