Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Paul Ryan's departure and Catholic Social Teaching
(Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice blog)
Paul Ryan’s curdled idealism
(Ed Dionne Jr., Commonweal)
Faith can help cleanse societal waters of racism, says Cardinal Wuerl
(Mark Zimmermann, Catholic News Service)
Sri Lanka: Facebook told to block religious hate speech
(World Watch Monitor)
Myanmar leader says fleeing villagers can return home, while army says they must leave Tanaing
(Kyaw Myo Min, Khin Khin Ei, and Nay Rein Kyaw, Radio Free Asia)
Myanmar NGO asks state leader to help rescue villagers displaced by war
(Thet Su Aung, Radio Free Asia)
The Prosecutor’s request for a ruling on the ICC’s jurisdiction over the feportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh: A gender perspective
(Andrea Raab, EJIL: Talk!)
ICC jurisdiction and the Rohingya: Crisis in Myanmar
(Geoff Curfman, Just Security)
At 70, Israel sits atop a volcano
(Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Ultra-Orthodox join Israelis in national mourning on memorial days
(Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
Why Israel’s independence day should not be a religious holiday
(Michael Segalov, The Guardian)
Israeli independence day causes controversy
(Nathan Glover, World Religion News)
Lay off the ADL!
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Christians in south India protest against violence, harassment
(Tejaswi Ravinder, UCANews)
Nigerian journalist says new information from Boko Haram indicates 30 Chibok girls in custody still alive
(Ahmad Salkida, Sahara Reporters)
Hindu radicals force pastor to flee village after series of attacks
(ICC's India Representative, Persecution: International Christian Concern)
Pro-Israel Christian group condemns mainline Protestants' statement defending Palestinians
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Youth, schools, and violence: What's happening to our kids?
(CP Editors, The Christian Post)
Church partners with Facebook to further community outreach
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Prosecuting ‘The Beatles’ before the ICC: A gateway for the opening of an investigation in Syria?
(Alexandre Skander Galand, EJIL: Talk!)
On Syria: Trump may be right
(David W. Lesch, Syria Comment)
Why evangelical leaders opposed to Trump speak for more evangelicals than you think
(Napp Nazworth, The Christian Post)
Still evangelical? Literary festival panelists question label after Trump, #MeToo
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
If major church leaders of Syria blast President Trump's missiles and tweets, is that news?
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
Earth Days past and present
(Richard Mouw, Religion News Service)
Turkish conservatives are getting alarmed by the “plague” of deism and atheism
(Terry Firma, Friendly Atheist)
China targets Sydney radio host in war on religion
(Primrose Riordan, The Australian)
Wolves to lambs: Finding God behind bars in El Salvador
(Jose Cabezas and Nelson Renteria, Reuters)
Draconian blasphemy laws seen as holding Indonesia back
(Katharina R. Lestari, UCA News)
Dozens of evangelical leaders meet to discuss how Trump era has unleashed ‘grotesque caricature’ of their faith
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post: Acts of Faith)
Maybe it's time to admit that the "grotesque caricature" of white evangelicals is the reality
(Hollis Phelps, Religion Dispatches)
Fear, nostalgia, and power drove evangelicals to Trump: Interview with Evangelical scholar John Fea
(Eric C. Miller, Religion Dispatches)
Bossier school board to vote on religious expression policy
(Nick Wooten, Shreveport Times)
Is the right to bear arms 'God-given'?
