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Friday, 4 May 2018

Monsoons threaten thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
(Hattie Williams, Church Times)

BJP and RSS caused the biggest damage to Hinduism in recent times, says Hindu cleric
(Siraj Qureshi, India Today)

Turkey: Upcoming second hearing for Andrew Brunson
(Middle East Concern)

There is more to being Jewish than fighting anti-Semitism
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)

Lebanon: No choice left for a girl but to marry
(SB Overseas, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Why we should have prayer in school
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Oklahoma bill supports religious objections to same-sex adoptions
(Mitchell Willetts, Religion News Service)

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS [due 4 May 2018]: Religious freedom research project graduate summer research fellowship
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

What makes a belief or practice religious under the law?
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

CONFERENCE, 4 May 2018: Between state and citizen: religion at the ECtHR
(Effie Fokas et al., Grassrootsmobilise Public Event & Conference – Athens, Greece (Acropolis Museum))

Thursday, 3 May 2018

US officials return thousands of ancient artefacts seized from Hobby Lobby back to Iraq
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)

L.A. Antifa group hangs Trump in effigy, calls for 'revolutionary violence' against 'the capitalist state'
(Debra Heine, PJ Media)

Turkey’s snap elections: Erdogan’s improvised gambit
(Aykan Erdemir, War on the Rocks)

US State Department Report exposes Turkey’s human rights abuses
(Aykan Erdemir and Deniz Yuksel, Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy)

Human Rights Situation in Turkey
(Aykan Erdemir, Report to the Parliament of Canada, House of Commons)

Turkey: Erdoğan's world of terrorists includes everyone but terrorists
(Burak Bekdil, Gatestone Institute)

Turkish prosecutor seeks life sentence for U.S. pastor
(Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)

Sincerity, ‘religiosity’ challenged in ongoing cannabis church lawsuit
(Drew Daudelin, Indiana Public Media)

In Indonesia, interfaith marriage is legal - but with many obstacles
(Krithika Varagur, Voice of America)

Alarm grows in France over anti-Semitic violence
(Eleanor Beardsley, National Public Radio)

Role of churches in Colombia's peace process praised at Global Christian Forum gathering
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

Jehovah's Witnesses lose major appeal in Russian court
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)

Russian court allows seizure of Jehovah's Witness property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia have property seized by the government amid ongoing crackdown
(Cristina Maza, Newsweek)

Campaign of terror begins for Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
(Jehovah's Witnesses.org)

Appeals court denies Jehovah's Witnesses' property claim
(Mikhail Telekhov, RAPSI)

Russia: Five Jehovah's Witnesses behind bars
(JW.org, Human Rights Without Frontiers International)

Jehovah's Witnesses losing hope for their property
(Delovoi Peterburg, Russia Religion News)

Israel told its citizens not to light bonfires on Lag b’Omer. They did it anyway.
(Ben Sales, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

German man ordered to pay child support after ex-wife forges signature for IVF pregnancy
(Alexander Pearson, Deutsche Welle)

At the White House, Sister Bingham of LDS Church prays for a 'land of Good Samaritans'
(Tad Walch, Deseret News Faith)

Philippine cardinal urges daily bell tolling to call attention to murders
(Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Minnesota charity cuts refugee program amid slowdown
(Associated Press)

Transgender anti-discrimination bill sent to governor
(Holly Ramer, Associated Press)

Federal judge re-affirms sentence in Amish hair-cutting case
(Associated Press)

Oklahoma lawmakers pass religious veto on same-sex adoptions
(Mitchell Willetts, Associated Press)

House chaplain rescinds resignation, Ryan agrees to let him stay
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

House chaplain wins job back after scalding letter to Ryan
(Andrew Taylor, Associated Press)

House chaplain rescinds his resignation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

House Chaplain Pat Conroy rescinds his resignation, to sit down with Paul Ryan next week
(Daniella Diaz and Lauren Fox, CNN)

South Carolina senate approves bill banning 97 percent of abortions
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Iowa legislature passes heartbeat abortion bill
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Iowa legislature passes strictest in nation abortion bill, would ban when heartbeat detected
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Iowa legislators just passed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the U.S.
(Kristine Phillips, The Washington Post)

Bishop praises ‘life-giving intent’ of Iowa’s fetal heartbeat bill
(Perry West, Catholic News Agency)

New Jersey Supreme Court says more facts needed to decide religious capital grants challenge
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Court restores damages claim by Muslims on no-fly list
(Nick Rummell, Courthouse News Service)

