Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 6 August 2018
Parents sue judge after he declines transgender teen's name change
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Canadian liberals protest opening new Chick-Fil-A restaurants in Toronto
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
High-profile Chinese monk accused of sexually harassing nuns
(Staff and agencies, The Guardian)
I will root antisemites out of Labour – they do not speak for me
(Jeremy Corbyn, The Guardian)
Antisemitism row adds strength to growing sense of Jewish identity
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Populist Jeremy Corbyn is riding the tiger of antisemitism
(Letters, The Guardian)
Yuval Noah Harari extract: ‘Humans are a post-truth species’
(Yuval Noah Harari, The Guardian)
Boris Johnson's burqa remarks 'fan flames of Islamophobia', says MP
(Jessica Elgot, The Guardian)
Indonesian imam continues prayers in Bali during earthquake – video
(Musholla As-Syuhada, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on Muslim marriage: one way forward
(Editorial, The Guardian)
British court recognizes Sharia law in historic ruling
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
20,000 Israelis march in Jerusalem Pride parade
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Court battle in West Virginia over council prayer
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Retired Pope Benedict accused of anti-Semitism after article on Christians and Jews
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)
Pope Benedict XVI accused of anti-Semitism
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
Hindu extremist violence on the rise in southern Indian states
(Tejaswi Ravinder, World Watch Monitor)
Religious minorities fear backlash as Sunni Islam declared state religion of Comoros
(World Watch Monitor)
‘Only jihadists want to see Christians leave the Middle East’
(World Watch Monitor)
We’ll close one church every week, Indian Christians told
(World Watch Monitor)
Duke Divinity School dean steps down as diversity struggle continues
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Headed for a larger stage, Nadia Bolz-Weber leaves her ‘house’ in order
(Carina Julig, Religion News Service)
Houses of worship mobilize for back-to-school time
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)
Willow Creek investigates Hybels as pastor quits over new allegations
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
International conference on media and religion brings scholars from across the globe to Boulder
(University of Colorado Boulder, College of Media, Communication and Information)
Why religion won’t help the Republicans in the midterms
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
UK: Discrimination against Christian refugees
(Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute)
Nationalism is like a religion, judge rules
(Hamish Macdonell, The Times)
Should this UK court rule according to Sharia law?
(Meira Svirsky, Clarion Project)
Russian woman faces five years of jail for posting memes 'insulting' religion
(Jason Lemon, Newsweek)
Poll suggests religious freedom push is having an effect
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Repression of Alternative Orthodoxy in Russia
(Alexander Soldatov, Novaia Gazeta)
Pentecostal believer wins appeal of fine for personal testimony
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Religion News Service)
Rights advocates identify Jehovah's Witnesses as political prisoners
(Novaia Gazeta, Russia Religion News)
Department of Justice steps up to protect religious liberty
(Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, Real Clear Religion)
How Mormon pop stars are using their music to support LGBT issues
(Hunter Schwarz, CNN)
Pope Innocent III and papal power in the church and politics
(William Hamblin & Daniel Peterson, Deseret News Faith)
Use internet to promote tourism that respects environment, Vatican says
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
Tennessee students will see “In God We Trust” signs upon returning to school
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Tap and pray: Churches using card readers for donations
(James Brooks, Associated Press)
Police investigate Sikh beating, racist scrawl as hate crime
(Associated Press)
So how much do you trust Pope Francis? Here's why death penalty debate is heating up
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Is the Pope right about the death penalty?
(Rev. Mark H. Creech, The Christian Post)
The pope is right: the death penalty has no place in Catholicism
(Austen Ivereigh, The Guardian)
5 facts about the death penalty
(David Masci, Pew Research Center Fact Tank)
The Guardian view on the pope and the death penalty: a welcome hardening of the line
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Catholic Church teaching saying death penalty is 'inadmissible' has little initial reaction, but...
