Law and Religion Headlines
Saturday, 28 April 2018
Alfie Evans has died: 'We are heartbroken,' say parents
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Podcast: Alfie Evans’ fight for his life shows the decline of Britain
(Katrina Trinko, The Daily Signal)
Friday, 27 April 2018
"Project Blitz" seeks to do for Christian nationalism what Alec does for big business
(Fredrick Clarkson, Religion Dispatches)
Turkish women demand safer, cleaner spaces in mosques
(Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor: Turkey Pulse)
Will Israel accept UAE donations to East Jerusalem?
(Shlomi Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Why US must also open East Jerusalem embassy
(Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Iraq targets terrorism financing with blacklist
(Wassim Bassem, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Iraq’s Shiite militias hope battlefield wins can secure electoral victory
(Mona Alami, Al-Monitor: Syria Pulse)
Israeli, Palestinian candidates share electoral list in Jerusalem first
(Daoud Kuttab, Al-Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Christian counselors to provide free training to combat opioid epidemic
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Picture of high schoolers praying before prom kindles controversy
(Leah Hickman, Christian Headlines)
Senate confirms Christian Mike Pompeo as new secretary of state
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Philippine religious leaders claim govt moves to silence Church
(Joe Torres, UCANews)
Christians in Papua fear growing Islamization
(Benny Mawel, UCANews)
Syrian priest who ministers in ravaged Aleppo: 'It's God mercy that I stayed'
(Christian Today staff writer, Christian Today)
Pakistani Christian domestic workers share testimonies of abuse and persecution
(Mango Baaz)
India's indigenous people rally for religion
(Bijay Kumar Minj, UCANews)
UNHCR to Cameroon: Stop deporting Nigerian refugees
(World Watch Monitor)
Korea peace talks: A missed opportunity for human rights
(Amnesty International)
Chinese officials raid kindergarten established by Fujian church
(China Aid)
Fashion meets Catholicism: offensive or brilliant PR?
(Morwenna Ferrier, The Guardian)
New report indicates US federal agencies are targeting Muslims
(Elisa Meyer, World Religion News)
The Satanic Temple sues Arkansas over new monument
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Trump's attorney makes baffling error about Islam to Supreme Court
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
People of faith should support prison reform legislation
(Abraham Cooper and Johnnie Moore, Religion News Service)
You can push for public displays of the Bible. Better yet, read it.
(Tom Krattenmaker, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis, the spiritual guide
(Thomas Reese, RNS Column: Signs of the Times)
Publishers stop printing Hybels’ books amid allegations of inappropriate behavior
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
House chaplain ousted by Speaker Ryan-- reasons unclear
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Ryan expels House chaplain for enjoying the wrong kind of religious freedom
(Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches)
House chaplain forced out by Ryan
(Melanie Zanona and Mike Lillis, The Hill)
Paul Ryan doesn’t have a prayer
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Liberty University is no longer the largest Christian university
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Dozens of Iranian Christian refugees sue Trump admin. for denying asylum application
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Iranian Christians denied refugee status sue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Mikvah-peeping Rabbi Barry Freundel’s jail sentence reduced by over a year due to good behavior
(Josefin Dolsten, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Rabbi Freundel's voyeurism sentence reduced for good behavior
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
How religion is coming to terms with modern fertility methods
(Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post)
Judge: Bars are allowed to throw out Trump supporters
(Julia Marsh, New York Post)
Judge rules pro-Trump hat is not part of any religious belief
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
District Court again dismisses suit over board positions on Sikh Dharma entities
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
In UK Parliament, investigators shed light on Chinese regime’s forced organ harvesting
(Jane Gray, The Epoch Times)
The First Amendment didn't separate church and state—Christianity did
(Paul R. DeHart, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Q&A: Everything you need to know about Trump ‘Travel Ban’ oral aguments
(Kelsey Harkness, The Daily Signal)
U.S. Supreme Court considers religious discrimination issue in travel ban case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Pakistan’s top judge says he will hear Asia Bibi’s appeal personally
(World Watch Monitor)
Group of Episcopal Church bishops adds voices to Supreme Court case on Trump travel ban
(Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service)
90% of Americans believe in a higher power
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Thursday, 26 April 2018
How practices, and meaning, of genital cutting are changing in Tanzania
(Hannelore van Bavel, Els Leye, and Gily Coene, The Conversation)
Self-sacrifice & secularism: A French policeman’s absolute altruism
(Christopher Schaefer, Commonweal)
Balancing act: A court ruling makes it harder for faith-based employers to discriminate
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Swearing on a holy book makes a mockery of religion, Sikh leaders say
(Olivia Rudgard, The Telegraph)
Algerian controversy over Salafism puts government control of religion on the spot
(James Dorsey, International Policy Digest)
First three days of trial of Danish Jehovah's Witness
(NewsOrel, Russia Religion News)
Russia violates its own laws to persecute Jehovah’s Witnesses
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Jehovah's Witnesses deal with confiscation of property
(Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia, Russia Religion News)
Satanic Temple plans to sue Arkansas over Ten Commandments monument
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)
Russian government meddles in Ukrainian church question
(RIA Novosti, Russia Religion News)
Iceland parliament committee favors scrapping bill to ban circumcision
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Reuven Firestone: Muslims and Jews are 'manipulated by fear'
(Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle)
Does America have a moral obligation to resettle refugees?
