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Thursday, 28 June 2018

Self-styled Utah prophet gets additional 15-year prison term
(Associated Press)

Supreme Court remands case involving officers ordering suspect to cease praying
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Supreme Court won’t take North Carolina county prayer case
(Associated Press)

Andy Khawaja appointed as a USCIRF commissioner
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Two FLDS leaders convicted of polygamy in Canada
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

2 men guilty of polygamy given get house arrest in Canada
(Associated Press)

Key government minister drops support for egalitarian prayer section at Western Wall
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Israeli Minister: My conscience won't let me approve mixed-gender prayer at Western Wall
(Chaim Levinson, Haaretz)

In Israel, new legal hurdles to egalitarian prayer space at Western Wall
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Challenge to hearing scheduled for Rosh Hashanah is rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Two prominent namers of names inside DC Beltway warrant in-depth religion profiles
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)

Go deeper: How SCOTUS could start rolling back abortion rights
(Caitlin Owens, Sam Baker, Axios)

Physician assisted suicide and the rise of suicide cults
(Grace Emily Stark, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Balancing protected expression and protection against discrimination is not always a piece of cake
(Stephen Loeb, Jewish Link of New Jersey)

Humanist weddings in Northern Ireland: Smyth
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Court of Appeal: Current law enables legally valid humanist weddings in Northern Ireland
(Seosamh Gráinséir, Irish Legal News)

Assisted dying: Noel Conway loses his appeal
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

After election boost, Turkey's Erdogan may reward nationalists with cabinet jobs: Sources
(Orhan Coskun, US News and World Report)

Lutheran World Federation and Islamic Relief Worldwide to publish manual on faith-sensitive humanitarian action
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Assisted dying and the removal of all hope
(Letters, The Guardian)

2018 State of the First Amendment survey reveals Americans consider fake news more objectionable than hate speech
(Freedom Forum Institute)

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

5 facts about the death penalty
(David Masci, Pew Research Center Factank)

Double standard? Religious animus? Five links to help dissect SCOTUS ruling on Trump's travel ban
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)

Extremists emboldened as religious intolerance rises in India's Tamil Nadu state
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))

Re-Up on #MuslimBan post: What did religious liberty have to do with SCOTUS decision?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)

Rainbow soccer jerseys don't prevent harassment. They provoke it
(Jennifer S. Bryson, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)

Should Trump staffers be able to eat in peace?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Religion News Foundation appoints two new board members (Muhammad Chaudhry and Judith Golub)
(Religion News Service)

Macron blasted for saying up to Pope: French secularism ‘disrespected’ say rivals
(Romina McGuinness, Express)

Church row over Madigan’s prayer role
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)

Uzbekistan: Freed from punishment, but property ordered destroyed
(Forum 18 News Service)

Russian MP Gavrilov elected president of General Assembly of Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy
(Interfax-Religion)

Does the Supreme Court have a double standard on religion?
(Daniel Burke, CNN)

Unity among shamans unlikely
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Patriarch Kirill brings Ukrainian problem to attention of international political event
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)

Does Christianity demand open borders?
(Christopher Roach, American Greatness)

Today’s decision in NIFLA v. Becerra
(Ed Whelan, National Review)

What binds us together still more important than what separates us
(Richard T. Foltin, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Belgian model poses nude in front of Western Wall plaza
(Cnaan Liphshiz, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

French imam who heads an interfaith group gives sermon predicting Israel’s demise
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Berlin international school acknowledges it underestimated bullying of Jewish student
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ivanka Trump gave $50,000 to help migrant kids, Texas church says
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

New #FoRBDefender movement calls on people of all faiths and none to declare: “Believe it or not, it’s my Right!”
(European Platform on Religious Intolerance and Discrimination)

Taiwan's LGBTQ still struggling for equal marriage rights
(William Yang, Deutsche Welle)

Faith-based groups turn up the heat on ICE
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

In Europe, religious minorities face mounting hostility, harassment
(Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service)

El Al vows to end practice of moving women to accommodate ultra-Orthodox
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)

Citing workplace equality, Irish Prime Minister gives support to women’s ordination
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

In Rome, Nicaraguan bishops will inform pope of worsening crisis
(Catholic News Agency)

After calling God ‘stupid,’ Duterte seeks collaboration with bishops
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

Kurtz, Barron seek to reframe religious freedom debate in positive key
(Christopher White, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Mexican cardinal calls separating families at border ‘unthinkable’
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Takeaways from the Masterpiece case (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Carl Esbeck, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Misunderstanding religion in Masterpiece (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Leslie Griffin, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Against the religious liberty optimists (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Darel Paul, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

