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Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Irish prelate says summit must uphold marriage but not homophobia
(Christopher White and Inés San Martín, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Louisiana school boards seek changes in religious expression policy in response to lawsuits
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)

New video on being Muslim in U.S.
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Case of Dead Sea Scrolls, online aliases ends with probation
(Yeshiva World)

Defendant in Dead Sea Scrolls debate avoids jail
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Schlereth, “An Age of Infidels” (new book)
(Mark Movsesian, Law and Religion Forum)

Michigan prison violating pregnant Muslim's religious rights, lawyers say
(Tom Perkins, Detroit Metro Times)

Poland: Religion teachers as form teachers?
(Liberties)

How do evangelical colleges keep the faith?
(Eric C. Miller, Religion and Politics Fit for Society)

Religious leaders say media need to dig deeper on matters of faith
(Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune)

Ducey signs abortion questionnaire, English-only contracts bills into law
(Dustin Gardiner, AZCentral.com)

Commentary: Physician-assisted suicide in Hawaii is an attack on all of us
(Monica Burke, The Daily Signal)

Tensions in Labour erupt over rising abuse of Jews
(Henry Zeffman, The Times)

Arizona State Capitol event highlights Azerbaijan’s multiculturalism and interfaith tolerance
(Azertac)

The challenges of religious diversity in a university context
(Noa Yadidi, Washington University in St. Louis: The Source)

Activists defend faith-based adoption agencies from assault by left
(Chrissy Clark, The Daily Signal)

Tennessee stops sending tax dollars to abortion providers
(Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal)

Parliament votes to disband Tunisia's truth commission
(Amel al-Hilali, Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East)

Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope
(Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor)

Gunmen kill Shiite shopkeeper in Pakistan
(Associated Press)

India is a ‘republic of fear’. The UK must keep the pressure on Modi
(Amrit Wilson, The Guardian)

Hate speech skyrockets nearly 500% under BJP government in India
(Nimisha Jaiswal, Sreenivasan Jain, and Manas Pratap Singh, NDTV)

Pastor suspects arson in Pakistan church fire
(Kamran Chaudhry, UCANews)

Jewish men attacked in Berlin, 1 whipped with belt
(Kirsten Grieshaber, Associated Press)

What is hell?
(Joanne Pierce, The Conversation)

An imprisoned pastor is showing Turkey’s true colors on human rights
(Life Site)

Silence broken as family hear from imprisoned Iranian Christian
(Eno Adeogun, Premier)

Two Kachin Baptist pastors released from prison after 16 months following amnesty
(Asia News)

Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile
(Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press)

Democrats don't need white working class to beat Trump, experts say
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Strong cases for and against Sunday cinemas – archive, 1932
(The Guardian)

The requirement of religious affiliation for a post within the Church must be amenable to effective judicial review
(Press Release, Egenberger judgment (PDF), Court of Justice of the European Union)

Top EU court rules church job ads open to discrimination scrutiny
(Deutsche Welle)

Creating a new Syria: Property, dispossession, and regime survival
(Erwin van Veen, Syria Comment)

Syria, deterrence of chemical weapons and U.S. policy in the Middle East
(Joshua Landis, Syria Comment)

Peak fragility: Why the Middle East is doomed
(Ehsani, Syria Comment)

EVENT, 18 April: “Law and Religion: Cooperation or Conflict?”
(Professor Michael Quinlan, The Western Australian Legal Theory Association)

EVENT, 18 April 2018: USCIRF Summit on International Religious Freedom
(U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom)

EVENT, 18 April 2018: A Generation of Peace: Northern Ireland, Then and Now, Washington, D.C.
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University)

ACS webinar on travel-ban case
(Thomas Berg, Mirror of Justice blog)

EVENT, 17-18 April 2018: Emergent Religious Pluralism(s)
(An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge)

Stormy Daniels will donate $130,000 to Planned Parenthood if she wins lawsuit
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

How indigenous women who survived Guatemala’s conflict are fighting for justice
(Juliette Doman, The Conversation)

European churches to deepen relations with churches in the Middle East
(Press Release, Conference of European Churches)

Egypt’s mufti issues fatwa against buying Facebook ‘likes’
(Associated Press)

Family research council subpoenaed in lawsuit against Trump over transgender military ban
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)

State Dept. convinced Andrew Bunson is innocent, says Turkey lacks 'credible evidence'
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)

Pennsylvania House passes prohibition on Down Syndrome abortions
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

The New Yorker calls Chick Fil A's presence in New York City 'creepy'
(Scott Slayton, Christian Headlines)

Labour leader accused of lacking moral clarity on antisemitism
(Pippa Crerar and Anne Perkins, The Guardian)

Is it time to start making churches pay taxes?
(J. M., World Religion News)

Your tax return is a sacred document
(Joshua Hammerman, Religion News Service)

Man wins not paying taxes because they support abortion
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

What does the new Christian Chick-Fil-A controversy say about America?
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)

JASTA keeps Saudi Arabia on trial for 9/11 terror attacks: The US and its foreign sovereign immunity issue
(David Hamer and Laura Green, EJIL: Talk!)

