Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 4 August 2018
Ohio cops face free-speech suit from anti-abortion protesters
(Lisa Klein, Courthouse News Service)
Qualified immunity for issuing citation to street preaher
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Brazil’s top court wrestles with abortion at special hearing
(Peter Prengaman and Beatrice Christofaro, Associated Press)
Abortion protesters sue city for violating their rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suicide bombing at mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 29
(Amir Shah, Associated Press)
Friday, 3 August 2018
Christian student group refuses university’s LGBT demands
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Interfaith Foundation India: Responding to the changing needs of our times
A deeper respect for life: Francis’s stance on capital punishment
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
AP reporter who observed 400+ executions in Texas retires
(Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press)
News mystery: Why so little interest in 'mainline' Protestants' liberal politicking?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
China and its creepy facial recognition technology targets Uighur Muslims
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom Potomac Plan of Action
(US Department of State)
As Muslim students fight for protection, some parents battle to keep Islam out of schools
(Rupa Shenoy, PRI)
EVENT, 3 August 2018: Living with Genocide: Four years after ISIS Attacked
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Notre Dame, McCarrick, Cosby, Obama and the revocation of honorary degrees
(John M. Bree, Mirror of Justice blog)
Thursday, 2 August 2018
Will Iraq's Sunni provinces join in on protest movement?
(Mustafa Saadoun, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Did concert in Iranian holy city topple an ayatollah's ban on music?
(Rohallah Faghihi, Al-Monitor: Iran Pulse)
Residents of Cairo's historic buildings make plea to prevent demolitions
(Ayah Aman, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Why Israel’s Nationality Law could be good for Palestinians
(Akiva Eldar, The Christian Post)
Turkey accuses Trump of jeopardizing long-standing ties
(Suzan Fraser, Associated Press)
What will it take to defuse US-Turkey crisis?
(Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Rare medieval Bible lost during reformation ear returns to Canterbury Cathedral
(Brandon Showalter, The Christian Post)
United Methodists debate, lobby and worry in advance of LGBT decision
(Mary Jacobs, Religion News Service)
Pro-LGBT United Methodists divided over Bishops-supported plan to avoid church split over homosexualilty
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
41 percent of white Evangelicals say they support Trump regardless if he delivers what they want
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Planet Fitness loses appeal against woman who lost membership for opposing trans locker room policy
(Anugrah Kumar, The Christian Post)
Israel's looming civil war
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)
Torn between two cultures? Revoice, LGBT identity, and Biblical Christianity
(Albert Mohler, Christian Headlines)
US Catholics urged to withhold donations amid 'grave moral failures'
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
Military chaplains could be atheists if discrimination complaint upheld
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
How one movie is sparking a conversation on being Baha'i: An interview with "The Gate" documentary creators
(WRN Editorial Staff, World Religion News)
US adults are more religious than others in wealthy countries
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Buhari does not stop Fulani because they are his ‘kith and kin’ – Christian Association of Nigeria
(World Watch Monitor)
Mazal tov, Paul Ryan?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
At national retreat, Jews embrace tradition with a self-help bent
(John Dyer, Religion News Service)
What the early church thought about God’s gender
(David Wheeler-Reed, Religion News Service)
'Now it's a sign of protest:' Muslim women in Denmark defy the face veil ban
(Karis Hustad, TIME)
Moldova preparing for Patriarch Kirill's visit
(Interfax-Religion)
Poroshenko dismissed an official who promised him autocephaly to the Day of Russia's Baptism - media
(Interfax-Religion)
More details in case of Kostroma Jehovah's Witnesses
(Website of Investigation Department of SKRF Kostroma, Russia Religion News)
Abortion bill a matter of life and death, Australian bishop says
(Catholic News Agency)
Philippine Church leaders fear blast may heighten tensions with Muslims
(Catholic News Service)
Catholic aid agencies welcome UK parliament recommendations for reform
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
The importance of creation care (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Mitchell Hescox, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Faith-based organizations as advocates for climate action (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Anubhavam: A call to Hindus to support environmentalism and combat global warming (Responding to: How faith-based organizations can respond to climate change)
(Hari Venkatachalam, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
BJC’s Amanda Tyler questions Sessions’ “one-sided” Religious Liberty Task Force