The ingredient for a LGBT triumph? (Responding to: What the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision means for the future)
(Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

Oklahoma voters approve medical marijuana despite opposition
(Sean Murphy, Associated Press)

Prince William’s Jerusalem visit highlights unique ancestor
(Aron Heller, Associated Press)

Israel expands Rabbinical Court divorce jurisdiction to cover recalcitrant non-Israeli husbands
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Law for rabbinical courts to hear non-Israeli divorce cases approved
(Jeremy Sharon, The Jerusalem Post)

Cert. filed in Bladensburg cross challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Notre Dame and HHS sued over settlement of contraceptive mandate coverage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

The Trump-Pence administration is making back-room deals that take away our birth control coverage – so we’re going to court
(National Women's Law Center)

Supreme Court holds California's FACT Act violates speech rights of pro-life clinics
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Trump's travel ban upheld by Supreme Court; Establishment Clause challenge rejected
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Why many religious liberty groups are silent about the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s travel ban
(Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post)

U.S. Supreme Court upholds “Travel Ban” against religious liberty challenge
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

At the Supreme Court, a day of infamy for religious freedom
(Charles C. Haynes, Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)

Ignoring the evidence: The Supreme Court’s travel ban decision
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)

Supreme Court says bon voyage to Trump travel ban challenges
(Evan Seeman, RLUIPA-Defense)

5 of 7 nations hit by US travel ban are majority Muslim
(Associated Press)

Muslims, advocates saddened over court’s travel ban decision
(Jeff Karoub and Julie Watson, Associated Press)

Experts: Ruling on Trump comments could aid other lawsuits
(Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press)

Travel ban decision follows the Supremes’ record of racial classification
(Hussein Rashid, Religion News Service)

Law Pod UK latest on Brexit
(Rosalind English, Law & Religion UK)

De-humanisation? CJEU, Liga van Moskeeën en islamitische Organisaties Provincie Antwerpen on Religious Slaughter
(Anne Peters, EJIL: Talk!)

Case C-426/16, Liga van Moskeeën en islamitische Organisaties Provincie Antwerpen et al v. Vlaams Gewest
(Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber), Court of Justice of the European Union)

EVENT, 27 June 2018: The Fourth of July, the Founders, and the First Freedom, Washington, DC
(Religious Freedom Institute)

Utah developer quits Vermont plans inspired by Mormon leader
(Lisa Rathke, Associated Press Religion)

Attorneys for The American Legion turn to Supreme Court as the last hope for preserving 90-year-old veterans memorial
(First Liberty)

Progressive Democrat who upset NY incumbent accused Israel of ‘massacre’ in Gaza
(JTA)

Muslim Americans on Trump's travel ban: 'We live as second-class citizens'
(Oliver Laughland, The Guardian)

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Failure of foresight? New York Times looks at globalization and the immigration backlash
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

No gay wedding flowers yet: Reporters puzzle over what Baronelle Stutzman ruling means
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

SCOTUS upholds Trump's travel ban. Here's why experts say the ruling contradicts the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)

High court OKs Trump’s travel ban, rejects Muslim bias claim
(Mark Sherman, Associated Press)

Dutch senators vote for partial ban on burqa in public places
(Associated France-Presse in The Hague, The Guardian)

Dutch Parliament passes limited ban on burqa, niqab
(Carol Kuruvilla, Huffington Post)

Dutch approve partial ban on burqa wearing in public
(Expatica)

Freedom of religion versus equal rights is tested in the Canadian and US Supreme Courts
(Damien Carrick (podcast with Iain Benson), ABC News Australia)

Pompeo to gather 'like-minded' allies on religious freedom
(Nahal Toosi, Politico)

'Bake the cake' and the Red Hen controversy
(Ben Shapiro)

A welcome blow for free speech
(The Editors, National Review)

In vindicating Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court upheld the law
(David French, National Review)

The Supreme Court gets the ‘travel ban’ case right
(The Editors, National Review)

Presidential power: The justices vote 5-4 to uphold Donald Trump’s travel ban
(S.M., The Economist [Democracy in America])

BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Trump’s travel ban
(Jack Crowe, National Review)

Live: Supreme Court upholds travel ban
(Meg Wagner and Brian Ries, CNN Politics)

Opinion analysis: Divided court upholds Trump travel ban
(Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)

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