Law and Religion Headlines
Monday, 18 June 2018
Muslims in Australia at a crossroads, Australian senator says
(Katharine Murphy, The Guardian)
June 17: New Justice Department initiative, Sessions quotes Bible on immigration, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
South Australia to compel priests to report abuse revealed in confession
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
South Australia Catholic church to ignore law on reporting confessions of abuse
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
Australian priests ‘willing to go to jail’ rather than break confessional seal
(Catholic News Agency)
Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox wins appeal to stay in Philippines
(Margaret Simons, The Guardian)
Evangelical Christians step up abortion clinic protests in Queensland
(Ben Smee, The Guardian)
Shadow of jihadists falls on Cameroon's cattle farmers
(Reinnier Kaze, France 24 Internaitonal)
Indian chess champion quits competition in Iran over headscarf rule
(Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Taking a lesson from Michael Curry could just save the Church of England
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
Antisemitism is well-defined already
(Dave Rich, The Guardian)
The Supreme Court of Canada and Trinity Western Law School
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Trinity Western loses
(Peter Stockland, Convivium)
Trinity Western law school gets nixed, while the Canadian news coverage is mixed
(Julian Duin, GetReligion)
Trinity Western University loses before Supreme Court of Canada
(Neil Foster, Law and Religion Australia)
Canada's Supreme Court: Provinces can refuse law school accreditation over LGBTQ rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
STATEMENT on Supreme Court of Canada against Trinity Western University
(Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, Cardus Religious Freedom Institute)
The Supreme Court has dismissed religious practice as a matter of mere choice in its TWU decision
(Anna Su, CBC Opinion)
Trinity Western loses fight for Christian law school as court rules limits on religious freedom 'reasonable'
(Kathleen Harris, CBC News)
TWU law school ruling: 'limiting diversity' or 'a game-changer for LGBTQ rights'?
(Clare Henning, CBC News)
Is Harvest America the biggest evangelical event in the country?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Daily Beast article claims evangelicals are to blame for decrease in Christianity
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories
(The Conversation, Religion News Service)
Evangelicals visit West Bank to see life — and Christian faith — on the other side
(Dan Rabb, Religion News Service)
Immigration policies of Trump administration are 'immoral', say US Catholic bishops
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
When the US government snatches children, it's biblical to resist the law
(Daniel José Camacho, The Guardian)
Trinidad and Tobago Catholics aid Venezuelan migrants amid government crackdown
(Melissa Williams-Sambrano, Religion News Service)
America, migration and the Bible: Scripture offers much material for arguments about dividing families
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
AG Sessions cites scripture to question religious criticism of immigration policy
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Black religious leaders criticize Sessions’ use of scripture
(Tramon Lucas, Associated Press)
What did America’s three founding presidents believe about religion?
(Richard Ostling, GetReligion)
The fight to define Romans 13
(Lincoln Mullen, The Atlantic)
The ’Splainer: Why is Jeff Sessions quoting Romans 13 and why is it so often invoked?
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Seven can't-miss takes on use of Romans 13 to defend policy on separating immigrant families
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Six Bible verses Jeff Sessions should read as he separates migrant families
(Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian)
'Troubled' by forced separation of families, LDS Church calls for 'rational, compassionate' immigration solutions
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)
United Methodist church slams Jeff Sessions over migrant separation
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
This isn’t religion. It’s perversion.
