Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 1 August 2018
Legislative prayer is still constitutional
(Kelly Shackelford, The Daily Signal)
Protecting religious adoption agencies won’t stop LGBT people from adopting
(Brad Polumbo, National Review)
Brief filed with Supreme Court to try to save cross-shaped war memorial
(Catholic News Service)
Congo cardinal says he will not run for president, after parties back him to lead country
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Metro can ban religious ads, appeals court rules in case brought by Washington Archdiocese
(Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times)
Metro can ban all religious ads on buses and trains, court rules
(Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rules issue-based ad ban is permissible
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Argentine doctors protest legal abortion ahead of key vote
(Almudena Valatrava, Associated Press)
China promoting flying of state flags at religious events
(Associated Press)
Danish ban on face-covering garments enters into force
(Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press)
Danes rally as 'burqa ban' law comes into effect – video
(The Guardian)
Protests in Denmark as 'burqa ban' comes into effect
(Reuters in Copenhagen, The Guardian)
Israeli military faces Druze uproar over Jewish nation law
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
Judge rules in favor of city allowing mosque to be built
(Associated Press)
Gym's failure to disclose transgender policy violates Michigan consumer protection law
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Planet Fitness loses locker room case
(Press Release, Liberty Counsel)
Museum can keep Nazi-looted masterpiece: Court
(Jonathan Stempel, Forward)
Museum can keep Biblical paintings first acquired by Nazis
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Unification Church sues its founder's son for trademark infringement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FFRF sues over recitations of Lord’s Prayer at W. Va. city meetings
(Freedom From Religion Foundation)
Suit challenges city council opening meetings with Lord's Prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
DC Circuit upholds bus ad restrictions on religious subject matter
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
What's chewing gum got to do with it? Paper delves into why transgender teen was denied Communion
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches
(Samuel Brunson, The Conversation)
Is Germany lurching to the right?
(Der Spiegel)
New York City's forgotten Muslim past
(Rozina Ali, The New Yorker)
Does a thaw in relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia offer hope for Christians?
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Group seeks to halt prayers at West Virginia council meeting
(Associated Press)
Florida Rabbi speaks on DOJ religious liberty panel
(Chabad Lubavitch News)
Religious education through new eyes
(Caroline Matas, The Harvard Gazette)
EVENT, 1-3 August 2018: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, Oxford, UK
(Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies)
Adelaide archbishop Philip Wilson resigns after covering up child abuse
(Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
Views from Tokyo: What does religion mean to you in your everyday life?
(The Japan Times)
Pope accepts McCarrick resignation as cardinal amid sexual abuse allegations
(Guardian staff and agencies, The Guardian)
US prelate McCarrick resigns from College of Cardinals
(Frances D'Emilio, Religion News Service)
New coalition seeks sainthood for five African-Americans
(Kirk Petersen, Religion News Service)
Why Americans go (and don't go) to religious services
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Why fewer Americans are attending religious services
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Tuesday, 31 July 2018
New twist: Supreme Court accepts Buddhist claim in Ayodhya dispute
(Valay Singh, The Economic Times (India))
How partisanship drives religious attitudes, and not the other way around
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Trump admin says fighting homophobia abroad is anti-Christian
(Trudy Ring, Advocate)
The Catholic Church and justice: The Vatican shows an overdue decisiveness on sexual abuse
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Ulianovsk Jehovah's Witnesses fail in attempt to give property to Portuguese coreligionists
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
British Jewry and Labour ask who gets to define anti-Semitism
(Dov Waxman, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Progressive reactions to the religious-liberty task force prove we need it
(Alexandra DeSanctis, National Review)
Newly developed executive seminars and trainings help companies embrace religious diversity and inclusion
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
Catholic priest assaulted, doused in wine at Delaware church
(Associated Press)
Cardinal Mueller: To lead in Europe, Germany must recover moral strength
(Catholic News Agency)
Religious liberty ‘rooted in dignity of human person,’ says archbishop
(Steve Larkin, Catholic News Service)
Clash heats up between Italy’s populist government, the Church
