Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 13 August 2018
China newspaper defends Xinjiang Muslim crackdown
(Associated Press)
China to UN panel: No arbitrary detention in Uighur region
(Associated Press)
Sudan court rules in favour of church in governance dispute
(World Watch Monitor)
Whitewashing India’s religious freedom
(Mike Ghouse, The Indian Panorama)
Lesbians want a church of their own and IRS approves
(Peter J Reilly, Forbes)
IRS grants non-profit church status to lesbian anti-trans organization
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
No Free Exercise violation in teacher's support of transgender student
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
After 274 years, a historic Richland County church closed. In SC, it’s not alone
(Sarah Ellis, The State)
Church in a bar? SC churches are thinking outside the steeple to reach new members
(Sarah Ellis, David Weissman, and Kasia Kovacs, The State)
The (S.C.) State launches five-part series on why Bible Belt folks are quitting church
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
As Protestant churches in South Carolina dwindle, Catholic churches flourish. Here’s why
(Kasia Kovacs, The State)
A tale of 2 churches: As one clings to tradition, one sweetens the deal with cookies
(Sarah Ellis, The State)
Losing Faith: Why South Carolina is abandoning its churches
(Sarah Ellis, The State)
Why people of faith are speaking up about paid family leave
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
U.S. Labor Dept. moves to facilitate religious exemptions from employment nondiscrimination laws
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Labor Department bolsters religious exemptions from nondiscrimination laws
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Labor Department protects religious freedom
(Liberty Counsel)
Labor Department becomes latest Trump agency to take interest in ‘religious freedom’
(Casey Quinlan, Think Progress)
EVENT, 13 August 2018: Exploring religious identity and race through civil dialogue
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Evangelical U.S. Air Force general has secretly been running a Christian online ministry in possible violation of rules
(Nina Burleigh, Newsweek)
10 reasons Americans go to church -- and 9 reasons they don't
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Sunday, 12 August 2018
Students take to the streets in Lahore for Qutub Rind, killed for 'blasphemy'
(Kamran Chaudhry, Asia News)
What are the rules on burkas and niqabs in the UK?
(Full Fact)
Saturday, 11 August 2018
Nineveh Christians renewing their future after the Islamic State
(Asia News)
Restrictions lifted on Dartford nurse who gave Bible to patient
(BBC News)
SCOTUS asked to ignore circuit split on sexual orientation discrimination
(R. Robin McDonald, The National Law Journal (paywall))
Marsden, “Religion & American Culture”
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Law and Religion Forum)
Declaration at 70: Freedom of thought and religion
(Verena Borton, Enterprise)
Religion Watch, August 2018, Volume 33 No. 10
(Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Who are the Sikhs and what are their beliefs?
(Simran Jeet Singh, The Conversation)
Labor Dept. wants religious freedom focus in bias probes
(Ben Penn, Bloomber BNA)
Religion in decline in Australian schools
(Pallavi Singhal, The Sydney Morning Herald)
Students at interreligious summer school say it 'breaks down prejudices about the other'
(Ecumenical News)
Pope Francis’s challenging lesson in mercy
(Edward T. Mechmann, National Review)
Court stops bureaucrats who tried to tax Christians for feeding poor children
(Jeremiah Galus, The Federalist)
Sessions’s (and my) remarks at the DOJ Religious Liberty Summit
(Asma T. Uddin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
India marks Prison Ministry Sunday
(Nirmala Carvalho, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Catholic bishops urge Florida governor to spare death-row inmate
(Catholic News Service)
Bishops, faith leaders condemn Tennessee’s first execution in nine years
(Theresa Laurence, Catholic News Service)
Catholic leader calls on Togo politicians to be ‘patriots’ and end crisis
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Church in Italy protests deaths of exploited migrant workers
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
UN condemns rising incitement to hatred in CAfrican Republic
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
New UN human rights expert on Iran seeks cooperation and dialogue with Government
(Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Modi’s party weighs expanding contentious Indian citizenship rules
(Iain Marlow, Bloomberg)
Myanmar snubs Hague court’s intervention in Rohingya crisis
(Associated Press)
Willow Creek leadership summit goes on despite mass resignations
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Islam’s struggle with modernity
(History Extra)
Willow Creek elders and lead pastor resign in wake of Hybels revelations
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Catholic drama is epic tragedy: Why is Willow Creek meltdown so important?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Friday, 10 August 2018
IICSA Report into Ampleforth and Downside
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Archbishop makes plea to remember Ukraine’s ‘silent and forgotten war’
(Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency)
A down payment on making hajj easier for Muslim women
(Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Religion News Service)
Got those religious-liberty news blues: Nuns with charge cards buying birth control?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is Lucy McBath the new religious star of the Democratic Party?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
The job of Human Rights Chief isn't what you think
(Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Policy)
Hate in schools
(Francisco Vara-Orta, Education Week)
Why Silicon Valley needs theologians
(Scott Midson, The Conversation)
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby set to address UN Security Council
(Anglican Communion News Service)
We live in a populist age – but who are ‘the people’?