(Gillian Friedman, Deseret News Faith)
Medical experts who are religious leaders look at faith, health, healing
(Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service)
The Bishops’ brief against the ban: Will the Court’s Catholic majority care?
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)
Parents spared jail in death of girl who didn’t see doctor
(Associated Press)
Michigan candidate criticized over anti-Muslim remarks
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press)
For the third time in a week, a priest is found dead in Mexico
(Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
3rd priest in a week found dead in Mexico
(Mark Stevenson, Associated Press)
In Bavaria, state buildings will display a cross
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Missouri Supreme Court weighs whether ‘sex’ bias covers LGBT
(Blake Nelson, Associated Press)
Missouri Supreme Court hears oral arguments on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
6th Circuit hears oral arguments in challenge to deportation of Iraqi Chaldeans
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Atheists file lawsuit after child forcibly baptized by court-approved mentor
(Press Release, American Atheists)
Parents file state court suit alleging baptism of their son without their consent
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Battle over transgender student rights moves to high school locker rooms
(The Washington Post)
Warning signs unheeded: The Kandhamal tragedy
(CSWPress, FoRB in Full (a blog by CSW))
Parents stand up for children in 'sex ed sit out'
(Cathy Ruse, The Daily Signal)
In Northern Ireland, anti-abortion graffiti hits Catholic churches
(Catholic News Agency)
US bishops endorse bill to provide legislative fix for DACA recipients
(Christine Rousselle, Catholic News Agency)
Netanyahu on collision course with US Jews over conversion to Judaism
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Israel’s options for resolving tension with Iran
(Yossi Beilin, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Why America's Handmaid's Tale doesn't look like Hulu's
(Christopher Douglas, Religion Dispatches)
Why Hulu's "Handmaid's Tale" may be the wrong adaption for Trump era
(Christopher Douglas, Religion Dispatches)
Gaining except-ance: Army chaplain who says "I don't" to same sex wedding should not be reprimanded
(Patrick Hornbeck, Religion Dispatches)
No time for casual faith: The first Unitarian woman elected president on our urgent moment
(Peter Laarman, Religion Dispatches)
Memories Pizza where Christian owners got death threats for not catering gay weddings, closes
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
New Atheism may be finished, but its sad legacy lives on
(Randal Rauser, The Christian Post)
Jews are advised against wearing Yarmulkes in German cities
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
New study shows God can be pushed aside with better government services
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Why this conservative bastion chose a liberal evangelical icon for its commencement speech
(Adam Laats, Religion News Service)
When government threatens sanctuaries
(Mark Silk, RNS Column: Spiritual Politics)
Bid to toughen Louisiana anti-bestiality law draws pushback
(Anthony Izaguirre, Religion News Service)
Case of stripping Coptic woman and burning Copts' homes in court
(Nader Shukry, Watani Net)
‘Education policy fails to curb religious discrimination’ in Pakistan
(Staff Reporter, The Nation)
EVENT, 26 April 2018: Senior Poster Session on Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)
EVENT, 26 March 2018: The rise and decline of the American model. A book discussion
(Pasquale Annicchino, Hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - European Union Office)
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS [due 26 April 2018] - EIN training seminar on ECtHR judgments
(European Implementation Network, Seminar 21-22 June 2018, Youth European Centre, Strasbourg)
Training Seminar on Implementation of Strasbourg Judgments [Applications due 26 April 2018]
(Antoine Buyse, ECHR Blog)
Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Plan of Action for Religious Leaders to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes
(the Fez Process, UN Office of Genocide Prevention, KAICIID, WCC, Network for Religious and Tradtional Peacemakers)
USCIRF releases 2018 Annual Report, recommends 16 countries be designated 'countries of particular concern"
(USCIRF, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF))
Global religious freedom commission cites 28 key nations for ‘ongoing downward trend’
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
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