Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Religious totalitarianism, secular totalitarianism, and other threats to international religious freedom
(Daniel Mark, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Domestic challenges to religious liberty—from left and right
(Daniel Mark, The Witherspoon Institute: Public Discourse)
Three years after the Garissa University attack, trauma still lingers
(Nathan Johnson, International Christian Concern)
The devil's music: How Christians inspired, condemned, and embraced rock n' roll
(Eric C. Miller, Religion Dispatches)
Proselytising in the workplace: Mrs S Powell
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Prager: Trump, adultery, morality
(Dennis Prager, The Daily Wire)
Adultery, character, and leadership: A response to Dennis Prager
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)
The climate change trial: A case pitting reason against extremism
(Ken Blackwell, The Christian Post)
The shifts behind the shootings
(J. Warner Wallace, The Christian Post)
Researcher create life-sized replica of Jesus based on shroud of Turin
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
Netanyahu's incredible flip-flop on African migrants
(Emma Green, The Atlantic)
UK communities take action against 'Punish a Muslim Day' letter
(Martin Belam, The Guardian)
Shame of Labour party antisemitism
(Giles Oakley, Martin Weitz, and Jeremy Connick, The Guardian)
Easter in Qaraqosh – for many their first since returning home
(World Watch Monitor)
Persecuted Christians celebrate Easter with mixed emotions
(World Watch Monitor)
North Carolina prisons must recognize humanism as a faith group
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
Church of England goes cashless for worshippers’ contributions
(Catherine Pepinster, Religion News Service)
Parades, peeps and paradoxes
(Martin E. Marty, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
During Lent, a Christian tries praying 5 times a day
(Kate Chance, Religion News Service)
EVENT, 3 April 2018: International Religious Freedom in an Age of Nationalism
(Mustafa Akyol, Brian Grim, Daniel Mark, Catholic Law Students Associatio, Harvard Law School)
Monday, 2 April 2018
Law and Freedom of Belief in Europe, a difficult journey
(European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom – EIFRF)
Religious photos of the week
(Kit Doyle, Religion News Service)
Easter celebrations around the world - in pictures
(Arnel Hecimovic, The Guardian)
Assyrian observe Easter midnight mass in north Iraq
(A.C. Robinson, AINA)
‘Hope and dignity:’ Pope calls for peace in Easter message
(The Associated Press, Religion News Service)
In Easter Urbi et Orbi, Pope Francis prays for 'swift end' to bloody war in Syria, peace in Holy Land
(Peter Kenny, Ecumenical News)
Pope Francis delivers Easter plea for peace after Gaza deaths
(Reuters in Vatican City, The Guardian)
The convergence of Passover and Easter can leaven (or unleaven) the interfaith family's holiday
(Samira K. Mehta, Religion Dispatches)
Who separated Passover from Easter?
(Michael Brown, The Christian Post)
Atheists who bring logic to the Easter story are missing the point
(Julian Baggini, The Guardian)
The Guardian view on Easter: it would take a miracle
(Editorial, The Guardian)
Easter a reminder of the role religious belief plays in Sydney
(The Sydney Morning Herald)
Prince Charles delivers Easter message on persecution
(Associated Press)
First Lady Melania Trump unveils 2018 White House Easter egg festivities
(The White House)
Trump on Easter: No more DACA deal
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Easter is different here in New York, as I think back to my Australian childhood
(Jillian Abbott, The Guardian)
Happy Easter to you. Now let’s nationalise our churches
(Simon Jenkins, The Guardian)
Why isn’t there a ‘War on Easter’ like Christmas?
(Jonathan Merritt, RNS Column: On Faith & Culture)
MLK’s last Sunday sermon is as relevant today as it was in 1968
(Randolph Marshall Hollerith, Religion News Service)
This week in Christian history: MLK, Charlemagne, 'Chariots of Fire'
(Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post)
Don’t domesticate MLK
(Tom Krattenmaker, Religion News Service)
Martin Luther King Jr., by the book
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
King convinced me to give my whole life to the church and his dream
(Malcolm Clemens Young, Religion News Service)
Remembering King’s last sermon with renewed hope
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
When Martin Luther King Jr. broke his silence on Vietnam
(Amy Butler, Religion News Service)
Why I wrote the freedom seder and why it's still necessary 50 years after Dr. King's assassination
(Arthur Waskow, Religion Dispatches)
From the black church to India: The theology of Martin Luther King Jr.
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
As King anniversary nears, 3 Memphis sites key to his legacy draw visitors
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)
MLK50 Archives (Articles about Martin Luther King)
(Religion News Service)
Law and religion round-up – 1st April
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)
Is it a crime to worship God? According to Russia, yes.