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Shane Claiborne: Christians are why the death penalty lives on
(Shane Claiborne, Religion News Service)
Doing some thinking, with the Catholic left, about Pope Francis, death penalty and LGBTQ future
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Death penalty decree could be quandary for US politicians
(Amy Forliti, Associated Press)
Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
(Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation)
Connecticut RFRA does not immunize against employment discrimination suits
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
4 questions: Sam Brownback on international religious freedom
(Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition)
An online church for gamers: Va. pastor draws thousands to worship on Twitch
(Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post)
Wedding cakes, same-sex marriage, and the future of LGBT rights in America
(Alex Vandermaas-Peeler, Daniel Cox, PhD, Molly Fisch-Friedman, PRRI)
Why the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling won't be the last you hear about service refusals
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
ERLC video: Malaysian liberty burdened by I.D. cards
(Tom Strode, Baptist Press)
The local-news crisis is destroying what a divided America desperately needs: Common ground
(Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post)
Blood, soil and paper: Thailand’s mission to reduce statelessness
(Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul, The Conversation)
In key moment, Argentina to vote on loosening strict abortion laws
(Ryan Dube, The Wall Street Journal)
Religion News Service touts its new 19-member advisory board – but what does it mean?
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Augusta school committee to address proposal on religious holidays
(Keith Edwards, Central Maine)
Unions seek to end religious bodies' right to discriminate in hiring
(Luke Henriques-Gomes, The Guardian)
Interfaith text to replace Bible at Wyoming Air Force base memorial
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))
Adventists bring distinct perspective to high-level religious liberty talks
(Bettina Krause, Adventist Review)
Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
(Ryan Gallagher, The Intercept)
Rome Statute at 20: Suggestions to states to strengthen the ICC
(Fergal Gaynor and Christopher “Kip” Hale, EJIL: Talk!)
Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements
(Elise Harris, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Law and religion round-up – 5th August
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Aug 5: DOJ task force announced at international summit, ACLU sues ICE, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
First woman fined in Denmark for wearing full-face veil
(Agence France-Presse, The Guardian)
Trump admin. seizing Bibles, violating religious freedom of detained immigrants, ACLU says
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Sunday, 5 August 2018
Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissable’
(Linda Bordoni, Vatican News)
Pope Francis changes teaching on death penalty, it’s ‘inadmissible’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Francis kills the death penalty for Roman Catholicism
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
New revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”, 02.08.2018
(Holy See Press Office)
Letter to the Bishops regarding the new revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
(Holy See Press Office)
The Pope's groundbreaking rejection of the death penalty
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Pope’s death penalty teaching lies beyond prudential judgment
(Father Jeffrey F. Kirby, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Doing some thinking, with the Catholic left, about Pope Francis, death penalty and LGBTQ future
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Pope changes teaching to oppose death penalty in all cases
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Death penalty doctrine: Francis builds on insights of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Pope Francis changes catechism to declare death penalty ‘inadmissible’
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
What does Pope's death penalty shift mean for Catholic politicians?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)
Catholic church catechism changed to reject capital punishment in all cases
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Oliver O'Donovan on the death penalty
(Michael Moreland, Mirror of Justice blog)
Prosecutor in US disagrees with Pope Francis’s death penalty ruling
(Associated Press)
This journalist — a Catholic — has witnessed 400-plus executions, but he won't say if he approves
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Indian Catholic leaders doubt death penalty will deter child rapists
(Catholic News Service)
US court hears case against Germany over Namibia genocide
(Howard Rechavia Taylor, Al Jazeera Africa)
Namibia’s long fight for justice
(Gouri Sharma, New Internationalist)
Mark Helprin on Gov. Cuomo at ND and the "Guillotine of Sophistry"
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
The Guillotine of Sophistry
(Mark Helprin, Claremont Review of Books)
Akhter: legal consequences of an unregistered nikah ceremony
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Void, valid and very confusing – what is the status of sharia marriages in the UK?
(Reporting Watch Team, The Transparency Project)
Missouri brewery removes Hindu deity from beer artwork
(Associated Press)
Arizona clergy call activists to support migrants on border
(Anita Snow, Associated Press)
Woman fined $156 for wearing face veil in Denmark
(Associated Press)
Putin man in the middle between Assad, Erdogan over Idlib
(Week in Review, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
Judge rules Jericho Missionary Baptist's spat not in court's purview
(Debra Pressey, The News-Gazette)
Deacon's suit dismissed on ecclesiastical abstention grounds
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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