(Claire Giangravè, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Francis & the ‘religious left’: It won’t be an easy match
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
Attorney General announces creation of Religious Liberty Task Force
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Hindu elected to Pakistan parliament vows to seek reforms
(Associated Press)
Group seeks to halt prayers at West Virginia council meeting
(Associated Press)
DC court sides with transit agency in dispute with church
(Associated Press)
IS claims Tajikistan attack that killed 4 foreign cyclists
(Maria Danilova, Associated Press)
Nationalism, pluralism, and the World Cup
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
Appellate court ruling favors carrier accused of religious discrimination
(Tyson Fisher, Land Line)
11th Circuit: Jehovah's Witness truck driver was offered reasonable accommodation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Intermarriage on the rise: How does Catholicism view Catholic-Jewish weddings?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
Churches for sale: New York Times visits a sexy former Catholic sanctuary in Quebec
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
India’s crackdown on illegal immigration could leave 4 million people stateless
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)
Indonesia's blasphemy law survives court challenge
(Michelle Winowatan, Human Rights Watch)
What Richard Dawkins doesn’t get about the Muslim call to prayer
(Rose S. Aslan, The Conversation)
For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal'
(Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene, The Conversation)
Sighting farm religion
(Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)
The family that prays together … feels connected, unified and bonded with less relational tension`
(Jon McBride, BYU News)
A viral photo of lovers kissing offended many in Bangladesh. The man who took it says he was beaten and fired.
(Annie Gowen, The Washington Post)
Analysis: Kissing liberty goodbye?
(Tanin Ahmed, Dhaka Tribune)
EU wil islam anders behandelen (in Dutch)
(Sohail Wahedi, Nederlands Dagblad)
Of firearms and weak women: sex discrimination in Hülya Ebru Demirel v. Turkey
(Alexandra Timmer, Strasbourg Observers)
Withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration: An NHS Trust v Y
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Monday, 30 July 2018
Judge Kavanaugh on law and religion issues
(Frank Ravitch, SCOTUSblog)
SCOTUSblog coverage of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court
Empirical SCOTUS: Indirectly inferring Kavanaugh’s position in abortion cases
(Adam Feldman, SCOTUSblog)
Ecclesiastical court judgments – July 2018
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Law and religion round-up – 29th July
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Religion a punchbag for Indian election
(Uman Manzoor Shah, La Croix International)
Military Bible display at center of religious liberty tussle
(Mary Beth McCauley, Religion News Service)
Attorney General Sessions delivers remarks at the Department of Justice’s religious liberty summit
(U.S. Department of Justice)
Sessions: 'This Department of Justice is going to court across America to defend the rights of people of taith'
(Jeff Sessions, The Daily Signal)
Sessions: US culture ‘less hospitable to people of faith’
(Eric Tucker, Associated Press)
Seeing threat to religious freedom, Jeff Sessions announces special task force
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Sessions announces new 'religious liberty task force'
(Sarah Hallam, CNN)
How to stop religion’s influence on government: an interview with Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor
(World Religion News)
UK Jewish voices say 'United We Stand' waging anti-Semitism war against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Turkmenistan: Three more conscientious objectors jailed
(Forum 18 News Service)
Political fallout from celebrations of baptism of Rus
(Pavel Skrylnikov, Nezavisimaia Gazeta)
British Labour Party looking into 250 complaints of anti-Semitic abuse
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Street attacks on Muslims rocket in UK as perpetrators 'emboldened' by terror attacks and political rhetoric, report finds
(Lizzie Dearden, The Independent)
State Department Ministerial produces religious freedom declaration, action plan, skepticism
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
The Trump administration convenes the ‘Super Bowl’ of religious freedom
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
Trump's religious freedom squad promises to deliver
(Lorraine Woellert, Politico)
No searches being conducted at Sofrino - source
(Interfax-Religion)
Indian Catholic leaders protest call to ban sacrament of reconciliation
(Catholic News Service)
Tens of thousands rally in Nicaragua to defend Catholic bishops
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
AP Interview: Israel’s Herzog vows to bridge Jewish divide
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)
AG Sessions announces new Religious Liberty Task Force in extensive remarks on topic
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
DOJ religious liberty summit today
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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