(The Washington Post)
Idaho AG supports religious protections for health workers
(Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press)
Has the Free Exercise Clause become a free pass to discriminate?
(Joshua Z. Rokach, Forward)
April 1: Adoption bills across the country, explaining support for Trump, and more
(Religious Freedom Review: Weekly updates on religious freedom in America)
Attack on Wahhabi Islam divides Russian Muslims
(Interfax-Religiia, Russia Religion News)
Nearly 4.6 million adult Bulgarians are identified as Eastern Orthodox
(novinite.com)
Opinion: Science is scared of religion
(Zulfikar Abbany, Deutsche Welle)
Panel on faith, faithful in politics called needed in ‘polarized world’
(Mark Zimmermann, Catholic News Service)
Solace amid persecution for India's Christian minority
(Diana Chandler, Baptist Press)
Spain's military in row over flags at half mast for Easter
(Stephen Burgen, The Guardian)
British royals go to Easter service without Harry and Markle
(Associated Press)
Anger in India as lowest caste protests Supreme Court order
(Associated Press)
Creativity movement is not a "religion"
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
"I had been part of the problem of Islamophobia": Pastor Danny Cortez on this new era
(The Editors, Religion Dispatches)
Palestinian women celebrate legal win with eye toward greater victories
(Aziza Nofal, Al Monitor: Palestine Pulse)
Egypt women fight for right to army combat posts
(N.A. Hussein, Al-Monitor: Egypt Pulse)
Iraqi courts seeking out atheists for prosecution
(Omar al-Jaffal, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Will Hawaii become the next state to allow physician-assisted suicide?
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)
'This is making a lot of Christians in China very nervous'
(Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, The Atlantic)
The Labour party was once a haven for British Jews--what happened?
(Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic)
The Americanization of an ancient faith
(Shira Telushkin, The Atlantic)
Secular groups call for review of 'blatantly discriminatory' school chaplains program
(Paul Karp, The Guardian)
Yes, we’ve lost our faith in God, but we’ve lost our faith in reason too
(Kenan Malik, The Guardian)
Major Jewish private donor ditches Labour over antisemitism
(Michael Savage, The Guardian)
Hijab ban attempt is 'racism dressed up as liberalism', teachers' conference told
(Richard Adams, The Guardian)
How to save our crumbling rural churches
(Susanna Wade-Martins, Rev. Canon Rob Kelsey, Penelope Stanford, The Guardian)
Labour antisemitism more widespread than thought, Momentum says
(Jessica Elgot, The Guardian)
Praying to Shinto "sports gods" for success
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
How one student is using the tactics of hate groups to fight islamophobia
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
Europe is moving away from organized religion
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
It is crazy to say religion would solve gun violence
(Derek Welch, World Religion News)
Rabbi shocks with unparalleled approval of cloned pigs as kosher
(Corey Barnett, World Religion News)
We don't take the Ten Commandments seriously
(Kelly Frazier, World Religion News)
Politics, persecution and ‘ardent love’: New movie aims to show why Paul is still relevant
(Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service)
LAUNCH EVENT, 2 April 2018: Islam and Religious Freedom Action Team
(Religious Freedom Institute)
Turkish president recites Muslim prayer at the Hagia Sophia
(Zeynep Bilginsoy, Associated Press Religion)
Same-sex marriage supporter easily wins Costa Rica elections
(Javier Cordoba, Associated Press Religion)
The ’Splainer: The stormy, surprising history of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)
Was Jesus Christ Superstar anti-semitic?
(Jeffrey Salkin, RNS Column: Martini Judaism (for those who want to be shaken and stirred))
Christians, Jews and the dubious history of the Passion play
(A. James Rudin, Religion News Service)
The Pope and hell: Why a papal comment about hell triggered a misunderstanding
(Erasmus, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Vatican denies Pope Francis said hell doesn't exist
(Veronica Neffinger, Christian Headlines)
No wonder the pope has caused confusion. Heaven and hell are a state of mind
(Andrew Brown, The Guardian)
Sunday, 1 April 2018
Catholic church in Turkey attacked – again
(Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies)
PM-in-exile urges Tibetans to make Dalai Lama's return 'a reality'
(Associated Press, The Guardian)
Psychoanalysis's Influence on Pope Francis
(David Mihalyfy, Sightings: Religion in Public Life (University of Chicago Divinity School))
Gay marriage question could define Costa Rican election
(Associated Press Religion)
Saturday, 31 March 2018
White House Easter-Passover greetings and events
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Recent queries and comments – late March
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Good Friday ban on Muslim circumcision parties in Germany raises larger religious questions
(Chase Winter, Deutsche Welle)
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