(Dana Milbank, The Washington Post Opinion)
Religious condemnation of family-separation policy
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)
Parents' Rights in the border context . . . and beyond
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
Pleas for border justice are aimed at the wrong end of Pennsylvania Avenue
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
U.N. human-rights chief who backed religious blasphemy-laws condemns family-separation policy
(Jack Crowe, National Review)
Comey and moral-theology debates
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)
Egypt goalkeeper declines Budweiser-sponsored ‘Man of the Match’ trophy at World Cup
(Des Bieler, The Washington Post)
Erdogan’s plan to raise a ‘pious generation’ divides parents in Turkey
(Carlotta Gall, The New York Times)
Leaked State Department memo advised Trump administration to push for “Islamic reformation”
(Mehdi Hasan, Ryan Grim, The Intercept)
Trump is creating his American caliphate, and democracy has no defence
(Nesrine Malik, The Guardian)
Geneva's Protestant cathedral of St. Pierre holds celebration for 70 years of World Council of Churches
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Church and Russian Health Ministry to chair the program of helping Syrian children
(Interfax-Religion)
Several thousand people participated in parade organized by LGBT activists in downtown Kiev
(Interfax-Religion)
Jehovah's Witnesses hit with two-month pretrial detention
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Shamanism moves toward status as organized religion
(SMNews, Russia Religion News)
Islam isn't holding back Muslim women's education—here's the bigger problem
(Shane Croucher, Newsweek)
Religious Freedom Center receives $500,000 pledge
(Religious Freedom Center, Freedom Forum Institute)
New Yorkers in religious garb subjected to ‘rampant’ harassment
(Juliana Kaplan, Forward)
Rabbis protest family separation as ‘moral state of emergency’
(Ben Fractenberg, Forward)
Catholics in Ireland are “cultural,” not committed to their faith, bishop says
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Afghan Sikh leader holds out hope for dwindling minority
(Rahim Faiez, Associated Press)
US urges Russia to release political and religious prisoners
(Josh Lederman, Associated Press)
Suit over school's curriculum on Islam survives motion to dismiss on pleadings
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Police misinformation to parents did not violate their religious exercise rights
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Florida appeals court upholds priest's objections to testifying about statements made in confessional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
At Catholic bishops conference, a deeper embrace of Pope Francis — and relevancy
(Jack Johnson, Religion News Service)
Pope denounces abortion as modern-day ‘white glove’ eugenics
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis compares abortion to Nazi hate crimes
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Pope Francis says abortion to avoid birth defects is similar to Nazi crimes
(Hilary Clarke, Valentina DiDonato and Carol Jordan, CNN)
Has Pope Francis revealed he's a fake liberal?
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
3 legal reactions to the Supreme Court's Trinity Western University decision
(Peer Zimonjic, CBC News)
Bennett: Supreme Court decision relegates freedom of conscience, religion
(Global News)
British government ordered to open Amritsar massacre files
(Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian)
Mormon church blasts family separations at US-Mexico border
(Associated Press)
Church statement on separation of families at the US-Mexico border
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Vatican, Mexico lament children suffer most from migration
(Associated Press)
Sunday, 17 June 2018
EVENT, 17-23 June 2018: Tradition and Innovation in Religious Movements: East Asia, the West, and Beyond
(CESNUR, Weixin College, Taiwan WeiXin World Peace Promotion Associaton, ISSNR, Weixin College, Taichung Branch, Taichung, Taiwan)
Saturday, 16 June 2018
In passionate speech, Sen. Orrin Hatch urges compassion for the gay community, help for suicide prevention
(Thomas Burr, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Fake News? The Economist team doesn't know where Liberty University is located
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
A timid religion will die fast
(Breda O'Brien, The Irish Times)
Teaching children to ask the big questions without religion
(Deena Prichep, National Public Radio)
Religious freedom and the sanctity of the confessional
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)
Temple and state
(Abhinav Chandrachud, The Hindu)
Football World Cup can close up people, mufti Tajuddin believes
(Interfax-Religion)
Putin lauds Russian Muslim communities' role in maintaining interethnic, interfaith peace
(Interfax-Religion)
After the Irish debacle
(George Weigel, First Things)
UK Church puts spotlight on human trafficking to mark Day for Life
(Charles Collins, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
Mormon genealogical database to accept same-sex couples
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press)
Baptists suffer from current anti-evangelism thrust
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo)
Southern Baptists are still Southern Baptists: But the future is starting to look more complex
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Wrapping up Southern Baptist annual meeting: Did we witness the return of the so-called 'moderates?'
(Bobby Ross Jr., GetReligion)
Friday, 15 June 2018
Southern Baptists mull what’s next on confronting abuse
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
India: Police slow to register case after church burnt down by suspected Hindu extremists
(Tejaswi Ravinder, World Watch Monitor)
Surveys show sharp differences between Jews in US and Israel
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
Presbyterians aim to revive mainline denomination
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
Gaza residents pray near Israel, as Muslims mark major feast
(Karin Laub, Religion News Service)
Corporate America: Stop hurting Muslims by ignoring our holidays
(Tasmiha Khan, Religion News Service)
How 139 bills across the country are redefining religious freedom
(Kelsey Dallas, Deseret News InDepth)
Are there really 139 religious freedom bills out there? Deseret News offers an ambitious round-up
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Law societies can deny accreditation to Christian university: Supreme Court
(Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, CTV News)
TWU loses: Canada’s religious freedom forever altered
(Barry W. Bussey, Canadian Council of Christian Charities: Intersection)
JUDGMENT: Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Westery University
(Supreme Court of Canada)
CASE SUMMARY: Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University and Trinity Western University v. Law Society of Upper Canada
(Supreme Court of Canada)
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