Struggling to prevent terrorist attacks, France wants to ‘reform’ Islam
(James McAuley, The Washington Post)

Iceland’s Catholic leaders condemn circumcision law as anti-Semitic
(Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Catholic News Service)

When is a church not a church?
(Katherine Stewart, The New York Times)

Pompeo’s Kansas church asks God to ‘give him strength’ in Senate confirmation process
(Bobby Ross Jr., Religion News Service)

Immigrant Muslims and those born in U.S. see life differently in many ways: Pew
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)

The Moscow Patriarchate official urges to pray for not allowing World War III
(Interfax-Religion)

Ukrainian church complains against Moscow-related colleagues
(Religiia v Ukraine, Russia Religion News)

Jehovah's Witness jailed for almost two months without court conviction
(SOVA Center for News and Analysis, Russia Religion News)

Brooklyn synagogue pulls its money out of Chase bank to promote climate change. Will others follow suit?
(Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Church supports move to legalize homosexual acts in Trinidad and Tobago
(Laura Ann Phillips, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Philippines to deport Australian nun, 71, who advocated for farmers
(Catholic News Service)

Nigerian bishops fear instability ahead of 2019 elections
(Ngala Killian Chimtom, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

How to alienate Millennials from the pro-life movement
(Paul Moses, Commonweal)

Echo prize winners return awards amid controversy
(Deutsche Welle)

Bills to curtail LGBT rights are failing in US legislatures
(David Crary, Associated Press)

Court rules Israelis on Temple Mount may call out, ‘Am Yisrael chai’
(Times of Israel)

Israeli court rules "Am Yisrael Chai" is patriotic slogan, not a prayer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

There are many ways to love Israel
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))

Israeli series exposes raw wounds from ethnic Jewish divide
(Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press)

Judge rules Islamic ceremony wasn't a legal marriage, so woman can testify against Ayyub Abdul-Alim in gun case
(Buffy Spencer, Mass Live)

No spousal privilege when only religious marriage was entered
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Appeals court overturns ruling against televangelist Ernest Angley over use of unpaid workers at buffet
(Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com)

6th Circuit: Church restaurant volunteers are not covered by FLSA
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Repeal would not mean fewer disabled babies, says Finian McGrath
(Ellen Coyne, The Times)

Pupils urge their school chaplain to quit in row over gay marriage
(John Jeffay, The Times)

Violent extremists tarnish image of their own faith, cardinal says
(Carol Glatz, Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse)

Young people set to impact the debate on women's health issues
(Carolyn J. Davis, PhD, Daniel Cox, PhD, Rob Griffin, PhD, and Robert P. Jones, PhD, PRRI)

Real dangers in India, Indonesia and Brazil as the religious pendulum swings way right
(Ira Rifkin, GetReligion)

Rape-murder of girl in India exposes religious tensions
(Deutsche Welle)

Brazil turns rightward, heralding new chapter for Latin America
(Samantha Pearson, The Wall Street Journal (paywall))

WSJ pins Brazil's swing to right on evangelicals, but the truth may be more complex
(Julia Duin, GetReligion)

Lawsuit challenges Michigan constitution's ban on financial aid to religion
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC blog))

California: Marijuana is part of its religion, says Jurupa Valley church fighting city to stay open
(David Downey, The Press-Enterprise)

Medical marijuana push spreads to Utah, Oklahoma
(Brady McCombs, Associated Press)

This is what happened when Cambridge was visited by royalty today (A unique Cambridge research centre dedicated to fostering relations between religions has been given a royal opening.)
(Chris Elliott, Cambridge News)

Though opposition remains, Trinidad & Tobago takes a historic legal step towards LGBT equality
(Janine Mendes-Franco, Global Voices)

Supreme Court won't hear challenge to Maine law banning abortion clinic protests
(Kevin Daley, The Daily Caller)

Jailed Chinese pastor’s US family seeks mercy
(Yanan Wang, Associated Press)

Rohingya lawyer urges UN to refer Myanmar to ICC for crimes`
(Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)

Bangladesh rejects Myanmar’s claim of repatriating Rohingya
(Julhas Alam, Associated Press)

Ford County men will be tried on Illinois machine-gun charges first
(Ben Zigterman, The News-Gazette)

Christians in India's Kerala state endure series of attacks on churches
(Nirmala Carvalho, Asia News)

Why some Christians don’t trust their devices
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)

ISIS continues to target Christians in Pakistan's southwest
(KK Shahid, The Nation)

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