2nd Circuit: damages available in individual capacity suits under RFRA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Canada's House of Commons calls on Pope and Church to respond to residential schools settlement
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Analysis: Who misinformed Pope Francis about Bishop Barros?
(JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency)

Chabad and Toms River settle RLUIPA suit
(Diana Neeves, RLUIPA-Defense)

Why clashes are on the rise between farmers and herdsmen in the Sahel
(Olayinka Ajala, The Conversation)

Israel deports Palestinians from Jerusalem for not showing 'loyalty'
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)

Ashers 'gay cake' case could go to European Court of Human Rights
(Harry Farley, Christian Today)

Gay activist Peter Tatchell defends Ashers bakery in 'gay cake' case
(James Macintyre, Christian Today)

Vatican requests courses to fill ‘urgent need’ for training in canon law
(Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency)

Violence against women begins in the womb
(Elaine Storkey, Christianity Today)

Scotland's evangelical island gets its first mosque
(Danny Webster, Christianity Today)

Trump tells Nigeria's president church attacks must stop
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)

Give protestants a taste of Catholic communion, German bishops tell Vatican
(Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today)

West Virginia church ejected by Baptist denomination over pastor's LGBT activism
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Reverend condemns 'anti-Christian' California bill as worst he's seen in entire ministry
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)

Illinois senate approves bill requiring public schools to teach LGBT history
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Roy Moore won't rule out another run for office
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

America has a loneliness problem, especially among young people
(Leah Hickman, Christian Headlines)

Muslims recoil at a French proposal to change the Quran
(Karina Piser, The Atlantic)

King James Bible's classic English text revealed to include work by French scholar
(Alison Flood, The Guardian)

Hobby Lobby returned thousands of stolen artifacts
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

Roseanne Barr wants to be Prime Minister of Israel
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)

Healing through artwork: Crochet by African migrants and trauma victims on display in NYC exhibit
(Liz Donovan, Religion News Service)

Hindus in India are converting to Buddhism to protest treatment of lower castes
(Jason Overdorf, Religion News Service)

Today is National Day of Prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

President Donald J. Trump Proclaims May 3 as a National Day of Prayer
(The White House)

National Prayer Events

Can Corporate America join the National Day of Prayer?
(Brian Grim, Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)

From Washington to Wyoming, leaders and locals prepare for prayer day
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Sutherland Springs pastor to meet Trump at White House for National Day of Prayer
(Leonardo Blair, The Christian Post)

Re-use of institutional burial grounds
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

PUBLIC EVENT, 3 May 2018: Religion and Secularism: does the Court go too far – or not far enough?
(Professor Eva Brems, Judge Ann Power-Forde, Judge Christos Rozakis, Professor Josephy H. H. Weiler, Grassrootsmobilise Public Event & Conference – Athens, Greece (Acropolis Museum))

Bats in churches again
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Factual questions remain on ecclesiastical abstention and ministerial exception (Kelly v. Decatur Baptist Church
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Kelly v. Decatur Baptist Church – Memorandum Opinion and Order
(US District Court, Northern Distrcit of Alabama, Northeastern Division)

Why white evangelicals are wrong about Obamacare
(T. Patrick Hill, University of Chicago Divinity School: Sightings)

Church, state’s uneasy intersection
(Gary Ackerman, Newsday)

These are the 12 most 'effective' preachers in the English language
(John Blake, CNN)

Baylor survey names twelve 'most effective' preachers
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

Religion a personal choice, should be free from coercion: Rajnath Singh
(Times of India)

Abbas speech draws fire amid accusations of anti-Semitism
(Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)

Uttarakhand becomes seventh state in India to approve an 'anti-conversion law'
(International Christian Concern)

Church massacre shatters tranquility of Central African capital
(Illia Djadi, World Religion News)

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?
(Eric S. Edelman and Aykan Erdemir, The Washington Post)

Highly educated Americans less likely to believe in God of the Bible: Pew survey
(Ecumenical News)

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Iraq gathering aimed to honor Mary, empower women
(Elise Harris, Catholic News Agency)

How should Catholics respond to migration caravans?
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)

Protect religious adoption agencies opposed to homosexuality, faith leaders tell Congress
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

Alfie Evans and Britain's post-Christian, post-human, pagan culture
(Dr. Richard D. Land, The Christian Post)

Ruins of ancient church discovered in Syria, in territory formerly under ISIS control
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Trauma, anxiety haunt more than half of Syrian refugee children
(Daily Sabah)

Church in Colombia prepares for first National Day of Reconciliation
(Catholic News Agency)

California bishops: We must accompany those with mental illness
(Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency)

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