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Pope seeks to abolish death penalty, changes church teaching
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Egypt Coptic Church stops accepting monks after bishop death
(Menna Zaki, Associated Press)
Study: US religious orders overwhelmingly back women deacons
(Nicole Winfield, Associated Press)
Thousands march in Jerusalem Gay Pride amid surrogacy uproar
(Caron Creighton, Associated Press)
Ex-St. Stanislaus parish music director loses job discrimination case; ministerial exception applies
(Chandra Lye, Cook County Record)
"Ministerial exception" applies to church organist
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Remarks by President Trump in meeting with inner city pastors
(The White House)
President meets with inner city pastors
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Treasury sanctions Turkish officials with leading roles in unjust detention of U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson
(U.S. Department of Treasury)
Treasury Department sanctions Turkish officials over imprisoned American pastor
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Challenge to settlement in mosque zoning case is dismissed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
IICSA – Mandatory Reporting Seminars
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Imran Khan's election in Pakistan presents a global dilemma
(Mihir Sharma, Economic Times)
The Roman Catholic Church and the death penalty
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
No need for court order for withdrawal of nutrition in case of PVS patients – Supreme Court
(Rajkiran Barhey, UK Human Rights Blog)
Controversy over another planned mosque in Assyrian neighborhood in Michigan
(Leo Hohmann, Assyrian International News Agency)
More Americans say businesses can refuse services to gay couples over religious objections: PRRI
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
ECHR condemns Pussy Riot and Anna Politkovskaya cases
(BBC News)
Who are Pussy Riot? A guide to the Russian activist group who crashed the World Cup Final
(NME)
English bishop opposes withdrawing feeding tube to end life
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
They came, they killed, they destroyed, and it will happen again
(Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes)
From the archive: church faces crisis over Pope’s ruling on birth control - July 1968
(Jean Stead, The Guardian)
More answers to readers’ comments and queries – July
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
USCIRF condemns detentions Iranian house church pastor and congregants
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
What are madrasa schools and what skills do they impart?
(Myriam Renaud, The Conversation)
Judge: Christian parents who don't like new transgender policy can pull their children from school
(Michael Foust, Christian Headlines)
Bethel church asks for prayers as wildfires rage in California
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
Anglican diocese of Leeds in serious financial crisis
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
‘Being Muslim’ offers an alternative history of Islam in America
(Aysha Khan, Religion News Service)
Greater Manchester: 65% of people victims of 'hateful behaviour'
(Helen Pidd, The Guardian)
Rare medieval bible returned to shelf at Canterbury Cathedral
(Maev Kennedy, The Guardian)
Israel’s most prolific actor: 'The synagogue of the Zionists was the theatre'
(Oliver Holmes, The Guardian)
Fake news, from Labour ‘mess’ to the Brexit vote
(Joe McCrthy, Diane Ordish, Pete Winstanley, Gren Gaskell, Donald Hawthorn, The Guardian)
More than 8,000 Rwandan churches closed following government directive
(World Watch Monitor)
Sri Lankan Christian: ‘They took everything from us’
(World Watch Monitor)
UN tells Algeria to ‘guarantee freedom of religion to all’ after church closures
(World Watch Monitor)
Conservatives are scared, even under Trump
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
In Turkey, suspicion of US clouds case of pastor Andrew Brunson
(Ulmer Farooq, Religion News Service)
Brunson’s third Turkish hearing focused on PKK allegations
(World Watch Monitor)
U.S. sanctions Turkish officials to protest American pastor’s detention
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
Bad vibrations: the implosion of the New Age cult
(Steve Kilgallon and Tony Wall, Stuff)
Why Christians can’t compromise on conscience
(David French, National Review)
Christian camps get creative to attract youth in a tech-distracted age
(Steve Rabey, Religion News Service)
The culture wars need to make a safe space for conscience
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
An atheist philosopher leaves the door open to religion’s power
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
How can the church punish bad bishops?
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
That rock that fell from the Western Wall
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Diocese names 71 accused of child sex abuse, blames bishops
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
The Satanic Temple bringing Baphomet statue to protest in Arkansas
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Religious leaders’ hands are tied in countering violent extremism
(Qamar-ul Huda, Religion News Service)
Reversal of previous reversal regarding Jehovah's Witnesses on internet
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
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