(Erica Evans, Deseret News)
Ukraine moves to split church from Russia as elections approach
(Natalia Zinets, Reuters)
Ukrainian Orthodox Church's autocephaly is geopolitical issue – Poroshenko
(Interfax-Religion)
Transgender professor, denied reinstatement after jury win, plans to appeal
(Erin Mulvaney, National Law Journal)
Metropolitan Hilarion on situation in Ukraine: secular administration cannot initiate creation of autocephalous Church
(Interfax-Religion)
Catholicos of All Armenians urges protestors, police to exercise restraints
(Interfax-Religion)
Pastor jailed and tortured for preaching shares horrors Christians prisoners face in Vietnam
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Mormons plan to build temple in Russia
(Andrei Melnikov, Nezavisimaia Gazeta Religii)
East African Mormons look forward to a Nairobi temple
(Fredrick Nzwili, Religion News Service)
English bishop is concerned over abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’
(Catholic News Agency)
As nuns lead fight against trafficking, governments say they’re listening
(John L. Allen Jr., Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
The Mediterranean frontier: Letter from Italy
(Massimo Faggioli, Commonweal)
New Jersey Supreme Court rules church restoration grants violate the state constitution
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)
Mexican priest stabbed to death in church
(Associated Press)
Indian police arrest 18 Rohingya Muslims
(Associated Press)
California lawmakers move to limit gay conversion therapy
(Sophia Bollag, Associated Press)
District judge grants motions to expand federal Anglican lawsuit
(Charleston Regional Business Journal)
More rulings in South Carolina Episcopal Church split
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
FFRF win: N.J. Supreme Court upholds bar on funds to repair churches
(Press Release, Freedom From Religion Foundation)
New Jersey Supreme Court says grants to churches violate state constitution
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
The New Yorker stirs up a storm with analysis of Chick-fil-A evangelism in the Big Apple
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
St. James the Great congregants make joyous return to Newport Beach church
(Deepa Bharath, The Orange County Register)
Dear Orange County Register editors: Some Episcopal stories require a bit of research
(Terry Mattingly, GetReligion)
US warns Turkey of consequences if jailed pastor isn’t freed
(Matthew Lee, Associated Press)
Turkey misses opportunity to release Pastor Andrew Brunson, sets next hearing to May 7
(Press Release, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)
American pastor gets initial hearing in Turkish court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Jailed Evangelical Presbyterian pastor in Turkey finally gets full-court press coverage
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)
Egypt legalises 166 unlicensed churches
(MIddle East Monitor)
Commentary on the Final Copenhagen Declaration
(Janneke Gerards and Sarah Lambrecht, ECHR Blog)
The Copenhagen Declaration (full text)
(High Level Conference, The Danish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)
'Haifa is essentially segregated': cracks appear in Israel's capital of coexistence
(Ian Black, The Guardian)
Cuba’s new leader ‘not a reformer’
(Mariusa Reyes, World Watch Monitor)
Synagogue pulls money from JPMorgan to fight climate change
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Remembering the children of the Warsaw Ghetto on the 75th anniversary of the uprising
(Samantha Baskind, Religion News Service)
5 faith facts about Mike Pompeo: A divisive devotion
(Jack Jenkins, Religion News Service)
A new type of Catholic emerges: the conservative dissenter
(Christopher Lamb, Religion News Service)
Victorian Catholic brother sentenced to five years for sexually abusing students
(Australian Associated Press, The Guardian)
EVENT, 19 April 2018: The Travel Ban at the Supreme Court: A Briefing on Trump v. Hawaii
(Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Doug Chin, Professor Thomas Berg, Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, American Constitution Society Webinar)
EVENT, 19 April 2018: Populist Politics and the Minority Voice: British Muslims, Extremisms and Inclusion
(Muslims in Britain Research Network, King's College London)
Assisted dying in Guernsey
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
LDS launches website to recruit senior missionaries
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Appeals court: State defunding of Planned Parenthood unconstitutional
(Catherine Candisky, The Columbus Dispatch)
6th Circuit: Ohio's cutoff of non-abortion funding to Planned Parenthood is unconstitutional
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
New report reviews religion and secularism in Kazakhstan
(Amir Khaidar, The Astana Times)
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of Koran?': Guest opinion
(Allen Alley, Oregon Live)
Point-Counterpoint: Piece of cake? Brett Scharffs and Frank Ravitch discuss Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
(Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law)
Will Jordan reclaim sovereignty over controversial land on Israeli border?
(Osama Al Sharif, Al-Monitor: Jordan Pulse)
Congress seeks to exert more control over Middle East wars
(Bryant Harris, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)
The emerging crazy Christian trend of grave sucking
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Why Barbara Bush’s death matters
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
How Barbara Bush's faith inspired her amazing life
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Barbara Bush’s old-fashioned religion
(Jacob Lupfer, Religion News Service)
Muslims life in America
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)
Heeding the sacred call to give sanctuary to the vulnerable
(Traci Blackmon and Jonah Dov Pesner, Religion News Service)
New Bible seeks to connect modern and ancient Israel
(Michele Chabin, Religion News Service)
3 men convicted in Kansas plot to bomb Somali refugees
(Roxana Hegeman, Religion News Service)
App faith: how religions are embracing technology
(Tim Dowling, The Guardian)
Taxpayer dollars can't be used to fix up churches, N.J. Supreme Court rules
(Samantha Marcus, NJ Advance Media)
Movie Maman Colonelle recognized for highlighting human rights in Democratic Republic of Congo
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Syrian mufti plans visit to Russia
(Interfax-Religion)
Russia: "Everyone has become much more cautious"
(Forum 18 News Service)
Anti-evangelism law applied to Chinese movement
(Roman Lunkin, Religiia i Pravo)
Russia still trying to expel Israeli rabbi
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)
Video of alleged anti-Semitic attack in Berlin sparks outrage
(Jefferson Chase, Deutsche Welle)
Merkel condemns attack on 2 men wearing skullcaps in Germany
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)
Chinese Catholics warned by provincial officials not to take children to Mass
(Catholic News Service)
Cardinal, hospital staff urge Illinois legislators to act on gun bill
(Joyce Duriga, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)
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