(Peter Bloom, The Conversation)
Turkmenistan: Conscientious objector's maximum two-year jail term
(Forum 18 News Service)
Reviving pre-Christian religions: Neo-paganism offers something old and something new
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Russian Foreign Ministry asks Greek embassy for explanations on problems with issuing visas to priests
(Interfax-Religion)
Mormon, Muslim and Sikh student groups kicked off Iowa campus amid legal battles
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Brazilian evangelicals, swinging hard to the right, could put a Trump-like populist in the presidency
(Peter David Arnould Wood, The Conversation)
The millions of Hindu devotees walking across India
(BBC News)
Indonesian president picks cleric as running mate in 2019
(Stephen Wright, Associated Press)
Rebuilding mosques priority for devout on quake-hit Lombok
(Andi Jatmiko, Associated Press)
Court refuses to dismiss church's challenge to zoning conditions for homeless shelter
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ahmadiyya community comes together for largest Muslim convention in the UK
(Eastern Eye)
St. Petersburg resident sentenced to 5 years in prison for preparing Kazan Cathedral terror attack
(Interfax-Religion)
Thursday, 9 August 2018
What the early church thought about God's gender
(David Wheeler-Reed, The Conversation)
Most churchgoers say God wants them to 'prosper financially', survey finds
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Low-cost abortions on every college campus is goal of California bill
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Elementary schools using drag queens to teach kids about gender
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)
New survey explores why people don't attend church
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy
(Chitra Ramaswamy, The Guardian)
Buddhist monks in the Himalayas get ready for winter – in pictures
(The Guardian)
Illinois: church leadership steps down after sexual harassment allegations
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
Boris Johnson’s burqa comments fuel violent crime against Muslim women
(Dal Babu, The Guardian)
Boris Johnson to face Tory party inquiry over burqa remarks
(Dan Sabbagh, Jessica Elgot, and Rajeev Syal, The Guardian)
What Muslim women ought not to wear isn’t a matter for Boris Johnson
(Letters, The Guardian)
Could Brunson’s release ease Turkey’s diplomatic standoff with the US?
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
‘How can reading the Bible be acting against national security?’ asks Iranian Christian from prison
(World Watch Monitor)
What is behind the Fulani herdsmen-farmers conflict?
(World Watch Monitor)
Bible gateway reveals the #1 most searched terms
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Bethel Church to donate $1,000,000 families that lost their homes in Carr fire
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
As activists rally, hymns of protest rise again
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Why Cory Booker matters to the Jews
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Timing is everything in Pennsylvania’s clergy sexual abuse report
(Thomas Reese, RNS: Signs of the Times)
How would Brett Kavanagh rule in Supreme Court religion cases?
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Martini Judaism)
Jeff Sessions cleared in church complaint perplexing some top Methodists
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks at the Alliance Defending Freedom's summit on religious liberty
(U.S. Department of Justice)
What binds Muslims to the Democratic Party?
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
‘Hands off!’; Clergy balk as European politicians brandish the crucifix
(Francis X. Rocca and Drew Hinshaw, The Wall Street Journal)
Parents' spirituality or religion tied to lower suicide risk in kids
(Linda Carroll, Reuters)
Chinese Hui Muslims rally to protect Weizhou Grand Mosque from government’s wrecking ball
(Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post)
Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest
(Sam McNeil and Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
China shutting down churches, seizing Bibles in 'ambitious new effort' to eradicate religion
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Thousands in China mosque standoff over demolition plan
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)
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